(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.
Prial
Definition:
(n.) A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n.