drug test

noun

plural drug tests

Definition of drug test

1 : a test that examines a bodily specimen (as of urine, saliva, blood, or hair) for the presence of one or more usually illegal or banned substances (such as cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, or anabolic steroids) a positive drug test He was brandishing a shot-gun, and a drug test after his arrest revealed traces of PCP.— Alan Light When an athlete has been using EPO and faces a drug test, a standard way of passing it is to dilute his blood with a saline solution.— Samuel Abt … the one-year suspension California horse-racing officials gave him for a positive drug test on one of his horses while he was college student and part-time trainer.— Joe Drape

2 : a study and especially a clinical trial for testing a therapeutic agent The drug tests are blinded so that participating patients and doctors … don't know who is receiving the drug and who is receiving a placebo.— Rhonda L. Rundle

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drug test transitive verb drug tested; drug testing; drug tests

… some in the community may be wondering if elected officials or county employees can be randomly drug tested. — Brittany Stovall

drug testing noun, plural drug testings

… after months of chemical analysis the lab found an anabolic steroid … which had been cleverly engineered to evade standard drug testing. — Malcolm Gladwell We have to get medals and go to the interview room and into drug testing right after we swim. — Matt Biondi She was court ordered to attend meetings, classes and to submit to random drug testings. — Jaclyn OMalley drug-testing labs

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drug test

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Medical Definition of drug test

1 : a test that examines a bodily specimen (as of urine, saliva, blood, or hair) for the presence of one or more usually illegal or banned substances (such as cocaine, methamphetamine, alcohol, or anabolic steroids) a positive drug test According to the Denver laboratory that performed the drug tests, his urine sample after last Wednesday's race showed the presence of "a drug of the phenylethylamine class." — The New York Times

2 : a study and especially a clinical trial for testing a therapeutic agent Because patients sometimes get better or worse on their own, drug tests also need a control group to compare the new drug with standard treatment or a placebo.— Marilyn Chase, The Wall Street Journal

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