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widal test
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widal test, [After Fernand Widal (b. 1862), French physician.].
A test for typhoid fever based on the fact that blood serum of one affected, in a bouillon culture of typhoid bacilli, causes the bacilli to agglutinate and lose their motility. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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