Medical

Calmette's reaction

An obsolete, imprecise, painful test for active tuberculosis, in which diluted tuberculin was instilled in the conjunctival sac.

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Calmette test
conjunctival reaction
ophthalmoreaction
Wolff-Calmette reaction

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