A fluoroscopic medical test during which the examinee is asked to "sniff" (quickly breathe in through the nose); diaphragm fluoroscopy.

A measurement performed on motor vehicles, required by the DMV, to prevent issuing valid registration if an excessive amount of waste fumes are produced during typical use. Cars typically are placed on a dynamometer to simulate different driving speeds.

(engineering) Either a static or dynamic test of the relative density of sand, silt, etc. using a penetrometer.

A test in which a potential consumer is asked to determine blindly which of three similar items is not identical to the other two.

(medicine) A medical test in which a sample of saliva is analyzed, often in order to measure a person's hormone levels; such a test administered to an athlete in order to conclusively determine gender.

plural of test suite

(computing) Container that has a set of tests with similar test cases to show that it has some specified set of behaviours.

(statistics) A kind of specialized t test that tests the significance of a mediation effect.

A hearing test, primarily for evaluating the loss of hearing in one ear. It compares perception of sounds transmitted by air conduction to those transmitted by bone conduction through the mastoid.

A variant of the Rinne test: a hearing test made with the opposite ear masked placing the stems of the vibrating tuning forks on the mastoid process of the patient first and then of the examiner. If heard longer by the patient it indicates conductive hearing loss and if heard longer by the examiner it indicates sensorineural hearing loss in the patient.