Definition of Complement fixation test

1. Noun. A blood test in which a sample of serum is exposed to a particular antigen and complement in order to determine whether or not antibodies to that particular antigen are present; used as a diagnostic test.

Specialized synonyms: Wasserman Reaction, Wassermann, Wassermann Test
Generic synonyms: Blood Test

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complement Fixation Test

complement 4b
complement 5
complement 5a
complement 6
complement 7
complement 8
complement 9
complement activating enzymes
complement activation
complement chemotactic factor
complement cytolysis inhibitor
complement factor I
complement factor h
complement fixation
complement fixation test (current term)
complement fixation tests
complement inactivators
complement membrane attack complex
complement system
complement unit
complemental
complemental air
complementall
complementalness
complementarian
complementarianism
complementarians
complementaries

Literary usage of Complement fixation test

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

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"To Miiller and Oppenheim,2 in 1906, belongs the credit of first applying the complement-fixation test to the study of the serum of a patient having ..."

2. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association by American Veterinary Medical Association. (1917)
"The technique is more difficult than the complement fixation test, as the chances ... The one advantage of the test over the complement fixation test is its ..."

3. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"To them, therefore, belongs the credit of having recorded the first complement- fixation test in gonococcus infection. A little later in the same year, ..."

4. Laboratory Manual in General Microbiology by Dept. of Bacteriology and Public Health, Michigan, Michigan Agricultural College, Michigan State University, East Lansing Agricultural College, Dept. of Bacteriology and Hygiene (1916)
"TO DEMONSTRATE THE complement fixation test The complement fixation test is one of the most complicated biological reactions used as a means of diagnosis in ..."

5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1888)
"This paper describes the complement fixation test and its application to the diagnosis of a natural outbreak of rinderpest. At the beginning of July, ..."

6. Gynecology by Brooke Melancthon Anspach (1921)
""Further Experiences with the Complement-Fixation Test in the Diagnosis of ... THOMAS, BA, AND IVY, RH: " The Gonococcus Complement-Fixation Test and ..."

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