Full-time status for each trimester at the undergraduate level must have a minimum of 12 credit hours. Three-quarter time would then be defined at 9 credit hours, half-time status as 6 credit hours, and less than half-time status as less than 6 credit hours over the same period of instruction (one 16-week trimester).
Definition of SCREENING TEST. : a preliminary or abridged test intended to eliminate the less probable members of an experimental series.ADVERTISEMENT. This word doesn't usually appear in our free dictionary, but the definition from our premium Unabridged Dictionary is offered here on a limited basis.ote that some information is displayed differently in the Unabridged. To access the complete Unabridged Dictionary, with an additional 300,000 words that aren't in our free dictionary, start a free trial.
A coal miner completes a screening survey for coalworker's pneumoconiosis. Screening, in medicine, is a strategy used in a population to identify the possible presence of an as-yet-undiagnosed disease in individuals without signs or symptoms. This can include individuals with pre-symptomatic or unrecognized symptomatic disease.