screening
screening
Definition
screen·ing (skrēn′iŋ)
noun
- the act of a person or thing that screens
- a screen or set of screens
- mesh used in a screen
- material separated out by a sifting screen
- 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.
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