CTC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CTC mean? 

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

1. an agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CTC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency that helps the Director of Central Intelligence coordinate counterterrorist efforts in order to preempt and disrupt and defeat terrorist activities at the earliest possible stage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Counterterrorist Center; CTC

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

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

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

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

Central Intelligence Agency; CIA (an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council)

 Context examples 

The CTC contains a grading scale for each adverse event term representing the severity of the event.

(Common Toxicity Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): Similar to CTC Term (short name), e.g., the National Cancer Institute's Common Toxicity Criteria terminology.

(Performed Clinical Interpretation Toxicity Term Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The CTC lines proved to be genetically different than the original tumors.

(Isolated cancer cells may lead to personalized treatments, NIH)

Also called computed tomographic colonography, computed tomography colonography, CTC, and virtual colonoscopy.

(CT colonography, NCI Dictionary)

Also called computed tomography colonography, CT colonography, CTC, and virtual colonoscopy.

(Computed tomographic colonography, NCI Dictionary)

Also called computed tomographic colonography, CT colonography, CTC, and virtual colonoscopy.

(Computed tomography colonography, NCI Dictionary)

Common toxicity criteria (CTC) is used in study adverse event summaries and Investigational New Drug reports to the Food and Drug Administration.

(Common Toxicity Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

Recently, researchers developed a way to isolate CTCs using microfluidic technology.

(Isolated cancer cells may lead to personalized treatments, NIH)

Isolating these rare CTCs from the blood of cancer patients, however, has been a technical challenge.

(Isolated cancer cells may lead to personalized treatments, NIH)

The isolation and analysis of CTCs may thus be a useful method for tracking how cancers evolve during therapy.

(Isolated cancer cells may lead to personalized treatments, NIH)