Associations to the word «Specificity»
Noun
- Sensitivity
- Substrate
- Antibody
- Antigen
- Tyrosine
- Cleavage
- Affinity
- Ligand
- Selectivity
- Binding
- Kinase
- Assay
- Enzyme
- Peptide
- Determinant
- Subunit
- Polymerase
- Nucleotide
- Residue
- Receptor
- Bind
- Inhibitor
- Rna
- Potency
- Detecting
- Localization
- Dual
- Lymphocyte
- Dna
- Phosphorylation
- Protein
- Primer
- Signaling
- Mri
- Amplification
- Domain
- Cognition
- Synapse
- Carbohydrate
- Modality
- Positive
- Specific
- Mrna
- Hydrolysis
- Sequence
- Detection
- Reagent
- Serum
- Transcription
- Retrieval
- Activation
- Molecule
- Pathogen
- Roc
- Diagnosis
- Subtype
- Interaction
- Accuracy
- Promoter
- Ig
- Spectrometry
- Steroid
- Linkage
- Transporter
- Zinc
- Inhibition
- Tomography
- Screening
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
SPECIFICITY, noun. The state of being specific rather than general.
SPECIFICITY, noun. (statistics) The probability, in a binary test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
SPECIFICITY, noun. (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for a given condition.
Dictionary definition
SPECIFICITY, noun. The quality of being specific rather than general; "add a desirable note of specificity to the discussion"; "the specificity of the symptoms of the disease".
SPECIFICITY, noun. The quality of being specific to a particular organism; "host specificity of a parasite".
Wise words
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