Medical Definition of Viability test
1.
Test to determine the proportion of living individuals, cells or organisms, in a sample. Viability tests are most commonly performed on cultured cells and usually depend on the ability of living cells to exclude a dye, (an exclusion test) or to specifically take it up (inclusion test).
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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