(a.) Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fastidious microorganisms were accurately detected on C agar as well as on BA+MK.
(2) When urine, which has been collected by suprapubic bladder aspiration, is appropriately cultured, asymptomatic bacteriuria due to fastidious organisms can be detected quite commonly in apparently healthy pregnant women; Ureaplasma urealyticum and Gardnerella vaginalis can each be isolated from the bladder urine of 10 to 15% of subjects, other bacteria less frequently.
(3) We have developed a strategy to select clones isolating the other derivative avoiding fastidious and time consuming technics, mainly based on immunofluorescent screening using MIC 2 and MIC 5 antigenic markers and we have succeeded in isolating in a rodent context the two X;5 translocated derivative chromosomes of a female patient with Hunter syndrome.
(4) T cells are less fastidious: those that are affected by the mutations still recognize a number of substitutions.
(5) In this case, anaerobic culture of C tetani was unsuccessful, possibly because of the inherent difficulty of anaerobic transfer from an oral locus and the extreme fastidiousness of the organism.
(6) These fastidious viruses only grow in selected cell lines, 293 cells being the most commonly used.
(7) The additional data has facilitated an updated version of the physical map, and verified this random sequencing method as a useful mapping procedure as well as offering new insight into the physiological processes of this fastidious organism.
(8) This observation raises concern that more fastidious precautions are needed to isolate patients under these conditions of respiratory aerosol generation.
(9) Often topped by a single quote from article 3 of the universal declaration of human rights, “everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person”, the reports were dry in tone, heavy on numbers, and fastidiously situated within a sense of objective morals.
(10) He is famously fastidious, too, once refusing to give a fellow player a lift after training in case he scuffed the leather seats of the new Becksmobile.
(11) Comparison of the characteristics of TM-1 strains with other similar fastidious gram-negative organisms encountered in clinical laboratories indicates that TM-1 is a distinct species.
(12) ALLO, like L. pneumophila, are fastidious gram-negative rods that grow well on charcoal yeast extract (CYE) agar and produce ground glass colonies and browning of modified yeast extract agar.
(13) The hero of the story, says Bezos, "wants to do things a little bit differently" and paints his house purple while all his neighbours fastidiously keep theirs white.
(14) In these patients, culture of bladder aspiration urine for low counts and fastidious species is necessary to diagnose bacteriuria.
(15) We cultured bladder urine, obtained by aspiration, from symptomatic adults with equivocal findings on standard testing of midstream urine for low numbers of conventional uropathogens and fastidious bacteria.
(16) The role of organisms other than those of the aerobic bowel flora, especially fastidious organisms, in urinary tract infections is discussed in detail.
(17) For tests of fastidious bacteria, the MUG-plate was enriched with supplements containing heat-labile growth factors without influencing the reaction.
(18) The results suggest that predominant bacteria of human feces, in general, are not as nutritionally fastidious as rumen bacteria and indicate that media for counts or isolation containing large amounts of rich organic materials are neither necessary nor desirable when adequate anaerobic techniques are used.
(19) Erythromycin disk tests corresponded best with MICs determined in the fastidious broth medium.
(20) Extracellular mollicutes are fastidious, lipid-rich, and contain various potent cytotoxins.
Picky
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Pickiness and concern with weight were more common in girls than in boys, and the prevalence of pickiness declined with age.
(2) Writing in the Daily Telegraph in December, Johnson, then mayor of London, said the west could not afford to be picky in its choice of allies since Isis in Syria could not be defeated without terrestrial forces.
(3) When searching for gay parenting in kids' movies, I found the short film Family Restaurant , about a picky toothpick dispenser who thinks ketchup bottles shouldn't be allowed to date; he changes his tune after learning a valuable lesson from a little boy with two dads.
(4) And being ultra picky, the nicely charred, coarsely ground patty (of prime Northern Irish beef) could do with a shade more seasoning, too.
(5) Unsurprisingly, the uproar forced the company to backtrack within 48 hours and promise even newer firmware that wouldn’t be so picky.
(6) While it seems we have a natural inclination to love ice cream, most of us are not too picky about how we take our fix.
(7) With all this going on, never mind global warming, we appear to be entering an era of hyper-picky sexual freeze.
(8) There, at a remove, he’s picky about the stuff he’s offered.
(9) If we are going to be picky and try to find one lingering complaint about the way Arsenal handed Manchester United this sobering reality check, it can be only that Arsène Wenger’s team should remind us of their brilliance more often.
(10) Miura concedes that she and her boyfriend are "picky" about food.
(11) Some people are very particular about the characteristics they want their child to have, "but normally by the time people have made that big emotional jump, they're not going to be picky about hair colour.
(12) It would, in any case, suit Boris (whose second mayoral term runs until May, 2016) if the contest to succeed Cameron were held later; and (to be really picky) with the Tories still in power.
(13) When I meet Gensler and Venus, they assure me that discussions are going well with the Port of London Authority , which manages the river and is notoriously picky about intrusions on it.
(14) Even after that terrible date, my friends and family told me I was being too picky, and that unless I relaxed my standards, I'd never get married.
(15) Show me someone who likes their meat overcooked and I will show you a picky eater, someone who regards meal times as a set of challenges and insults to be negotiated, like oil-slicked chicanes on a race track.
(16) Call me picky, but a close-up of something slicing fat like a Sunday roast is quite off-putting.
(17) All in all we can’t be too picky – it was a good all-round performance.
(18) "I have to take any job I can get, because [while] they serve meals here, he is picky about what he eats.
(19) Pedro Martinez is on the TBS pregame show here in the US and says the Cardinals have to be careful, because the Dodgers are going to be "very picky" if they hit him or come close to hitting the shortstop.
(20) As qualifying group winners, Northern Ireland have earned the right to be picky.