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Wassermann Med.
(‖ ˈvasərman, ˈwɒsəmən)
Also (erron.) -man.
The name of August Paul Wassermann (1866–1925), German bacteriologist, used attrib. with reference to a test for syphilis devised by him in 1906, in which antibodies to the causative organism are detected by a complement-fixation test. Also absol., the Wassermann test.
1909Jrnl. Exper. Med. XI. 392 Unless a great simplification of the Wassermann test can be devised, it will never attain the usefulness which it really deserves. Ibid. 401 Cases which were negative to the Wassermann and weakly or quite often strongly positive to the present method were met with. 1952‘N. Shute’ Far Country 214 A Wasserman test would be interesting, and probably positive. 1970Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xxii. 16/2 The test system consists of Wassermann antigen mixed with dilutions of the patient's serum in the presence of guinea-pig complement. 1976H. Kemelman Wednesday Rabbi got Wet xxiii. 71 When she had last had a checkup, she had asked him to do a Wassermann, too, because ‘Joe was out of town on business and you know how it is when men go out of town.’ |