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SURFACE AREA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary
Example:
it was about 500 square feet in area
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("surface area" is a kind of...):
extent (the distance or area or volume over which something extends)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "surface area"):
acreage; land area (an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming))
footprint (the area taken up by some object)
erasure (a surface area where something has been erased)
blank space; place; space (a blank area)
space (one of the areas between or below or above the lines of a musical staff)
balk; baulk (the area on a billiard table behind the balkline)
plane section; section ((geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid)
Context examples:
The area under the first moment curve (AUMC) extrapolated to infinity, based on the last predicted concentration divided by the surface area.
(AUMC Infinity Predicted Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
Minutes times nanograms per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).
(Minute Times Nanogram per Milliliter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Minutes times milligrams per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).
(Minute Times Milligram per Milliliter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The percentage of the recovered administered dose extrapolated to infinity, calculated using the observed value of the last non-zero concentration, divided by the surface area.
(Percent Recovered Infinity Observed Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
The percentage of the dose that is recovered from the specimen type, from dosing to end of the current collection interval divided by the surface area.
(Percent Recovered Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
The percentage of the administered dose that is recovered from the specimen type specified in PPSPEC, between doses (TAU) divided by surface area.
(Percent Recovered Over Dosing Interval Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
Minutes times nanomoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).
(Minute Times Nanomole per Liter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
The percentage of the administered dose that is recovered from the specimen type specified in PPSPEC, over the interval between T1 and T2 divided by surface area.
(Percent Recovered from T1 to T2 Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)
Minutes times picomoles per liter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).
(Minute Times Picomole per Liter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Minutes times picograms per milliliter (area under the curve), divided by meters squared (surface area).
(Minute Times Picogram per Milliliter per Meter Squared, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
