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Schick Test

Definition: Schick Test

Schick Test

Noun

1. A skin test for immunity to diphtheria.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Photo Album: Schick Test

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Shows photo of young boy receiving the Schick Test from a doctor. Boy is accompanied by mother and younger sibling (1915). (the test is a measure of immunity to diphtheria). Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Dr. Bela Schick, originator of the Schick test, applying his test to school children in New York City. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Schick Test

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

schick test

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Schick Test

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-c-e-h-i-k-s-s-t-t"

-1 letter: thicksets.

-2 letters: kitsches, schticks, stitches, thickest, thickets, thickset.

-3 letters: chicest, schtick, schtiks, shticks, sickest, theists, thicket, tickets.

-4 letters: checks, chests, chicks, ethics, hectic, heists, itches, kithes, kitsch, schist, schtik, sheiks, shiest, shikse, shtick, shtiks, sketch, skites, stichs, sticks, stitch, testis, theist, thesis, thetic, thicks, ticket, tithes.

-5 letters: cesti, check, chess, chest, chick, chics, chits, cists.

 Words containing the letters "c-c-e-h-i-k-s-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: backstitches, lockstitches.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Schick Test


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 68 69 63 6B      54 65 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101000 01101001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#105 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#84 &#101 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0068 0069 0063 006B      0054 0065 0073 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536974756977254718586

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2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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