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intertest

intertest adjective: between or among tests (as with intertest variability or intertest scatter).

Adjective

intertest (not comparable)

  1. Between or among tests (as with intertest variability or intertest scatter).
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    • Despite its proven value as a screening tool, the BeLT, like most cell culture–radiolabel incorporation assays, is associated with some intratest, intertest, and interlaboratory variability and provides only a semiquantitative estimate of T cell activity, even when we optimize the methodology....1994, Lee S. Newman, “Beryllium lung disease: the role of cell-mediated immunity in pathogenesis”, in Jack H. Dean, Michael I. Luster, Albert E. Munson, Ian Kimber, editors, Immunotoxicology and...

Origin of intertest

From inter- + test.

Questions about intertest

What does intertest mean?
Intertest means between or among tests (as with intertest variability or intertest scatter).
What part of speech is intertest?
Intertest is an adjective.

Words near intertest in the dictionary

  1. interterms
  2. interterritorial
  3. interterritorially
  4. intertertile
  5. intertesseral
  6. intertest
  7. intertestamental
  8. intertester
  9. intertex
  10. intertexed
  11. intertexes

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