REGISTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does registry mean? 

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

1. an official written record of names or events or transactions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGISTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An official written record of names or events or transactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

register; registry

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

written account; written record (a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "registry"):

cadaster; cadastre (a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation)

check register (a register of checks issued (usually in numeric order))

studbook (official record of the pedigree of purebred animals especially horses)

rent-roll (a register of rents; includes the names of tenants and the amount of rent they pay)

Derivation:

register (record in a public office or in a court of law)

register (record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions)

 Context examples 

Cooperative family registries specific for breast and colorectal cancer studies.

(Cooperative Family Registries for Breast and Colorectal Cancer Studies, NCI Thesaurus)

A sequence of letters, numbers, or other characters that uniquely identifies a clinical trial within a clinical trial registry.

(Clinical Trial Registry Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Social support was measured using registry data on living alone or not, and survey questions about feeling lonely — Do you have someone to talk to when you need it?

(Loneliness Is Bad for Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A coded value specifying the kind of document identifier Example: sponsor protocol number, national number, cooperative group protocol number, CDISC protocol identifying number, registry identifier

(Document Identifier Type Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

Cooperative family registries specific for colon cancer studies.

(Cooperative Family Registry for Epidemiologic Studies of Colon Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

Identification numbers assigned to the protocol by ct.gov, EudraCT, or other registries.

(Clinical Trial Registry Identifier, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Cancer registries gather a wide variety of specific information on cancer patients that can be analyzed to identify health disparity trends in cancer incidence, mortality and patient survival.

(Cancer Registry, NCI Thesaurus)

A registry item for which administrative information is recorded in an Administration Record.

(Administered Item, NCI Thesaurus)

We were quietly married at a registry office, and we returned to Norfolk a wedded couple.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The third edition of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, published in 2000, used principally in tumor and cancer registries for coding the site (topography) and the histology (morphology) of neoplasms.

(International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition, NCI Thesaurus)