skin test
noun
: a test (such as a scratch test) performed on the skin and used in detecting allergic hypersensitivity
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web According to an email to staff Friday, an inmate at the medium-security facility has been placed in a negative pressure room after returning a positive skin test and an X-ray that indicated an active case of tuberculosis. 
Michael R. Sisak And Michael Balsamo, Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021 The doctor might also want to do blood or skin tests, and maybe a food challenge in-office, before making a diagnosis. Alice Callahan, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020 The pinch should feel like a simple skin test, a researcher told the volunteer lying on an exam table in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday. NBC News, 10 Apr. 2020 If so, a blood or skin test, or sometimes both, can be used to check for the allergy. Mayo Clinic Q & A, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019 But at least a quarter of the world’s population would come up positive for latent tuberculosis on a blood or skin test. BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019 For example, a recent FDA report found the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes on the skins of more than 17 percent of the 361 avocado skins tested. Jenna Flannigan, SELF, 11 Jan. 2019 Allergy tests come in three main categories: skin tests, blood tests, and food challenges. Korin Miller, SELF, 5 Sep. 2018 In communities on the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, surveys from 1948 to 1951 found that three-quarters of Alaska Native children younger than the age of 8 had positive skin tests. Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2018 See More
Michael R. Sisak And Michael Balsamo, Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021 The doctor might also want to do blood or skin tests, and maybe a food challenge in-office, before making a diagnosis. Alice Callahan, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020 The pinch should feel like a simple skin test, a researcher told the volunteer lying on an exam table in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday. NBC News, 10 Apr. 2020 If so, a blood or skin test, or sometimes both, can be used to check for the allergy. Mayo Clinic Q & A, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019 But at least a quarter of the world’s population would come up positive for latent tuberculosis on a blood or skin test. BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019 For example, a recent FDA report found the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes on the skins of more than 17 percent of the 361 avocado skins tested. Jenna Flannigan, SELF, 11 Jan. 2019 Allergy tests come in three main categories: skin tests, blood tests, and food challenges. Korin Miller, SELF, 5 Sep. 2018 In communities on the lower Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers, surveys from 1948 to 1951 found that three-quarters of Alaska Native children younger than the age of 8 had positive skin tests. Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2018 See More Word History
First Known Use
1908, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
skin test
noun
: a test (as a scratch test or a tuberculin test) for an allergic or immune response to a substance that is performed by administering the substance to or through the skin and is used especially in detecting allergic hypersensitivity