blood test

English

Noun

blood test (plural blood tests)

1. (medicine, hematology) A laboratory analysis performed on a blood sample that is usually extracted from a vein in the arm using a hypodermic needle, or by fingerprick.
   • 1988 April 16, Mike Smith, “AIDS and Syphilis”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

     HIV-positive persons may test falsely on the standard syphilis blood tests because they may not be able to mount the "normal" immunological response required of such tests.

2. (law, genetics) An analysis of blood performed on two subjects to determine whether they are biologically related, such as a paternity test.

Synonyms

• blood work

Hyponyms

• blood count

Translations

a serologic analysis of a sample of blood

• Arabic: تَحْلِيل الدَّمّ m (taḥlīl ad-damm)
• Aragonese: analisi de sangre f
• Armenian: արյան բիոքիմիական քննություն (aryan biokʻimiakan kʻnnutʻyun)
• Asturian: exame de sangre m
• Basque: odol-analisi
• Bengali: রক্ত পরীক্ষা (rokto porikkha)
• Bulgarian: кръвен тест m (krǎven test)
• Catalan: anàlisi de sang f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驗血／验血 (zh) (yànxuè), 血檢／血检 (xuèjiǎn)

• Danish: blodprøve (da) c
• Dutch: bloedonderzoek (nl) n
• Esperanto: sangekzameno
• Finnish: verikoe (fi)
• French: bilan sanguin m
• Galician: análise de sangue f
• Georgian: სისხლის ბიოქიმიური ანალიზი (sisxlis biokimiuri analizi)
• German: Blutprobe (de) f, Bluttest (de) m, Blutuntersuchung (de) f
• Hebrew: בדיקת דם (he) f (b'dikát-dam)
• Hindi: रक्त परीक्षण m (rakt parīkṣaṇ)
• Hungarian: vérvizsgálat (hu)
• Indonesian: uji darah
• Irish: tástáil fola f
• Italian: esame del sangue (it) m
• Japanese: 血液検査 (けつえきけんさ, ketsueki kensa)
• Korean: 혈액 검사 (hyeoraek geomsa)
• Macedonian: крвна анализа f (krvna analiza)
• Malay: ujian darah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blodprøve m or f

  Nynorsk: blodprøve f or m

• Persian: آزمایش خون (fa) (âzmâyeš-e xun)
• Polish: badanie krwi n
• Portuguese: exame de sangue m
• Russian: ана́лиз кро́ви m (análiz króvi), биохимический анализ крови (ru) m (bioximičeskij analiz krovi)
• Serbo-Croatian: pretraga krvi f
• Spanish: análisis de sangre m, examen de sangre m
• Swedish: blodprov (sv)
• Tamil: குருதிப் பரிசோதனை (kurutip paricōtaṉai)
• Telugu: రక్తపరీక్ష (raktaparīkṣa)
• Thai: การตรวจเลือด
• Turkish: kan testi, kan tahlili
• Ukrainian: ана́ліз кро́ві m (análiz króvi), біохімічний аналіз крові m (bioximičnyj analiz krovi)
• Urdu: اختبارِ خون m (ixtibār-i xūn)
• Vietnamese: xét nghiệm máu
• Welsh: prawf gwaed