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noun
A test to check whether someone is immune to scarlet fever, by injecting a diluted strain of the streptococci and observing any skin reaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a skin test to determine your susceptibility to scarlet fever
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: skin test
History
From the name of the US inventor of the test, George Frederick Dick.
