| provocative test | Any procedure in which a suspected pathophysiological abnormality is deliberately induced by manipulating conditions known to provoke the abnormality. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| provocative Wassermann test | An obsolete test of historical interest only; the use of the Wassermann test from one or two days to one or two weeks after the administration of arsphenamine or neoarsphenamine; the result may then be positive when before the giving of arsphenamine it was negative. (05 Mar 2000) |