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widal test
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun widal test has 1 sense
- widal test(n = noun.cognition) widal's test - a test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections; Array is a kind of agglutination test
CIDE DICTIONARY
widal test, [After Fernand Widal (b. 1862), French physician.].
A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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