draize test

Draize test

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noun draize test a test assessing the potential of drugs, chemicals, cosmetics, and other commercial products to produce irritation, pain, or damage to the human eye by studying its effect on a rabbit's eye. 1
noun draize test An acute toxicity test in which a small amount of the test substance is applied to the eye or skin of a restrained, conscious animal which is subsequently observed. 0

before 1975

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1975-80; after John H. Draize (born 1900), U.S. pharmacologist, who devised it

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