DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diagnostic assay mean? 

• DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY (noun)
  The noun DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY has 1 sense:

1. an assay conducted for diagnostic purposes

  Familiarity information: DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAGNOSTIC ASSAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An assay conducted for diagnostic purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

diagnostic assay; diagnostic test

Hypernyms ("diagnostic assay" is a kind of...):

assay (a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "diagnostic assay"):

biopsy (examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease)

cloze procedure; cloze test (a test for diagnosing reading ability; words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks)

faecal occult test; fecal occult test; stool test (a test performed at home in which you collect specimens of your stool that are tested for traces of blood; used to detect colorectal cancers)

GI series (diagnostic tests of the alimentary canal; usually involves inserting a contrast medium (such as barium sulfate) and taking an X-ray)

glucose tolerance test (test of the body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates; used in the diagnosis of hypoglycemia and diabetes mellitus)

Pap test; Papanicolaou test; smear test (a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer)

PKU test (a test of newborn infants for phenylketonuria)

Queckenstedt's test (a test to determine whether there is a blockage of the spinal canal)

radioactive iodine test (test of thyroid function in which the patient is given an oral dose of radioactive iodine-131)

Rubin test (test to determine the patency or occlusion of the Fallopian tubes)

skin test (any test to determine immunity or sensitivity to a disease by introducing small amounts on or into the skin)

tissue typing (a series of diagnostic tests before an organ transplant to determine whether the tissues of a donor and recipient are compatible)

vital capacity (the maximum amount of air that can be exhaled after a maximum inhalation (usually tested with a spirometer); used to determine the condition of lung tissue)

 Context examples 

A diagnostic assay that quantifies the likelihood of breast cancer recurrence in women with newly diagnosed, early stage breast cancer.

(Oncotype DX breast cancer assay, NCI Thesaurus)