screeneen.
/skriːˈniː/, U.S. /ˌskriˈni/ A person who undergoes screening, esp. with a view to checking for medical conditions.
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1951 Amer. Jrnl. Public Health 41 643/2 Of the first 2,000 screenees, 1,266 persons (63.3 per cent) were referred for abnormal conditions.
1993 Chicago Tribune 3 Feb. i. 3/1 He placed this personals ad in a Chicago newspaper... He received several dozen responses and studied them. ‘I wanted to be the screener, not the screenee.’
2001 Jrnl. Epidemiol. & Community Health 55 130/1 One has to deal with the so called ‘healthy-screenee-bias’. Once a disease is diagnosed the patient is thereafter no longer screened, while ‘healthy’ non-patients are screened again and again.
2011 Ann. Appl. Statistics 5 2454 If both readers find a suspicious abnormality, the screenee is recalled for further investigations.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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