KVEIM TEST

  

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KVEIM TEST

Specialty Definition: KVEIM TEST

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Health

Intradermal injection of a heated (pasteurized) saline suspension of sarcoid tissue obtained from a sarcoid spleen or lymph node. In patients with active sarcoidosis a dusky red nodule develops slowly over the next few weeks at the injection site. Histologic examination, an essential part of the complete test, reveals sarcoid tissue. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: KVEIM TEST

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Health

The Kveim test is not used often in the United States because no test material has been approved for sale by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (references)

Kveim test. This test involves injecting a standardized preparation of sarcoid tissue material into the skin. On the one hand, a unique lump formed at the point of injection is considered positive for sarcoidosis. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: KVEIM TEST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-k-m-s-t-t-v"

-3 letters: evites, kismet.

-4 letters: emits, evite, items, keets, kites, meets, metes, metis, mikes, mites, mitts, sieve, skeet, skite, skive, smeek, smite, steek, stime, teems, tikes, times.

-5 letters: ekes, emes, emit, eves, item, keet, kist, kite, kits, meek, meet, mete, mike, mise, mist, mite, mitt, seek, seem, seme, semi, sett, sike, site, skee, skim, skit.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: KVEIM TEST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4B 56 45 49 4D      54 45 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001011 01010110 01000101 01001001 01001101 00100000 01010100 01000101 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#86 &#69 &#73 &#77 &#32 &#84 &#69 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0056 0045 0049 004D      0054 0045 0053 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4556394347254395354

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Non-fiction
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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