= pneobiognosis, n.

A test involving blood (in various senses); a test on or for blood; (in later use) spec. a laboratory test performed on blood for diagnostic purposes.

a test performed to detect the presence or analyse the effect of a particular drug; (now chiefly) a test performed on blood or urine to determine…

a test used in physical diagnosis in which a patient is asked to stand with the feet together, and then to close the eyes.

attributive and in the genitive. Designating (the result of) a hearing test in which a vibrating tuning fork is placed with its handle on a bone…

swaying, staggering, or falling by a patient during the closed-eye phase of the Romberg test, indicating impairment of proprioceptive function…

the administration of tuberculin, usually by intradermal injection, as a test for infection (past or present) with tubercle bacilli or other…

a test for the absence of blood from the urine or fæces involving guaiac as a reagent.

Medicine and Biology. The process by which cells, microorganisms, or particles form insoluble clumps in the presence of antibody or certain other…

a diagnostic test based on the rate of percolation of fluid; spec. = perc test, n.

attributive and in the genitive. Designating or relating to a cutaneous test for tuberculosis in which the skin of the forearm is scarified through…

a test to determine whether an allergic or other immune reaction is elicited when a substance is applied to or injected into the skin.

Used attributively with reference to a test for syphilis devised by Wassermann in 1906, in which antibodies to the causative organism are detected…

Romberg's sign; a Romberg test.

attributive and in the genitive. Designating a test for the presence of globulins in cerebrospinal fluid, in which the protein is precipitated by a…

a test in which blood sugar is measured at intervals after the administration of a known dose of glucose, used to investigate carbohydrate…

Used attributively and absol. to denote a modification proposed by Kolmer of the Wassermann complement fixation test for syphilis using beef heart…

A test for determining hypersensitivity or allergy to a substance, performed by applying the substance to a patient's unbroken skin, (usually)…

the performance of a skin test or skin tests.

Medicine. The eliciting of a physiological or pathological response, esp. an immune response; spec. the deliberate eliciting of a response as a…

attributive and in the genitive. Designating the diagnostic manoeuvre of compressing the jugular veins while measuring cerebrospinal fluid…

attributive. Designating a diagnostic test for syphilis devised by Kline in which serum, blood, or spinal fluid is mixed on a slide with a lipid…

Used attributively with reference to a test for immediate-type hypersensitivity involving the injection of serum from an allergic subject into the…

(transitive) to test the compatibility of (the blood of a blood-donor and a recipient); also said of the individuals; so as n.

attributive. Designating or relating to a method of testing for past or present tuberculosis infection by intradermal injection of diluted…

a forensic test to indicate whether a person has recently fired a gun, in which the person's hand is coated in hot paraffin wax which cools and…

attributive. Designating a test for the heterophile antibody of infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever), which reacts with sheep erythrocytes…

Medicine. A test designed to assess the functional capacity of an organ or organ system of the body under conditions that require increased or…

A physical exercise consisting of a squat thrust performed from and completed in a standing position. Usually in plural. Originally in Burpee test n.…

General attributive, esp. in lepromin test.

The use of patch tests; the action of performing a patch test.

Neurology. As a mass noun: pricking of the skin as a means of neurological testing for sensation of pain.

Medicine. Any of various diagnostic tests based on the presence or the quantity of specific, usually volatile, substances in the breath of the…

a diagnostic test performed to elicit a particular physiological or pathological response, typically involving the administration of a drug or…

titration of blood with protamine to assess coagulation; a value so obtained.

An agglutination test devised by R. R. A. Coombs in 1945 and used in the diagnosis of blood diseases to detect antibodies.

a test for cancer of the womb made by microscopic examination of a smear (see sense 3b).

a test, used esp. for pernicious anæmia, in which a small oral dose of radioactively labelled vitamin B12 is followed by a much larger unlabelled…

Immunol. tanned-(red-)cell, used attributively to designate a test in which antibodies can be detected by observing the agglutination of red…

A prenatal diagnostic technique in which a sample of amniotic fluid is withdrawn from the uterus through a hollow needle and examined for…

attributive, esp. in Pap smear, Pap test: a smear of cells taken from the cervix of the womb, analysed for evidence of cervical cancer; = Papanicolaou…

attributive, esp. in Pap smear, Pap test: a smear of cells taken from the cervix of the womb, analysed for evidence of cervical cancer; = Papanicolaou…

= drug test n. at compounds 1b.

Used attributively to denote the test made by intradermal injection of antibody to scarlet fever toxin, or of serum containing this; and to denote…

= amniocentesis, n.