CDC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CDC mean? 

• CDC (noun)
  The noun CDC has 1 sense:

1. a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)

  Familiarity information: CDC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CDC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Hypernyms ("CDC" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("CDC" is a part of...):

Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS (the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979)

Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)

 Context examples 

The Fc region of MPDL3280A is modified in such a way that it does not induce either antibody-dependent cytotoxicity (ADCC) or complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC).

(Anti-PD-L1 Monoclonal Antibody MPDL3280A, NCI Thesaurus)

Diabetes affects more than 30 million Americans according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

(Researchers Develop Insulin-Producing Cells Activated by Light for Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

CD38 is also present on multiple myeloma (MM) cells and plasma leukemia cells; this agent may preferentially bind these cells, triggering antitumoral antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC).

(Daratumumab, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent transiently depletes CD20-bearing B cells by inducing B cell -directed complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and B cell apoptosis.

(CD20-targeted Polypeptide TRU-015, NCI Thesaurus)

The CDC promotes healthy behaviors and safe, healthy environments.

(CDC, NCI Dictionary)

This may trigger antitumoral antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) and apoptosis eventually leading to cell lysis in CD38-expressing tumor cells.

(Anti-CD38 Monoclonal Antibody SAR650984, NCI Thesaurus)

The antibody moiety of IMGN529 binds to CD37 on tumor B-cells and induces an antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC), thereby showing pro-apoptotic activity.

(Anti-CD37 Antibody-Drug Conjugate IMGN529, NCI Thesaurus)

All known cases must be reported to the CDC, but officials there estimate that they are notified of fewer than half of the 800,000 new cases each year.

(Vaccine for Meningitis Shows Some Protection Against Gonorrhea, VOA)

They include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS).

(Department of Health and Human Services, NCI Dictionary)

This may result in the induction of a B cell-directed complement dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) against CD20-expressing B cells leading to B cell apoptosis.

(Anti-CD20 Monoclonal Antibody PRO131921, NCI Thesaurus)