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MODALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("modality" is a kind of...):
intervention; treatment (care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "modality"):
diathermy (a method of physical therapy that involves generating local heat in body tissues by high-frequency electromagnetic currents)
Holonyms ("modality" is a part of...):
physiatrics; physical therapy; physiotherapy (therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A particular sense
Synonyms:
modality; sense modality; sensory system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("modality" is a kind of...):
sensation; sense; sensory faculty; sentience; sentiency (the faculty through which the external world is apprehended)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "modality"):
sight; vision; visual modality; visual sense (the ability to see; the visual faculty)
somatosense (any of the sensory systems that mediate sensations of pressure and tickle and warmth and cold and vibration and limb position and limb movement and pain)
audition; auditory modality; auditory sense; hearing; sense of hearing (the ability to hear; the auditory faculty)
gustation; gustatory modality; sense of taste; taste (the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth)
olfaction; olfactory modality; sense of smell; smell (the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("modality" is a kind of...):
grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "modality"):
common mood; declarative; declarative mood; fact mood; indicative; indicative mood (a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact)
subjunctive; subjunctive mood (a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible)
optative; optative mood (a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs)
imperative; imperative form; imperative mood; jussive mood (a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior)
interrogative; interrogative mood (some linguists consider interrogative sentences to constitute a mood)
Derivation:
modal (relating to or expressing the mood of a verb)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility
Synonyms:
modality; mode
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("modality" is a kind of...):
logical relation (a relation between propositions)
Context examples:
Drug treatment to reduce the activity of tumor necrosis factor, particulary to control inflammation in disease modalities.
(Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
Any therapy that is administered to augment or stimulate other treatment modalities or to minimize or prevent disease recurrence subsequent to the main treatment plan.
(Adjuvant therapy, NCI Thesaurus)
For example, surgery and chemotherapy are treatment modalities.
(Modality, NCI Dictionary)
Radiation therapy that is administered to augment or stimulate other treatment modalities or to minimize or prevent disease recurrence.
(Adjuvant Radiotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)
“Our treatment modality does not introduce anything new to the body, and lasers are routinely used in medicine and dentistry, so the barriers to clinical translation are low,” Mooney says.
(Laser Therapy Prompts Regeneration in Teeth, NIH)
Glucose Plasma Concentration (GPC) measurement is an essential diagnostic modality for different types of carbohydrate metabolism derangements including diabetes mellitus.
(Plasma Glucose Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)
The frequencies and bandwidths of infrared light are orders of magnitude higher than medical ultrasound signals, resulting in greatly increased image resolution, 8-25 times greater than any existing modality.
(Optical coherence tomography, NCI Thesaurus)
Treatment modality used to increase the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents and monoclonal antibodies to the central nervous system tissue through temporal disruption of the blood brain barrier.
(Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption Chemotherapy, NCI Thesaurus)
This sub-category of CAM contains numerous specific modalities used in mind-body approaches to health.
(Mind-Body Method, NCI Thesaurus)
Multidisciplinary and translational research teams focused on a specific disease, modality, biologic process or scientific area of particular significance.
(Centers of Research Excellence, NCI Thesaurus)
