(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.
Operatory
Definition:
(n.) A laboratory.
Example Sentences:
(1) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
(2) Post operatory followed up by all patients ranged from one to seven years.
(3) Per-operatory assays showed that in patients with gallbladder disease or with cystic duct obstruction, ampicillin levels in the gallbladder bile were markedly lower than in the common duct bile.
(4) The operatory technic used is very classic: septoplasty as the first step, then rhinoplasty by extra mucosal way, with paramedial and lateral osteotomies allowing rebuilding of nasal osseous pyramid.
(5) The preventive-surface care operatory is the most basic yet most widely usable operatory.
(6) This paper discusses methods for improving vision in the dental operatory and details a new design for eyeglasses suitable for the presbyopic dentist.
(7) Post-operatory morbidity is 4.7% and mortality of 0.9%.
(8) On average, it took the students five minutes and four seconds to place the rubber dam and begin providing treatment to the patients attending the school's dental operatory.
(9) The post-operatory complications were present in 4 cases: in the same patient (15 months old) a hepatic artery thrombosis and then a portal vein thrombosis were observed; 3 patients had to have their biliary-digestive anastomosis redone.
(10) The unusually long period of time that the tooth survived might be attributed to a different approach to the replantation technique, such as occlusion adjustment prior to replantation, preoperative reduction of oral cavity bacteria and of the harmful aerosols commonly found in the dental operatory, placement of a noneugenol periodontal packing under the acrylic splint to prevent residual liquid monomer from seeping into the periodontal space, use of the patient's own blood and no other material to moisten the root while it was out of the socket, a short extraoral period, loose splinting, complete isolation of the operative site in the oral cavity, and completion of periodontal therapy before intentional replantation.
(11) In contrast, when the Rt lesion is complete, and whether the GLv is touched or not, the threshold increase is both higher and does not come down to the pre-operatory levels even after 15 post-operatory sessions.
(12) In this group, there was not gain on post-operatory infections complications nor on hospital staying, since this surgery has a little number of infections complications.
(13) The variables examined: Working hours per day, working days per week, weeks of holiday per year, patients treated per year, number of dental assistants, number of operatories room.
(14) The authors report their experience of per-operatory angiography in a series of 1,099 cases over 13 consecutive years.
(15) This case shows an other topographic possibility to post operatory aneurysm, mainly developed on the intracranial internal carotid artery or her branches.
(17) Results suggest that pre-existing dental fear levels may produce greater self-report, behavioral or physiological arousal in the dental operatory than exogenous epinephrine.
(18) Furthermore, to illustrate several of the techniques proposed, we have during the month of May 1990, systematically filmed different behavior patterns of children in the waiting room, as well as, in the dental operatory.
(19) A low-cost portable dental operatory system has been developed for the provision of removable prosthodontic services to the Alzheimer's patient.
(20) Most respondents washed or removed their gloves before leaving the operatory to process films, thereby stopping the spread of saliva.