Underdetection

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Detection at excessively low levels, or at levels lower than are actually the case uncountable

    ""But this study says that in these very disadvantaged men, there is underdetection and undertreatment, that the cancers are not being found early enough.""

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""But this study says that in these very disadvantaged men, there is underdetection and undertreatment, that the cancers are not being found early enough.""

Etymology

From under- + detection.

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