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bile esculin test(medicine)
bile acid tolerance test(medicine)
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Ostwald's solubility coefficient(medicine)
Bunsen's solubility coefficient(medicine)
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vagotomy (iou) and bile solubility test (medicine)


vagotomy (iou)



vagotomy noun. E20.
[from VAGUS + -O- + -TOMY.]
Medicine & Physiology. (An instance of) a surgical operation in which the vagus nerve is cut, either as a research technique or as a means of reducing the rate of gastric secretion.
vagotomized adjective that has been subjected to vagotomy M20.

bile solubility test (medicine)


bile solubility test


A procedure that differentiates Streptococcus pneumoniae from Other alpha-haemolytic streptococci by demonstrating its susceptibility to lysis in the presence of bile.