noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a laboratory experiment (= one that takes place in a laboratory )
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They did a series of laboratory experiments on human sleep patterns in the 1960s.
laboratory tests
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Independent laboratory tests have confirmed that the product works very successfully.
language laboratory
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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clinical
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Quantitative microbial analysis of bone collected during implant surgery: a clinical and laboratory study.
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The university patent counsel had heard about it and thought it would make lots of money in clinical laboratories .
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After the discovery was published, at least 12 laboratories independently found direct clinical or laboratory evidence to support the result.
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Agar gel and cellulose acetate are the more commonly used media in the routine clinical laboratory . 189.
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A study is under way that includes a large number of patients and their specific clinical and laboratory findings.
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However, this study has been criticized on both clinical and laboratory grounds.
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The clinical indices and laboratory measurements were made within one week of having the bowel scan.
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The scan score correlates well with widely used clinical and laboratory markers of disease activity.
forensic
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The forensic laboratory has a good deal of work to do on his clothes, and the contents of his pockets.
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They found the jacket had been bleached - forensic laboratories could find no trace of blood.
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Horton, from the forensic laboratory , had arrived.
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The team from the Fulham forensic laboratories .
new
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It recommends new laboratories to study the possibilities of long-term storage.
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Just think, you could equip a whole new physics laboratory .
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The group's activities are located in new purpose built laboratories .
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A further £8.5m is being spent on new mortuary and laboratory services and an extension to the School of Dentistry.
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It is hoped that the Lancaster workshop will make use of a new statistical laboratory equipped with Whitechapel workstations.
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A new international laboratory might be set up elsewhere to pursue related physics with different machines.
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In 1901 he left Firths to start a new laboratory for Kayser Ellison &038; Co.
public
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Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis.
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Automatic and direct reporting from physicians' offices, hospitals, and private and public laboratories .
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Establish a public health laboratory fellowship in infectious diseases.
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analysis
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Finally, in parentheses is the laboratory analysis number.
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Accordingly, I require you to provide an alternative specimen, which will be submitted for laboratory analysis .
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Departmental facilities are excellent in the fields of computing, remote sensing and laboratory analysis .
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You'd hardly expect it to rely on a laboratory analysis of the ingredients to assess the flavour.
animal
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Studies include analysis of the genetics of growth using laboratory animals and of quantitative production traits in livestock.
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They conduct studies with laboratory animals or human volunteers to test their theories or treatments for fatness.
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Then he went over to his cages of white doves, black cockerels and other laboratory animals .
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To be sent callously, unwittingly to their deaths like laboratory animals .
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This result accords with earlier preliminary findings in man and in laboratory animals .
experiment
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The processes themselves A major complication, however, is that the environment can rarely be treated as in a laboratory experiment .
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Conventional psychology's principal methodological demand is for the kind of objectivity promised by the laboratory experiment .
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We revealed that monkeys from Longleat and Woburn safari parks have been sold for laboratory experiments .
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This section looks briefly at some of the basic ideas and illustrates them with the results of some laboratory experiments .
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The laboratory experiment is an obvious case of control, since a complete situation is created by and for the observer.
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It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments .
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Studies of turbulent flows centre on laboratory experiments .
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The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
facility
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In addition to personnel resources, reference laboratory facilities and services are critical to the effective management of emerging infectious disease threats.
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The department has well-equipped laboratory facilities and houses the most advanced parallel computers as well as conducting research at national and international institutions.
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Other laboratory facilities are being built.
language
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He has some electronic equipment originally intended for the language laboratory , which enhances the sound quality.
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There is also an audiovisual language laboratory and facilities for receiving and recording satellite transmissions and for videoconferencing.
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There are also extensive entries on classroom practice, teaching methods, the language laboratory and the psychology of learning.
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It is well equipped with modern teaching aids including video, portable language laboratory sets, etc.
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In the Faculty of Humanities, the use of language laboratories and other teaching aids is increasingly important.
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The most recent approaches have been language laboratories and computer-based instruction.
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A variety of dialogues, drills and exercises are provided for use in the language laboratory , in class or at home.
research
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The Ministry of Defence is to go ahead with the partial privatisation of its defence research laboratories .
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That sort of thing is annoying, but the main product of a research laboratory is ideas.
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We are really a basic research laboratory in a clinical department.
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A panel of 10 scientists drawn form universities and private research laboratories will advise Bienenstock.
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The utilization of consumer electronics-related ReD results, from government research laboratories , is one of the highest in the country.
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He had spent most of it indoors in the research laboratories where three offices were being cleared out, stripped and redecorated.
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But his research laboratory colleague Tom Hedman can-thanks to generous people who donate their bodies to science.
science
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Projects are offered in a wide range of science laboratories in the university and medical school.
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They conduct flight pattern experiments with paper airplanes in science laboratories with the rest of the student body.
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Supplies of liquid helium are an absolute necessity in many modern science laboratories .
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They took on extra duties such as building a science laboratory , writing a textbook, or constructing a windmill.
study
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These laboratory studies have none the less provided some evidence of relationships between risk and sensitivity.
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In some instances an interview with a nutritionist will be desirable in addition to or in lieu of laboratory studies .
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Quantitative microbial analysis of bone collected during implant surgery: a clinical and laboratory study .
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He never strays far from elegant applications of the theory to field and laboratory studies , many of them his own.
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On the basis of these laboratory studies , meteorites have been divided into three main classes.
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Another potentially useful system for laboratory study could well be the various steps in prostaglandin synthesis.
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Coal Board contractors removed overlying rock and Stan and his co-workers systematically excavated 10 tonnes of bone bed for closer laboratory study .
technician
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The inquest heard the laboratory technician suffered from depression and alcoholism.
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She has also lost a laboratory technician , an electrician and two hospital attendants in the past year.
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The laboratory technician is now the school technician.
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His victim was Hikurangi laboratory technician Bernie Hately.
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He inspired the creation of Oxford's earliest ancillary scientific post, becoming in effect the first professional laboratory technician .
test
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The first, a clinical suspect in whom no laboratory tests were done, was reported after he died on Dec 20.
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We shared the results of every medical exam and laboratory test with them and with their physicians.
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Correlation between the scan score and laboratory tests varied with disease location.
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But no laboratory test is foolproof.
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No clinic patient received any examination or laboratory test specific for erectile dysfunction or its causes.
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No laboratory test or pathological finding can make an absolutely certain diagnosis of sarcoidosis.
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Likewise, no chart recorded either a blood lipid profile or any laboratory test relevant to diabetes.
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The patients also are examined, and undergo laboratory tests , based on their complaints.
work
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In laboratory work one may find that the desired values of the non-dimensional parameters are not actually achievable.
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The lecture programme extends from October to April and consists of lecture courses, tutorials and laboratory work totalling approximately 260 hours.
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As with Denplan, you get preventative and private treatment but have to pay for orthodontic and laboratory work .
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They are more difficult to adapt to the small scale of laboratory work , but are sometimes effective.
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Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work .
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We were preparing television programmes on laboratory work when most teachers counted themselves lucky if there was any chalk available.
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The lectures and tutorials are complemented by extensive laboratory work and in the final year each student undertakes a supervised research project.
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The commission will want tougher safeguards on laboratory work .
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based
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Only a small amount of new technology is needed, and that seems well based on existing laboratory experience.
provide
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Clues for an explanation for this discrepancy may be provided by some laboratory studies.
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This vast cultivation and re-design of the body provides an unprecedented laboratory for exploring the limits of human possibility.
send
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Most staff return to the area office in mid-afternoon with samples to be sent off to the laboratory .
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Teachers called in police, who confiscated the vials and sent them to state laboratories for analysis.
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If the blood glucose is above 20 mmol/l a sample should be sent to the laboratory for a definitive result.
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I had sent kidneys to the laboratory for lead estimation with negative result; like their owner, I was flummoxed.
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A sputum specimen was obtained and sent to the laboratory for analysis.
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At intervals these plates would be sent to central laboratories to be tested.
use
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This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant.
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Studies include analysis of the genetics of growth using laboratory animals and of quantitative production traits in livestock.
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We use them around the laboratory .
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Here the Doctor uses the on-board laboratory to make a non-functioning facsimile of the Tarranium Core.
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It is used by the laboratories of Boots and Glaxo, and in the intensive care units of Bupa hospitals.
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Results and Discussion Two basic approaches can be followed when using long-term laboratory heating experiments to investigate the generating potential of coals.
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Robotic aids which perform like this are now being developed and are already being used under laboratory conditions in Bristol.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a research laboratory
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The facility uses animals in laboratory tests for some of its drugs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alternatively, you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis.
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Even better, the group has many species, some of which will cross in the laboratory .
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However, this study has been criticized on both clinical and laboratory grounds.
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Months of testing still lie ahead, with work being done at laboratories across the country.
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The new building will house its manufacturing, research, laboratory , sales, marketing and administration departments.
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The patients also are examined, and undergo laboratory tests, based on their complaints.
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The university patent counsel had heard about it and thought it would make lots of money in clinical laboratories.