AGGLUTINATION TEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does agglutination test mean? 

• AGGLUTINATION TEST (noun)
  The noun AGGLUTINATION TEST has 1 sense:

1. a blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglutination occurs helps to identify the antigen; used in tissue matching and blood grouping and diagnosis of infections

  Familiarity information: AGGLUTINATION TEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGLUTINATION TEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blood test used to identify unknown antigens; blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglutination occurs helps to identify the antigen; used in tissue matching and blood grouping and diagnosis of infections

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Hypernyms ("agglutination test" is a kind of...):

blood test (a serologic analysis of a sample of blood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "agglutination test"):

heterophil test (a blood test to detect heterophil antibodies that agglutinate sheep red blood cells; positive result indicates infectious mononucleosis)

Widal's test; Widal test (a test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections)