GC: n
S: https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat507/node/71 (last access: 10 April 2016); https://beanaroundtheworld.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/epidemiology-sensitivity-and-specificity/ (last access: 10 April 2016).
N: 1. From Latin, sentire.
2. Different meanings of “sensitivity”:
- capacity to feel, transmit, or react to a stimulus.
- susceptibility to a substance, such as a drug or an antigen. See also allergy, hypersensitivity.
- the lowest level of a substance that can be detected by a laboratory test procedure. diagnostic sensitivity, sensitive, adj.
3. Different meanings of “susceptibility”:
- Likelihood of an individual to develop ill effects from an external agent, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, high altitude, or ambient temperature.
- Likelihood that a given pathogenic microorganism will be inhibited or killed by a given microbial agent. Synonym(s): sensitivity (4).
- MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING The loss of magnetization signal caused by rapid phase dispersion because of marked local inhomogeneity of the magnetic field, as with the multiple air-soft tissue interfaces in the lung; susceptibility measurement can estimate calcium content in trabecular bone.
S: 1 & 2. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sensitivity – Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, 9th edition. © 2009, Elsevier. (last access: 10 April 2016). 3. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/susceptibility – Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 20 (last access: 10 April 2016).
SYN: susceptibility (depending on field and context)
S: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/susceptibility – Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 20 (last access: 10 April 2016)
CR: sensitive
