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AGGLUTINATION TEST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglutination occurs helps to identify the antigen; used in tissue matching and blood grouping and diagnosis of infections
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("agglutination test" is a kind of...):
blood test (a serologic analysis of a sample of blood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agglutination test"):
heterophil test (a blood test to detect heterophil antibodies that agglutinate sheep red blood cells; positive result indicates infectious mononucleosis)
Widal's test; Widal test (a test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections)
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