(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.
Squeamish
Definition:
(a.) Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.
Example Sentences:
(1) But more than any squeamishness around buying sperm like teabags, the problem is that this industry is over-claiming.
(2) Did she, as a child, feel equal squeamishness about the sexual content of his art?
(3) For India's British colonial rulers this could have meant many things, including consensual fellatio between a man and a woman, but its squeamish machismo clearly had in mind penetrative sex between two adult males, a spectre that continues to terrify the morally correct across the world .
(4) Less squeamishness in reporting the reality of death would show the barbarous truth about how badly life ends for all too many.
(5) Hofer’s victory would require a clarification of speech from the commenting world, and we will have to be less squeamish about the word “fascist”: an urgent de-normalisation of political language.
(6) When it came to it, my mother still had to take my daughter for the injections, as I was too squeamish.
(7) And she sacked big beasts too, including those – George Osborne or Michael Gove – whose dispatch a more squeamish leader might have feared.
(8) By popular arts, Hamilton emphatically did not mean the folk arts, which turned him very squeamish.
(9) Just capitalism in action, it might be argued – no point being squeamish.
(10) But while in many countries entomophagy is normal, in the UK we can be squeamish about it.
(11) Maude is also right that elected ministers should not devolve controversial decisions out of squeamishness – although I note the Independent Reconfiguration Panel , set up so health ministers wouldn't have to take flak about merging hospitals in their own or colleagues' constituencies, stays.
(12) Opportunities presented themselves for promising junior staff - which the future Cameroons were not squeamish about taking.
(13) And leave them out altogether if you’re squeamish yourself.
(14) Secret aid worker: I'm a sanitation specialist but I'm squeamish about poo Read more Catarina de Albuquerque, chair of the global Sanitation and Water for All partnership, calls the Global Citizen concert the tip of the iceberg.
(15) Boyle's films have never been for the squeamish: witness the lavatorial epiphany in Trainspotting , or the shadowy child-torture of Slumdog .
(16) So while some people may be squeamish about Twitter and there may be good reason to be cautious , I can't help but see it as a privilege to be able to tap into the thoughts of individuals which, presented as a stream, fascinate and educate.
(17) But chalk one up for the boy scouts and their first aid training, because he grabbed me and cleared my airways – no task for the squeamish – while yelling at the cabbie to drive faster.
(18) But the truth is, I am very squeamish when it comes to my loo habits.
(19) Squeamishness has too often in the recent past inhibited sensible inquiries into the mechanisms by which AIDS is spread through human populations but now there may be proof that these attitudes are changing.
(20) Together these groups represent a potentially vast reservoir of HDP voters, whose inherent squeamishness about favouring a Kurdish nationalist party Demirtaş hopes in time to surmount.