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median survival time

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.88 in modern English

Syllables
me-di-an -sur-vival -time
IPA
29
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The length of time from either diagnosis or treatment in which one half of a sample of patients with a given disease are found to be, or expected to be, still alive.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

median survival times (plural)

Synonyms

mean survival time

Questions

What does median survival time mean?
The length of time from either diagnosis or treatment in which one half of a sample of patients with a given disease are found to be, or expected to be, still alive.

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