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Gleason score

Gleason score noun: a score achieved in the Gleason grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer.

Noun

Gleason score (plural Gleason scores)

  1. A score achieved in the Gleason grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer.

Forms of Gleason score

pluralGleason scores

Origin of Gleason score

Named after Donald Gleason, a pathologist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Hospital who developed it with colleagues in the 1960s.

Questions about Gleason score

What does Gleason score mean?
Gleason score means a score achieved in the Gleason grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer.
What part of speech is Gleason score?
Gleason score is a noun.
What is the plural of Gleason score?
The plural of Gleason score is Gleason scores.

Words near Gleason score in the dictionary

  1. gleaneth
  2. gleaning
  3. gleanings
  4. gleans
  5. Gleason
  6. Gleason score
  7. Gleason scores
  8. Gleason's theorem
  9. Gleasonian
  10. Gleasons
  11. Gleaston

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