Guthrie test

noun

Guthrie test

noun

Etymology Named after Robert Guthrie, an American bacteriologist and physician who devised it in 1962.

1

A screening test done on newborns, involving the collection of blood from a pinprick puncture in the heel.

Related terms
Guthrie card

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