We have been developing an English-Japanese thesaurus of medical terms for 20 years. The thesaurus is compatible with MeSH (Medical Subject Headings developed by National Library of Medicine, USA) and contains approximately 30 thousand headings with 200 thousand synonyms (consisting of the names of anatomical concepts, biological organisms, chemical compounds, methods, disease and symptoms). In...

adjusting or controlling for a variable: Assessing the effect of one variable while accounting for the effect of another (confounding) variable. Adjustment for the other variable can be carried out by stratifying the analysis (especially if the variable is categorical) or by statistically estimating the relationship between the variable and the outcome and then subtracting out that effect to st...