ESR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ESR mean? 

• ESR (noun)
  The noun ESR has 2 senses:

1. the rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions; a high rate usually indicates the presence of inflammation

2. microwave spectroscopy in which there is resonant absorption of radiation by a paramagnet

  Familiarity information: ESR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The rate at which red blood cells settle out in a tube of blood under standardized conditions; a high rate usually indicates the presence of inflammation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR; sed rate; sedimentation rate

Hypernyms ("ESR" is a kind of...):

rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Microwave spectroscopy in which there is resonant absorption of radiation by a paramagnet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

electron paramagnetic resonance; electron spin resonance; ESR

Hypernyms ("ESR" is a kind of...):

microwave spectroscopy (the use of spectroscopy to study atomic or molecular resonances in the microwave spectrum)

 Context examples 

Hormone-ESR complexes appear to recognize discrete upstream target ERE DNA sequences to regulate gene expression, cell proliferation, and differentiation.

(Estrogen Receptor Family, NCI Thesaurus)

Also called ESR and sedimentation rate.

(Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, NCI Dictionary)

There was also a modest association between obesity and ESR in women.

(Obesity May Influence Rheumatoid Arthritis Blood Tests, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In these individuals, lower BMI was associated with greater CRP and ESR.

(Obesity May Influence Rheumatoid Arthritis Blood Tests, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Blood tests for C-reactive protein (CRP) and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) can help physicians assess levels of inflammation in the body.

(Obesity May Influence Rheumatoid Arthritis Blood Tests, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Because some studies have found links between higher levels of CRP and ESR with greater body mass index (BMI), Michael George, MD MSCE, of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, and his colleagues sought to determine the extent to which obesity biases these markers.

(Obesity May Influence Rheumatoid Arthritis Blood Tests, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)