Medical Term:
kappa
Pronunciation: kap′ă
Definition:
- The tenth letter in the Greek alphabet.
- In chemistry, denotes the position of a substituent located on the tenth atom from the carboxyl or other functional group.
- A measure of the degree of nonrandom agreement between observers or measurements of the same categorical variable.
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Examples: glitazone, GI cocktail, etc.
