| critical i. |
the focusing of light precisely upon an object inspected.
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| critical illness p. |
an idiopathic sensorimotor type of polyneuropathy seen in critically ill patients such as those who are on ventilators or receiving intensive medication.
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| critical o. |
the organ or organ system in which a specific radioactive material tends to concentrate, and thus the organ receiving the highest level of exposure to the radioactivity.
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| critical p. |
the point of coincidence of the gas and liquid phases, at which the temperature is the critical temperature and the pressure is the critical pressure, and the substance exists as a single phase.
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| critical r. |
any of a class of tests of statistical significance in which a parameter is divided by its standard error; e.g., used on Student's t-test, the critical ratio is the difference between two means divided by the standard error of that difference. The larger the ratio, the more likely the difference is significant.
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