English Explanatory Dictionary

patch test

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A diagnostic method used to determine which specific substances cause allergic inflammation of a patient's skin, by affixing small patches to the skin that contain those substances.
verb
  1. To carry out such a test.

Word forms

patch test patch tests patch testing patch tested
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