(v. t.) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
(v. t.) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
(v. t.) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.
(v. t.) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
(v. t.) To direct or address.
(v. t.) To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.
(v. t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
(v. t.) To visit.
(v. i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement, or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
(v. i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.
(v. i.) To ply; to move.
(v. i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
Example Sentences:
(1) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(2) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
(3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
(4) The content of the cavities was not stained by any of the immunocytochemical reactions applied.
(5) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
(6) The models are applied to estimate the demand for tobacco products in Finland.
(7) The way how to apply this fixator is described in details.
(8) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
(9) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(10) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(11) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(12) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
(13) Before carrier vaccines are applied, these risks must be thoroughly evaluated case-by-case.
(14) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(15) J., 4 (1985) 1709-1714) and fast pH changes were applied with a technique developed by Davies et al.
(16) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
(17) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
(18) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
(19) The authors suggest that the outstanding high sensitivity of the above mentioned two tests applied parallelly reveals that they highlights partially different aspects of coronary artery disease, and that is why the overlapping between the methods is relatively small.
(20) We applied a flow cytometry apparatus (FCM) to differentiating Exophiala dermatitidis, E. moniliae and E. jeanselmei from each other.
Swab
Definition:
(n.) To clean with a mop or swab; to wipe when very wet, as after washing; as, to swab the desk of a ship.
(n.) A kind of mop for cleaning floors, the desks of vessels, etc., esp. one made of rope-yarns or threads.
(n.) A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep-seated parts, etc.
(n.) An epaulet.
(n.) A cod, or pod, as of beans or pease.
(n.) A sponge, or other suitable substance, attached to a long rod or handle, for cleaning the bore of a firearm.
Example Sentences:
(1) A throat swab from one patient grew group A, beta haemolytic streptococci, and in each case unequivocal evidence of seroreaction to streptococcal antigens was present.
(2) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(3) It should also be realised that, in a very few hospitals, swabs which do not have an opaque marker may occasionally be used in theatre.
(4) In 1961 three rectal swabs were taken to detect carriers; this was increased to 5 in 1962 and now 7 consecutive daily swabs are considered necessary.
(5) The RSV EIA was also used to test 137 nasal swabs obtained from cases of bovine respiratory disease.
(6) One hundred and thirty-two penial-preputial swabbings, 140 raw and 42 processed semen samples were cultured for mycoplasmas.
(7) Intranuclear inclusion bodies and virus particles were found in hepatocytes, and herpes virus was isolated from a liver biopsy and from oral swabs but not from blood.
(8) The results of numerous microbiological investigations of sputa, nose and throat swabs before and during the long-term study are interpreted under certain aspects and questioning.
(9) The DNA fragment was amplified by PCR in all specimens of urine sediments from 50 patients with Chlamydiazyme-positive urethral swab.
(10) At the conclusion of 817 abdominal operations, duplicate swabs were taken from the subcutaneous tissues for microbiological examination; one swab was transported to the laboratory in Stuart's thioglycollate medium and the other immediately incubated in Robertson's cooked meat broth.
(11) In a preliminary study of the transmission rate of Ureaplasma urealyticum, Mycoplasma species, Gardnerella vaginalis, B-Streptococci, Candida species and Chlamydia trachomatis from the mother to the newborn, swabs were taken from 45 parturients and their neonates and cultured by suitable methods.
(12) Our semiquantitative methods for the culture of H. influenzae type b, consisting of inoculation of 0.001 ml of throat swab fluid on antiserum agar plates and division of the results into three grades of intensity, showed agreement as to intensity of colonization in over 80% of repeat throat cultures.
(13) Duplicate high vaginal swabs were obtained from 200 parturient women at Abeokuta (Nigeria).
(14) Five hundred and thirty one samples of pharingeal swabs were obtained from children with ARI.
(15) It may be feasible to use the direct fluorometric test in a diagnostic laboratory as described or possibly to adapt it for automatic processing of throat swab cultures.
(16) Also we cannot take DNA swabs against the suspect's will."
(17) One hundred positive isolations were made from 387 rectal swab specimens; 86 were obtained in human kidney cultures.
(18) The strains of adenovirus were isolated from pharyngeal swabs, kidney cell cultures and stool of tupaias.
(19) Our results clearly demonstrate that pernasal swabs give a representative picture of the adenoid bacterial content.
(20) Quantitative wound swab cultures depend on a thorough sampling of the wound and an efficient recovery of bacteria from the swab.