Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements.
system
Ser = Serum
scale
Nom = Nominal: Nominal or categorical responses that do not have a natural ordering. (e.g., names of bacteria, reported as answers, categories of appearance that do not have a natural ordering, such as, yellow, clear, bloody.
method
IB = Immune Blot: Applies to techniques that include electrophoretic or chromatographic separation such that position (size) of the band is part of the assessment
Additional Names
short name
Ab Patrn; ABS; Aby; AIDS; Antby; Anti; Antibodies; Antibody; Autoantibodies; Autoantibody; Bands; Blt; bnd; HIV 1 and 2 Ab; HIV 1 and 2 Ab band pattern; HIV type 1; HIV type I; HIV1; HIV1+2; Human immunodeficiency virus; i; ID; II; Immune blot; Immunobl;