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AUC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members
Example:
the AUC conducted over 800 assassinations in one year
Synonyms:
AUC; Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia; United Self-Defense Force of Colombia; United Self-Defense Group of Colombia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Instance hypernyms:
foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)
Domain category:
act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)
Domain region:
Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)
Context examples:
The percentage of the area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity that was due to back extrapolation to estimate concentration at time zero, based upon observed values.
(Observed Area Under the Curve Percent Back Extrapolation, NCI Thesaurus)
The percentage of the area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity observed from Tlast to infinity.
(Observed Area Under the Curve Percent Extrapolation, NCI Thesaurus)
The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity from dosing time, based on the last observed concentration.
(Observed Area Under the Curve Infinity, NCI Thesaurus)
The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity from dosing time, based on the predicted last concentration, divided by the surface area.
(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity from dosing time, based on the predicted last concentration, divided by the body mass index.
(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)
The area under the curve (AUC) extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the predicted value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the body mass index.
(AUC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The area under the curve (AUC) over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by the surface area.
(AUC from T1 to T2 Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
The area under the curve (AUC) over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by the dose.
(AUC from T1 to T2 Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus)
The area under the curve (AUC) over the interval from T1 to T2.
(Area Under the Curve from T1 to T2, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The area under the curve (AUC) for the defined interval between doses (TAU).
(Area Under the Curve Over Dosing Interval, NCI Thesaurus)
