Analysis
Analysis: In psychology, a term for conversation-based therapeutic processes used to gain understanding of complex emotional or behavioral issues.
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Analysis, linkage: Study aimed at establishing linkage between genes. Today linkage analysis serves as a way of gene-hunting and genetic testing. Linkage is the tendency for genes and other genetic markers to be inherited together because of their location near one another on the same chromosome. A gene is a functional physical unit of heredity […]
- Analytic sensitivity
Analytic sensitivity: The lowest level of a substance that can be detected by an analytic method.
- Analytic specificity
Analytic specificity: How well an assay detects only a specific substance and does not detect closely related substances.
- Anaphia
Anaphia: The inability to feel touch. From the Greek prefix an, not + Greek haphe, touch = inability to (feel) touch. A person with anaphia is said to be anaptic.
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