RELATIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does relational mean? 

• RELATIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective RELATIONAL has 1 sense:

1. having a relation or being related

  Familiarity information: RELATIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELATIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a relation or being related

Similar:

comparative; relative (estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete)

 Context examples 

Twelve months after diagnosis, patients assessed their GP’s empathy and their experiences of diabetes care over the preceding year using the consultation and relational empathy (CARE) questionnaire.

(Patients with an ‘empathic’ GP at reduced risk of early death, University of Cambridge)

A multi-user relational database management system for managing animal colonies in a research environment.

(Colony Management System, NCI Thesaurus)

A unique identifier meant to be a common way to identify and access biologically significant data, whether that data is stored in files, relational databases, in applications, or in internal or public data sources.

(Life Sciences Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

It includes studies on environmental chemicals and stressors and their effects, as well as a relational and descriptive data compendia on toxicologically important genes, groups of genes, SNPs, mutants and their attributes across species that are relevant to human health and environmental disease.

(Chemical Effects in Biological Systems, NCI Thesaurus)

The Biostatistics Shared Resource works with Cancer Center investigators to define study/protocol objectives and endpoints, analyze pilot data, select an appropriate study design, blinding methods and randomization scheme, plan interim analyses, define an adequate sample size and accrual rate, develop and evaluate the statistical methods and analyse data, prepare statistical sections of the grant and protocol applications, analyze and design relational databases, forms and reports.

(Biostatistics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

The Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource provides Cancer Center investigators with design and programming of relational databases for clinical, population and other large-scale studies, development and supervision of a sophisticated data communication and reporting systems, software development for analyzing and interpreting data generated from clinical trials, population studies, microarray and proteomics technologies and other types of translational research.

(Data Compilation and Analysis Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)