Laboratory Sentence Examples
After introductions, Dean was led to a laboratory in the rear of the building.
I'll take the laboratory.
The conclusions derived from the microscopical laboratory were confirmed by actual experiment.
The blood will be tested by a laboratory technician.
In 1890 he was appointed director of the Siemens laboratory at King's College, London, with the title of professor of electrical engineering.
He next went to Paris, where he studied chemistry under Gerhardt, and on his return to London he was appointed director of the chemical laboratory at Guy's Hospital.
In regard to methods and apparatus, mention should be made of his improvements in the technique of organic analysis, his plan for determining the natural alkaloids and for ascertaining the molecular weights of organic bases b y means of their chloroplatinates, his process for determining the quantity of urea in a solution - the first step towards the introduction of precise chemical methods into practical medicine - and his invention of the simple form of condenser known in every laboratory.
There is a good chemical laboratory as well as adequate zoological, ethnographical and mineralogical collections, the most remarkable being Blumenbach's famous collection of skulls in the anatomical institute.
From plants many substances are obtained which at the present time we are unable to make in the chemical laboratory, and of the constitution or composition of which we are in many cases ignorant.
This laboratory, unique of its kind at the time, in conjunction with Liebig's unrivalled gifts as a teacher, soon rendered Giessen the most famous chemical school in the world; men flocked from every country to enjoy its advantages, and many of the most accomplished chemists of the 19th century had to thank it for their early training.
AdvertisementMethods have also been discovered for the electrolytic manufacture of calcium, which have had the effect of converting a laboratory curiosity into a product of commercial importance.
Barium and strontium have also been produced by electrometallurgical methods, but the processes have only a laboratory interest at present.
Prior to 1830, little was known of the process other than that organic compounds generally yielded tarry and solid matters, but the discoveries of Liebig and Dumas (of acetone from acetates), of Mitscherlich (of benzene from benzoates) and of Persoz (of methane from acetates and lime) brought the operation into common laboratory practice.
This council was nominated by the governments of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Holland and Belgium, with headquarters in Copenhagen and a central laboratory at Christiania, and its aim was to furnish data for the improvement of the fisheries of the North Sea and surrounding waters.
The Siemens and Halske ozonizer, in form somewhat resembling the old laboratory instrument, is largely used in Germany; working with an alternating current transformed up to 650o volts, it has been found to give 280 grains or more of ozone per e.
AdvertisementIn chronic disease and in health the use of alcohol as an aid to digestion is without the support of clinical or laboratory experience, the beneficial action being at least neutralized by undesirable effects produced elsewhere.
He became chemist and apothecary to the dukes of Lauenburg, and then to the elector of Saxony, Johann Georg II., who put him in charge of the royal laboratory at Dresden.
The National Physical Laboratory, for making scientific investigations of industrial importance, and for mechanical testing, was opened in Bushey House in 1902.
The sanitary department consists of a board of health, a bacteriological laboratory and an engineer's office, all managed with expert European assistance.
Whilst making the school a strong one on the classical side, he instituted scholarships in natural science, built a laboratory, and gave importance to that side of the school work.
AdvertisementIn the laboratory the specific gravity is determined in a pyknometer by actual weighing, and on board ship by the use of an areometer or hydrometer.
Fox, of the Central Laboratory of the International Council at Christiania, has investigated the relation of the atmospheric gases to sea-water by very exact experimental methods and arrived at the following expressions for the absorption of oxygen and nitrogen by sea-water of different degrees of concentration.
Vauquelin's chemical laboratory, afterwards becoming his assistant at the natural history museum in the Jardin des Plantes.
It contains a number of commodious official residences, churches, hospitals, a laboratory, covered market, &c. The port is protected by a breakwater and provided with a pier on which is the customs-house.
The first filter which was more or less completely impermeable to bacteria was the Pasteur-Chamberland, which was devised in Pasteur's laboratory, and is made of dense biscuit porcelain.
AdvertisementFiltration in the chemical laboratory is commonly effected by the aid of a special kind of unsized paper, which in the more expensive varieties is practically pure cellulose, impurities like feric oxide, alumina, lime, magnesia and silica having been removed by treatment with hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acids.
A first-class arsenal, which can renew the materiel and equipment of a large army, embraces a gun factory, carriage factory, laboratory and small-arms ammunition factory, small-arms factory, harness, saddlery and tent factories, and a powder factory; in addition it must possess great store-houses.
Under B - Gun factory, carriage factory, laboratory, small-arms factory, harness and tent factory, powder factory, &c. In a secondclass arsenal there would be workshops instead of these factories.
This circumstance appeared so anomalous that some astronomers doubted whether the surviving lines were really due to calcium; but Sir William and Lady Huggins (née Margaret Lindsay Murray, who, after their marriage in 1875, actively assisted her husband) successfully demonstrated in the laboratory that calcium vapour, if at a sufficiently low pressure, gives under the influence of the electric discharge precisely these lines and no others.
His first research, carried out in Liebig's laboratory at Giessen, was on coal-tar, and his investigation of the organic bases in coal-gas naphtha established the nature of aniline.
Next, at the instance of Charles IV., he went to Spain, where he taught chemistry first at the artillery school of Segovia, and then at Salamanca, finally becoming in 1789 director of the royal laboratory at Madrid.
His attempts at isolating this metal were not completely successful; in fact, metallic calcium remained a laboratory curiosity until the beginning of the 10th century.
Hofmann, in whose own research laboratory he was in the course of a year or two promoted to be an assistant.
Devoting his evenings to private investigations in a rough laboratory fitted up at his home, Perkin was fired by some remarks of Hofmann's to undertake the artificial production of quinine.
In addition to the menagerie, there is an infirmary and operating room, an anatomical and pathological laboratory, and the Society holds scientific meetings and publishes stately volumes containing the results of zoological research.
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The pure carbonate is constantly used in the laboratory as a basic substance generally, for the disintegration of silicates, and as a precipitant.
Authoritative standards and instruments for the measurement of electricity, based on the fundamental units of the metric system, have been placed in the Electrical Laboratory of the Board of Trade.
In England a National Physical Laboratory (N.P.L.) has been established, based on the German institute, and has its principal laboratory at Bushey House, near Hampton, Middlesex.
The chief buildings, besides the churches, are the Dutch theological seminary, Victoria College, Bloemhof girls' school, agricultural college and school of mines, laboratory and school of science and the S.A.
The conditions of this phenomenon have been imitated in the laboratory by Wood, and the corresponding effect obtained.
Among hospitals those of special general interest are the Steevens, the oldest in the city, founded under the will of Dr Richard Steevens in 1720; the Mater Misericordiae (1861),which includes a laboratory and museum, and is managed by the Sisters of Mercy, but relieves sufferers independently of their creed; the Rotunda lying-in hospital (1756); the Royal hospital for incurables, Donnybrook, which was founded in 1744 by the Dublin Musical Society; and the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear hospital, Adelaide Road, which amalgamated (1904) two similar institutions.
A laboratory is maintained for bacteriological and pathological researches and for the preparation of preventive vaccines.
Seeds are tested in the laboratory for purity and germination on behalf of farmers and seed merchants, and scientific investigations relating to seeds are conducted and reported upon.
For the testing of spirits in bulk no more convenient instrument has been devised, but where very small quantities are available more suitable laboratory methods must be adopted.
The laboratory form in common use consists of a bellows worked by either hand or foot, and a special type of gas burner formed of two concentric tubes, one conveying the blast, the other the gas; the supply of air and gas being regulated by stopcocks.
In the ordinary laboratory the Bunsen flame has become universal, and a number of substances, such as the salts of the alkalis and alkaline earths, show characteristic spectra when suitably placed in it.
It seems remarkable, however, that we should not have succeeded yet in reproducing in the laboratory the trunk and main branch of the hydrogen spectrum, if the spectra in question really belong to hydrogen.
Fechner saw psychology deriving advantage from the methods, as well as the results, of his experiments, and in 1879 the first psychological laboratory was erected by Wundt at Leipzig.
Connected with the university are also physiological, pathological and chemical institutes, five clinical departments and a laboratory.
He continued to work as a journeyman bookbinder till the 1st of March 1813, when he was appointed assistant in the laboratory of the Royal Institution of Great Britain on the recommendation of Davy, whom he accompanied on a tour through France, Italy and Switzerland from October 1813 to April 1815.
He was appointed director of the laboratory in 1825; and in 1833 he was appointed Fullerian professor of chemistry in the institution for life, without the obligation to deliver lectures.
Davy to the laboratory of the Royal Institution to make an experiment.
Entering GayLussac's laboratory in 1831, he became preparateur at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1834 and at the College de France in 1837.
He developed a great research laboratory of experimental physics, attracting numerous workers from many countries and colonies; advances were made in the investigation of the conduction of electricity through gases, in the determination of the charge and mass of the electron and in the development of analysis by means of positive rays.
In 1918 he was appointed master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and in the following year was elected to a newly established professorship of physics in the Cavendish Laboratory, where he continued to prosecute his researches.
In the Lawes Testimonial Laboratory there is a vast collection of samples of experimentally grown produce, annual products, ashes and soils.
But from a study of Dalton's own MS. laboratory notebooks, discovered in the rooms of the Manchester society, Roscoe and Harden (A New View of the Origin of Dalton's Atomic Theor y, 1896) conclude that so far from Dalton being led to the idea that chemical combination consists in the approximation of atoms of definite and characteristic weight by his search for an explanation of the law of combination in multiple proportions, the idea of atomic structure arose in his mind as a purely physical conception, forced upon him by study of the physical properties of the atmosphere and other gases.
He proceeds to give what has been quoted as his first table of atomic weights, but on p. 248 of his laboratory notebooks for 1802-1804, under the date 6th of September 1803, there is an earlier one in which he sets forth the relative weights of the ultimate atoms of a number of substances, derived from analysis of water, ammonia, carbon-dioxide, &c. by chemists of the time.
In connexion with these experiments he developed the electric furnace as a convenient means of obtaining very high temperatures in the laboratory; and by its aid he prepared many new compounds, especially carbides, silicides and borides, and melted and volatilized substances which had previously been regarded as infusible.
Wiesbaden contains numerous scientific and educational institutions, including a chemical laboratory, an agricultural college and two musical conservatoria.
Among its auxiliary establishments are a good natural history museum, an observatory, a laboratory, and a library which contains a copy of Erasmus' New Testament with marginal annotations by Luther.
In 1820 he entered Marburg University, and next year removed to Heidelberg, where he worked in Leopold Gmelin's laboratory.
He studied in Berzelius's laboratory at Stockholm, and there began a lifelong friendship with the Swedish chemist.
A problem to which he returned repeatedly was that of separating nickel and cobalt from their ores and freeing them from arsenic; and in the course of his long laboratory practice he worked out numerous processes for the preparation of pure chemicals and methods of exact analysis.
Baeyer's laboratory at Berlin, attacking among other problems that of the composition of camphor.
In connexion with the university are the observatory, the chemical laboratory in Ny Vester Gade, the surgical academy in Bredgade, founded in 1786, and the botanic garden.
The botanical garden (1874) contains an observatory with a statue of Tycho Brahe, and the chemical laboratory, mineralogical museum, polytechnic academy (1829) and communal hospital adjoin it.
On his return to Germany he started a small chemical laboratory at Heidelberg, where, with a very slender equipment, he carried out several important researches.
Altenstein did not immediately carry out this proposal, but he obtained for Mitscherlich a government grant to enable him to continue his studies in Berzelius's laboratory at Stockholm.
At the head of the lawn is the Rotunda, modelled after the Roman Pantheon and now containing the university library; and at the foot of the lawn are three modern recitation and laboratory buildings.
The attempt was unsuccessful, but in August of the same year Lavoisier had to leave his house and laboratory at the Arsenal, and in November the Academy was forbidden until further orders to fill up the vacancies in its numbers.
Realizing that the total weight of all the products of a chemical reaction must be exactly equal to the total weight of the reacting substances, he made the balance the ultima ratio of the laboratory, and he was able to draw correct inferences from his weighings because, unlike many of the phlogistonists, he looked upon heat as imponderable.
Associated with the University are the State Laboratory of Natural History, the State Water Survey, the State Geological Survey, the State Entomologist's Office, and Agricultural and Engineering Experiment Stations.
The laboratory examination may be used in subjects like physics, chemistry, geology, zoology, botany, anatomy, physiology, to test powers of manipulation and knowledge of experimental methods.
The occurrence of anchovies in the English Channel has been carefully studied at the laboratory of the Marine Biological Association at Plymouth.
As director of the Cryogeen Laboratory, founded by him at Leiden, he succeeded, in 1908, in liquefying helium.
Appointed a member of the second royal commission on the pollution of rivers in 1868, he was provided by the government with a completely-equipped laboratory, in which, for a period of six years, he carried on the inquiries necessary for the purposes of that body, and was thus the means of bringing to light an enormous amount of valuable information respecting the contamination of rivers by sewage, trade-refuse, &c., and the purification of water for domestic use.
He carried on his great research on the expansion of gases in the laboratory at Sevres, but all the results of his latest work were destroyed during the Franco-German War, in which also his son Henri (noticed above) was killed.
It Is Readily Attainable At Any Time In A Modern Laboratory With Adequate Heating Arrangements, And Is Probably On The Whole The Most Suitable Temperature To Select.
Davy, passing through Paris on his way to Italy at the end of 1813, obtained a few fragments of iodine, which had been discovered by Bernard Courtois (1777-1838) in 1811, and after a brief examination by the aid of his limited portable laboratory perceived its analogy to chlorine and inferred it to be an element.
Among his research work of this period may be mentioned the improvements in organic analysis and the investigation of fulminic acid made with the help of Liebig, who, gained the privilege of admission to his private laboratory in 1823-1824.
The principal buildings of the university are Packer Hall (1869), largely taken up by the department of civil engineering, the chemical and metallurgical laboratory, the physical and electrical engineering laboratory, the steam engineering laboratory, Williams Hall for mechanical engineering, &c., Saucon Hall for the English department, Christmas Hall, with drawing-rooms and the offices of the Y.M.C.A., the Sayre astronomical observatory, the Packer Memorial Church, the university library (1897), dormitories (1907) given by Andrew Carnegie, Drown Memorial Hall, a students' club, the college commons, and a gymnasium.
Three years later he was elected to the Berlin Academy of Sciences, which in 1754 put him in charge of its chemical laboratory and in 1760 appointed him director of its physics class.
The earliest victim was an attendant named Barisch, employed in the pathological laboratory of the Vienna General Hospital, and told off to look after the animals and bacteriological apparatus devoted to the investigation of plague, cultures of which had been brought from India by the medical commissioners sent by the Royal Academy of Science in 1897.
The result of the inquiries by the commission and the Lister Institute led to a protracted controversy with regard to the responsibility of Mr Haffkine's laboratory, and to his subsequent treatment by the government of India; and the leading bacteriologists in England warmly took up his cause.
Flexner and C. Hunter Stewart, pointing out that the evidence, so far from showing that Mr Haffkine's laboratory was to blame, made it clear to those acquainted with bacteriological work that it could have had nothing to do with the occurrence.
They agreed that there was strong evidence to show that " the contamination took place when the bottle was opened at Malkowal, owing to the abolition by the plague authorities of the technique prescribed by the Bombay laboratory, and to the consequent failure to sterilize the forceps which were used in opening the bottle, and which during the process were dropped on the ground "; and they complained of the inadequacy of the inquiries made by the Indian government, and called for Mr Haffkine's exoneration.
Virginia was by far the most important state in 1908 in the production of soapstone, nearly the whole product being taken from a long narrow belt running north-east from Nelson county into Albemarle county; more than 90% of the output was sawed into slabs for laundry and laboratory appliances.
Some of his instruments are preserved in the Royal Institution, London, and his name is commemorated in the Cavendish Physical Laboratory at Cambridge, which was built by his kinsman the 7th duke of Devonshire.
His laboratory at the Ecole de Medecine was very poor, and to supplement it he opened a private one in 1850 in the Rue Garenciere; but soon afterwards the house was sold, and the laboratory had to be abandoned.
In 1875, resigning the office of dean but retaining the title of honorary dean, he became the first occupant of the chair of organic chemistry, which he induced the government to establish at the Sorbonne; but he had great difficulty in obtaining an adequate laboratory, and the building ultimately provided was not opened until after his death, which happened at Paris on the 10th of May 1884.
From this time till 1848 he led a life of comparative quiet - not the quiet of inactivity, however, for his incessant labours within the Academy and the Observatory produced a multitude of contributions to all departments of physical science, - but on the fall of Louis Philippe he left his laboratory to join in forming the provisional government.
The hatching of eggs, whether of fresh-water or salt-water fishes, presents no serious difficulties, if suitable apparatus is employed; but the rearing of fry to an advanced stage, without serious losses, is less easy, and in the case of sea-fishes with pelagic eggs, the larvae of which are exceedingly small and tender, is still an unsolved problem, although recent work, carried out at the Plymouth laboratory of the Marine Biological Association, is at least promising.
For a summary of these investigations see papers on "Artificial Fish-hatching in Norway," by Captain Dannevig and Mr Dahl, in the Report of the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Laboratory for 1906 (Liverpool, 1907).
In the later years of his life he had at Arcueil, where he died on the 6th of November 1822, a well-equipped laboratory, which became a centre frequented by some of the most distinguished scientific men of the time, their proceedings being published in three volumes, between 1807 and 1817, as the Memoires de la societe d'Arcueil.
According to the rule, water, which has the lower surface-tension, should spread upon the surface of mercury; whereas the universal experience of the laboratory is that drops of water standing upon mercury retain their compact form without the least tendency to spread.
Among the other university institutions are the academic hospital, the maternity hospital, the physiological institution, the chemical laboratory, the zoological museum, the botanical garden and the observatory on the Kdnigsstuhl.
Dyeing, leatherdressing, lace-making and the manufacture of porcelain for household and laboratory purposes are carried on.
Soon afterwards, Count Rumford, requiring a lecturer on chemistry for the recently established Royal Institution in London, opened negotiations with him, and on the 16th of February 1801 he was engaged as assistant lecturer in chemistry and director of the laboratory.
According to his cousin, Edmund Davy,' then his laboratory assistant, he was so delighted with this achievement that he danced about the room in ecstasy.
In October he started with his wife for a continental tour, and with them, as "assistant in experiments and writing," went Michael Faraday, who in the previous March had been engaged as assistant in the Royal Institution laboratory.
That substance, recently discovered in Paris, was attracting the attention of French chemists when he stepped in and, after a short examination with his portable chemical laboratory, detected its resemblance to chlorine and pronounced it an "undecompounded body."
A large library, museum and well-furnished laboratory are here.
It has a state-supported high school affiliated to Calcutta University, with a chemical and physical laboratory.
The Philosophical and Literary Society, established in 1820, possesses a handsome building in Park Row, known as the Philosophical Hall, containing a laboratory, scientific library, lecture room, and museum, with excellent natural history, geological and archaeological collections.
Fused quartz has recently been used for the construction of lenses and laboratory vessels, or it may be drawn out into the finest elastic fibres and used for suspending mirrors, &c., in physical apparatus.
In calcium, for instance, the g line shows in the laboratory much stronger anomalous dispersion than H and K; but in the solar spectrum H and K are broad out of all comparison to g.
Such filters are not, and in the nature of things cannot be, worked with the precision and continuity of a laboratory experiment.
In the laboratory of Pasteur probably the first filter which successfully accomplished this object was produced.
The refutation of abiogenesis has no further bearing on this possibility than to make it probable that if protoplasm ultimately be formed in the laboratory, it will be by a series of stages, the earlier steps being the formation of some substance, or substances, now unknown, which are not protoplasm.
The university is well-equipped with laboratories, the psychological laboratory, the laboratories of Sibley college and the hydraulic laboratory of the college of civil engineering being especially noteworthy; the last is on Fall Creek, where a curved concrete masonry dam has been built, forming Beebe Lake.
Exact analysis is difficult and tedious, and consequently the laboratory methods are not employed in technology, where time is an important factor and moderate accuracy is all that is necessary.
The decomposition of steam by passing it through a red-hot gunbarrel, resulting in the liberation of hydrogen and the production of magnetic iron oxide, Fe 3 0 4, is a familiar laboratory method for preparing hydrogen (q.v.).
Hence, one of the leading Proper elicited in the laboratory with what was observed in the sun.
By comparison with their analogues in the laboratory it can be determined whether, in which direction, and how much, lines of recognized origin are displaced in the spectra of the heavenly bodies.
South-west of these buildings, on the other side of the Johannisthal Park, are clustered the medical institutes and hospitals of the university - the infirmary, clinical and other hospitals, the physico-chemical institute, pathological institute, physiological institute, ophthalmic hospital, pharmacological institute, the schools of anatomy, the chemical laboratory, the zoological institute, the physicomineralogical institute, the botanical garden and also the veterinary schools, deaf and dumb asylum, agricultural college and astronomical observatory.
As a teacher Dumas was much sought after for his lectures at the Sorbonne and other institutions both on pure and applied science; and he was one of the first men in France to realize the importance of experimental laboratory teaching.
Tycho Brahe was from his fifteenth year devoted to astrology, and adjoining his observatory at Uranienburg the astronomerroyal of Denmark ha .d a laboratory built in order to study alchemy, and it was only a few years before his death that he finally abandoned astrology.
Thomson therefore had recourse to Paris, and for a year worked in the laboratory of Regnault, who was then engaged in his classical researches on the thermal properties of steam.
This first step has led to the synthetical production of the most characteristic substances of essential oils in the laboratory, and the synthetical manufacture of essential oils bade fair to rival in importance the production of tar colours from the hydrocarbons obtained on distilling coal.
For so long as the great bulk of oils is so cheaply produced in nature's laboratory, the natural products will hold their field for a long time to come.
We learn in them how Caliban (democracy), the mindless brute, educated to his own responsibility, makes after all an adequate ruler; how Prospero (the aristocratic principle, or, if we will, the mind) accepts his dethronement for the sake of greater liberty in the intellectual world, since Caliban proves an effective policeman, and leaves his superiors a free hand in the laboratory; how Ariel (the religious principle) acquires a firmer hold on life, and no longer gives up the ghost at the faintest hint of change.
Furnaces are constructed according to many different patterns with varying degrees of complexity in arrangement; but all may be considered as combining three essential parts, namely, the fire-place in which the fuel is consumed, the heated chamber, laboratory, hearth or working bed, as it is variously called, where the heat is applied to the special work for which the furnace is designed, and the apparatus for producing rapid combustion by the supply of air under pressure to the fire.
In all cases, therefore, where it is desired to do the work out of contact with the solid fuel, the operation of burning or heat-producing must be performed in a special fire-place or combustion chamber, the body of flame and heated gas being afterwards made to act upon the surface of the material exposed in a broad thin layer in the working bed or laboratory of the furnace by reverberation from the low vaulted roof covering the bed.
This will preclude working alone, especially in laboratory situations.
In this study secondary organic aerosol will be produced in laboratory experiments using a large smog chamber.
Grows on malt, yeast malt and glucose nutrient agar but laboratory cultures may not be needed.
Even the strongest laboratory oxidizing agents are unable to oxidize hydrogen fluoride.
One mechanism of drug resistance, which is potentially amenable to therapeutic intervention, is based on studies in our laboratory.
Further, fibrillar amyloid has been shown to poison neurones, at least in the laboratory.
Now, they're targeting the use of laboratory animals.
For his doctoral research in high-energy astrophysics he studied at the Cavendish Laboratory under Nobel Laureate Sir Martin Ryle FRS.
Indeed, a new area of laboratory scale astrophysics has sprung up around table-top terawatt femtosecond lasers.
Areas being researched are neutrino astrophysics, the Casimir effect, quantum gravity fluctuations and laboratory astrophysics.
A contaminated laboratory autoclave should never be returned to the manufacturer for servicing or repair.
Doctors remove eggs from the woman's body and fertilize them with sperm in the laboratory - hence the term ' test-tube baby ' .
The best method is to use the type of plastic comb binders that you will have seen used for laboratory manuals.
One possibility involves using bioluminescence to study how drugs work in laboratory animals.
All had already been selected for surgery, based on their clinical and laboratory findings, including fine-needle aspiration biopsy.
Preliminary laboratory studies in animals 87 and humans 88 89 90 suggest that acupuncture may help regulate blood pressure.
Vitamin B2 commonly causes a bright yellowing of the urine with larger intakes possibly affecting laboratory blood tests.
Recent survey results As a follow-up, in August 1992 MAFF's Food Science Laboratory conducted a further survey of potassium bromate in bread.
At the laboratory scale, experiments are being undertaken to identify the controls upon sulfate incorporation into speleothem calcite.
Investigations In supporting the clinical diagnosis, laboratory testing to demonstrate mixed chimerism is important.
Cathy Cathy is a female chimpanzee who was rescued from a French laboratory.
Results The food samples were analyzed by static headspace gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection at CSL Food Science Laboratory, Norwich.
Chapter 5 is about clinical and laboratory services for genetic disorders in the UK.
It spans not only clinical academic medicine but also veterinary science, dentistry, laboratory science and medical and nursing care.
Unfortunately, evidential collectivism is not the uniform style of Italian science and/or Australian science, nor even any single laboratory within those countries.
Using models for coalescence and breakage from literature, DSA is successfully applied to the case of a laboratory scale rotating disk contactor.
This research has overturned 40 years of research based on laboratory strains of feline coronavirus being injected into laboratory cats.
She continues her clinical cancer cytogenetics service in the Pittsburgh Cytogenetics Laboratory.
Using the PDWork template to calculate dilution factors Getting the right dilution of samples for analysis can be a great help for laboratory technicians.
Genotypes of SARS patients were also tested for association with clinical outcome measures as well as hematological and biochemical laboratory indices.
All images are handled in-house, or using a secure professional laboratory service.
Miniaturization of conventional laboratory instrumentation has been the focus of much attention in recent years.
The Ruskin Laboratory, which coordinates many aspects of the School's research, has developed interdisciplinary working relationships within Oxford, and beyond.
The Laboratory has an on-going program developing techniques such as the shearing interferometer, including data processing methods.
The artist's studio becomes a science laboratory, the creative process an empirical investigation.
Since there is no need for laboratory investigations such as typing and crossmatching, autologous blood is more quickly reinfused than donor blood.
His appointment is joint with the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory where he will work extensively using Isis.
I use a laboratory jack for vertical movement having toyed with a small car hydraulic jack.
No notable abnormalities in laboratory values associated with treatment were observed except for minor increases in serum concentrations of creatinine kinase.
Laboratory testing in UKAS accredited laboratory testing in UKAS accredited laboratory [based in Kilsyth Office] .
Firstly, last academic year Mr Slater was successful in gaining a government grant to refurbish the main chemistry laboratory.
The company operates a state-of-the-art water testing laboratory in Huntingdon.
He is responsible for central services which includes finance, property, police vehicles, supplies and the forensic laboratory.
Our client is looking for a laboratory technician to work full time on a permanent basis in the laboratory technician to work full time on a permanent basis in the laboratory.
However, most laboratory testing is guided by the request which arrives on the laboratory testing is guided by the request which arrives on the laboratory form.
He runs a food microbiology service and the HCA microbiology laboratory.
They were submitted through the pathology laboratory by 1 of the 16 general hospitals in the region.
Investigation will usually start with a report to the hospital blood transfusion laboratory.
Some dogs are sent on a one-way trip to the vivisection laboratory.
Resources include a language laboratory and access to foreign television channels.
Laboratory tests have developed the use of microscopic algae to remove heavy metals from water and soil leachate.
Specimens were tested under constant amplitude loading at room temperature in laboratory air.
The victim of a curse, he became a lycanthrope and was locked away in his cellar laboratory.
Background The laboratory has previously identified a pathway by which infected human macrophages are induced to kill intracellular mycobacteria rapidly.
In fact many drugs are marketed despite causing malformations in laboratory animals.
In the second term you will begin to learn how to manage dental decay using manikins in the laboratory.
The students studied metallurgy, materials or mechanical engineering, and also used the laboratory as a place to study.
During Bond's tour of Q's laboratory, a boom mic is briefly visible at the top of the screen.
This second sample should be sent to the local reference microbiology laboratory for confirmation.
This bulletin describes the final results from Project SABER, and focuses on a laboratory microcosm study.
Natural soils have a different microstructure or structure to soils that are reconstituted in the laboratory.
He is Bert Bycroft, laboratory bench hand, and a former milkman.
Went out there age are infuriated a quinine factory laboratory missteps for.
The Laboratory Group will provide mutual with analytical chemistry and stability services for revenue of more than $ 1.5m per annum.
Other UK accelerators The worldâs leading pulsed neutron and muon source is based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire.
Together they form a record which you would normally find in a laboratory notebook.
This project consists of new laboratory and modeling studies on the transport and behavior of pollutants discharged from coastal outfalls.
Contact details are provided for the main laboratory in Heidelberg and the other outstations.
Before the 1914-18 war he always came to college in a top hat and morning coat and did not wear overalls in the laboratory.
State that catalytic oxidation can be carried out in the Laboratory.
Laboratory work will be complemented by both chamber and modeling studies, to provide improved mechanisms for aromatic oxidation.
Around the edges of the room were the usual paraphernalia of a wizards laboratory.
It involves experiments in the laboratory as well as field work on brood parasites in Australia and America.
Particle physicists are waiting for 2007 when a new particle accelerator opens in the world's largest particle physics laboratory, CERN.
There is much of general interest and utility for any laboratory investigating microbial pathogenesis or vaccine development.
The laboratory method used to detect high blood phenylalanine concentrations is tandem mass spectrometry.
All students following courses in experimental phonetics use the laboratory.
Standard experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology tend to rely on subjects who are highly literate and who speak standard varieties, or similar.
Michael joined Corpus Christi College and Oxford Physics in 2002, and since then has established an ultrafast laser photonics research laboratory.
These include the laboratory processing facility and the transplant physician.
He subsequently undertook a research degree in the Laboratory physiology, studying the cellular physiology of cartilage.
I have used such a tube made from a modern laboratory plastic pipette calibrated in cm and mm.
Here his work involved mixing potions in the laboratory.
This is typically the name of the overlapping gene preceded by the laboratory prefix.
For example, it would be a great social benefit if someone were able to make synthetic quinine in the laboratory.
Selective breeding of the Brown rat has produced the albino laboratory rat.
We should also include experimental reductionism, the use of controlled laboratory studies to gain understanding of similar behaviors in the natural environment.
These and other TSE's can be modeled in laboratory rodents.
This product contains saccharin, which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
The new arrivals would start collecting samples which would be taken back to the laboratory for analysis.
Your doctor may ask you to provide a stool sample which will be sent to a laboratory and tested.
Before performing fetal sampling and requesting these investigations, please contact the platelet immunology laboratory.
In the narrow self-interest of the Computer Laboratory the sooner Plot C is complete the better.
The red cell serology laboratory at IBGRL has a unique collection of over 4000 rare typing sera and 2000 rare red cells.
Caltech have a Virtual Planetary Laboratory aimed at reproducing possible spectral signatures to help the Terrestrial Planet Finder program.
This crude test compared well to analysis of a stained smear of the same blood back in the laboratory.
A small spatula is then wiped across the cervix to obtain a sample of the cells which is then sent to a laboratory.
We have previously investigated the speciation of concentrated Hg in sulfidic solutions at high pH at Daresbury Laboratory station 16.5.
Both rational redesign and directed evolutionary approaches are being used in my laboratory to alter the specificity and chemistry of selected enzymes.
The GP may arrange for sputum specimens to be sent to the laboratory.
The firm also possesses a fine laboratory, a model brewery for experiments, and improved and extensive stabling.
Craig learned that the Dow Metallurgical Laboratory had over the years produced a number of experimental batches of magnesium containing strontium.
The second coursework (50 %) may be based on a formal coursework submission or laboratory based project work.
The instructor guide contains course syllabi, example lecture outlines, case studies and laboratory data.
Although promising in laboratory tests, ulcers occurred in human trials.
Black holes provide theoreticians with an important theoretical laboratory to test ideas.
Cell Culture We have a tissue culture laboratory, which can undertake mammalian cell and tissue culture laboratory, which can undertake mammalian cell and tissue culture.
The electron microscope made this possible by playing the role of a " laboratory totem " for a growing tribe of molecular biologists.
Laboratory findings included acid urine despite alkali therapy and elevated serum transaminase activities.
Walter Kolch's laboratory studies signal transduction, the means by which cells communicate information about their environment to the nucleus.
All the spongiform encephalopathies can be transmitted in the laboratory but only scrapie is known to be naturally transmissible among sheep.
In the relatively unstructured laboratory environment, lecturers were often unaware of my special needs.
A laboratory technician places some of the fluid on a slide and looks for monosodium urate crystals under a microscope.
In recent decades British governments have introduced some of the most stringent controls in the world to safeguard laboratory animal welfare.
However, it would have been impractical to take the laboratory practical workbooks in each week to mark.
Once heparin is started, the laboratory work-up of an abnormal aPTT is difficult.
The second ' clean ' corridor is chemical free and gives access to the laboratory write-up areas, offices and meeting rooms.
In chemical technology, apparatus on the principle of the laboratory air-bath are mainly used.
Besides recitation and residence halls, it has the Lawrence Hall Library (1846), containing (1910) 68,000 volumes, the Thompson Memorial Chapel (1904), the Lasell Gymnasium (1886), an infirmary (1895), the Hopkins Observatory (1837) and the Field Memorial Observatory (1882), the Thompson Chemical Laboratory (1892), the Thompson Biological Laboratory (1893) and the Thompson Physical Laboratory (1893).
The most conspicuous building is the old ducal castle of Hohentubingen, built in1507-1535on a hill overlooking the town, and now containing the university library of 460,000 volumes, the observatory, the chemical laboratory, &c. Among the other chief buildings are the quaint old Stiftskirche (1469-1483), a Gothic building containing the tombs of the rulers of Wurttemberg, the new aula and numerous institutes of the university, all of which are modern, and the town-hall dating from 1435 and restored in 1872.
A liberal contributor to the purposes of scientific research, Mond founded in 1896 the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory in connexion with the Royal Institution.
An important investigation undertaken by the Bacterioscopical Laboratory, with regard to the pollution of the Venetian canals by the city sewage, led to the discovery that the water of the lagoons possesses auto-purifying power, not only in the large canals but even in the smallest ramifications of the waterways.
The Institute of Technology has an exceptional reputation for the wide range of its instruction and its high standards of scholarship. It was a pioneer in introducing as a feature of its original plans laboratory instruction in physics, mechanics and mining.
The initiative of Abbe and Schott, which was greatly aided by the resources for scientific investigation available at the Physikalische Reichsanstalt (Imperial Physical Laboratory), led to such important developments that similar work was undertaken in France by the firm of Mantois, the successors of Feil, and somewhat later by Chance in England.
His first care was to persuade the Darmstadt government to provide a chemical laboratory in which the students might obtain a proper practical training.
See Fleming, Handbook for the Electrical Laboratory, vol.
Invited to Berlin by Frederick William, in 1679 he became director of the laboratory and glass works of Brandenburg, and in 1688 Charles XI.
The standard frequency for laboratory work is c =128, so that middle L' = 256 and treble c"= 512 The standard for musical instruments has varied (see Pitch, Musical).
Since Metchnikoff's introduction (see Longevity) of the use of soured milk for dietetic purposes-the lactic acid bacillus destroying pathogenic bacteria in the intestine-a great impetus has been given to the multiplication of laboratory preparations containing 'cultures of the bacillus; and in recent years much benefit to health has, in certain cases, been derived from the discovery.
In 1860 he went to Heidelberg, where he started a laboratory of his own, but returning to St Petersburg in 1861, he became professor of chemistry in the technological institute there in 1863, and three years later succeeded to the same chair in the university.
And in the following year he was re-elected professor at Oxford and resumed his lectures; but increasing brain excitement, and indignation at the establishment of a laboratory to which vivisection was admitted, led him to resign his Oxford career, and he retired in 1884 to Brantwood, which he never left.
The patients are almost exclusively native Hawaiians, and their number is slowly but steadily decreasing; in 1908 they numbered 791, and there were at Molokai 46 non-leprous helpers and 27 officers and assistants, including the Roman Catholic brothers and sisters in charge of the homes., In 1905 the United States government appropriated $500,000 for a hospital station and laboratory " for the study of the methods of transmission, cause and treatment of leprosy," and $50,000 a year for their maintenance; the station and laboratory to be established when the territorial government should have ceded to the United States a tract of 1 sq.
About this time Buchheim, professor of materia medica in Dorpat from 1846 to 1879, founded the first pharmacological laboratory on modern lines in Europe, and he introduced a more rational classification of drugs than had hitherto been in use, arranging them in groups according to their pharmacological actions.
He never forgot to keep his records of Laura Bridgman in the fashion of one who works in a laboratory.
There are plans to build a purpose-built laboratory adjacent to this room.
In 1944 scientists were able to synthesize the quinine alkaloid in the laboratory.
Selective breeding of the Brown Rat has produced the albino laboratory rat.
The remainder of Saturday afternoon was spent in the laboratory learning about the analysis of sediment cores to reconstruct past climates.
The laboratory 's interests are wide and range from proteins involved in cell signaling and cellular adhesion to redox enzymes involved in drug action.
They say that since evolution cannot be observed or replicated in a laboratory, there is no evidence that it actually occurred.
These and other TSE 's can be modeled in laboratory rodents.
In such cases a laboratory analysis and sensitivity assay is essential.
Now, ANCA testing has become routine in the diagnostic serology laboratory.
Samples are transported back to the laboratory for sieve analysis in this fashion.
The basis of the project is that Plasma Quest Ltd will supply a laboratory scale sputtering system to the University of York.
Please note an emergency request for a sputum sample should be accompanied by a laboratory call out.
They showed that the complex primate behavior observed by Kohler (1925) could be synthesized in the laboratory with pigeons.
The role of the tat gene products in this novel process is also being studied in the laboratory of Dr. Tracy Palmer.
Cell Culture We have a tissue culture laboratory, which can undertake mammalian cell and tissue culture.
In a top-secret military laboratory, scientists are struggling to defeat man 's oldest rival.
Walter Kolch 's laboratory studies signal transduction, the means by which cells communicate information about their environment to the nucleus.
Local policy should include how the transport boxes are returned to the hospital transfusion laboratory in a timely manner.
The ' used ' animals were simply tossed into a trash bin behind the laboratory.
To complicate things, the donor 's udder tissue had been cultured in a laboratory before use.
Laboratory and site testing are being deployed to ensure that the developed simulations accurately replicate the unsteady flow conditions found in practice.
Laboratory data were almost within normal limits and urine cytology was positive.
It is the UK 's fastest growing veterinary virology laboratory in the non-governmental sector.
As discussed in chapter 4, it is not easy to assess the needs of the well-found laboratory for the arts and humanities.
The sprouts were designed in a laboratory and cannot be found in a natural environment.
To further your understanding on financing renewable energy, visit the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and The U.S. Department of Energy.
That being said, some research suggests that laboratory rats have experienced tissue changes in their mammary and prostate glands, which raises red flags for cancer risks.
For more information on the definition of renewable energy, visit the National Renewable Energy Laboratory website.
A study by the Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory found that homes with solar arrays installed will carry a higher resale value when sold.
Tea tree oil inhibits growth of the organism that causes dandruff and scalp dermatitis, Pityrosporum ovale, as well as most fungal and yeast cultures in laboratory studies.
The American Cancer Society agrees that while mangosteen juice has shown to inhibit cancer cell growth in laboratory animals, it has not been tested on humans, and should not be claimed as a cure for cancer.
In laboratory experiments, the form of tannins in pomegranate juice called punicalagins has demonstrated its ability to act as a free radical scavenger and mop up free radicals, thought to be a precursor to cancer.
According to their research summary, acai demonstrates some ability in laboratory studies to scavenge free radicals.
The major findings from acai berry research demonstrate that in laboratory experiments, chemicals and compounds in the acai berry scavenge free radicals.
As additional studies are conducted, the use of milk thistle may be targeted at the cancer cells that cause prostate, cervical, and breast cancers as those are the ones that show the most reaction to milk thistle in laboratory studies.
Middle school science is the first time lessons become "hands on" with very basic laboratory assignments and more interactive group work than ever before.
Some of these tests can provide results at home and don't need to be mailed into a laboratory.
The wide range of bachelor's degrees cover areas like Computer Game Design, Equine Studies, Early Childhood Education, and Laboratory Animal Management.
It is completely formulated in a laboratory, but often package labels bear the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) stamp of approval, meaning that the food has passed the AAFCO feeding trial.
Some synthetics have been shown to cause cancer and other disease in laboratory animals.
One of these requirements is that seeds not be genetically modified in a laboratory, which means that they may contain the DNA of animals, other plants, even bacteria and viruses!
Synthetic vitamins are created in laboratory settings.
A person can be tested for toxic levels of acetaminophen by physical and laboratory tests.
A science classroom or laboratory is an exciting place where students take part in experiments and are often actively engaged in the learning process.
Do not enter a science classroom or laboratory unless there is a teacher or other instructor in the room.
When entering a science classroom or laboratory go directly to your seat.
There are numerous opportunities for those with technical health care abilities, such as a phlebotomy, laboratory and diagnostic, and medication certification.
Accidental infections can occur in laboratory settings through mishandling of infected blood.
A full examination of the neck, palate, throat, mouth, and nose is conducted, and in some cases, patients are referred to a laboratory that conducts sleep studies for further evaluation.
Initial consultations may include a visit with a sleep specialist, a physical exam, a written questionnaire to determine their level of sleepiness as well as laboratory testing.
The laboratory is customized with sleep study rooms designed with the comfortable surroundings of bed and breakfast-type rooms.
Take a look at how to find an eyeglass laboratory and purchase your precision eyewear for less.
An eyeglass laboratory is a location dedicated to the precious manufacturing, fitting, and customization of eyeglasses, and this center may also offer other services like eyeglass repair and eye health counseling.
You may be able to order your lenses direct from an eyeglass laboratory such as this, which will allow you to spend a little bit more on frames if purchased separately.
In 1958, William Higinbotham created a simple tennis game on his oscilloscope at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
In New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory, he programmed Tennis for Two.
A commonly used explanation for his colour and speed is a laboratory experiment (attempting to contain all the evil in the world into 7 harmless Emeralds) which goes wrong.
A laboratory has been burned down, destroying evidence of a new biological weapon someone was creating.
The University of North Texas has established the Laboratory for Recreational Computing for research and education devoted to video and computer gaming.
He worked as a nuclear physicist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory and in 1958, he wanted to create something more interesting for the annual visitor's day.
Normally, the Laboratory tacked up posters or had high school-like science displays.
He made the game to entertain visitors for visitors' day at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Performed in a cardiology outpatient diagnostic laboratory, the test takes 30 minutes to an hour.
Laboratory studies of sputum, blood, urine, and stool can detect abnormalities that may confirm cancer.
These samples are sent to the laboratory for examination.
A physician may take blood and urine samples for further laboratory testing.
Studies show that although 40 percent to 60 percent of adults worldwide have laboratory evidence of a past parvovirus B19 infection, most of these adults cannot remember having had symptoms of fifth disease.
In the determination of cause, it is suggested that laboratory testing be reserved for infants with nonphysiologic jaundice.
Laboratory tests may also be conducted to identify allergens that react with allergy-related substances in the child's blood serum.
Radio-allergosorbent testing (RAST) is a laboratory test performed on those who may be too sensitive to risk exposure to allergens through skin testing or when medications or skin conditions make testing unreliable.
The sample will be centrifuged in the laboratory to separate the antibody-containing serum from the blood cells.
The antigen/antibody complex can be detected in the laboratory by adding specific immunoglobulins that are linked with a radioactive dye.
Laboratory tests for vasculitis include blood and urine tests.
The test is performed by various methods in the clinical laboratory and may also be referred to as viral immunoglobulins testing.
The blood sample is drawn in tiny capillary tubes, properly labeled, and taken to the laboratory for testing.
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is a set of laboratory tests that examine a sample of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
If laboratory analysis confirms that a mole is cancerous, the dermatologist will remove the rest of the mole.
Laboratory testing is available for this form of EDS.
Laboratory testing is recommended for individuals with two or more of the major criteria.
A laboratory test is available in which urinary hydroxylysyl pryridinoline is measured.
Laboratory testing is recommended for infants with three or more of the major diagnostic criteria.
Prenatal testing is available if a pregnancy is known to be at risk and an identified affected family member has had positive laboratory testing.
Infections caused by lack of immunizations can either be detected by conducting physical examination and culturing the specific microorganism in the laboratory.
Although a runny nose and cough are much more likely to accompany a sore throat caused by a virus than one caused by a bacteria, there is no absolute way to tell what is causing the sore throat without a laboratory test.
It is easy for people to tell if they have a sore throat, but difficult to know what has caused it without laboratory tests.
If it appears that the patient may have strep throat, the doctor will do laboratory tests.
A diagnosis of toxoplasmosis is made based on clinical signs and supporting laboratory results, including visualization of the organism in body tissue or isolation in animals.
After staining to make the various blood cells easier to see and distinguish, a laboratory technician views the smear through a light microscope.
Tourette syndrome cannot be diagnosed through laboratory tests.
Sometimes laboratory tests can be helpful, however, in ruling out other possible conditions.
Obtaining fluid from a petechial spot and staining it in the laboratory can assist in quickly seeing the organism.
These organisms can then be grown and identified in the laboratory so that the proper antibiotic can be given to the patient.
In developed countries where laboratory facilities are available, the doctor takes a small sample of cells from the child's conjunctivae and examines it, following a procedure called Giemsa staining, to confirm the diagnosis.
Somatrotropin (hGH) is measured in the clinical laboratory to identify hGH deficiency in adolescents with short stature, delayed sexual maturity, and other growth or development abnormalities.
Normal results may vary from laboratory to laboratory depending upon the method used for measurement, but results are usually within the following ranges.
Although laboratory studies are seldom performed, the physician may order further blood tests or cultures of the lesions in order to confirm the diagnosis and rule out other causes.
If a hormonal imbalance is revealed by laboratory testing, hormone replacements that are more natural for the body (including tri-estrogen and natural progesterone) are recommended.
For suspected secondary hyperhidrosis, laboratory and imaging tests may be performed to determine the underlying medical condition causing the hyperhidrosis.
Now, the only growth hormone used for treatment is that which is made in a laboratory.
Laboratory blood test looks for the virus or to confirm the presence of antibodies that fight the virus.
In children, the definition of FUO is applied when fever has been present for 14 days with no apparent cause, even though physical examinations have been made and laboratory tests performed.
Portions of the biopsy are also sent to the laboratory for culture in an attempt to grow and identify an infectious organism.
Laboratory tests include electromyography (a measurement of the electrical activity of muscle cells) and nerve conduction velocity tests, which measure the speed that nerves transmit impulses.
As of 2004, the A-T diagnosis is usually based on the characteristic clinical findings and supported by laboratory tests that point to a defect of DNA (genes and chromosomes) and to an inability to repair some types of damage to DNA.
Laboratory tests are helpful but not as important as the individual patient's symptoms and signs, family history, and complete neurological evaluation including a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the brain.
The frequency of chromosomal breaks is increased when T-lymphocytes are exposed to x rays in the laboratory, and this sensitivity to ionizing irradiation forms the basis for a specialized A-T diagnostic test.
Under appropriate laboratory conditions, salmonella can be grown and then viewed under a microscope for identification.
This combination of tests performed in the clinical laboratory is called a lipid panel or lipid profile.
Promising new prevention methods and treatments include genetic screening and the cultivation of cardiac tissue in the laboratory that could be used to repair congenital cardiovascular defects.
With the person's permission, substance use can also be detected by examining in a laboratory an individual's blood, urine, or hair.
A throat swab will capture the causative organism in most cases and the culture will allow the specific organism to be grown in the microbiology laboratory under certain conditions.
It is then placed in a sterile tube for immediate delivery to a laboratory.
Laboratory results will be available as soon as bacteria grow in a special plate that has been streaked with the contaminated swab, usually within two to three days.
The microbiology laboratory may use samples of the bacteria grown to perform other tests that will help identify the disease causing organism.
When the throat swab reaches the laboratory, the microbiologist uses it to make streaks directly across a blood agar plate.
Agar-A gel made from red algae that is used to culture certain disease agents in the laboratory.
Whole blood glucose testing can be performed by a person in his or her home, or by a member of the healthcare team outside the laboratory.
Results may vary slightly from one laboratory to another depending upon the method of analysis used.
If the physician suspects a fungal infection of the scalp, a hair sample may be tested by microscopic examination in the laboratory.
An electroencephalogram may be used as a part of an analysis in a sleep laboratory, but this is the exception rather than the rule.
The only sure way to confirm a case of rubella is by isolating the virus with a blood test or in a laboratory culture.
Then the child receives a physical examination, appropriate laboratory tests, including a urine test, and if necessary, radiologic studies (such as x rays).
The diagnosis of lymphadenitis is usually based on a combination of the child's medical history, external symptoms, and laboratory cultures.
If a fracture is open and occurs in conjunction with soft tissue injury, further laboratory studies are often conducted to determine if blood loss has occurred.
Both the production of modified precursor and the rate at which it appears can be measured using laboratory equipment.
Most of the time, laboratory tests for identifying the microorganisms in bite wounds are performed if infection is present.
In order to confirm a diagnosis of enterobacterial infection, physicians usually rely on patient history, physical examination, and laboratory tests.
Empiric means that the doctor treats the patient on the basis of the visible symptoms and professional experience in treating infections, without waiting for laboratory test results.
Comorbid conditions, such as diabetes and high cholesterol, are diagnosed using medical laboratory tests.
Pus taken from the ear or sucked out of the abscess with a needle is sent to a laboratory so that the infecting bacteria can be identified.
There are no laboratory tests that can determine with complete certainty if a child has rheumatic fever.
Some laboratory tests may be used in conjunction with careful examination of the patient to determine if the child has RF.
Because the human mouth contains a variety of bacteria, the doctor may order a laboratory culture in order to choose the most effective antibiotic.
The last three criteria listed below require special laboratory tests.
Also, some vaccines, including those for influenza, measles, and mumps, are grown in the laboratory in fluids of chick embryos, and should not be given to children who are allergic to eggs.
If an anticoagulant medication has been prescribed, it is important to keep all scheduled laboratory appointments so the effectiveness of the medication can be evaluated.
A score above ten (maximum score is 24) generally indicates that the doctor should consider laboratory testing for narcolepsy.
Laboratory tests used to evaluate a person for narcolepsy include an overnight polysomnogram (a test in which sleep is monitored with electrocardiography, a video camera, and respiratory parameters).
Since 1975, however, laboratory studies on human volunteers have yielded information about the different types of sleep.
If the doctor is considering breathing-related sleep disorders, myoclonus, or narcolepsy as possible diagnoses, he or she may ask the patient to be tested in a sleep laboratory or at home with portable instruments.
In some cases the patient is tested in a special sleep laboratory.
If drainage from infection is present, the doctor may have the material cultured in the laboratory to identify the organism causing infection.
Urinary tract infections are diagnosed through laboratory examination of urine samples.
Diagnosis of tetanus is based on presenting symptoms rather than laboratory tests.
As mentioned earlier, there are no laboratory tests to diagnose tics as such.
To ensure accuracy, sweat tests should be analyzed by a laboratory certified by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Diagnosing thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, both of which involve disorders of hemoglobin, will require measuring the different types of hemoglobin through a laboratory testing method called hemoglobin electrophoresis.
Cerebrospinal fluid analysis-A laboratory test, important in diagnosing diseases of the central nervous system, that examines a sample of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
These substances can be made in the laboratory and given to patients to destroy cancer cells, change the way the body reacts to a tumor, or help the body repair or make new cells destroyed by chemotherapy.
In all cases, however, laboratory tests are essential to confirm the exact diagnosis and to allow for the provision of accurate genetic counseling about recurrence risks and testing options for parents and affected individuals.
Hemoglobin electrophoresis-A laboratory test that separates molecules based on their size, shape, or electrical charge.
Karyotyping-A laboratory test used to study an individual's chromosome make-up.
Regular laboratory testing is essential for safe and effective use.
Diagnostic blood tests are performed in the clinical laboratory, including assays of the specific clotting factors, to help detect various coagulation disorders.
Hemophilia A is diagnosed with laboratory tests that can detect the presence of clotting factor VIII, factor IX, and others, as well as the presence or absence of clotting factor inhibitors.
Diagnosis usually requires a number of laboratory tests that measure concentrations of platelets and fibrinogen in the blood along with measuring prothrombin time.
Von Willebrand's disease is diagnosed by ordering laboratory tests that reveal a prolonged bleeding time, absent or reduced levels of factor VIII, and a normal platelet count.
Fetal hemoglobin is one of six types of hemoglobin measured in the clinical laboratory by a method called hemoglobin electrophoresis.
All types of hemoglobin are electrically charged, which enables them to be identified and quantified in the laboratory by hemoglobin electrophoresis techniques.
The blood sample is drawn into tiny capillary tubes, properly labeled, and taken to the laboratory for testing.
A throat culture is performed by wiping a cotton swab across the tonsils and back of the throat and sending the swab to a laboratory for culturing.
The quick tests for strep are not as reliable as a laboratory culture, which can take 24 to 48 hours.
E. coli, another cause of food-borne illness, can be mistaken for Shigella both by physicians and the laboratory.
Culture (growing the bacteria in the laboratory) of freshly obtained diarrhea fluid is the only way to be certain of the diagnosis.
Choice of antibiotic is based on the type of bacteria found in the geographical area and on laboratory results.
These specialists evaluate laboratory medical tests, neurological tests, and psychological tests; interview parents and children; and observe and assess behaviors.
If a hormonal imbalance is revealed by laboratory testing, hormone replacements that are more "natural" for the body (including tri-estrogen and natural progesterone) are recommended.
Piaget's theory, first published in 1952, grew out of decades of extensive observation of children, including his own, in their natural environments as opposed to the laboratory experiments of the behaviorists.
It is clearly underdiagnosed, probably because the symptoms are attributed to another problem, and physicians and laboratory technicians lack knowledge about celiac disease.
A small sample of tissue is taken and sent to the laboratory for analysis.
The sample of amniotic fluid is sent to a laboratory where fetal cells contained in the fluid are isolated and grown in order to provide enough genetic material for testing.
Laboratory tests are not 100% accurate at detecting targeted conditions, nor can every possible fetal condition be tested for.
Named for the golden color of the bacteria grown under laboratory conditions, Staphylococcus aureus is a hardy organism that can survive in extreme temperatures or other inhospitable circumstances.
In some infants with this disorder, laboratory tests are able to show that the antibodies present do not react properly with infectious bacteria.
When immunodeficiency is suspected, levels of the classes of immunoglobulins are measured in blood serum by using a clinical laboratory procedure called electrophoresis.
Factor assays, measurement methods performed by the clinical laboratory, can determine the percentage of factors VIII and IX present compared to normal percentages.
Concentrated factor preparations may be obtained from a single donor, by pooling the donations of as many as thousands of donors, or by laboratory creation through highly advanced genetic techniques.
The diagnosis of inclusion conjunctivitis cannot be made definitively without laboratory testing, but the signs of inclusion conjunctivitis can be seen by the eye care provider, even if a patient is not symptomatic.
The laboratory testing for inclusion conjunctivitis begins with swabbing a sample from the inside of the eyelids to test for the presence of the characteristic inclusion bodies made only by chlamydia.
This sample is then grown in the laboratory to determine which organisms are present.
Laboratory diagnostic tests may include staining sputum samples on a glass slide and looking at the stained specimen under a microscope to determine if white cells, red cells, or bacteria are present.
A small sample of sputum will be streaked on a special plate filled with medium that allows the specific organism to be grown in the laboratory under certain conditions.
Rape and sexual assault are diagnosed by interviewing the patient and parents, physical and gynecological examination, and laboratory tests for the presence of seminal fluid.
Rat-bite fever occurs most often among laboratory workers who handle lab rats in their jobs, and among people who live in poor conditions, with rodent infestation.
Laboratory tests are used to make a definitive diagnosis, but treatment of symptoms may be started immediately without waiting for test results, which may take up to two days.
Culture results are available from the microbiology laboratory as soon as bacteria grow in a special plate incubated at temperatures at or above body temperature.
The microbiology laboratory may use samples of the bacteria grown to perform other special techniques to help identify the causative organism.
Although the definitive diagnosis comes from laboratory tests, it can usually be diagnosed by recognizing the distinctive neurological symptoms typical of contamination with C. botulinum.
For a throat culture a sample of swabbed material is cultured, or grown, in the laboratory on a medium that allows technicians to determine what kind of bacteria are present.
The organisms present in the specimen can then be cultured (allowed to multiply) in a laboratory, and then viewed under a microscope to allow identification of the causative organisms.
Given the unknown cause of this syndrome, there are no laboratory tests that can confirm the diagnosis.
Instead, laboratory tests measuring an increase of IGF-1 (three to ten times above the normal level) are useful.
These results, however, must be carefully interpreted because normal laboratory values for IGF-1 vary when the patient is pregnant, is pubescent, is elderly, or is severely malnourished.
Laboratory testing of urine samples as of the early 2000s can be performed with dipsticks that indicate immune system responses to infection, as well as with microscopic analysis of samples.
Young women who take oral contraceptives should be sure to tell the healthcare professional in charge before they undergo surgical or dental procedures, laboratory tests, or emergency treatment.
Serum immunoglobulin levels are measured in the clinical laboratory by a procedure called electrophoresis.
The doctor will test the child's hearing and order a laboratory culture to identify the organism if the patient has a discharge.
Routine rabies vaccination and booster immunizations are necessary only for those in high-risk professions such as veterinarian medicine and laboratory workers.
Although some laboratory evidence shows that spermicides can kill HIV, researchers have not found that these products can prevent a person from getting HIV.
Laboratory tests are used to determine the exact nature of the immunodeficiency.
Laboratory tests can be used to confirm the diagnosis of hemophilus infections.
Other laboratory findings that are associated with hemophilus infections include anemia (low red blood cell count) and a drop in the number of white blood cells in children with severe infections.
Because some hemophilus infections are potentially fatal, treatment is started without waiting for the results of laboratory tests.
Laboratory values of sodium and potassium, which are present within cells and in the fluid between cells, can change rapidly depending on the individual's overall condition.
Laboratory tests are used to make a definitive diagnosis, but if botulism seems likely, treatment starts immediately without waiting for test results, which may take up to two days.
The microbiology laboratory may use samples of the bacteria grown to perform other special techniques in order to help identify the causative organism.
Laboratory tests look for the presence of botulinum toxin or Clostridia in suspected foods and/or the child's blood serum, feces, or other specimens for traces of botulinum toxin or Clostridia.
In some cases, the doctor may order laboratory tests or imaging studies to determine the presence of drugs or poisonous substances in the person's blood or urine, or evidence of head injuries or abnormalities in the digestive tract.
Physical symptoms are usually all that is necessary for diagnosing dehydration, although laboratory tests may be ordered by the physician.
Laboratory tests, including blood tests (to check electrolyte levels) and urine tests (e.g. urine specific gravity and creatinine), may be used to evaluate the severity of the problem.
Differential diagnosis (distinguishing Lyme disease from other diseases) is based on clinical evaluation with laboratory tests used for clarification when necessary.
Because of the potential for misleading results (false-positive and false-negative), laboratory tests alone cannot establish the diagnosis.
A positive result from the PreVue test is confirmed by a second blood test known as the Western blot, which must be done in a laboratory.
Whether nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs cause birth defects in people is unknown, but some do cause birth defects in laboratory animals.
The most accurate method of diagnosis is to culture (grow on a laboratory plate) the organisms obtained from swabbing mucus out of the nasopharynx (the breathing tube continuous with the nose).
An older inhibited child or teenager, for example, may not cling to his or her mother or cry when coming to an unfamiliar laboratory but may hesitate to talk to the examiner and may smile infrequently.
If fluid or pus is draining from the ear, it can be collected and sent to a laboratory to determine if any specific infectious organisms are present.
Another laboratory test involves growing the diphtheria bacillus on a special material called Loeffler's medium.
The most important step is prompt administration of diphtheria antitoxin, without waiting for laboratory results.
Laboratory tests often show normal results.
Afterward, tiny cells shed by the fetus can be studied in the laboratory; scientists can analyze the samples to determine if the fetus has certain genetic conditions.
The cells are then analyzed in a laboratory for the presence of genetic abnormalities.
Appendicitis is diagnosed by physical examination, laboratory tests, and imaging tests.
Because toxic shock is a medical emergency, treatment is usually begun before laboratory results are available.
Listeria grows well in laboratory media, and test results can be available within a few days.
There are no laboratory tests as of 2004 for detecting the cold virus.
This group includes those in the fields of veterinary medicine, animal control, wildlife work, and laboratory work involving live rabies virus.
There are no laboratory tests that can confirm the diagnosis of AD; in some cases, the doctor may need to examine the child more than once in order to distinguish between atopic and seborrheic dermatitis.
The cells to be studied are prepared in a laboratory.
Usually all newborns (neonates) delivered in the hospital will have total serum bilirubin (TSB) measured in the clinical laboratory on one or more blood samples as requested by attending pediatricians.
This tube is spun down in a special centrifuge in the laboratory to separate serum, the liquid part of blood, from red cells.
Sometimes laboratory tests are performed to rule out other causes for the symptoms (like thyroid disease).
I graduated from university in 2000 - Master of Arts in lifes cience and I have been working as a biologist in a clinical laboratory since then.
She may review medical records and laboratory tests and prepare a report for the legal team explaining in simple, clear language her findings based on clinical experience and analysis.
Job duties common to clinical medical assistant positions include taking medical histories, preparing patients for examinations and collecting specimens for laboratory tests.
There can also be laboratory issues where the cells that are collected fail to grow when they are cultured.
The laboratory will use the blood samples to test for the presence of male DNA.
New porcelain veneers are then created in a laboratory.
The Transforming Alien Rocks are collectable toys that are suitable for play with the Alien Laboratory or alone.
Other forms of phenylalanine include D-phenylalanine, which is synthetic and created in a laboratory, and DL-phenylalanine which is a combination of the natural and synthetic forms.
Vitamins such as those contained in this product are often derived from laboratory chemicals.