COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does complement fixation test mean? 

• COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST (noun)
  The noun COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST has 1 sense:

1. a blood test in which a sample of serum is exposed to a particular antigen and complement in order to determine whether or not antibodies to that particular antigen are present; used as a diagnostic test

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLEMENT FIXATION TEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A blood test in which a sample of serum is exposed to a particular antigen and complement in order to determine whether or not antibodies to that particular antigen are present; used as a diagnostic test

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("complement fixation test" is a kind of...):

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

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

Wasserman reaction; Wassermann; Wassermann test (a blood test to detect syphilis; a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema; a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection)

 Context examples 

In complement fixation tests, the smallest amount of antigen that will fix one unit of complement.

(Antigen Unit, NCI Thesaurus)