See Also: Ames test(medicine)
Ames test(dictionary)
Ames test(health)
Ames, Bruce(medicine)
Ames assay(medicine)
Ames, Fisher(encyclopedia)
Penney, J(ames) C(ash)(encyclopedia)
Ames, Bruce N.(health)
Ames, Winthrop(encyclopedia)
Hardie, J(ames) Keir(encyclopedia)

Ames test (iou)



Ames test noun phr. L20.
[Named after Bruce N. Ames (b. 1928), US biochemist, who devised it.]
Medicine. A test for mutagenic activity in which the effect of a substance in vitro is observed on certain bacteria in which mutations are readily detected.