Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A skin test used to determine immunity or susceptibility to scarlet fever.
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- noun A test to check whether someone is immune or not to
scarlet fever .
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- noun a skin test to determine your susceptibility to scarlet fever
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After George Frederick Dick, (1881–1967) and his wife Gladys Henry Dick, (1881–1963), the American medical researchers who developed it.]
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From the name of the US inventor of the test, George Frederick Dick.
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