PREDETERMINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predetermined mean? 

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

1. set in advance

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDETERMINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set in advance

Synonyms:

predetermined; preset

Context example:

at a predetermined time

Similar:

planned (designed or carried out according to a plan)

 Context examples 

An indication that the study subject was sacrificed at a predetermined time before the end of the planned treatment period.

(Planned Interim Sacrifice, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A predetermined set of questions designed to identify individuals without significant health related issues to participate in a research study.

(Healthy Volunteer Medical History Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of time from the start of the thrombin generation test to the point where a predetermined amount of thrombin is generated.

(Endogenous Thrombin Potential Lag Time Relative Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of time from the start of the thrombin generation test to the point where a predetermined amount of thrombin is generated.

(Endogenous Thrombin Potential Lag Time Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication that the study subject was euthanized during a predetermined time.

(Planned Interim Sacrifice, NCI Thesaurus)

A switch designed to cut off power automatically to a moving object when it reaches a predetermined point.

(Limit Switch Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Astrology does not give a predetermined result—you can do what feels right for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The detailed planning of studies of the safety, efficacy, or optimum dosage schedule (if appropriate) of one or more diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques selected according to predetermined criteria of eligibility and observed for predefined evidence of favorable and unfavorable effects.

(Clinical Trials Design, NCI Thesaurus)

A method of intravenous narcotic analgesic delivery that uses a pump or similar delivery system that allows the patient, or in the absence of the patient's ability to do so the patient's nurse or family members, to administer predetermined doses of analgesic as needed to maintain adequate pain control.

(Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia, NCI Thesaurus)

Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided.

(Health Maintenance Organization, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)