What's the difference between vial and vital?

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[99mTc]pertechnetate is added to the entire contents of a vial of reagent kit, and patient doses are subsequently withdrawn from the vial.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.

Vital


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging or relating to life, either animal or vegetable; as, vital energies; vital functions; vital actions.
  • (a.) Contributing to life; necessary to, or supporting, life; as, vital blood.
  • (a.) Containing life; living.
  • (a.) Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal.
  • (a.) Very necessary; highly important; essential.
  • (a.) Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
  • (n.) A vital part; one of the vitals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (2) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
  • (3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (4) The highest antishock effect of dopamine is reached when cardiac output fraction addressed to thoracic region vitals is supported by dopamine on the 43-45% level.
  • (5) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (6) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
  • (7) Even if it does not always provide the solution to a particularly delicate problem, which is often of vital importance, it provides data which, modifiable and better used, should provide an adequate notion of the anatomical and physiopathological state in aortic stenosis.
  • (8) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
  • (9) Results on resting blood pressure, serum lipids, vital capacity, flexibility, upper body strength, and vertical jump tests were comparable to values found for the sedentary population.
  • (10) However, these votes will be vital for Hollande in the second round.
  • (11) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."
  • (12) It is generally agreed upon that ERT is fruitless in the patient with severe head trauma or when vital signs were absent at the scene of the injury.
  • (13) As a result of recent environmental changes in the health care industry, marketing has become a vital necessity for the survival of most hospitals.
  • (14) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (15) Lofgren complains that " the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital centre today ".
  • (16) The following 10 products were tested: Ensure Plus, Ensure, Enrich, Osmolite, Pulmocare, Citrotein, Resource, Vivonex TEN, Vital, and Hepatic Acid II.
  • (17) Effects of fixation with glutaraldehyde (GA), glutaraldehyde-osmium tetroxide (GA-OsO(4)), and osmium tetroxide (OsO(4)) on ion and ATP content, cell volume, vital dye staining, and stability to mechanical and thermal stress were studied in Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC).
  • (18) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
  • (19) The ratio of forced expiratory volume in the first second to forced vital capacity was not significantly different between individuals with or without a past history of heart attack, angina pectoris or ECG evidence of coronary heart disease.
  • (20) The amount of formazan obtained after incubating vital cells with Meldola Blue as electron carrier was greater than that obtained with Methylene Blue, menadione, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, 1-methoxyphenazine methosulphate or phenazine methosulphate.