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Specificity vs Penicillinase - What's the difference?

specificity | penicillinase |

As nouns the difference between specificity and penicillinase

is that specificity is the state of being specific rather than general while penicillinase is a specific type of beta-lactamase showing specificity for penicillins.

specificity

English

Noun

(specificities)
  • The state of being specific rather than general.
  • (statistics) The probability, in a binary test, of a true negative being correctly identified.
  • (medicine) The extent to which a particular diagnostic test is specific for a given condition.

    • Synonyms

    * specificness (much less common)

    Antonyms

    * genericity

    Coordinate terms

    * (sense) sensitivity

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    penicillinase

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia penicillinase)
  • (biochemistry) A specific type of beta-lactamase showing specificity for penicillins.