| English |
| coombs´ test |
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| Attestation |
3
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| Part of speech |
Noun syntagm
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| Grammatical label |
Countable
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| Definition |
A blood test to detect the absence or present of antibodies in the blood or serum against a certain antigen (which is either foreign to the body or unrecognized by the body) in cases of some diseases as auto-immune hemolytic anemia.
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| Definition source |
MEDLINEplus Health Information. ADAM Medical Encyclopedia.
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| Context |
Three months post SCT, at a time when cyclosporine levels were low, her hemoglobin and leucocyte counts dropped and she became transfusion-dependent again, with a reduced reticulocyte count, a negative direct Coomb´s test and no evidence of a viral or autoimmune aetiology.
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| Context source |
Amrolia, PJ., et al. (2001). ‘Analysis of chimaerism in thalassaemic children undergoing stem cell transplantation’. British Journal of Haematology 114(1):219-25. (RISCEN97)
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| Synonym |
Antiglobulin test
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| Subject field |
Haemopoiesis
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| Specific concept |
Direct Coombs´ test, indirect Coombs´ test
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| Related concept |
HLA typing
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| it |
Test di Coombs
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| Reliability code |
3
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