Dictionaries (non specialist) do not cover 'terms of trade'.

Every industry and profession has them.

Try a medical dictionary.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=FP-pull-web-t&p=type-specific

Term used in many professions. See for yourself.

Specific to the defined condition.

A test specific to Herpes for example. If the test reacts to something
else as well, (other than the intend test target) then it is
'non-specific'

'AIDS' tests are non-specific and not even 'AIDS' tests.

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Subject: Re: Usage dictionaries. What is the definition of the term or phrase?... "type-specific"
trio at euronet.nl Donna Richoux

It's odd that it doesn't turn up in Onelook.com, which indexes quite a
few dictionaries including medical and scientific ones.

It means "specific to one type". For example, a vaccine may give
immunity to only one specific form of a disease; it is type-specific.

I don't know what a "usage dictionary" is, really. Good English
dictionaries include quite a few two- and three-word phrases, but no one
can include all possible combinations, because there are just too many.

One trick for hard-to-find meanings to is Google on such phrases as
(with quotation marks):

 "type-specific which means"
 "type-specific because"
 "is type-specific"

On the theory that such results will be somewhat illuminating
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