Initial Positive

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
IP
Pronunciation
/ˌɪˈnɪʃəl ˈpɑzətɪv/
Category
Medical
Related Field
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Examples in Context

  1. But a ten-year study has found that any initial positive effect on plant growth from climate change may soon disappear.
  2. The initial positive test findings from a laboratory in Nigeria were confirmed by the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in London ( see previous report ).
  3. The inflationary blowback from QE2 eventually outweighed the initial positive impact on growth.
  4. In women, an initial positive association was detected, but when adjusted for smoking habits, that positive association disappeared.
  5. Many years of experience with investigations of new drugs have demonstrated that the initial positive results from studies involving a small number of subjects tend to disappear when the drugs are tested in larger numbers of subjects from diverse populations.

Other meanings of IP

Internet Protocol Gov
Intellectual Property Academic
Image Processing Gov
Internet Provider Business
Ingress Protection Computing
International Protection Misc
Internet Packet Computing
In Process Business
In Progress Gov
Information Processor Gov