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clinimetrics

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
clini-met-rics
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A methodological discipline concerned with the development and application of various instruments (indices, rating scales, etc.) to measure symptoms, signs, and other clinical outcomes.

Uncountable

Etymology

From clini(cal) + -metrics, by analogy with biometrics, psychometrics, econometrics, etc. Coined by American epidemiologist Alvan Feinstein in a 1982 paper in Circulation.

Usage

Inflected Forms

clinemetrics (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

clinimetric

Questions

What does clinimetrics mean?
A methodological discipline concerned with the development and application of various instruments (indices, rating scales, etc.) to measure symptoms, signs, and other clinical outcomes.
Where does clinimetrics come from?
From clini(cal) + -metrics, by analogy with biometrics, psychometrics, econometrics, etc. Coined by American epidemiologist Alvan Feinstein in a 1982 paper in Circulation.

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