PARTICIPATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does participating mean? 

• PARTICIPATING (adjective)
  The adjective PARTICIPATING has 1 sense:

1. taking part in an activity

  Familiarity information: PARTICIPATING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTICIPATING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Taking part in an activity

Synonyms:

active; participating

Context example:

the participating organizations

Similar:

involved (connected by participation or association or use)

 Context examples 

No longer participating in a study; not being followed and will not be retreated.

(Off Study, NCI Thesaurus)

Collaborations are established through communications and agreements with the participating groups.

(International Consortium on Prostate Cancer Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)

The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OAB-q) Caused you to decrease participating in social gatherings, such as parties or visits with family or friends?

(OAB-q - Decrease Participating in Social Gatherings, NCI Thesaurus)

Elements of a personal medical history which would prevent an individual from participating in a specific clinical trial.

(Exclusion Criteria, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers scanned the brains of 167 healthy older adults who were participating in a larger study of memory and aging.

(Physical Activity May Reduce Age-Related Movement Problems, NIH)

NOTE(S): Exception: A multi-site trial with no single assigned coordination center; in this case, every participating organization can be named as lead organization.

(Planned Study Site Lead Indicator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The Network will consist of a Headquarters office that coordinates operations, a Biostatistics and Data Management Center (BDMC), and a number of participating institutions in which the studies are performed.

(Cooperative Trial in Diagnostic Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

Patients and investigators from six continents: Europe, Australia/ New Zealand, Africa, Asia, and North and South America, cooperate by participating in extensive clinical trials in the Adjuvant breast cancer setting.

(International Breast Cancer Study Group, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of exchange of genetic material between autonomous replicons, which depends on regions of extensive sequence homology between the participating DNA strands.

(Homologous Recombination, NCI Thesaurus)

Twelve participating institutions are located in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

(Cooperative Family Registry, NCI Thesaurus)