(n.) A large drinking cup, with a wide mouth, supported on a foot or standard.
(n.) An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the section was mounted on the stainless steel disk with a tissue adhesive, the preparation was immersed in a 10-ml beaker containing 5 ml of drug solution at 37 degrees.
(2) Polarographic analysis was applied successfully to dissolution studies and content uniformity assessment of both capsules and tablets, using a dropping mercury electrode with the modified Levy beaker method.
(3) Disks cut from each device were attached to the sawed-off ends of 10 ml syringes and dipped in a beaker containing either butoconazole nitrate cream or a molten wax insert.
(4) The bronchial cuff was then inflated until air bubbles ceased to appear in the beaker.
(5) When they drive you from the detention centre to the courthouse, this is what happens: reveille even before the communal breakfast, stewing in your own sweat while hunched over in the "beaker" [a minuscule isolation cell for special prisoners inside the prisoner transport lorry], transport through the Moscow traffic jams – a minimum of two hours.
(6) Depending on the quality and quantity of urine needed the perineal area may be shaved and the beaker may be held by hand or attached with tape.
(7) Each product was tested in the USP, Levy beaker, and the regular and large magnetic basket dissolution apparatus.
(8) Gravid females oviposited in 500 ml beakers with a layer of water covered with small leaves of Salvinia.
(9) 42K influx across basolateral membranes was measured with tissues in a steady state and incubated in either beakers or in chambers.
(10) Normal larval development also occurred in all control cultures sprinkled with water, including one culture where there was urine in the space between the outer and inner beaker used for cultivation.
(11) Both when attached to a beaker simulating a pouch and when attached to a pouch whose secretion was suppressed by infusing cimetidine, the apparatus accurately measured added acid when the endpoint setting was between pH 3.0 and 9.0.
(12) Each resulting solution was drawn into a syringe and injected into a glass beaker (n = 10) or through a feeding tube into a beaker (n = 10) over one minute.
(13) Aliquots from each of the 20 beakers were taken in triplicate, diluted 1:1000 with water, and assayed by HPLC.
(14) We have evaluated a more direct method in which the collecting papers were pre- and post-weighed in glass beakers under conditions of stable temperature and humidity.
(15) It benefits because people always want to find out what Mumsnet thinks, because mums are put on a pedestal – if mums think it, it must be right – but equally there are ridiculous prejudices.” She refers to an episode a year ago when a post referring to the “penis beaker” a user’s husband kept on his bedside table to clean up after sex went viral .
(16) In a variety of new situations under the beaker (presence of a lifeless object, of a grouped mouse or of an isolated mouse), the isolated mice were more reactive than the grouped mice.
(17) The method consisted of counting the number of escape attempts of the mice placed under an inverted beaker.
(18) Nominees: Tracy Beaker, BBC Children's for CBBC Last Rights, Touchpaper Television for Channel 4 Children's Programme Serious Arctic, BBC Children's for CBBC "The jury described the winning programme as both aspirational and inspirational.
(19) Larvae were maintained isolated in 77-cm3 (area 9.6 cm2) beakers or in groups of 20, 30, 40, and 50 bugs per 1-liter beaker (area 722 cm2).
(20) The glass slides were then mounted in a beaker containing buffer, subjected to ultrasonication, and re-weighed.
Laboratory
Definition:
(n.) The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(2) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(3) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(4) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(5) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(6) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(7) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(8) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(9) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(11) The results confirm studies performed in our laboratory on cytotoxicity and on functional membrane proteins of fungal and mammalian cells [1,2], suggesting a common mechanism of toxicity by the action of hydrophobic xenobiotics on biomembranes.
(12) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(14) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
(15) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(16) Regression analysis on the 21 clinical or laboratory parameters studied showed that the only variable independently associated with CSF-FN was the total protein concentration in the CSF; this, however, explained only 14% of the observed variation in the CSF-FN concentration and did not show any correlation with CNS involvement.
(17) These tumors may nonetheless be etiologically related as indicated by the pattern of laboratory abnormalities, especially immunologic, in affected as well as unaffected members.
(18) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(19) The authors describe the special medical expertise of the psychiatrist and define 11 indicators, such as a patient's need for new psychotropic medication or the presence of symptoms requiring medical or laboratory procedures, that can be used to determine whether psychiatric expertise is needed.
(20) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.