rapid test
Fast diagnostic check
A rapid test is a diagnostic test designed to produce results quickly, typically within minutes rather than hours or days.
The term became ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic for at-home antigen tests: I took a rapid test before visiting my grandmother.
Rapid tests trade some accuracy for speed and convenience compared to laboratory tests.
- diagnosticTest to identify problems
- swabAbsorbent cleaning implement
- positiveAffirming or certain
- false positiveIncorrect presence indication
- negativeOpposite of affirmative
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- disease controlquarantine zone, medical quarantine, mandatory quarantine, home quarantine, self-quarantine
- Virologyviral replication, viral shedding, bacteriophage, tropism, DNA virus
- pandemiclockdowns, COVID-19, outbreak, epidemic, COVID
- health screeningsmammogram, mammography, colonoscopy, cancer screening, newborn screening
- medical testsCT scan, X-ray, MRI, CBC, blood work
- screeningshealth screening, cancer screening, prenatal screening, genetic screening, newborn screening
speed of results
rapid testbacterial culture
Cultivated microorganism population
laboratory analysis · blood culture · tissue biopsy · genetic sequencing
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