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at the stroke of (some specific time)

Exactly at a specific time, especially the very beginning of the hour. The store is opening its doors at the stroke of midnight for the Black Friday sale. If you're not home at the stroke of 11, you're grounded!
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on the stroke of (some specific time)

Exactly at a specific time, especially the very beginning of the hour. The store is opening its doors on the stroke of midnight for the Black Friday sale. If you're not home on the stroke of 11, you're grounded!
See also: of, on, specific, stroke
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bricks shy of a load

Mentally impaired, either unintelligent or merely eccentric. For example, He may be handsome but he's not too bright-a few bricks shy of a load. This term, transferring a light load to lightweight mental capacity, is usually preceded by either a few or a specific number such as two . [Slang; 1960s]
See also: brick, load, of, shy
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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The implications of this increase in specificity and sensitivity also translates into more consistent monitoring capabilities.
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Table-2: Sensitivity and Specificity of Specific CT Findings to Differentiate Tuberculosis From Carcinomatosis (N=98).
To identify the features differentiating peritoneal tuberculosis from carcinomatosis on CT scan abdomen taking omental biopsy as a gold standard
Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive values were calculated using 2x2 contingency tables on SPSS v 20.
DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF TYPHIDOT IN PATIENTS OF TYPHOID FEVER
Small differences in assay specificity make a large difference in the accuracy of a result, mostly due to the very low prevalence of autoimmune diseases in general.
The importance of specificity in diagnostic tests for autoantibodies
With a different cutoff, the sensitivity and specificity will be different.
Assessing the Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests
(4) In other words, the ROC is a visual and mathematical model to express the combination of sensitivity and specificity on a scale from 0 to 1.
Sensitivity, specificity, and receiver operating characteristics: a primer for neuroscience nurses
Sensitivity of 79.2% and specificity of 70.7% were achieved.
AN ALGORITHM FOR FACIAL EXPRESSION BASED AUTOMATIC DECEPTIVE PAIN DETECTION
This suggests that with advancing pregnancy the sensitivity of RI goes on increasing, whereas the specificity goes on decreasing.
Clinical correlation of Doppler velocimetry and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)
Therefore, the sensitivity and specificity values should be corrected in the following sections:
Corrigendum to "Automatic Characterization of the Physiological Condition of the Carotid Artery in 2D Ultrasound Image Sequences Using Spatiotemporal and Spatiospectral 2D Maps"
For any diagnostic test, sum of specificity and false positive rate is always equal to 1.
Evaluation and application of diagnostic accuracy in clinical decision-making
Thus, ICT malaria showed 93.75% sensitivity and 95.00% specificity for detection of malarial parasites.
COMPARISON OF MICROSCOPIC METHOD AND IMMUNO-CHROMATOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE IN DETECTING PLASMODIUM SPECIES
The aim of this study was to assess the sensitivity, specificity, and diagnostic accuracy of integrated PET-CT in the evaluation of SPNs and masses in an area with a very high TB incidence.
The diagnostic accuracy of integrated positron emission tomography/computed tomography in the evaluation of pulmonary mass lesions in a tuberculosis-endemic area
Medicare claims will not be denied for "unintentional errors" in specificity during the first year that ICD-10 is in place, according to a blog post on the American Medical Association (AMA) website by AMA President Steven J.
Medicare to accept some ICD-10 coding errors
A/Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a higher sensitivity and specificity (90% and 79%) than plain radiography (54% and 68%) for diagnosing diabetic foot osteomyelitis.
Q / What's the best test for underlying osteomyelitis in patients with diabetic foot ulcers?
PET scans using radio-labeled flutemetamol were safe to use in vivo and confirmed the presence or absence of neuritic beta-amyloid levels "with high sensitivity and specificity" in a phase III trial involving 68 terminally ill older adults.
PET scans with Vizamyl ID brain beta-amyloid
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