(a.) Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome.
(a.) Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(2) Conventional procedures for the isolation of uncontaminated polysomal RNAs which rely on sucrose density centrifugations are laborious and unsuitable for large scale isolations.
(3) While the TLC assay is accurate and sensitive, it is laborious.
(4) The aim of the present study was to develop a method which allows determination of pseudo (PsChE) and acetyl cholinesterase (AChE) activities in single hemolyzed blood samples of workers exposed to cholinesterase-inhibiting compounds, avoiding the time-consuming and laborious separation of plasma and erythrocytes.
(5) TR-FIA has several advantages over the more laborious techniques available so far: (i) high sensitivity, (ii) large assay ranges, (iii) rapidity and large number of simultaneous assays, (iv) simplicity, and (v) low cost provided that the laboratory has equipment for time-resolved fluorometry.
(6) The collection of blood monocytes is much less laborious than the sampling of AMs.
(7) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
(8) The procedure needs half the amount of reagents as separate determination of each of the two mycotoxin, and is far less laborious.
(9) Patient charts allow the capture of all information relevant to the patient, but are laborious to review in detail.
(10) HLA typing of amniotic cells for clinical purposes using the conventional cytotoxicity assay is a laborious and complicated procedure.
(11) Current methods for determining plasma prekallikrein, one of three zymogens of the contact phase of plasma proteolysis, are laborious and impractical for general use in a clinical laboratory.
(12) The method used in the present study is less laborious than morphometry employing electron microscopy.
(13) At present rhinoviruses are detected and serotyped in tissue cultures, a slow and laborious process.
(14) Both procedures detect tubular damage equally well and neither requires laborious sample treatment.
(15) Providers of HHC services are burdened by the laborious process of obtaining favorable coverage determinations for short-term-care patients when home care substitutes for institutional care.
(16) Yet, comparison of three-dimensional structures is a laborious time-consuming procedure that typically requires a manual phase.
(17) The core variable that emerged from the data was labeled "constructing a personal residence" to reflect the participants' descriptions of their experiences as laborious, active and constructive.
(18) Only four of those cleared have actually left Guantánamo, owing to internal bureaucracy and laborious diplomacy.
(19) This method was much less laborious than other methods that have been used so far, and most significantly, constant results were obtained in repeated experiments.
(20) The resulting Kd and maximum binding site values with 36 tumor tissue samples approximated the values obtained with the more laborious, larger tissue sample-demanding six-point Scatchard plot.
Toilsome
Definition:
(a.) Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among these procedures, especially the so-called multimethods using high-performance liquid chromatography--though sometimes including toilsome clean-up steps--can be mentioned.