(n.) The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.
(n.) That which is collected
(n.) A gathering or assemblage of objects or of persons.
(n.) A gathering of money for charitable or other purposes, as by passing a contribution box for freewill offerings.
(n.) That which is obtained in payment of demands.
(n.) An accumulation of any substance.
(n.) The act of inferring or concluding from premises or observed facts; also, that which is inferred.
(n.) The jurisdiction of a collector of excise.
Example Sentences:
(1) On both days, blood was collected by jugular venepuncture at 10.30 h, and then again 2, 4, 6 and 24 h later.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
(4) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
(5) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
(6) Blood was collected from pups and dams to determine its caffeine concentration.
(7) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(8) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(9) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
(10) Data collection at the old hospital for comparison, however, was not always reliable.
(11) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(12) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(13) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(14) Data were collected on a sample of 131 women receiving treatment for gynecological cancer.
(15) Their efforts will include blocking the NSA from undermining encryption and barring other law enforcement agencies from collecting US data in bulk.
(16) Adults and immatures of Ixodes pacificus Cooley & Kohls were collected by flagging vegetation and from lizards during a 3-mo period in the Hualapai Mountain Park, Mohave County, AZ, in 1991.
(17) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
(18) Group teaching compared to individualized teaching of the patients to collect their own aliquots did not appear to have a measurable effect upon the levels of bacteriuria.
(19) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
(20) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
Herbarium
Definition:
(n.) A collection of dried specimens of plants, systematically arranged.
(n.) A book or case for preserving dried plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Half a million objects are protected in these temperature controlled rooms: insects, shells, eggs, herbarium specimens, stuffed birds, skulls and bones.
(2) The Leech Book, the oldest known Anglo-Saxon herbarium, probably written in Winchester, circa A.D. 920, by Cyril Bald or at his special request, contains a short chapter on the surgical treatment of the cleft lip; this chapter apparently represents the first record in a medical manuscript of this treatment.
(3) In the present study, a herbarium specimen of C. bantianum (Torula bantiana Sacc.)
(4) Because diagnostic scales and scurf, or small scales, are easily lost in the process of collecting and preparing herbarium specimens of the new species, the potential for confusion among related species is increased.
(5) Aldehyde fixation and glycol methacrylate embedding were applied to herbarium specimens of fruits of the Compositae.
(6) Herbarium specimens of all except one of the 168 recognized species of Alyssum Linnaeus have been analysed for their nickel content in order to identify hyperaccumulators (greater than 1000 microgram per g dry mass) of nickel.
(7) After a general survey of botanical exploration in Amazonia in the past and a summary of the present situation, an account is given of the work carried out in the field and the herbarium is search of plant species of potential therapeutic interest.
(8) The technique gives good structural preservation and resolution even with 81-year-old herbarium material.
(9) The replicas can be stored like herbarium specimens for future use.
(10) Phylogenetic relationships were derived using the parasimony methods DNAPARS and PROTPARS of Felsenstein ("PHYLIP Manual Version 3.4, "University Herbarium, Univ.
(11) Herbarium specimens and living cultures of Xylohypha nigrescens, the type species of the genus Xylohypha, were also compared with those of C. trichoides and other pathogenic Cladosporium species.
(12) Grains from plants are tiny, but have distinct shapes that the scientists identified by comparing them with a collection at the Smithsonian's herbarium.
(13) Plant organs, including stems, rhizomes, leaves, roots, petals, sporangia and flower pedicels obtained from dried herbarium specimens of a variety of plant species have been softened with Aerosol OT and subsequently dehydrated in a graded series of acetones and embedded in Spurr's resin.
(14) A combination of thin-layer chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography, ultraviolet spectroscopy and mass spectrometry techniques for the alkaloid screening of herbarium samples of the genus Uncaria (Rubiaceae) is described.
(15) Borelli, prepared by Saccardo, was compared with a herbarium specimen and a living type culture of C. triochoides by light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and was found to be dissimilar.
(16) were harvested and sun-dried for herbarium deposit.
(17) Inspection of field collections and herbarium specimens has revealed that such infections are widespread in grasses.
(18) Reports of accidental injuries submitted to the authors, through either medical or other sources, and to the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide and State Herbarium of South Australia, were studied and compared with existing literature; in some cases the effects were confirmed experimentally.