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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections;
[syn: Widal test, Widal's test]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Widal's test \Wi*dal's" test\, or Widal test \Wi*dal" test\ or Widal reaction \Wi*dal" reaction\ . [After Fernand Widal (b. 1862), French physician.] (Med.) 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.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Widal test n 1: a test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections [syn: Widal test, Widal's test]