By examining a random sample of 10 percent of the words in the four-volume Burchfield supplement and comparing those entries with those in the 1933 supplement, she concluded that Dr. Burchfield deleted 17 percent of words that she broadly categorized as borrowed from regional dialects of English or coming from another language.
To achieve an overview of individual mislocalization behavior, the mislocalizations from each finger to any other finger were categorized as mislocalizations from the stimulated finger to the first-, second-, third-, or fourth neighboring finger leading to a total of eight first-, six second-, four third-, and two fourth neighbor fingers.
A specimen was categorized as being from a person who was non-pregnant when it was from: i) a male, ii) a female with a negative pregnancy test or ICD-9 code for a negative pregnancy test; iii) a woman age 55 or over, or iv) a female with an unspecified age who did not meet the above described pregnancy criteria.
Most human genetic defects can be categorized as resulting from either chromosomal, single-gene Mendelian, single-gene non-Mendelian, or multifactorial causes.
The non-Western origin group includes those whose parents come from Africa, East Africa, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Asia/Oceania, Chile, and South America, while those whose parents come from non-EU-27 Europe, former Yugoslavia, former Russia and Poland, North America and EU-27, and other Nordic countries are categorized as coming from Western countries of origin.
Specimens were categorized as being from a person whose pregnancy status was unknown when either: i) a female did not meet any of the pregnant or non-pregnant criteria listed above, ii) the submitted test requisition specified the individual as a male, but they simultaneously met one of the pregnancy-related criteria, or iii) gender was not specified.
Soft drink sales are categorized as sales from corporations, private label and other.
The scrotum was categorized as distinct from surrounding tissue or not, and by size (small or not).
Patients developing cardiovascular organ failure with need for vasopressors longer than 1 h were categorized as suffering from septic shock.
Sensory irritation encompasses a graded series of responses generally categorized as ranging from slight to moderate to severe.
