definitive test
Example Sentences
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There are long waiting times to see a specialist allergist for a definitive test.
From BBC • Sep. 27, 2023
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly how many people are diagnosed with T.I.A each year, Dr. Schwartz said, because there is no definitive test for it.
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2022
Because the equation doesn’t test kidney function directly, its developers compared its results with kidney filtration rates measured using a more definitive test, based on a radioactive tracer, that is too complex to perform routinely.
From Science Magazine • Jul. 22, 2021
Her former mother-in-law had died of ALS in 1988, and Emmons knew there is no definitive test for the fatal disease.
From Washington Post • Jul. 9, 2021
This was important in the long term, because in the nineteenth century it would provide a definitive test of whether light does travel as a wave or whether it travels as a stream of particles.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
