English Explanatory Dictionary

Guthrie test

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A screening test done on newborns, involving the collection of blood from a pinprick puncture in the heel.

Word forms

Guthrie test Guthrie tests

Etymology

Named after Robert Guthrie, an American bacteriologist and physician who devised it in 1962.

Related words

Guthrie card
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