SURVEILLANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surveillance mean? 

• SURVEILLANCE (noun)
  The noun SURVEILLANCE has 1 sense:

1. close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)

  Familiarity information: SURVEILLANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURVEILLANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

police investigation; police work (the investigation of criminal activities)

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

electronic surveillance (surveillance by electronic means (e.g. television))

vigil; watch (a purposeful surveillance to guard or observe)

stakeout (surveillance of some place or some person by the police (as in anticipation of a crime))

surveillance of disease (the ongoing systematic collection and analysis of data about an infectious disease that can lead to action being taken to control or prevent the disease)

 Context examples 

Viruses and tumors may escape immune surveillance in part through suppression of Fas-mediated apoptosis.

(Fas Signaling Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

During active surveillance, certain exams and tests are done on a regular schedule.

(Active surveillance, NCI Dictionary)

The previous identification of NM23-H1 as a tumor suppressor indicates that its DNAse activity plays an important role in immune surveillance to prevent cancer through the induction of tumor cell apoptosis.

(Granzyme A Mediated Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Leukocyte migration from the blood into tissues is vital for immune surveillance and inflammation.

(Leukocyte Transendothelial Migration Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

During active surveillance, patients will be given certain exams and tests done on a regular schedule.

(Patient Observation, NCI Dictionary)

Postmarketing surveillance is sometimes referred to as Phase V. See outcomes research.

(Phase V Trial, NCI Thesaurus)

Conducts and supports an integrated program of the highest quality genetic, epidemiological, behavioral, social, applied, and surveillance cancer research.

(Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)

In other cases, it may be due to factors such as increased surveillance or other nongenetic causes.

(Genetic Anticipation, NCI Dictionary)

Surveillance projects which focus on issues of cancer

(Cancer Surveillance Project, NCI Thesaurus)

By nonsense-mediated decay, mRNA surveillance facilitates the detection and destruction of mRNAs that contain premature termination codons.

(mRNA Surveillance, NCI Thesaurus)