Alpha value

The shade (darkness) or tint (lightness) of a color; also called brightness, lightness, shade, and tone. Compare hue, chroma; see solid, illustration.

value

Art history; Visual arts

The relative darkness or lightness of a color. White represents the highest value, black the lowest, and greys all possible values in between. Every hue has an inherent value ...

value

Language; General language

For Saussure language was a relational system of 'values'. He distinguished the value of a sign from its signification or referential meaning. A sign does not have an 'absolute' ...

abstracts

Health care; Pharmacy

A synopsis (usually of 250 words or less) of the most important aspect(s) of an article.

cancer

Health care; Pharmacy

A heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by the abnormal, uncontrolled growth of cells, which are capable of crossing normal anatomic boundaries to invade other tissues and ...

descriptive epidemiology

Health care; Pharmacy

Activities related to characterizing patterns of disease occurrence.

conservative

Health care; Pharmacy

A term used to describe a statistical test if it reduces the chances of a type I error.

failure

Health care; Pharmacy

* One of the standard terms for describing the outcome status of a patient's medical condition being treated with pharmacotherapy. * The goals of therapy have not been achieved ...

crude rate

Health care; Pharmacy

A rate for the entire population that is not specific or adjusted for any given subset of the population.

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Industry/Domain: Medical Category: Viruses

Ebola virus disease

Ebola virus disease is the name for the human virus infection and disease that is caused by any of four of the five known ebola viruses. These four ...