definitive test
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A CA125 blood test, which is used to measure a level of protein in the blood and is not a definitive test for ovarian cancer was initially clear and caused no concern.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2025
The question of how to diagnose Long Covid has been controversial, and the new study’s results are unlikely to lead to a definitive test any time soon.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 31, 2023
That is your definitive test to ignore the matter.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2017
But the primary aims of the pilot study—typical for initial studies—were not intended as a definitive test of the game’s effectiveness.
From Scientific American • Nov. 2, 2015
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
