What is the importance of the millon's test?

Answer 1

Millon's test is given by any compound containing a phenolic hydroxy group. Consequently, any protein containing tyrosine will give a positive test of a pink to dark-red colour. The Millon reagent is a solution of mercuric and mercurous ions in nitric and nitrous acids (CAUTION: MILLON'S REAGENT IS HIGHLY TOXIC AND HIGHLY CORROSIVE). The red colour is probably due to a Mercury salt of nitrated tyrosine.

The purpose of this study was to investigate Millon's hypothesized relationships between particular personality disorders and specific defense mechanisms. One hundred thirty psychiatric inpatients and outpatients, all diagnosed with an Axis II personality disorder, completed the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II (MCMI-II; Millon, 1987) and the Defense Mechanism Inventory (DMI; Ihilevich & Gleser, 1986). Analyses revealed strong corroborating evidence for a number of the hypothesized relationships, including significant correlations between antisocial traits and acting out, obsessive-compulsive traits and reaction formation, paranoid traits and projection, passive-aggressive traits and displacement, and self-defeating traits and devaluation. There was also a trend suggesting the presence of a relationship between dependent personality traits and introjection. A factor analysis was also performed that suggested that method variance may be responsible for either lowered correlations between the MCMI-II and DMI or lack of significance for some predicted relationships. Results are discussed in terms of existing theory and research, and implications for treatment and future research are briefly addressed.

Answer 2

A test for protein, the tyrosine of which reacts with nitrite after a brief treatment with mercuric ion in acid to give a colour.

Answer 3

Millon's Test is a type of chemical test. This specific test is used to test for phenols in a compound.