(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.
Pial
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the pia mater.
Example Sentences:
(1) The change, time to peak and peak pial venous pressures were the same in all groups.
(2) Simultaneously, reactivity of pial arteriole was observed and its diameter was measured through the cranial window using intravital microscope and width analyzer.
(3) Effects of topical application of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) on pial arteriolar diameter and cerebral prostanoid synthesis were examined in newborn pigs.
(4) The effect of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) on the reactivity of pial arteries to local metabolic factors was tested in chloralose-anesthetized cats before or after a period of transient ischemia induced by air embolism.
(5) Locations of propagating CSD, dilating pial arteriole, and increased rCBF were always closely associated spatiotemporally.
(6) Sprague-Dawley rats were studied using intravital fluorescent microscopy of pial vessels and fluorescein-labeled dextrans (FITC-dextran, mol wt = 70,000, 20,000, and 4,000 daltons).
(7) The insensitivity of the alpha adrenergic receptor and the poor responsiveness of the muscle to its activation with agonist concentrations below 10(-4) M can probably account for the small contractile responses to nerve stimulation of large pial arteries in spite of their abundant innervation.
(8) Glial cells having radial fibres directed towards the pial surface were found to be present continuously in the internal granular layer during cerebellar maturation.
(9) The extensive pial anastomotic network provided relative sparing of the most peripheral components of the lateral corticospinal tracts.
(10) The present study was done to see if such a phenomenon existed in the adult rat and if it could be demonstrated at the level of the pial arterioles.
(11) Taking into account recent experimental works, the model assumes that oxygen acts on cerebral vessels through an indirect mechanism, mediated by the release of two metabolic substances (adenosine and H+) from tissue, and that any change in perivascular concentration of these substances affects the diameter of both the medium and small pial arteries as well as of intracerebral arterioles.
(12) Astrocyte endfeet of the GLM became irregular in contour, protruding in a fern-leaf fashion into the pial connective tissue.
(13) Pial arteries of cat showed a well-developed supply of CGRP-positive nerve fibres.
(14) Pial arteries are highly sensitive to noradrenaline, adrenaline, histamine, serotonin, rapid stretching, and potassium ions.
(15) After removal of the dura mater, implantation of a closed cranial window, and intravenous injection of fluorescein, three-dimensional reconstructions of cortical capillaries were performed down to a depth of 250 microns below the pial surface.
(16) A newly developed technique for continuous measurement of the electrical resistance of the microvascular endothelium was applied to the pial venules of the frog subjected to severe hypoxia and inhibition of endothelial ATP-production by means of cyanide (1 mM) and iodo-acetate (1 mM) for periods of 15 min.
(17) Pial arterial diameter was determined using a closed cranial window and intravital microscopy, and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was determined using laser flowmetry.
(18) Semithin sections tangential to the pial surface were obtained at sampling intervals 50 micron apart throughout the depth of the left visual cortex.
(19) Previous studies have demonstrated a significant pressure gradient from carotid artery to pial or middle cerebral arteries.
(20) Averaged spinal cord surface evoked potentials to peripheral nerve electrical stimulation were obtained from various restricted loci on the pial surface of the cervical and lumbo-sacral spinal cord.