median survival time
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
median survival time (countable and uncountable, plural median survival times)
- (medicine, pathology) The length of time from either diagnosis or treatment in which one half of a sample of patients with a given disease are found to be, or expected to be, still alive.
- Synonym: mean survival time
Usage notes[edit]
- Not to be confused with median lethal time.