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VIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle)
Synonyms:
ampoule; ampul; ampule; phial; vial
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("vial" is a kind of...):
bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)
Context examples:
The film upon which the cells are transferred is incorporated into the cap of a vial so that, when the transfer is done under a routine microscopic visualization, the microdissected material can immediately be put into a vial for processing.
(Laser Capture Microdissection, NCI Thesaurus)
I took these vehicles and soon emptied them all; twenty of them were filled with meat, and ten with liquor; each of the former afforded me two or three good mouthfuls; and I emptied the liquor of ten vessels, which was contained in earthen vials, into one vehicle, drinking it off at a draught; and so I did with the rest.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They are formed into small globular masses of various sizes, and are medicated by placing them in a vial and adding the liquid drug attenuation in the proportion not less than one percent (v/w).
(Globule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
We investigated, and the lab said the blood vial was never refrigerated as it should have been and that they had a tiny disclaimer at the bottom of the report (that neither my doctor nor I had noticed) saying that the results might not be accurate.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The researchers varied the percentage of shared components among the vials from no overlap to more than 90% overlap.
(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)
The system is integrated into a pathologist's microscope so that the cells are microdissected, transferred to the cap, and then rotated into a vial by a rotating arm in a hands-off operation. (from Cancer Genome Anatomy Project (CGAP) Update)
(Laser Capture Microdissection, NCI Thesaurus)
Participants were given sets of 3 vials.
(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)
Two of the vials contained the same mixture, while the third contained a different one.
(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)
Participants sniffed the contents, identified the vial with the different odor, and then scanned that vial’s bar code.
(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)
The researchers placed 10, 20, or 30 odor components in equal ratios into vials labeled with bar codes.
(Humans Can Identify More Than 1 Trillion Smells, NIH, US)
