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underdetection

noun

Etymology

From under- + detection.

  1. learned borrowing from detectio
  2. prefixed as underdetection — “under + detection”

Definitions

  1. Detection at excessively low levels, or at levels lower than are actually the case

    • "But this study says that in these very disadvantaged men, there is underdetection and undertreatment, that the cancers are not being found early enough."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for underdetection. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA