▪ I. Schilling2 Med.
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The name of Victor Schilling (1883–1960), German hæmatologist, used attrib. and in the possessive to designate a method of classifying and counting white blood cells, and the results so obtained; (proposed by Schilling in Deutsch. med. Wochenschr. (1911) XXXVII. 1159).
| 1922 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Mar. 769/2 (heading) The Schilling differential blood count. 1924 Ibid. 20 Dec. 2055/1 (heading) Schilling's hemogram. 1927 A. Piney Rec. Adv. in Hæmatol. 276/1 (Index), Schilling index. 1935 Whitby & Britton Disorders of Blood iv. 77 In Schilling's method all the data of an ordinary total and differential leucocyte count, as well as a simplified nuclear count, are correlated and considered in the form of a ‘hæmogram’. 1972 F. Nour-Eldin Haematol. iv. 20/2 In practice, this method is more useful than the Schilling haemogram which is based on dividing the granulocytes into four groups. |
▪ II. Schilling3 Med.
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[The name of Robert Frederick Schilling (b. 1919), U.S. physician, who described the test in 1953 (Jrnl. Lab. & Clin. Med. XLII. 946–7).]
Schilling test, a test, used esp. for pernicious anæmia, in which a small oral dose of radioactively labelled vitamin B12 is followed by a much larger unlabelled dose administered intramuscularly: subsequent excretion of the label in the urine is reduced if there is malabsorption by the gut.
| 1955 Gastroenterol. XXIX. 654 The radioactive material..which appears in the urine under the conditions of the Schilling test has the same distribution coefficient between ammonium sulfate saturated urine and n-butanol as pure vitamin B12–Co60. 1976 Lancet 13 Nov. 1087/2 The Schilling test was repeatedly normal. |