specificity

précision, spécificité

Qualité de ce qui décrit une chose particulière clairement et exactement, sans rester dans les généralités.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : precision, exactness

Contraires : vagueness

Expressions courantes : greater specificity, lack specificity, with specificity

spécificité

Proportion des cas sans la condition recherchée qu’un test reconnaît correctement comme négatifs.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : true negative rate

Expressions courantes : test specificity, high specificity, specificity rate

spécificité

Degré auquel un résultat médical ou un signe indique une maladie particulière plutôt que d’autres.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : specificity for something (This symptom has low specificity for that infection.)

Expressions courantes : diagnostic specificity, symptom specificity, low specificity