(n.) A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine.
(n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
(n.) A bed in a gun carriage.
(n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(2) In both media the DNA and protein content of cultures kept for 3-5 days in the presence of 80-800 nM Buserelin and 1 nM oestradiol were 8-27% lower than those of flasks cultured in the presence of oestradiol alone (P less than 0.05).
(3) The vacuum flask method of using boiling water to decontaminate soft contact lenses is better and less expensive than other ways of using moist heat and can be safely and effectively applied under most domestic circumstances.
(4) With 1-octanol-saturated buffers as mobile phases, a stable baseline (compared to 1-octanol adsorbed on silica) is obtained rapidly, and the log relative retention times are highly correlated with unit slope to log distribution or partition coefficients obtained from the classical shake-flask procedures.
(5) Bacterial and plasmid yields have been shown to be equal to or greater than those obtained using conventional shake flasks.
(6) The carbohydrate compounds of the mucus of flask cells in the kidney of claw-frogs (Xenopus laevis) were studied by gold marked lectins (WGA, RCA, L, LCA, HPA, PNA).
(7) Irradiated melanomas did not grow and did not attach to culture flasks, thus demonstrating that preenucleation irradiation alters the in vitro growth of melanoma cells.
(8) An orbital shaker was used to create a water current in 250-ml Erlenmeyer flasks containing the test larvae.
(9) The cuffed end of each tracheal tube was inserted into the neck of an empty flask, and the tube and flask were flushed with oxygen for 5 min before cuff inflation.
(10) Incubations were carried out in sealed flasks under oxygen concentrations ranging from 0.14 to 21% at 37 degrees.
(11) The reverse difference in the temperatures (higher temperature of the culture flasks) leads to the formation of the reverse pattern of the cell layer, with higher density corresponding to the holes.
(12) By the use of double-chamber tissue culture flasks, with the 2 cell populations separated by a cell impermeable membrane, it was found that T-T interaction does not require cell contact and is thus mediated by factor(s).
(13) Everyone knows that Father Christmas’s tipple of choice is brandy, so Santa, if you’re reading this, we recommend you pause in The Flask on Highgate West Hill for a quick snifter.
(14) The tumor specimens were minced into fragments approximately 1 mm in diameter and cultured in plastic culture flasks in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS) and 50% patients serum.
(15) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
(16) The growth-promoting effect on haemopoietic cells seems to be independent of the number of marrow cells per culture flask initially inoculated into the cultures to establish the adherent cell layer.
(17) Cells were cultured in Roux flasks in HAM's F-12 medium, and the pH was varied with the final medium change.
(18) The procedure involved the transfer of heavy mold-form inocula to flasks that contained small volumes of brain heart infusion broth.
(19) We have recently shown that the semi-continuous cultivation of a mouse hybridoma line in spinner flasks, with a basal defined medium (BDM) devoid of serum and protein, increases the secretion of the immunoreactive monoclonal antibody (MAb) by a factor of ca.
(20) Cultured human adrenal cortical adenocarcinoma cells (SW-13) form a confluent monolayer of epithelial-like cells when seeded into culture flasks.
Phial
Definition:
(n.) A glass vessel or bottle, especially a small bottle for medicines; a vial.
(v. t.) To put or keep in, or as in, a phial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Detection rates for most bacteria by Signal were on average three times slower than the first Bactec phial (mean delay 58.3 hours).
(2) In the basement, Ring, who is the project's head of laboratories, began pulling phials of blood and tissue out of the stricken freezer, one of 60 kept at the project's HQ.
(3) In October, 1 phial of Thymopentin was administered via aerosol to 15 patients affected by COPD, daily, for 10 consecutive days; all patients were evaluated at monthly clinical control for 4 months and all patients were invited to keep a diary of daily variations.
(4) The council also wants to see the conditions in which doctors and hospitals store ketamine made more secure and would like to change its supply in multi-dose phials to single-dose packages.
(5) Authors did the antibiotic-prophylaxis with ceftriaxone in twenty cesarean sections (1 phial EV).
(6) To develop a readily applicable polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based technique which would permit the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from Bactec phials at an earlier stage than currently available methods.
(7) Prophylaxis was sufficient in thirteen cases; on the other hand, in the remaining seven prophylaxis was followed by the three days therapy (1 phial EV).
(8) Auxological features of a 12-month period (from time -12 to time 0) without any treatment ("off" period) have been compared with an immediately following 12-month period (from time 0 to time +12), during which hydrochloride arginine was administered ("on" period); 2 phials per day in subjects older than 6 years and 1 phial per day in those less old than 6 years.
(9) Combined results for bacteria in simulated blood cultures showed a highly significant difference (p less than 0.001) between Bactec NR-660 aerobic medium (6A) and any other phial under test.
(10) Relative spatial sensitivity of the system was measured at various positions in the tank by observing the prompt gamma rays from thermal neutron capture in the 35Cl of a carbon tetrachloride sample contained in a small glass phial.
(11) Testing three cervical swabs from the same patient, with the material taken into a single phial of transport medium, increased the sensitivity of IDEIA from 74% to 96%, without reducing the specificity which remained at 97%.
(12) The lowest growth index at which this method of identification might be applied to Bactec phials was determined and a number of routine cultures giving a positive growth index examined.
(13) 18 Patients who seroconverted after exposure had received significantly more contaminated factor VIII than the 14 who did not (mean 43 (range 9-109) v 15 (3-30) phials, p less than 0.01).
(14) In a controlled trial phials containing 200 mug, 100 mug, 50 mug, or 20 mug of IgG anti-D were given to nearly 2,000 D-negative primiparae whose infants were D-positive and ABO-compatible.
(15) Collection of samples for IDEIA in transport medium in plastic phials, as opposed to glass phials recommended by the manufacturer, had no effect on these values.
(16) Each phial contained the same total volume of immunoglobulin and the particular dose given to any patient was not known to the clinician.
(17) The anti-D content of the phials was estimated three times during the course of the trials and remained fairly constant.