scratch test

I take the view that this will prove to be the scratch test for the new system of finance.

As they do the scratch test, the patient says it feels like being stuck with a hot poker.

Scratch tests will give you a quick idea," an Asian was saying in a firm voice.

Scratch testing for cerebral allergies, I have found, is a waste of money and time.

Then either a scratch test on the arm will tell you within 20 minutes what the cause is, or a blood test."

Scratch test (also known as a puncture or prick test).

He orders half the team to find her while the other two start steroids and epinephrine and run a scratch test.

He tells them to run scratch tests for allergies and treat William with epinephrine in the meantime.

The "scratch test" as it's called, is still very commonly used as an allergen test.

Early diamond identification tests included a scratch test relying on the superior hardness of diamond.

The three main types of skin tests are the scratch test, intradermal test, and the patch test.

The Liver scratch test is a method medical professionals use in ascertaining the location and size of a patient's liver during a physical assessment.

Prick test or scratch test: pricking the skin with a needle or pin containing a small amount of the allergen.

The doctor may also perform an allergy skin test, also called a scratch test, to identify the substances that are causing your allergy symptoms.

The Liver scratch test uses auscultation to detect the differences in sound transmission through the abdominal cavity over solid and hollow organs and spaces.

I strongly feel that clinical ecologists are taking too much business away from traditional allergists, who do scratch testing, and that traditional allergists are just protecting their turf.

Since you may not be able to discontinue certain medicines, the doctor or nurse may perform a separate "control" test to determine if that particular drug will interfere with the scratch test.

This is usually done during camera checkout at a rental house with what is known as a scratch test, where junk film is run through the camera and then examined against light for scratching.

A good camera crew usually checks all cameras and magazines during equipment checkout with scratch tests using fogged film rolls - this will catch out any possible scratch or hair problems caused by faulty equipment.

Pliny returns to the problem of fraud and the detection of false gems using several tests, including the scratch test, where counterfeit gems can be marked by a steel file, and genuine ones not.

Scratch tests at low loads, such as the Bierbaum microcharacter test, performed with either 3 gf or 9 gf loads, preceded the development of microhardness testers using traditional indenters.

Clark ducked out and didn't get his scratch tests until the next morning and I misdoubt he will die of Purple Itch or some such, were it not that his karma is so clearly reserving him for hanging.

In most cases, a positive skin test is used to identification of allergies, but the activation of basophilic granulocytes with anti-IgE, the expression of the CD63 antigen on the cell surface (plasma membrane) allows identification of the allergen responsible for the hypersensitivity reaction without performing the common scratch test.