ET AL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does et al mean? 

• ET AL (adverb)
  The adverb ET AL has 2 senses:

1. and others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of 'et alii' (masculine plural) or 'et aliae' (feminine plural) or 'et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people)

2. and elsewhere (used when referring to other occurrences in a text)

  Familiarity information: ET AL used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ET AL (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

And others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of 'et alii' (masculine plural) or 'et aliae' (feminine plural) or 'et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people)

Synonyms:

et al; et al.; et alia; et aliae; et alii

Context example:

the data reported by Smith et al.

Sense 2

Meaning:

And elsewhere (used when referring to other occurrences in a text)

Synonyms:

et al; et al.; et alibi

 Context examples 

Epitope specificities of collagen-induced arthritis studied by Cremer et al (1992).

(BB, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Prolonged implantation leads to prostatic carcinoma (Leav et al 1988, 1989).

(NBL, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

A standardized rating scale developed by Mahler et al in 1984, which is a general scale used to measure the rating of severity of dyspnea at a single state (as baseline).

(Baseline Dyspnea Index Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

An inbred strain of miniature swine developed by Sachs et al at the NIH in 1976 from a cross between a Hormel pig and a Vita Vet miniature pig.

(NIH Minipig, NCI Thesaurus)

A questionnaire developed by Naranjo et al that is designed to assess the likelihood that an adverse event is due to the drug administered rather than the result of other factors.

(Naranjo Adverse Drug Reaction Probability Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Highly susceptible to the transplacental induction of malignant tumors of the central nervous system by ethyl nitrosourea (Druckrey et al 1970).

(BDIX, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Xie et al. demonstrated that Plk3, like Chk1 and Chk2, also phosphorylates Cdc25C on serine-216 contributing to cell cycle arrest.

(Cell Cycle Progression Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Survival 58% at 2 years of age with thyroid carcinoma in 25% (Lindsey et al 1968).

(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

These tumors are slow growing, but apparently malignant, and closely resemble similar tumors found in humans (Goodall et al 1975).

(NZR, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Crackower et al determined that ace2 -/- mice suffered significant heart defects at 6 months.

(Angiotensin-converting Enzyme 2 Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)