How to Use skin test in a Sentence

skin test

noun

• If so, a blood or skin test, or sometimes both, can be used to check for the allergy.
  — Mayo Clinic Q & A, chicagotribune.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• While in the lab, the team conducted five tests: a strip test, paper test, fabric test, hair test, and skin test.
  — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
• The screening includes a questionnaire, a TB skin test and chest X-ray.
  — Melody Schreiber, NPR, 2 May 2024
• One disadvantage is that the blood test is much more expensive than the skin test.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Dec. 2022
• The goal is also to focus its resources and revenue growth on the company’s melanoma skin test.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
• Follow-up skin tests will be given at the school in May to students who test negative on the first test, officials said.
  — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Students and staff who may have had contact with the disease will be notified and should have a TB skin test, officials said.
  — Anna Beahm, AL.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Allergy tests come in three main categories: skin tests, blood tests, and food challenges.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 5 Sep. 2018
• The doctor might also want to do blood or skin tests, and maybe a food challenge in-office, before making a diagnosis.
  — Alice Callahan, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
• Tuberculosis can be detected by a blood test or a skin test.
  — Bay Area News Group, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2024
• Tuberculosis can be detected by a blood test or a skin test.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• That’s the prescription from La Jolla’s DermTech, which offers skin tests for melanoma using a special adhesive tape.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The pinch should feel like a simple skin test, a researcher told the volunteer lying on an exam table in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday.
  — NBC News, 10 Apr. 2020
• In people who are unlikely to have a severe penicillin allergy, doctors may streamline the testing process by skipping the skin test and using just the oral dose.
  — Andrew Chapman, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2023
• But at least a quarter of the world’s population would come up positive for latent tuberculosis on a blood or skin test.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2019
• The gold standard for determining a true allergy is for the medical professional to do a penicillin skin test.
  — Dr. Michael Daignault, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• The skin test, which is generally less expensive though also less precise, is a two-part process: A small amount of a substance is injected under the skin, and then two to three days later the site is examined for a reaction.
  — Bay Area News Group, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2024
• For the peanut skin test product that was in the FDA's initial recall, federal data tallies 90 cases of false negative results, 17 reports of serious cases and no deaths.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Infallible Concealer, which was a winner from our concealers for mature skin test.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 17 Feb. 2024
• Advertisement Those individuals are in the process or will be screened in one of several ways, including chest x-rays, blood and skin tests and symptom review, according to health officials.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2024
• Children who had animals had fewer positive skin tests to indoor allergens—like pet and dust-mite allergens—and also to outdoor allergens such as ragweed and grass.
  — Bill Strickland, Parents, 9 Aug. 2023
• According to an email to staff Friday, an inmate at the medium-security facility has been placed in a negative pressure room after returning a positive skin test and an X-ray that indicated an active case of tuberculosis.
  — Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Star Tribune, 16 Jan. 2021
• Allergy testing: Identifying specific allergens through blood tests or intradermal skin tests helps pinpoint triggers and develop an effective treatment plan.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024