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Definition of Skin test

1. Noun. Any test to determine immunity or sensitivity to a disease by introducing small amounts on or into the skin.

Medical Definition of Skin test

1. A method for determining induced sensitivity (allergy) by applying an antigen (allergen) to, or inoculating it into, the skin; induced sensitivity (allergy) to the specific antigen is indicated by an inflammatory reaction of one of two general kinds: 1) immediate, appears in minutes to an hour or so and in general is dependent upon circulating immunoglobulins (antibodies); 2) delayed, appears in 12 to 48 hours and is not dependent upon these soluble substances but upon cellular response and infiltration. Synonym: cutaneous test, cutireaction test, skin reaction. (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Skin test

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

1. The ABCs of Safe & Healthy Child Care: A Handbook for Child Care Providers by Cynthia M. Hale, Jacqueline A. Polder (2000)
"(That is, if the first test result is negative, the skin test is ... Anyone who has a positive result from the skin test may be infected with the TB germ ..."

2. The Journal of Medical Research (1901)
"Patient RGW, who gave a positive skin test with a 1-500 dilution of rag weed ... Patient HF gave only a doubtful skin test with the whole pollen of rag weed ..."

3. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"The question is often raised as to how specific the skin test is, ... In answer to this I may say that a routine skin test for egg-white was made on 100 ..."

4. A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas (2005)
"Correlations with smoking, allergen skin-test reactivity, and serum IgE (see ... Conversely, rhinitis prevalence was related to skin test reactivity with no ..."

5. Health Consequences of Smoking: Cardiovascular Disease: A Report of the by DIANE Publishing Company, C. Everett Koop, M.D. (1995)
"Immediate skin-test hypersensitivity to tobacco glycoprotein was found in 11 percent of ... Forty-three percent of skin-test-negative and 91 percent of ..."

6. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Dick and Dick (1938) advocate "beginning with 650 skin test doses, followed at weekly intervals by a second dose of 2500 skin test doses, a third dose of ..."

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