WIDAL TEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Widal test mean? 

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

1. a test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections

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

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• WIDAL TEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Widal's test; Widal test

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

agglutination test (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)