screening
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medical practice of testing a group or population for disease or medical conditions, who may not yet exhibit disease symptoms, enabling earlier intervention and disease management
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Encyclopedic overview
A coal miner completes a screening survey for coalworker's pneumoconiosis.
In medicine, screening is a strategy used to look for as-yet-unrecognised conditions or risk markers. This testing can be applied to individuals or to a whole population without symptoms or signs of the disease being screened.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “screening” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.