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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

Ames′ test′,

Medicine, Drugsa test that exposes a strain of bacteria to a chemical compound in order to determine the mutagenic potential of the compound.

after U.south, southern. biochemist Bruce north, northern. Ames (born 1928), who developed the test 1975–80

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