Term: complement fixation test: a blood test in which a sample of serum is exposed to a particular antigen and complement in order to determine whether or not antibodies to that particular antigen are present; used as a diagnostic test
Candidate hypernym: blood test: a serologic analysis of a sample of blood → 1
Candidate hypernym: handsomeness: the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man) → 0
Candidate hypernym: adynamia: lack of strength or vigor (especially from illness) → 0
Candidate hypernym: genus shigella: a genus of bacteria → 0
Candidate hypernym: laity: in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy → 0
Candidate hypernym: whoremaster: a prostitute's customer → 0
Candidate hypernym: peneidae: tropical prawns → 0
Candidate hypernym: mongoloid: a member of the Mongoloid race → 0
Candidate hypernym: blastogenesis: asexual reproduction by budding → 0
Candidate hypernym: twenty-nine: the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-eight and one → 0
Candidate hypernym: oort cloud: (astronomy) a hypothetical huge collection of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto; perturbations (as by other stars) can upset a comet's orbit and may send it tumbling toward the sun → 0