SKIN TEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skin test mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIN TEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

diagnostic assay; diagnostic test (an assay conducted for diagnostic purposes)

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

Dick test (a skin test to determine your susceptibility to scarlet fever)

patch test (a test to determine allergic sensitivity by applying small pads soaked with allergen to the unbroken skin)

Schick test (a skin test for immunity to diphtheria)

scratch test (a test to determine allergic sensitivity to various substances by applying them to scratches in the skin)

tuberculin skin test; tuberculin test (a skin test to determine past or present infection with the tuberculosis bacterium; based on hypersensitivity of the skin to tuberculin)

intradermal test; subcutaneous test (a form of skin test in which the suspected allergen is injected into the skin)

 Context examples 

A tuberculin skin test that was widely used in the United Kingdom.

(Heaf Tuberculin Skin Test, NCI Thesaurus)

The ratio measurement of the allergen wheal size to the positive control wheal size in an allergen skin test.

(Allergen Skin Response Index, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit used for standardization of an allergenic product based on evaluation of product potency against reference standard in combined in vivo (skin test) and in vitro (IgE-based ELISA) testing.

(Bioequivalent Allergy Unit, NCI Thesaurus)

They include: • Tests on a few drops of blood from pricking the baby's heel • A hearing test that measures the baby's response to sound • A skin test that measures the level of oxygen in the blood.

(Newborn Screening, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)