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screening test
noun
- a simple test performed on a large number of people to identify those who have or are likely to develop a specified disease
Example Sentences
She had taken time off last year after a announcing that an unspecified cancer had been revealed in a screening test.
The screening test checks for a neck joint condition called atlanto-axial instability, and Flip Out Somerset asks customers for it on the guidance of the Down's Syndrome Association and British Gymnastics, the spokesman said.
He added he hoped his work for the charity would encourage more men to get a screening test "which will hopefully prevent further needless deaths".
Ms Wesson, 43, and her partner Mr Everson, 47, were expecting their first child when in January 2019, a blood screening test indicated their baby had a high chance of having a chromosomal abnormality.
Neeta Vora, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and clinical geneticist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill who wasn’t involved in the study, hopes this discovery will heighten awareness among obstetricians who are prescribing this screening test daily, and who may not realize the potential gravity of certain results for their patients.
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