LIMSWiki:Glossary

This glossary represent a slightly more organized listing of available and planned non-vendor articles in this wiki. Article titles have been sorted into broad categories, as seen in the table of contents to the right.

Some categories have sub-categories, indicated by right-facing arrows; select those arrows to view the contents of those sub-categories. Article titles in red represent non-existent but planned articles.

Note: For vendor content, go to the vendor classes page. (As of August 2014 only the software-based vendor pages are populated; the research and loading of laboratory equipment vendors is a back-burner project.)

Automation and artificial intelligence

(Associated category: Category:Automation and artificial intelligence)

► Medical robotics

  Artificial intelligence

  ChatGPT

  Concept processing

  Convolutional neural network

  Data mining

  Deep learning

  Deep reinforcement learning

  Digital twin

  Generative adversarial network

  Hallucination (artificial intelligence)

  Histogram of oriented gradients

  Human-in-the-loop

  Internet of things

  Knowledge representation and reasoning

  Laboratory automation

  Large language model

  Machine learning

  Natural language processing

  Predictive maintenance

  Recurrent neural network

  SCADA

  Semantic data model

  Siamese neural network

  Stochastic gradient descent

  Variational autoencoder

Planned:

Branches of science

(Associated category: Category:Branches of science)

► Biology

► Biotechnology

► Botany

► Genomics

► Information science

► Statistics and statistical testing

  Analytical chemistry

  Anatomical pathology

  Biochemistry

  Biomedical engineering

  Biomedical sciences

  Chemical engineering

  Chemistry

  Chemometrics

  Clinical chemistry

  Clinical engineering

  Clinical pathology

  Cryogenics

  Cytogenetics

  Cytopathology

  Digital forensics

  Digital pathology

  E-epidemiology

  Environmental science

  Epidemiology

  Food science

  Forensic science

  Forensic toxicology

  Genetics

  Hematology

  Histology

  Histopathology

  Immunology

  Materials science

  Medical microbiology

  Metabolomics

  Metrology

  Microbiology

  Molecular biology

  Molecular pathology

  Neurochemistry

  Nutritional science

  Omics

  Oncology

  Pathology

  Pharmacology

  Plant disease epidemiology

  Plant pathology

  Proteomics

  Public health

  Radiation oncologist

  Radiochemistry

  Radiopharmacology

  Semantics

  Toxicology

  Veterinary medicine

  Virology

Business and data management

(Associated category: Category:Business and data management)

► Quality management

  Backup

  Big data ethics

  Business intelligence

  Business process

  Change control

  Change management

  Customer relationship management

  Data

  Data analysis

  Data auditing

  Data cleansing

  Data exchange

  Data generator

  Data integration

  Data lake

  Data mapping

  Data migration

  Data mining

  Data model

  Data preservation

  Data quality

  Data recovery

  Data requestor

  Data retention

  Data sharing

  Data system

  Data visualization

  Data warehouse

  Demand management

  Document management system

  Enterprise content management

  Enterprise resource planning

  Environmental management system

  Failure analysis

  Five Safes

  Information management

  Information privacy

  Inventory control

  Inventory management

  IT risk management

  Knowledge management

  Lean laboratory

  Learning organization

  Linked data

  Manufacturing execution system

  Master data

  Metadata

  Network management

  Open data

  Project management

  Pseudonymization

  Record linkage

  Regulatory compliance

  Retention period

  Risk assessment

  Risk management

  Security

  Semantic data model

  Service-level agreement

  Stakeholder analysis

  Standard operating procedure

  Statistical process control

  System integration

  Systems development life cycle

  Workflow

  Workflow engine

Departments, agencies, and institutes

(Associated category: Category:Departments, agencies, and institutes)

► Government agencies

► Government committees

► Government departments or ministries

► Intergovernmental organization

► Medical research institutes

Healthcare settings

(Associated category: Category:Healthcare settings)

  Ambulatory surgery center

  Assisted living facility

  Biobank

  Central sterile services department

  Cleanroom

  Comprehensive outpatient rehabilitation facility

  End-stage renal disease facility

  Federally qualified health center

  Home health agency

  Hospital

  Intensive care unit

  Learning health systems

  Operating theater

  Rural health clinic

  Skilled nursing facility

Healthcare terms

(Associated category: Category:Healthcare terms)

► Biomaterials

► Epidemiology

► Implant-related medical conditions

► Implants (medicine)

► Medical and surgical techniques

► Medical devices

► Medical taxonomy, vocabulary, and codes

  Adhesion (medicine)

  Adverse event

  Aneurysm

  Ascites

  Assistive technology

  Atrial septal defect

  Auditory brainstem response

  Basic metabolic panel

  Biofunctionalization

  Biomedical equipment technician

  Bone fracture

  Bradycardia

  Breast cancer

  Cancer

  Capsular contracture

  Cataract

  Chronic pain

  Coinfection

  Contact tracing

  Diabetes mellitus

  Disfigurement

  Distraction osteogenesis

  Dystrophic calcification

  Epilepsy

  Erectile dysfunction

  Fecal incontinence

  Gastroesophageal reflux disease

  Gastroparesis

  Glaucoma

  Gossypiboma

  Health care

  Health information technology

  Health technology

  Health technology assessment

  Hearing loss

  Heart failure

  Hydrocephalus

  Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

  Immunoassay

  Implant failure

  Keratoconus

  Laryngeal cancer

  Medical algorithm

  Medical diagnosis

  Medical equipment management

  Medical logistics

  Medical research

  Medical test

  Medical–industrial complex

  Metallosis

  Neurotechnology

  Neutralizing antibody

  Obesity

  Organ dysfunction

  Osseointegration

  Osteoarthritis

  Otitis media

  Otosclerosis

  Pacemaker failure

  Paraplegia

  Parkinson's disease

  Pill splitting

  Point-of-care testing

  Postmarketing surveillance

  Pulmonary embolism

  Radiation therapy

  Remote patient monitoring

  Respiratory failure

  Retained surgical instruments

  Retinitis pigmentosa

  Rheumatoid arthritis

  Scoliosis

  Sharps waste

  Single-use medical device reprocessing

  Sinusitis

  Sleep apnea

  Spinal stenosis

  Spondylolisthesis

  Syncope (medicine)

  Treatment-resistant depression

  Trichinosis

  Unintended pregnancy

  Urinary incontinence

  Urinary retention

  Valvular heart disease

  Ventricular fibrillation

  Ventricular septal defect

  Ventricular tachycardia

  Visual impairment

Industries

(Associated category: Category:Industries)

► Agriculture industry

► Chemical industry

► Environmental industry

► Food and beverage industry

► Law enforcement and forensic industry

► Life sciences industry

► Manufacturing and R&D industry

Informatics

(Associated category: Category:Informatics)

► Bioinformatics

► Chemical informatics

► Engineering informatics

► Environmental informatics

► Geoinformatics

► Health informatics

► Hydroinformatics

► Laboratory informatics

► Materials informatics

  Archival informatics

  Biodiversity informatics

  Bioimage informatics

  Bioinformatics

  Cancer informatics

  Chemical informatics

  Computational informatics

  Consumer health informatics

  Data integration

  Data preservation

  Data visualization

  Digital library

  Education informatics

  Engineering informatics

  Environmental informatics

  Evolutionary informatics

  Forest informatics

  Genome informatics

  Geoinformatics

  Health informatics

  Hydroinformatics

  Imaging informatics

  Immunoinformatics

  Infectious disease informatics

  Informatics (academic field)

  Information

  Information management

  Institutional repository

  Laboratory informatics

  Materials informatics

  Molecular informatics

  Network management

  Neuroinformatics

  Pharmacoinformatics

  Public health informatics

  Social informatics

  Translational research informatics

Laboratory equipment

(Associated category: Category:Laboratory equipment)

  Ampoule

  Autoclave

  Automated analyzer

  Autosampler

  Bioreactor

  Biosafety cabinet

  Blood gas analysis

  Calorimeter

  Cell counter

  Centrifugal evaporator

  Centrifuge

  Coagulation analyzer

  Confocal microscope

  Cryoscope

  Denuder

  Digital microscope

  Dilatometer

  Electron microscope

  Environmental chamber

  Evaporator

  Fume hood

  Glove box

  Heated bath

  Homogenization (biology)

  Homogenizer

  Hot plate

  Incubator (culture)

  Laboratory bath

  Laboratory furnace

  Laboratory glassware

  Laboratory oven

  Laboratory refrigerator

  Laboratory water bath

  Magnetic stirrer

  Microarray scanner

  Microplate

  Microscope

  Microtome

  Nephelometer

  Osmometer

  Overhead stirrer

  Personal protective equipment

  PH Meter

  Pipette

  Plate reader

  Polarimeter

  Pulverizer

  Refractometer

  Respirator

  Rheometer

  Rotary evaporator

  Scanning electron microscope

  Scientific instrument

  Shaker (laboratory)

  Spectrometer

  Spectrophotometry

  Stereo microscope

  Thermal cycler

  Tissue processor

  Titration

  Ultrasonic cleaning

  Vacuum pump

  Viscometer

  Vortex mixer

  Weighing scale

Laboratory types

(Associated category: Category:Laboratory types)

  Clinical laboratory

  Forensic science

  Laboratory

  Lean laboratory

  Physician office laboratory

  Public health laboratory

  Reference laboratory

Organizations, committees, and trade associations

(Associated category: Category:Organizations, committees, and trade associations)

► Accrediting organizations

► Healthcare organizations

► Medical organizations

► Mission-based organizations

► Professional associations

► Standards organizations

► Trade associations

  Internet Archive

Regulations and standards

(Associated category: Category:Regulations and standards)

► Data modeling standards

► Data security standards

► Data transmission standards

► Design and development standards

► Guidance documents

► Health standards

► Laboratory informatics standards

► Production standards

► Regulatory information

  Big data ethics

  Creative Commons

  Data model

  Digital object identifier

  Technical standard

Regulatory terms

(Associated category: Category:Regulatory terms)

► Regulation of medical devices

  Audit trail

  Certificate of analysis

  Certificate of compliance

  Chain of custody

  Electronic signature

  Humanitarian Device Exemption

  Medical device reporting

  Medical necessity

  Specification (technical standard)

  Standard operating procedure

Science databases and journals

(Associated category: Category:Science databases and journals)

  Bibliographic database

  Biological database

  CaBIG

  CAS Registry Number

  Clinical trials registry

  Digital library

  Entrez

  Institutional repository

  Intelligent medical search engine

  List of biological databases

  List of neuroscience databases

  MD&DI

  Medical literature retrieval

  MEDLINE

  PubMed

  PubMed Central

  SciELO

Science terms

(Associated category: Category:Science terms)

► Chemical analysis

► Chemical elements

► Chemical properties

► Chemical reactions

► Chemical substances

► Ethics of science and technology

► Human drug metabolites

► Organisms

► Research

  Base pair

  Biocompatibility

  Biodegradation

  Concentration

  Contamination

  Electrophoresis

  Laboratory notebook

  Medical algorithm

  Metallic microlattice

  Modularity

  Nanotopography

  Neuromechanics of orthoses

  Quadrupole

  Scientific method

  Surface chemistry of neural implants

  X-ray

  X-ray fluorescence

Scientific techniques

(Associated category: Category:Scientific techniques)

► Chromatography

► Genetics techniques

► Mass spectrometry

► Spectroscopy

  Accelerated solvent extraction

  Animal testing

  Antibiotic sensitivity testing

  Artificial digestion

  Biosynthesis

  Blood gas analysis

  Breath gas analysis

  Bronchoalveolar lavage

  Capillary electrophoresis

  Cell encapsulation

  Confocal microscopy

  Dielectric thermal analysis

  Differential thermal analysis

  Dissolved gas analysis

  Distillation

  Dynamic mechanical analysis

  Electroporation

  Elemental analysis

  ELISA

  Elution

  Enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique

  Evolved gas analysis

  Failure analysis

  Flow cytometry

  Flow injection analysis

  Fractionation

  Freeze-drying

  Homogenization (biology)

  Immunofluorescence

  In vitro fertilization

  Isotopic labeling

  Lateral flow test

  Linear discriminant analysis

  Mathematical model

  Medical imaging

  Microextrusion

  Microscopy

  Microwave digestion

  Moisture analysis

  Molecular diagnostics

  Molecular imaging

  Particle size analysis

  Positron emission tomography

  Pyrolysis

  Quechers

  Reliability engineering

  Safety engineering

  Sample preparation (analytical chemistry)

  Screening (environmental)

  Serial dilution

  Sintering

  Solid-phase extraction

  Solid-phase microextraction

  Sonication

  Spray drying

  Steam distillation

  Surface modification of biomaterials with proteins

  Synthesis of bioglass

  Thermal analysis

  Thermogravimetric analysis

  Thermomechanical analysis

  Titration

  Ultrasonic cleaning

  X-ray scattering techniques

Software systems

(Associated category: Category:Software systems)

  Chromatography data system

  Clinical data management system

  Clinical decision support system

  Clinical quality management system

  Clinical terminology server

  Clinical trial management system

  Computerized physician order entry

  Data lake

  Data warehouse

  Decision support system

  Dental software

  Document management system

  Electronic data capture

  Electronic health record

  Electronic laboratory notebook

  Electronic medical record

  Enterprise master patient index

  Enterprise resource planning

  Environmental management system

  Expert system

  Geographic information system

  Guideline execution engine

  Hospital information system

  Immunization information system

  Inventory management

  Issue tracking system

  Laboratory execution system

  Laboratory information management system

  Laboratory information system

  Manufacturing execution system

  Medical practice management software

  Medical practice management system

  Patient management software

  Patient tracking system

  Personal health record

  Picture archiving and communication system

  Quality management system

  Radiology information system

  Scientific data management system

  Virtual research environment

  Workflow engine

Software and hardware terms

(Associated category: Category:Software and hardware terms)

► Cloud computing

► Computer security

► Software development

  Acceptance testing

  Ajax (programming)

  Application programming interface

  Artificial intelligence

  Backup

  BEEP

  Carrier cloud

  Change control

  Checksum

  Computer network

  Computer security

  Concurrent user

  Content delivery network

  Dashboard (business)

  Data (computer science)

  Data center

  Data recovery

  Database

  Defensive computing

  Desktop virtualization

  Distributed computing

  EbXML

  Electronic data deliverable

  Electronic data interchange

  Extensible Markup Language

  Extract, transform, load

  Fault tolerance

  Free and open-source software

  Freeware

  Graph database

  Grid computing

  Hypervisor

  Information technology security audit

  Interface (computing)

  Internationalization and localization

  Internet of things

  Intrusion detection system

  LIMSpec

  Medical logic module

  Message broker

  Middleware

  Modularity

  Network security

  ODBC

  Off-the-shelf component

  Operating system

  Penetration test

  Process driven messaging service

  Proprietary software

  Quantum computing

  Reference architecture

  Relational database

  Remote data capture

  Request for information

  SCADA

  SMARTS (language)

  SMARTS (software)

  SMILES (language)

  Software

  Software of unknown pedigree

  Software reliability testing

  System integration

  Version control

  Virtualization

  Vulnerability management

  Web application security

  Web Services Business Process Execution Language

  YAML

Testing terminology

(Associated category: Category:Testing terminology)

  Accessioning (medical)

  Accuracy and precision

  Acid-base reaction

  Ad hoc testing

  Aliquot

  Ampoule

  Analysis

  Analysis batch

  Analysis duration

  Analysis group

  Analysis request identifier

  Analysis type

  Analyte

  Analyte comparison

  Analyzed amount

  Analyzed date

  Analyzed end date

  Assay

  Barcode

  Batch

  Biological agent

  Biological class name

  Biomarker

  Biosafety

  Biosafety level

  Blank

  Blank spike

  Blank spike duplicate

  Calibration factor

  Calibration type

  Cell culture

  Cell isolation

  Certificate of analysis

  Characterization

  Cleaned up date

  Cleaned up end date

  Cleanup batch

  Coeffa0

  Coeffa1

  Coeffa2

  Coeffa3

  Coefficient of determination

  Coefficient of determination limit low

  Coefficient of determination limit type

  Collected date

  Collected end date

  Correction factor

  Detection limit

  Difference error ratio

  Dilution factor

  Dissolution testing

  Drift

  Duplicate (laboratory)

  Equipment batch

  Expected result

  Expected result uncertainty

  Field sample identifier

  Final amount

  Handling

  Handling batch

  Immunoassay

  Instrumental analysis

  Lab reporting batch

  Method

  Method batch

  Method quality control sample

  Nasopharyngeal swab

  Neutralisation (immunology)

  Non-client sample

  Peak comparison

  Preparation

  Preparation batch

  Preparation plus cleanup

  Reagent

  Reflex test

  Reported result

  Run batch

  Sample (material)

  Sample plus method

  Sample tracking

  Sampling batch

  Serial dilution

  Shipping batch

  Spike

  Spike duplicate

  Storage batch

  Suction (medicine)

  Test method

  Test plan

  Total organic carbon