{"term":{"id":"09983","title":"dedicated kind-of-nominal-property","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - dedicated kind-of-nominal-property","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.09983","code":"09983","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Kind-of-nominal-property with a sort of system and any pertinent sort(s) of component(s).","notes":{"1":"A dedicated kind-of-nominal-property is not specified to any individual person, in contrast to an individual nominal property, and it cannot have a nominal property value.","2":"In clinical laboratory report forms, dedicated kind-of-nominal-properties may be described according to an internationally recommended NPU syntax from IFCC-IUPAC. The syntax is System(specification)-Component(specification); kind-of-property(specification). The last \"specification\" might contain information on the examination procedure or the nominal property value set. The initial capital for System and for Component is mandatory.Examples of the NPU syntax:.Blood—Plasma; colour({milky, red, yellow});.Erythrocytes(Blood)—Erythrocyte antigen; blood group({A, B, AB, O}).For examples 1-4 above, individual nominal properties can be written as follows (omitting patient identity and time but including the nominal property value for clarity):Patient—Spinal fluid; colour(visual)=reddish;DNA(Leukocytes)—CYP2D6 gene; sequence variation(allele specific PCR)=*1\/*3;Expectoration—Bacterium; taxon(Phadebact coagglutination test)=Mycobacterium tuberculosis;Monocytes(Blood)—Nuclei; shape=oval.","3":"The patient\"s name (or other identifier), location, and date and time of obtaining the sample of the system under consideration shall always be given in the clinical laboratory report.","4":"The dedicated kinds-of-nominal-property examples above correspond to examples 1-4 of kind-of-nominal-property."},"exams":{"1":"The colour of the fluid within the central channel of the spinal cord of any person. The colour might be affected by a cerebral haemorrhage.","2":"The sequence variation of nucleotides of the gene CYP2D6 in DNA from any person. CYP2D6 is a gene coding for one of the enzymes within the cytochrome P450 oxidase system, e.g. affecting drug metabolism.","3":"The taxon of the bacterium in a sample of expectoration from any person.","4":"The typical shape of the nuclei in monocytes (a type of leukocyte) in a sample of blood from any person. The morphology of cells is studied under microscope after fixation and staining of a thin blood film."},"links":[{"term":"Kind-of-nominal-property","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/09980"},{"term":"examination procedure","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/09990"},{"term":"nominal property value","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/09996"},{"term":"nominal property value set","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/09997"},{"term":"taxon","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/09982"}],"sources":["PAC, 2018, 90, 913. 'Vocabulary on nominal property, examination, and related concepts for clinical laboratory sciences (IFCC-IUPAC Recommendations 2017)' on page 916 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2011-0613)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09983\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09983\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09983\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'dedicated kind-of-nominal-property' 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.09983","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-06T18:59:44+00:00"}}