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| When referring to a medical test, specificity refers to the percentage of people who test negative for a specific disease among a group of people who do not have the disease. No test is 100% specific because some people who do not have the disease will test positive for it (false positive). |
Previous Definitions: | soybean, spasm, spastic colon, specialist, specific immune cell | Next Definitions: | SPECT, spectroscopy, speculum, speech pathologist, speech therapist |
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