English Dictionary: Widal's | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Widal's \Wi*dal's"\, [or] Widal test \Wi*dal", test\ [or] reaction \reaction\ . [After Fernand Widal (b. 1862), French physician.] (Med.) 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. |