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<term>
  <id>10025</id>
  <title>national examination standard</title>
  <longtitle>IUPAC Gold Book - national examination standard</longtitle>
  <doi>10.1351/goldbook.10025</doi>
  <code>10025</code>
  <status>current</status>
  <definitions>
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      <id>1</id>
      <text>Examination standard recognized by national authority to serve in a state or economy as the basis for assigning nominal property values to other examination standards for the same kind-of-nominal-property.</text>
      <exams>
        <item>The examinand "HLA specific allo-antibodies in human blood plasma" is detected and identified according to a nationally agreed examination procedure and nominal reference material.</item>
      </exams>
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          <term>Examination standard</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10019</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>examinand</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09985</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>examination procedure</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09990</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>kind-of-nominal-property</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09980</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>nominal property values</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09996</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>nominal reference material</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/10020</url>
        </item>
      </links>
      <sources>
        <item>PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 930 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2011-0613)</item>
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    </item>
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  <citation>Citation: 'national examination standard' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.10025</citation>
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  <accessed>2026-05-24T00:33:06+00:00</accessed>
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