Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Coombs test Pronunciation:
'kümz- Function:
noun : an agglutination test used to detect proteins and especially antibodies on the surface ofred blood cells
Coombs, Robert Royston Amos (b 1921), British immunologist. Coombs, along with A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race, devised in 1945 the test that is nowknown as the Coombs test.
