0 the quality of being specific (= clear and exact)
2 the quality of being particular to one person or thing
They indicate, then, a high specificity of the function in its realization by a given set of elements.
Immunoblot analysis has revealed striking specificity of antigen components in the 3 sandfly species studied.
The ability to direct therapy to specific molecular targets on cancer cells provides several advantages over standard chemotherapy, including higher specificity and reduced systemic toxicity.
However, in many cases their physiological targets and the mechanisms by which they achieve substrate specificity remain unknown.
Specificity can be defined as the degree of uniqueness that a function shows towards an element, and an element towards a function, in discourse.
Nevertheless, the criteria used to define specificity are somewhat ambiguous because there is no clear crossover between ' specific ' and ' non-specific ' binding.
In addition, the lack of labelling after incubation with the pre-immune serum demonstrated the specificity of this antiserum (data not shown).
Given that they list 17 antidepressants, readers might require more specificity.
