How to Use laboratory test in a Sentence

laboratory test

noun
  • The carousel then rotates, presenting the tube—which is about the same shape and size as a laboratory test tube—to the 7-foot-long arm that’ll actually do the drilling.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Last week, a laboratory test confirmed that the bat, which was caught near the 2800 block of Beasley Drive in south Garland, was carrying the rabies virus.
    Patrick Strickland, Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Much of the problem has been blamed on issues with how samples for the main laboratory tests are collected.
    Matthew Herper, STAT, 16 Apr. 2020
  • In addition, younger people may be more used to laboratory tests or feel less stressed in this setting.
    Nicola Ballhausen, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Most laboratory tests for the coronavirus take anywhere from a few hours to days to receive results.
    Arman Azad, CNN, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Probable cases are those who have symptoms of the disease but have not yet had a laboratory test to confirm it.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 11 Aug. 2019
  • The pollutants are measured in laboratory tests that simulate how the engines would be used in the real world.
    Jo Craven McGinty, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • That's mostly due to the cost of laboratory tests and medical visits.
    Michael Scaturro | Kff Health News, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Fears of blue light have been stoked by laboratory tests that have shown that blue light at high levels — higher than that emitted by screens — can damage human cells.
    Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2020
  • But if the compounds are bound, and therefore nonvolatile, neither a laboratory test nor a human nose will detect it.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
  • After six months, laboratory tests confirmed there was no detectable E. coli in his prostate.
    Popular Science, 12 Oct. 2023
  • At the height of her fame, the Stanford dropout claimed to have invented groundbreaking new technology that could run the full range of laboratory tests on just a drop or two of blood pricked from a finger.
    John Carreyrou, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • In laboratory tests, it has been shown to block the coronavirus from invading cells, although it hasn’t been proven in human trials.
    Katie Thomas, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Indeed, Fisher has begun to bring together a team to do laboratory tests to answer this question once and for all.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2016
  • BioNTech and Pfizer said three shots of its vaccine were able to neutralize omicron in a laboratory test.
    NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
  • In one of the studies in epilepsy, about 10 percent of patients taking CBD had an increase in laboratory tests of liver function.
    Timothy Welty, Philly.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Each is being given a rapid test that returns results in 15 minutes, as well as a more accurate laboratory test with a one- to two-day turnaround time.
    Rachel Herzog, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Like many laboratory tests, the parameters of this study didn’t exactly match the real world.
    Sara Harrison, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Much of the coffee sold nationally as Kona fails a laboratory test for what the growers say are the telltale chemical signatures of the real stuff.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2019
  • The victim was a long-term cocaine user and laboratory tests had found drugs, including cocaine, in his system.
    Lauren Gill, ProPublica, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Drug trafficking charges are pending laboratory test results for a passenger, a 35-year-old Cleveland man, who was released on the scene.
    cleveland, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Of the 39 cases of Ebola reported since April 5, two have been confirmed using laboratory tests.
    Meera Senthilingam, CNN, 14 May 2018
  • While many of us would prefer not to give it much thought, monkeys are often used in laboratory tests during the development of key medical products such as the Covid-19 vaccines.
    David Wainer, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
  • It’s actually a laboratory test, but the company works fast to deliver results on the spot.
    Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • And since your aren’t Facebook, you are left with sharing laboratory test results to offer assurance that neither of you are infected.
    Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 14 May 2022
  • Once the public health emergency ends, Covid-19 tests – both home tests and laboratory tests – will be subject to cost sharing, in which costs of services are divided between the patient and their insurance plan.
    Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 1 May 2023
  • In a proof-of-concept laboratory test, the scientists dipped small pieces of electrified steel into seawater spiked with nickel.
    Michael Allen, Smithsonian, 5 May 2017
  • And indeed the company claimed to have achieved a lot, which was to have pioneered groundbreaking new science, whereby the company had this device that could run the full range of laboratory tests off just a drop or two pricked from a finger.
    Fox News, 28 May 2018
  • Their routine office visits fell by 6%, imaging by 14% and laboratory tests by 9% relative to controls.
    Barbara Mantel, NBC News, 6 Nov. 2023
  • For now at least, terahertz medical devices will be useful only for surface imaging of things like skin cancer and tooth decay and laboratory tests on thin tissue samples.
    IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2024

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