(n.) A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) With use of the flowing, high mixing-velocity liquid junction of the Orion SS-30, the residual liquid junction potential due to blood cells was found to be less than 0.1 mV and to be independent of the hematocrit.
(2) In this study the particle size, as well as the in vitro deposition and the immediate bronchodilating effect on asthmatic patients, of two salbutamol inhalation aerosol preparations (Ventoline, Glaxo, UK, and salbutamol inhalation aerosol, Orion Pharmaceutica, Finland) were compared.
(3) A 10-minute period for sweat accumulation is employed rather than a zero-time collection as in the original Orion method.
(4) The methods used were latex agglutination (Rotalex, commercially-available kit from ORION DIAGNOSTIC ESPOO, Finland) and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(5) The crew on board the Orion reported seeing two objects – the first a grey or green circular object and the second an orange rectangular object.
(6) Seven News reported that Australia had dispatched a P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft and the Anzac-class frigate HMAS Stuart to monitor the four Russian ships, which were said to be in the Coral Sea south of Bougainville and heading towards Australian waters.
(7) The former owner had the constellation of Orion picked out in halogen lights in the ceiling.
(8) The police report from the time states that an officer was dispatched to Orion at Oak Hill, a large, gated apartment complex in west Fort Worth, after a woman called the police and said that she believed someone had fired a shot into her apartment.
(9) The three methods of detection were cytological examination of the oral mucosa, and direct culture methods from mucosal smears using Sabouraud's dextrose agar (Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems, Cockeysville, MD) and Oricult-N (Orion Diagnostica, Espoo, Finland).
(10) We used the Orion fluoride electrode system to determine the normal range of serum ionic fluoride concentrations and to investigate its relationship to sex and age (A).
(11) A Royal Australian Air Force P-3 Orion aircraft takes off from RAAF Base Pearce north of Perth March 21, 2014.
(12) Paraffin-based, 3% dithranol sticks (Ditrastick, Orion Pharmaceutica, Espoo, Finland) and similar, equimolar 4% butantrone sticks were used.
(13) The results of clinical trials of ditrastic, an agent manufactured by Orion, Finland, are analyzed.
(14) The Orion has sonar to search below sea level, although it’s not being used in this search, Yardley said.
(15) • Bradley Wiggins' autobiography, In Pursuit of Glory , is out now (Orion, £18.99) How to measure your heart rate Heart rate is the number of beats your heart makes per minute.
(16) Bacterial contamination of hands and drinking water was assessed semi-quantitatively by direct contact using agar-coated slides incorporating a selective medium permitting growth of Enterobacteriaceae (Hygicult, Orion Diagnostica, Finland).
(17) A commercially available latex agglutination test, Rotalex (Orion Diagnostics, Finland), for detecting rotaviruses was evaluated in comparison with four other tests (electron microscopy, immunofluorescence, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay) routinely used in our laboratories.
(18) This is our planet: our little blue sphere in the Orion Spur of the Milky Way Galaxy, with the beautifully elaborate systems of birds and insects and weather and flowering plants all working together – or that used to work together, and which are now falling apart.
(19) Twenty of the 60 specimens were found positive on the basis of cytopathic effects and latex agglutination (Adenolex [Orion Diagnostica, Helsinki, Finland]), and 16 were identified and typed as adenoviruses by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
(20) A third RAAF P3 Orion departed for the search area around 12.45pm.