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MAGPIE TEST

\mˈaɡpa͡ɪ tˈɛst], \mˈaɡpa‍ɪ tˈɛst], \m_ˈa_ɡ_p_aɪ t_ˈɛ_s_t]\

Definitions of MAGPIE TEST

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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A t. by which the presence of mercury is shown by the formation of a white precipitate of calomel and its rapid reduction to a grayish mass of metallic mercury when tin dichlorid is introduced into a solution containing that metal.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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