Paul–Bunnell
/ˌpɔːl bəˈnɛl/ /ˌpɔːl ˈbʌnl/Medicine
noun
1Attributive Designating a test for the heterophile antibody of infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever), which reacts with sheep erythrocytes. Chiefly in Paul–Bunnell test.
2A Paul–Bunnell reaction; the result of a Paul–Bunnell test.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in The Lancet. From the names of John Rodman Paul and Walls Willard Bunnell, U.S. physicians, who described the test in 1932.
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