DRAIZE TEST


Meaning of DRAIZE TEST in English

/drayz/ , Pharm.

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.

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

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