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1Heaf test — The Heaf test is a diagnostic skin test performed in order to determine whether or not a child has been exposed to tuberculosis. Patients who exhibit a negative reaction to the test may be offered BCG vaccination. The test is named after F. R. G …
2Heaf test — a skin test to determine whether or not an individual is immune to tuberculosis, carried out prior to vaccination. A spring loaded gun mounted with very short needles produces a circle of six punctures in the forearm through which tuberculin is… …
3Heaf test — a skin test to determine whether or not an individual is immune to tuberculosis, carried out prior to vaccination. A spring loaded gun mounted with very short needles produces a circle of six punctures in the forearm through which tuberculin is… …
4heaf — the gaff hook used by fishermen at Folkestone (Kentish dialect) …
5heaf — 1. noun A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become heafed; a heft. 2. verb To become accustomed to and attached to an area of mountain pasture, seldom straying from it …
6héaf — m ( es/ as) lamentation, wailing [see héof]; héafe bewindan bewail …
7heaf — ˈhēf noun ( s) Etymology: alteration of haft (IV), heft dialect England : a piece of ground used as a sheep pasture …
8Heaf test — A commonly used tuberculin test in which tuberculin is injected intradermally with a multiple puncture apparatus. A positive reaction indicates the presence of T cell reactivity to mycobacterial products …
9F. R. G. Heaf — Professor Frederick Roland George Heaf (1894 1973) was a British physician.He was born in Desborough, Northamptonshire, England. He attended the University of Cambridge and St Thomas Hospital as a medical student. He followed a career in Public… …
10prueba de Heaf — Prueba cutánea de la tuberculina que emplea una técnica de punciones múltiples. Diccionario Mosby Medicina, Enfermería y Ciencias de la Salud, Ediciones Hancourt, S.A. 1999 …
