Quantification
Quantification (Medicine)
Quantification (pronounced: kwon-ti-fi-kay-shun) in the field of medicine refers to the process of measuring or estimating the quantity of a specific variable, particularly in the context of clinical laboratory tests and medical diagnostics.
Etymology
The term 'quantification' is derived from the Latin word 'quantus', meaning 'how much', and the suffix '-fication', which implies the act of making or doing something. Thus, quantification essentially means the act of determining 'how much' of something is present.
Related Terms
- Quantitative analysis: This is a technique used in various fields, including medicine, to accurately determine the quantity of a specific substance in a sample.
- Quantitative research: This is a systematic empirical investigation of observable phenomena via statistical, mathematical, or computational techniques.
- Quantitative data: This refers to numerical data that can be measured or counted.
- Quantitative PCR: This is a laboratory technique in molecular biology used to amplify and simultaneously quantify a targeted DNA molecule.
- Quantitative imaging: This is a part of medical imaging that deals with the extraction of quantifiable measures from images.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Quantification
- Wikipedia's article - Quantification
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