n :  a test for heterophile antibodies used in the diagnosis of infectious mononucleosis - called also Paul-Bunnell reaction 
 
Paul, John Rodman (1893-1971), and Bunnell, Walls Willard (1902-1965), American physicians. Paul served for many years on the medical faculty at Yale University. He undertook major research on several microbial diseases. In a systematic study of familial rheumatic fever, he determined that a streptococcus infection precipitated the disease. He published a book-length study of the epidemiology of rheumatic fever in 1930. With Bunnell he developed in 1932 a laboratory test for infectious mononucleosis based on their discovery of heterophile antibodies in the serums of persons with the disease.
 
 
 
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