specificity

especificidad, precisión

Cualidad de expresar algo concreto con claridad y exactitud, en vez de hablar en general.

En inglés sencillo: The quality of being clear and exact about a particular thing rather than speaking generally.

• The instructions lack specificity.
• Please describe your concerns with greater specificity.
• The specificity of her questions helped us identify the problem.

Sinónimos: precision, exactness

Antónimos: vagueness

Expresiones frecuentes: greater specificity, lack specificity, with specificity

especificidad

Proporción de casos sin la condición buscada que una prueba identifica correctamente como negativos.

En inglés sencillo: How often a test correctly identifies cases where the thing being tested for is absent.

• The test has high specificity.
• We measured specificity using known negative cases.
• Higher specificity means fewer false positive results.

Sinónimos: true negative rate

Expresiones frecuentes: test specificity, high specificity, specificity rate

especificidad

Grado en que un resultado médico o un signo apunta a una enfermedad concreta y no a otras.

En inglés sencillo: How strongly a medical test result or sign points to one particular illness rather than others.

• The symptom has limited specificity.
• Doctors questioned the diagnostic specificity of the finding.
• Its specificity for this disease makes the marker useful.

Cómo se usa: specificity for something (This symptom has low specificity for that infection.)

Expresiones frecuentes: diagnostic specificity, symptom specificity, low specificity