A measure of how quickly blood sugar levels rise after eating a particular type of food, on a scale where the index of glucose or ordinary table sugar is 100.

(economics) An economic indicator formed by adding the unemployment rate to the inflation rate.

(databases) A listing of records used to prune them during requests.

(mathematics) The divisor function of an integer divided by the integer.

(economics) A measure of the size of firms in relation to the industries they operate in, serving to indicate the amount of competition among them.

plural of index case

An author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and the citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar, based on a set of most cited papers and the number of citations in other publications.

(epidemiology) The first documented patient in a disease epidemic within a population or the first case of interest in an epidemiological investigation; the case of patient zero.

(economics) A price or quantity index, a discrete approximation to a continuous Divisia index.

(medicine) The level of suspicion that a disease or condition is the underlying diagnosis based on the available findings in a patient.