Look up: specificity

1. specificity
   capability of a structured vocabulary to express a subject in depth and in detail. Specificity has an important influence on retrieval performance, as it determines the accuracy with which concepts may be pinpointed, and consequently the facility to exclude unwanted documents.
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2. specificity
   [n] - the quality of being specific to a particular organism 2. [n] - the quality of being specific rather than general
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3. Specificity
   Frequently applied to enzymes as a descriptor of the limited range of substrates upon which the enzyme will act
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4. Specificity
   Specificity: 1. The quality of being specific as, for example, she showed the use of specificity in her diagnosis. 2. The proportion of persons without a disease who are correctly identified by a test. The specificity is the number of true negative results divided by the sum of the numbers of true negative plus false positive results.
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5. specificity
   the quality of being specific Category: Medicine • the specificity of a test is the probability that the test will declare the condition of interest absent when the condition is in fact absent Category: Statistics • the ratio of the number of non-relevant and non-retrieved it...
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6. specificity
   The ability of the immune response to interact with individual antigens. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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7. specificity
   (spes″ĭ-fis´ĭ-te) the quality of having a certain action, as of affecting only certain organisms or tissues, or reacting only with certain substances, as antibodies with certain antigens (antigen specificity). diagnostic specificity; the probability that a person not having a disease will b...
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8. specificity
   (from the article `diagnosis`) ...Sensitivity is the measure of the percentage of individuals with the disease who have a positive test result (i.e., people with the disease who ...
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9. specificity
   (from the article `exercise`) The principle of specificity derives from the observation that the adaptation of the body or change in physical fitness is specific to the type of ...
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10. Specificity
    The property that a policy measure applies to one or a group of enterprises or industries, as opposed to all industries.
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11. specificity
    
    • the quality of being specific rather than general
    • the quality of being specific to a particular organism
    
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12. specificity
    Type: Term Pronunciation: spes′i-fis′i-tē Definitions: 1. The condition or state of being specific, of having a fixed relation to a single cause or to a definite result; manifested in the relation of a disease to its pathogenic microorganism, of a reaction to a certain chemical unio...
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13. specificity
    When referring to a medical test, specificity refers to the percentage of people who test negative for a specific disease among a group of people who do not have the disease. No test is 100% specific because some people who do not have the disease will test positive for it (false positive).
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