See Also: Weil-Felix reaction(medicine)
Weil-Felix reaction(dictionary)
Weil-Felix test(medicine)
weil's disease(medicine)
Weil, Simone(encyclopedia)
Weil, Adolf(medicine)
Weil, Edmund(medicine)
Weil disease(medicine)
Weil, Ludwig(medicine)
Weil's disease(dictionary)

Weil-Felix reaction (iou)



Weil-Felix reaction noun. E20.
[from Edmund Weil (1880-1922), Austrian bacteriologist + Arthur Felix (1887-1956), Polish-born bacteriologist.]
Medicine. An agglutination reaction which takes place when serum from a patient infected with typhus is added to certain strains of bacteria of the genus Proteus, used as a diagnostic test for the disease.