Usually means: Test misses existing positive condition.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word false negative:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. false negative: Merriam-Webster
  2. false negative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. false negative: Collins English Dictionary
  4. false-negative: Wordnik
  5. false negative: Wiktionary
  6. false-negative, false negative: Dictionary.com
  7. False Negative, False negative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. false negative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. false negative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. false negative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. false negative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. False negative, Negative, false: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. false negative: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  8. False negative: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  9. False-negative: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  10. FALSE NEGATIVE: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  11. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  12. false-negative, false negative: Medical dictionary
  13. All About Hepatitis C (No longer online)
  14. False negative, Negative, false: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (false negative)

noun:  A result of a test that shows as absent something that is present.
noun:  (statistics) A type II error (“accepting the null hypothesis when it is false”).

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