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  2. Medical procedure - Wikipedia

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    A medical procedure with the intention of determining, measuring, or diagnosing a patient condition or parameter is also called a medical test. Other common kinds of procedures are therapeutic (i.e., intended to treat, cure, or restore function or structure), such as surgical and physical rehabilitation procedures.

  3. Diagnostic microbiology - Wikipedia

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    The spot indole test is used to determine if a microbe can deaminate tryptophan to produce indole. This test is performed by saturating a piece of filter paper with Indole Kovacs Reagent and scraping a portion of microbe onto the paper. A color to a pink-red color indicates a positive result while no color change indicates the lack of ...

  4. Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment - Wikipedia

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    Hyder, Avery, MacLeod and McCarty used strands of purified DNA such as this, precipitated from solutions of cell components, to perform bacterial transformations. The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment was an experimental demonstration by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty that, in 1944, reported that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, in an era when it ...

  5. Ouchterlony double immunodiffusion - Wikipedia

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    Medical Immunology 544. University of California, Irvine College of Medicine. Fall 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-07 "Ouchterlony Double Diffusion - Patterns: Theory". Value @ Amrita. India: Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University. 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-11-13

  6. Tuskegee Syphilis Study - Wikipedia

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    The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male [1] (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.

  7. Anomaly detection - Wikipedia

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    Also referred to as frequency-based or counting-based, the simplest non-parametric anomaly detection method is to build a histogram with the training data or a set of known normal instances, and if a test point does not fall in any of the histogram bins mark it as anomalous, or assign an anomaly score to test data based on the height of the bin ...

  8. Rosenhan experiment - Wikipedia

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    The Rosenhan experiment or Thud experiment was an experiment regarding the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. For the experiment, participants submitted themselves for evaluation at various psychiatric institutions and feigned hallucinations in order to be accepted, but acted normally from then onward.

  9. Surgical instrument - Wikipedia

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    A surgical instrument is a medical device for performing specific actions or carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it. [1] Over time, many different kinds of surgical instruments and tools have been invented.