| private treaty | a sale of property at a price agreed on by the seller and buyer without an intervening agency |
| means test | an inquiry into the financial position of someone applying for financial aid |
somatic cell nuclear transplantation
somatic cell nuclear transfer
SCNT
nuclear transplantation | moving a cell nucleus and its genetic material from one cell to another |
| nuclear terrorism | the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials, assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism |
test
trial
run | the act of testing something, in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately, he called each flip of the coin a new trial |
clinical trial
clinical test | a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects, in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use |
preclinical trial
preclinical test
preclinical phase | a laboratory test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on animal subjects, conducted to gather evidence justifying a clinical trial |
| test trial | the act of undergoing testing, he survived the great test of battle, candidates must compete in a trial of skill |
| screen test | a filmed audition of an actor or actress |
MOT
MOT test
Ministry of Transportation test | a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes |
test mental test
mental testing
psychometric test | any standardized procedure for measuring sensitivity or memory or intelligence or aptitude or personality etc, the test was standardized on a large sample of students |
intelligence test
IQ test | a psychometric test of intelligence, they used to think that intelligence is what an intelligence test tests |
| Stanford-Binet test | revision of the Binet-Simon Scale |
| personality test | any test that is intended to assess personality |
projective test
projective device
projective technique | any personality test designed to yield information about someone's personality on the basis of their unrestricted response to ambiguous objects or situations |
Rorschach
Rorschach test
inkblot test | a projective tests using bilaterally symmetrical inkblots, subjects state what they see in the inkblot |
Thematic Apperception Test
TAT | a projective technique using black-and-white pictures, subjects tell a story about each picture |
| sub-test | one of a battery of related tests |
| nuclear deterrence | the military doctrine that an enemy will be deterred from using nuclear weapons as long as he can be destroyed as a consequence, when two nations both resort to nuclear deterrence the consequence could be mutual destruction |
test case
test suit | a representative legal action whose outcome is likely to become a precedent |
| test | a hard outer covering as of some amoebas and sea urchins |
atomic warhead
nuclear warhead
thermonuclear warhead
nuke | the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb |
nautilus
nuclear submarine
nuclear-powered submarine | a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power |
| nuclear-powered ship | ship whose motive power comes from the energy of a nuclear reactor |
nuclear reactor
reactor | (physics) any of several kinds of apparatus that maintain and control a nuclear reaction for the production of energy or artificial elements |
| nuclear rocket | a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant |
nuclear weapon
atomic weapon | a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction |
| test bed | a place equipped with instruments for testing (e.g. engines or machinery or computer programs etc.) under working conditions |
| test equipment | equipment required to perform a test |
| test paper | paper impregnated with an indicator for use in chemical tests |
| test range | a range for conducting tests |
test rocket
research rocket
test instrument vehicle | a rocket fired for test purposes |
test room
testing room | a room in which tests are conducted |
| test tube | glass tube closed at one end |
diagnostic test
diagnostic assay | an assay conducted for diagnostic purposes |
| agglutination test | a blood test used to identify unknown antigens, blood with the unknown antigen is mixed with a known antibody and whether or not agglutination occurs helps to identify the antigen, used in tissue matching and blood grouping and diagnosis of infections |
| heterophil test | a blood test to detect heterophil antibodies that agglutinate sheep red blood cells, positive result indicates infectious mononucleosis |
Widal test
Widal's test | a test for detecting typhoid fever and other salmonella infections |
cloze procedure
cloze test | a test for diagnosing reading ability, words are deleted from a prose passage and the reader is required to fill in the blanks |
fecal occult test
faecal occult test
stool test | a test performed at home in which you collect specimens of your stool that are tested for traces of blood, used to detect colorectal cancers |
| glucose tolerance test | test of the body's ability to metabolize carbohydrates, used in the diagnosis of hypoglycemia and diabetes mellitus |
| complement fixation test | a blood test in which a sample of serum is exposed to a particular antigen and complement in order to determine whether or not antibodies to that particular antigen are present, used as a diagnostic test |
Wassermann test
Wasserman reaction
Wassermann | a blood test to detect syphilis, a complement fixation test is used to detect antibodies to the syphilis organism treponema, a positive reaction indicates the presence of antibodies and therefore syphilis infection |
| blood test | a serologic analysis of a sample of blood |
| PSA blood test | a blood test that measures levels of a protein called prostate specific antigen that is manufactured exclusively by the prostate gland, men with prostate problems usually have elevated levels of PSA |
Pap test
Papanicolaou test
smear test | a method of examining stained cells in a cervical smear for early diagnosis of uterine cancer |
| paternity test | a test based on blood groups to determine whether a particular man could be the biological father of a particular child, negative results prove he was not the father but positive results show only that he could be |
| PKU test | a test of newborn infants for phenylketonuria |
| pregnancy test | a physiological test to determine whether a woman is pregnant |
Friedman test
rabbit test | 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 |