0 past simple and past participle of screen
1 to test or examine someone or something to discover if there is anything wrong with him, her, or it:
Completely unsuitable candidates were screened out (= tested and refused) at the first interview.
2 to show or broadcast a film or television programme:
The programme was not screened on British television.
An affected infant might collapse after either a positive or a false-negative screening test, if they were not screened.
A second strategy involves an idealized screening program such that, for all of those in the screened population, diagnosis occurs at the onset of disease.
About 8,500 women were screened in the period from 1993-98, but no published data yet exist.
The number of trisomy 21 pregnancies detected is (the number of affected pregnancies screened) x (detection rate).
In total, 33,353 women were screened and the overall detection rate was 3.3 per 1,000.
Slides were screened for metaphase identification and chromosome analysis (chromosome count).
Interacting proteins were screened followed by the isolation of plasmid and were sequenced to identify the gene.
Of these 19 successful individuals, 12 (63.15%) were from the screened group of nearnative speakers.
