Definition of Blood test

1. Noun. A serologic analysis of a sample of blood.

Specialized synonyms: Agglutination Test, Complement Fixation Test, Psa Blood Test
Generic synonyms: Biopsy

Definition of Blood test

1. Noun. A serologic analysis of a sample of blood; a test in which blood is removed from a subject and analyzed to determine the presence or levels of any of a variety of substances which indicate whether the subject has health problems. ¹

2. Noun. An analysis of blood performed on two subjects to determine whether they are biologically related, such as a paternity test. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blood Test

blood smear
blood spavin
blood specimen collection
blood sport
blood spots
blood stains
blood sub
blood subs
blood substitute
blood substitutes
blood substitution
blood substitutions
blood sugar
blood supply
blood tax
blood test
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blood transfusion
blood transfusion reaction
blood tumour
blood type
blood types
blood typing
blood urea nitrogen
blood vessel
blood vessel prosthesis
blood vessel prosthesis implantation
blood vessels
blood viscosity
blood volume

Literary usage of Blood test

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of microscopic and chemical methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"Williamson's Diabetic blood test.—This test is of much interest, and may possibly serve to differentiate the ordinary forms of diabetes from that in which ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"In this case, and in some cases of intestinal carcinoma, the microscopic examination is seen to be more important than a routine blood test, for it leads to ..."

3. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"TECHNIC OF THE FORENSIC blood test 1. Secure from the instructor two pieces of gauze stained respectively with human and horse blood. ..."

4. Practical physiological chemistry by Philip Bovier Hawk (1918)
"The so-called "biological" blood test has, however, made such a differentiation possible. This test, known as the Bordet reaction, is founded upon the fact ..."

5. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1917)
"The animals reacting to the eye test or blood test should be destroyed. Those which give an atypical or an indistinct reaction in the blood test should be ..."

6. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"The test known as Nutting's biological blood test, as given in Vol. Ixix, No. ... For the blood test Nutting prepares an antiserum by injecting human blood, ..."

7. Mine Gases and Explosions: Text-book for Schools and Colleges and for by James Thom Beard (1908)
"Ihe blood test for Carbon Monoxide passing out at b. If the air contains but .01 per cent. of carbon monoxide, the gas will impart a pink hue to the liquid, ..."

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