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
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
There’s no definitive test for the disease, though evidence of the increased pressure is sometimes visible on an M.R.I.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2021
Aspelmeyer’s efforts to isolate gravitational forces between progressively smaller masses are a critical step toward such a definitive test.
From Scientific American • Mar. 10, 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
