What's the difference between phial and vial?

Phial


Definition:

  • (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.

Vial


Definition:

  • (n.) A small bottle, usually of glass; a little glass vessel with a narrow aperture intended to be closed with a stopper; as, a vial of medicine.
  • (v. t.) To put in a vial or vials.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We recommend the shell vial technique for isolation of C. burnetii.
  • (2) The particular advantage of the method described here is the ease with which the supernatants can be collected and transferred to counting vials with minimal handling of radioactive samples.
  • (3) By means of a two-vial transport media system the samples were sent to a university laboratory and examined for viral, bacterial, and parasitic organisms.
  • (4) We developed a shell vial cell culture assay (SVA) using a cross-reactive monoclonal antibody to the T antigen of simian virus 40 to detect BKV rapidly by indirect immunofluorescence.
  • (5) With special care, plastic vials charged with albumin may also be used.
  • (6) The sensitivity of the shell vial assay was 78% for RSV, 94% for influenza B virus, 83% for adenovirus, and 80% for parainfluenza viruses.
  • (7) Only cells cultured with Opti-MEM I and Omni Serum grew consistently in tubes and vials and these reagents were compared to FBS for viral isolation and detection.
  • (8) The performance of MRC-5 shell vial centrifugation-enhancement and direct immunoperoxidase staining was compared to the traditional WI38 tube cell culture for the detection of Herpes simplex virus on 123 clinical samples.
  • (9) Traditionally, when preparing 99mTc-labeled radiopharmaceuticals, [99mTc]pertechnetate is added to the entire contents of a vial of reagent kit, and patient doses are subsequently withdrawn from the vial.
  • (10) As regards method of administration, CMNX from a vial was dissolved in physiological saline or distilled water for injection, and the solution was administered by 3 to 5 minutes one shot intravenous injection (15 cases), or CMNX was diluted with large volume parenteral product and administered by 30 to 60 minutes drip infusion (10 cases).
  • (11) Instead of the usual 1.0 to 1.5 mL of liquid sample, the vials contained 200 microL of liquid; the vapor above the liquid was injected into the gas chromatograph.
  • (12) T. vaginalis in TYI in 1-ml vials with or without McCoy cells demonstrated poor growth.
  • (13) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
  • (14) The use of insert vial provides several advantages over other methods for the count correction of these suspensions.
  • (15) Cold-chain capacity of 30,000-40,000 vials was required for a district as well as about 500 reusable syringes and needles a year along with vaccination cards exceeding the number of women and children by 10% for recordkeeping at the PHC center.
  • (16) Samples are prepared in small vials containing a solution of DNPH and acetonitrile.
  • (17) The relative humidity of the headspace gas of the vials, which contained only 5 microgram of active ingredient, was monitored by a GC method and was then correlated with product stability.
  • (18) In contrast, when NPH-insulin (Protaphane HM) was mixed with regular insulin and injected in 4 out of the 7 diabetic patients, the storage temperature of insulin vials had no effect on the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of the mixture.
  • (19) The quantity of Glucantime supplied to the patients varied from 10 vials to more than 200, with or without intervals during the treatment.
  • (20) Parameters of electroporation were established for transfection of the shuttle vector pRSV cat into H9 cells, and a rapid single-vial assay was used for measurement of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) activity in extracts of transfected cells.

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