(n.) The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
(2) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(3) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(4) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
(5) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
(6) Well tolerated from the clinical and laboratory points of view, it proved remarkably effective.
(7) Since 1979, patients started on long-term lithium treatment at the Psychiatric Hospital in Risskov have been followed systematically with recording of clinical and laboratory variables before the start of treatment, after 6 and 12 months of treatment, and thereafter at yearly intervals.
(8) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(9) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
(11) The results confirm studies performed in our laboratory on cytotoxicity and on functional membrane proteins of fungal and mammalian cells [1,2], suggesting a common mechanism of toxicity by the action of hydrophobic xenobiotics on biomembranes.
(12) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
(13) Charge data from the target hospital showed a statistically significant reduction in laboratory charges per patient in the quarter following program initiation (P = 0.02) and no evidence for change in a group of five comparison hospitals.
(14) This new protocol has increased the effectiveness of the toxicology laboratory and enhanced the efficiency of the house staff.
(15) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(16) Regression analysis on the 21 clinical or laboratory parameters studied showed that the only variable independently associated with CSF-FN was the total protein concentration in the CSF; this, however, explained only 14% of the observed variation in the CSF-FN concentration and did not show any correlation with CNS involvement.
(17) These tumors may nonetheless be etiologically related as indicated by the pattern of laboratory abnormalities, especially immunologic, in affected as well as unaffected members.
(18) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(19) The authors describe the special medical expertise of the psychiatrist and define 11 indicators, such as a patient's need for new psychotropic medication or the presence of symptoms requiring medical or laboratory procedures, that can be used to determine whether psychiatric expertise is needed.
(20) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
Microbe
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Microbion
Example Sentences:
(1) This baseline data will be used to monitor antibody activity to these common microbes along with several other parameters in a group of ill surgical patients.
(2) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that mice are more responsive immunologically to antigens of nonindigenous bacteria than they are to antigens of certain microbes indigenous to their gastrointestinal tracts.
(3) The concept of a mechanism-based etiology, rather than of a microbe-based one, deserves consideration for this complex, host-parasite interaction.
(4) Its mean indices (mean g) varied within the limits of 500 to 2000 microbe cells per 1 individual, maximum index rarely exceeded 30 000 microbe cells.
(5) Coagulase-negative staphylococci, dominated by Staphylococcus epidermidis, were the commonest microbe group found (83% of persons sampled).
(6) Thus, has been shown a leading role of transmission of plague microbe by fleas in the maintenance of natural nidality of this zoonosis.
(7) These results indicate that a primary effect of A. oryzae is stimulation of fiber digestion by rumen microbes.
(8) The immediate secretion of iPH in response to feeding and its relationship to DFT stimulation may represent a systemic physiological process by which resistance of teeth to decay is enhanced at a time when the acidogenic potential of the oral microbes is maximum.
(9) This is due to competition for binding between progesterone and naphthaquinone, which have a structural similarity; and the latter is an essential nutrient for the microbe.
(10) The outcome of pregnancy was related to age, number of aspirations and to the presence or not of microbes.
(11) That raises the possibility of manipulating the mix of gut microbes early in development to reduce the risk.
(12) The MHC class II antigen variation in the fallopian tube epithelium seen in this study may indicate a hormonal regulation that could reflect variable need for local immunocompetence during the menstrual cycle: a preovulatory need for immunoreactivity against invading microbes and postovulatory an optimal survival of the foreign preimplantation embryo.
(13) The processes of digestion (the physical disintegration and chemical breakdown by gut microbes and secreted enzymes) may affect the radionuclide uptake by an animal.
(14) The RNA-polymerases were used to screen for enzyme inhibitors produced by microbes.
(15) subtilis contamination of guinea pigs altered the antibody content to these microbes but insignificantly, whereas S. albus and S. faecalis stimulated the antibody genesis considerably.
(16) Periapical tissue from 58 cases requiring periapical surgery was examined histologically and cultured for the presence of microbes.
(17) The results indicate that aniline degrading populations of these various microbial communities exhibit different activities probably depending on the extent of adaptation to pollutants to which the microbes are exposed.
(18) Interestingly, alteration of either the microB or E3 site in a 70-base-pair fragment of the IgH enhancer that lacks the binding site for OCTA abolished enhancer activity in lymphoid cells completely.
(19) His great contribution will be to impress on people that we live in this vast biotic of microbes.
(20) To lower the role of natural antibacterial activity of biological substrates from humans and laboratory animals in microbiological assay of bleomycin (bleomycin) with B. subtilis ATCC 6633 as the test-microbe, it was suggested to increase the procedure sensitivity by using the medium modification.