Case

Case

A person who has a disease of interest. (See also Incident case and Prevalent case. )

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Industry/Domain: Health care
Category: Pharmacy
Company: McGraw-Hill
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case

Internet; Internet communication

The housing for the computer. Also refers to the format of a letter, as in whether a letter is uppercase (capitalized) or lowercase (not capitalized).

on the case

Language; Idioms

If someone is on the case, they are dealing with a problem.

casing

Automotive; Automobile

(1) The outside shell of something such as the shell of an alternator or starter motor. (2) The tire casing.

case

Language; Grammar

Form of a pronoun based on its relationship to other words in the sentence; case can be subjective, objective or possessive.

case

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Covers and spine that, as a unit, enclose the pages of a casebound book.

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 ...