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While exact uniformity isn't expected or perhaps even possible when people are asked to recall a definition, the extreme variability illustrates that we could be talking about very different things in
You're quite correct that most people view that word as a generic for "dictionary" (although it is defined in at least one--I put the definition in the Random House Webster's College Dictionary a few years back).
As surveys have shown that etymological information is the least often sought after, making the average user wade through the etymology before getting to the definition has always seemed pointless and irritating to me; besides, it is unlikely that the serious, consistent seeker of etymological information is likely to use anything but the OED or a major etymological dictionary.
By contrast, here is the pertinent definition from the OED :
This definition includes patients whose “best overall response” was either progression of disease ( n = 26) or stable disease ( n = 12) as defined by RECIST.