English Explanatory Dictionary

Dick test

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A test to check whether someone is immune to scarlet fever, by injecting a diluted strain of the streptococci and observing any skin reaction.

Word forms

Dick test Dick tests

Etymology

From the name of the US inventor of the test, George Frederick Dick.

Related words

Dick toxin

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