Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of indicating.
- n. Something that serves to indicate; a sign.
- n. Something indicated as necessary or expedient: Bed rest is usually the indication for flu cases.
- n. The degree indicated by a measuring instrument.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of indicating or pointing out; a showing; exhibition; manifestation; prognostication.
- n. That which serves to indicate or point out; intimation; information; mark; token; sign; symptom.
Wiktionary
- n. Act of pointing out or indicating.
- n. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
- n. Discovery made; information.
- n. obsolete Explanation; display. Francis Bacon.
- n. medicine Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies.
- n. finance An declared approximation of the price at which a traded security is likely to commence trading.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Act of pointing out or indicating.
- n. That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
- n. Discovery made; information.
- n. obsolete Explanation; display.
- n. (Med.) Any symptom or occurrence in a disease, which serves to direct to suitable remedies. Opposite of
contraindication .
WordNet 3.0
- n. (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure
- n. the act of indicating or pointing out by name
- n. something that serves to indicate or suggest
- n. something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary
- n. a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument
Etymologies
- From Latin indicātiō ("a showing, indicating the value of something; valuation"), from indicō ("point out, indicate, show; value"); see indicate; confer French indication, Spanish indicación, Italian indicazione. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“And then maybe again for Pat, anything interesting from the market research about the demand for 424 there, even before the label indication?”
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“CVT just recently received approval expanding the label indication and removing significant cautionary language that was previously inhibiting Ranexa's U.S. ramp.”
“Its likely Biosense will get the label indication for AF going into HRS probably next year?”
“Right fielder Ichiro Suzuki, who has only hit leadoff in his year-plus with the Mariners, batted third Sunday, and the indication is the Mariners will give this look a try.”
“At the request of the Centers for Disease Control, Bayer, the developer/patent owner of Cipro (ciprofloxacin, the antibiotic most effective against anthrax), secured a label indication for anthrax.”
“In addition to being the first primary prevention indication for a statin, the new indication -- if approved -- would be also mark the first time that a drug would have a label indication based on the biomarker, C-reactive protein.”
“Because what'll happen, if I'm any indication, is that they might rampantly get into the franchise, devour lots of Star Trek stuff ... faster than it's being produced.”
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“The one indication is that coach Marvin Lewis is unwilling to let his young team rest on their laurels from last season and that he does not want them to stand pat.”
“The first indication comes from a report at The One Ring.”
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“If the election does not meet the kinds of standards that we would like to see it meet, as Bill [Undersecretary Burns] said every indication is that it won't, I am sure it will be something that will come up during the course of the trip, Rhodes said.”
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EN - academic vocabulary
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Manifestation
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Basic English Vocabulary
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