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gleason score

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.86 in modern English

Syllables
glea-son s-core
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A score achieved in the Gleason grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer.

Etymology

Named after Donald Gleason, a pathologist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Hospital who developed it with colleagues in the 1960s.

Inflected Forms

Gleason scores (plural)

Questions

What does gleason score mean?
A score achieved in the Gleason grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer.
Where does gleason score come from?
Named after Donald Gleason, a pathologist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Hospital who developed it with colleagues in the 1960s.

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