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diagnostic specificity

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diagnostic specificity
n.
The probability that, given the absence of disease, a normal test result will exclude the disease.

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[8] Melvin JL, Schuchmann, JA, Lanese RR: Diagnostic specificity of motor and sensory nerve conduction variable in carpal tunnel synrome.
The combination of diagnostic specificity and image clarity enables physicians to differentiate malignant and benign bone abnormalities that would have been indeterminate with either SPECT or CT screenings alone.
These multi-marker panels or patterns have potentially better diagnostic specificity than single biomarkers.
 
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