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Apta-Downer test

Apta-Downer test (American pediatrician of L. Apt, sort. in 1922; Downer) – the method applied to definition of an origin of the blood found in the newborn's chair; it is based that at alkali addition the maternal blood swallowed by the child becomes brown, and blood of the newborn does not change color.

 
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