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screening Definition

screen·ing (skrēn)

noun

  1. the act of a person or thing that screens
    1. a screen or set of screens
    2. mesh used in a screen
  2. material separated out by a sifting screen
  3. a special, often private, showing of a film as for critics, exhibitors, etc.

screening Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • undergo: Rates now ohio cheap car insurance are insurers remarkable capability undergo medical screening.

Preposition: for

  • retinopathy: A protocol for screening for diabetic retinopathy in Europe.
  • haemochromatosis: Work on screening for haemochromatosis has influenced the National Screening Committee's policy.
  • haemoglobinopathies: Plain English Summary Antenatal screening for haemoglobinopathies ( thalassaemia and sickle cell disease ) has been available since the 1970s.

Adjective modifier

  • antenatal: Antenatal screening for Down's syndrome with the quadruple test.
  • cervical: Cervical cancer screening for women over 20 years - not more often than every five years for maximum cost-effectiveness.
  • neonatal: Universal neonatal screening will pick up all children with a hearing loss.
  • newborn: Following the successful trials of universal newborn screening, it is being introduced across the UK.
  • prenatal: To assess the impact of developments in prenatal screening.
  • retinal: She told us about the new retinal screening which is about to start at the West Mendip Hospital in Glastonbury.

Modifies a noun

  • test: These students are offered a computer based screening test from the Dyslexia Unit in the Student Enabling Center.
  • mammography: One of the two trials aimed at the promotion of screening mammography found no significant differences between groups for nearly all outcomes.
  • program: The National Blood Service's screening program asks: " Has your sexual partner been sexually active in Africa in the past?
  • assay: These are: Sample now non-reactive in the current screening assay at the Transfusion Center, and confirmed negative at the designated reference laboratory.

Noun used with modifier

  • breast: Breast cancer screening ' really does save lives ' .
  • retinopathy: The AOP has set up an email discussion forum on diabetic retinopathy screening.
  • pre-employment: Pre-Employment Screening It is the Acute Trust which will make the formal job offer, not the Deanery.
  • mammography: Mammography screening was reported to be an independent prognostic factor in reducing the chance of disease recurrence.
  • throughput: This book covers a range of Cell Imaging techniques from calcium imaging to high throughput screening.
  • trimester: The topics covered relate to both first and second trimester screening using biochemical and ultrasound markers.