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The number of times one amount is contained in another; the ratio of two numbers. SEE ALSO: index (2), ratio. [L. quoties, how often]
- achievement q. a ratio, percentile rating, or related q. denoting the amount a child has learned in relation to peers of his or her age or level of education.
- cognitive laterality q. (CLQ) test for difference in cognitive performance of left and right sides of the brain.
- extremal q. the ratio of the rate in the jurisdiction with the highest rate of interventions such as surgical procedures to the rate in the jurisdiction with the lowest rate.
- intelligence q. (IQ) the psychologist's index of measured intelligence as one part of a two-part determination of intelligence, the other part being an index of adaptive behavior and including such criteria as school grades or work performance. IQ is a score, or similar quantitative index, used to denote a person's standing relative to age peers on a test of general ability, ordinarily expressed as a ratio between the person's score on a given test and the score that the average individual of comparable age attained on the same test, the ratio being computed by the psychologist or determined from a table of age norms, such as the various Wechsler intelligence scales.
- Meyerhof oxidation q. an index for the effect of oxygen on glycolysis and on fermentation ( I.E., on the Pasteur effect); equal to the rate of anaerobic fermentation minus the rate of aerobic respiration divided by the rate of oxygen uptake.
- P/O q. SYN: P/O ratio.
- protein q. the number obtained by dividing the quantity of globulin of the blood plasma by the quantity of albumin.
- respiratory q. (R.Q.) the steady-state ratio of carbon dioxide produced by tissue metabolism to oxygen consumed in the same metabolism; for the whole body, normally about 0.82 under basal conditions; in the steady state, the respiratory q. is equal to the respiratory exchange ratio. SYN: respiratory coefficient.
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quo·tient 'kwō-shənt n the numerical ratio usu. multiplied by 100 between a test score and a measurement on which that score might be expected largely to depend
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quo·tient (kwoґshənt) a number obtained as the result of division; a number indicating how many times one number is contained in another.Medical dictionary. 2011.