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WIDAL'S TEST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections
Synonyms:
Widal's test; Widal test
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Widal's test" is a kind of...):
agglutination test (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)
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