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sensitivity
Pronunciation (sen′si-tiv′i-tē)
- The ability to appreciate by one or more of the senses.
- State of being sensitive. Syn: esthesia (2)
- In clinical pathology and medical screening, the proportion of affected patients who give a positive test result for the disease that the test is intended to reveal, i.e., true-positive results divided by total true-positive and false-negative results, usually expressed as a percentage. Cf.: specificity (2)
[L. sentio, pp. sensus, to feel]
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