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REGISTRY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An official written record of names or events or transactions
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("registry" is a kind of...):
written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "registry"):
cadaster; cadastre (a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation)
check register (a register of checks issued (usually in numeric order))
studbook (official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses)
rent-roll (a register of rents; includes the names of tenants and the amount of rent they pay)
Derivation:
register (record in a public office or in a court of law)
register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)
Context examples:
In AdministrativeActivity, the categoryCode may = "Disposition" (off study, epoch completion), "Milestone" (informed consent, enrollment, registry, randomization) or "Other" (unblinding) activities.
(Defined Activity Category Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
The researchers analyzed NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program registry data on more than 700,000 patients age 20–84 in the United States with solid tumors who were diagnosed and treated with initial chemotherapy during 2000–2013 and survived at least one year after diagnosis.
(Study finds elevated risk of certain rare blood cancers after chemotherapy for most solid tumors, National Institutes of Health)
An arrangement or division of objects into groups based on characteristics that the objects have in common, e.g., origin, composition, structure, application, function, etc. Adds information not easily included in definitions, helps organize the registry and facilitates access to the registry.
(Classification Scheme, NCI Thesaurus)
A professional organization that develops and promotes uniform data standards for cancer registration; provides education and training; certifies population-based registries; aggregates and publishes data from central cancer registries; and promotes the use of cancer surveillance data and systems for cancer control and epidemiologic research, public health programs, and patient care to reduce the burden of cancer in North America.
(North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, NCI Thesaurus)
The study is conducted in Suffolk, Nassau, and Schoharie counties in New York and in Tolland County, Conn. It includes more than 10 studies: epidemiologic studies, family breast and ovarian cancer registry, laboratory research, and the creation of a new research tool, a Geographic Information System.
(Long Island Breast Cancer Study, NCI Thesaurus)
Designed to make the most current, credible, and accurate cancer information available to health professionals and the public, Physician Data Query contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, complementary and alternative medicine, and supportive care; a registry of cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who provide genetics services, and organizations that provide cancer care.
(Physician Data Query, NCI Dictionary)
Designed to make the most current, credible, and accurate cancer information available to health professionals and the public, PDQ contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care; a registry of cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who provide genetics services, and organizations that provide cancer care.
(PDQ Information System, NCI Dictionary)
Designed to make the most current, credible, and accurate cancer information available to health professionals and the public, PDQ contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, complementary and alternative medicine, and supportive care; a registry of cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who provide genetics services, and organizations that provide cancer care.
(PDQ, NCI Dictionary)
This fellow is madly, insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a registry office?
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Clinical Informatics Shared Resource provides database and application support to the clinical research programs in Cancer Center including overall informatics support for clinical operations, patient registry services, development of clinical trials management applications, laboratory information management applications, privacy protection components necessary to maintain HIPAA-compliant research information services, storage, archival and other informatics services.
(Clinical Informatics Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)
