tuberculin
IPA: tubɝkjʌɫɪn
noun
- An antigen used in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
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Examples of "tuberculin" in Sentences
- BCG vaccine and tuberculin skin test.
- Classification of tuberculin reaction.
- Tuberculin is a chemical compound, not a test.
- Tuberculin becomes a useful diagnostic reagent.
- Tuberculin is a glycerol extract of the tubercle bacillus.
- The second tuberculin skin test result is the correct one.
- A reactive tuberculin skin test is a contraindication to BCG.
- It may also include a tuberculin skin test, a serological test.
- The tuberculin skin test has its origins in the late 19th century.
- The eruption is usually associated with a strongly positive tuberculin reaction.
- Koch bacillus produces preparatory substances which are not to be found in tuberculin.
- This involves the injection of a small amount of fluid (called tuberculin) into the skin in the lower part of the arm.
- Actually, he tried tuberculin first, but tuberculosis, while perhaps preferable to general paresis, is still a pretty devastating disease.
- Mantoux expanded upon Pirquet's ideas and the Mantoux test, in which tuberculin is injected under the skin, became a diagnostic test for tuberculosis in 1907.
- [85] This test is made by injecting into the animal a small quantity of tuberculin, which is a sterilized glycerin extract of cultures of the tubercle bacillus.
- To administer a skin test, a health care worker uses a small needle to put some testing material, called tuberculin, just under the skin on the lower inside part of the arm.
- There is also a substance called tuberculin, which, when injected under the skin in suspected cases of consumption causes a rise of temperature in persons suffering from the disease, but has no effect on the healthy.
- Some of these products, such as tuberculin and malein, enable the owner to rid his herds of tubercular cows and glandered horses before these diseases have become far enough advanced to be recognized by the visible symptoms alone.
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