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Definition of Rabbit test
1. Noun. Pregnancy test that involves injecting some of the woman's urine into an unmated female rabbit and later examining the ovaries of the rabbit; presence of corpora lutea indicates that the woman is pregnant.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabbit Test
Literary usage of Rabbit test
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications by Christian Archibald Herter (1907)
"It was found that in the rabbit test the rauschbrand bacillus sent me by Dr.
Theobald Smith sporulated very freely and characteristically in the blood and ..."
2. Pathogenic microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1920)
"Should no growth appear the rabbit test (p. 610) is made. 3. Test for tetanus
bacillus—Meat infusion broth in fermentation tubes is planted with a portion ..."
3. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1914)
"In one case a batch was discarded because it failed to produce good agglutinations
in the rabbit test. We have used agar cultures because of the ease of ..."
4. Experimental Pharmacology by Hugh McGuigan (1919)
"In a second rabbit test the anesthetic effect of quinin urea hydrochloride in
the same way. Experiment VHI.—Place one drop of the tincture of aconite on ..."
5. Bacteriology: General, Pathological and Intestinal by Arthur Isaac Kendall (1921)
"... and the Welch-Nuttal rabbit test, are presumptive tests for Bacillus welchii.
They are not conclusive, but strongly suggestive of the presence of the ..."
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