Background and Education. Physician and educator Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3, 1821, in Bristol, England. Brought up in a liberal household that stressed education, Blackwell eventually broke into the field of medicine to become the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States.
â¢ ASSAY (noun) The noun ASSAY has 4 senses: 1. an appraisal of the state of affairs. 2. a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components. 3. a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance.
Assay sensitivity is a property of a clinical trial defined as the ability of a trial to distinguish an effective treatment from a less effective or ineffective intervention. Without assay sensitivity, a trial is not internally valid and is not capable of comparing the efficacy of two interventions.