laboratoryla‧bor‧a‧tory /ləˈbɒrətri $ ˈlæbrətɔːri/ ●●● W3 noun (plural laboratories) [countable] 
a research laboratorylaboratory tests/experiments/studies tests on laboratory animals → language laboratory
WORD ORIGINlaboratory
Origin:
1600-1700 Medieval Latin laboratorium, from Latin laborare ‘to work’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a research laboratory
- The facility uses animals in laboratory tests for some of its drugs.
- Alternatively, you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis.
- Even better, the group has many species, some of which will cross in the laboratory.
- However, this study has been criticized on both clinical and laboratory grounds.
- Months of testing still lie ahead, with work being done at laboratories across the country.
- The new building will house its manufacturing, research, laboratory, sales, marketing and administration departments.
- The patients also are examined, and undergo laboratory tests, based on their complaints.
- The university patent counsel had heard about it and thought it would make lots of money in clinical laboratories.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a research laboratoryCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a special room or building in which a scientist does tests or prepares substances: a research laboratory (=one that takes place in a laboratory)· They did a series of laboratory experiments on human sleep patterns in the 1960s.
· Independent laboratory tests have confirmed that the product works very successfully.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Quantitative microbial analysis of bone collected during implant surgery: a clinical and laboratory study.· The university patent counsel had heard about it and thought it would make lots of money in clinical laboratories.· After the discovery was published, at least 12 laboratories independently found direct clinical or laboratory evidence to support the result.· Agar gel and cellulose acetate are the more commonly used media in the routine clinical laboratory. 189.· A study is under way that includes a large number of patients and their specific clinical and laboratory findings.· However, this study has been criticized on both clinical and laboratory grounds.· The clinical indices and laboratory measurements were made within one week of having the bowel scan.· The scan score correlates well with widely used clinical and laboratory markers of disease activity.
· The forensic laboratory has a good deal of work to do on his clothes, and the contents of his pockets.· They found the jacket had been bleached - forensic laboratories could find no trace of blood.· Horton, from the forensic laboratory, had arrived.· The team from the Fulham forensic laboratories.
· It recommends new laboratories to study the possibilities of long-term storage.· Just think, you could equip a whole new physics laboratory.· The group's activities are located in new purpose built laboratories.· A further £8.5m is being spent on new mortuary and laboratory services and an extension to the School of Dentistry.· It is hoped that the Lancaster workshop will make use of a new statistical laboratory equipped with Whitechapel workstations.· A new international laboratory might be set up elsewhere to pursue related physics with different machines.· In 1901 he left Firths to start a new laboratory for Kayser Ellison & Co.
· Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis.· Automatic and direct reporting from physicians' offices, hospitals, and private and public laboratories.· Establish a public health laboratory fellowship in infectious diseases.
NOUN· Finally, in parentheses is the laboratory analysis number.· Accordingly, I require you to provide an alternative specimen, which will be submitted for laboratory analysis.· Departmental facilities are excellent in the fields of computing, remote sensing and laboratory analysis.· You'd hardly expect it to rely on a laboratory analysis of the ingredients to assess the flavour.
· Studies include analysis of the genetics of growth using laboratory animals and of quantitative production traits in livestock.· They conduct studies with laboratory animals or human volunteers to test their theories or treatments for fatness.· Then he went over to his cages of white doves, black cockerels and other laboratory animals.· To be sent callously, unwittingly to their deaths like laboratory animals.· This result accords with earlier preliminary findings in man and in laboratory animals.
· The processes themselves A major complication, however, is that the environment can rarely be treated as in a laboratory experiment.· Conventional psychology's principal methodological demand is for the kind of objectivity promised by the laboratory experiment.· We revealed that monkeys from Longleat and Woburn safari parks have been sold for laboratory experiments.· This section looks briefly at some of the basic ideas and illustrates them with the results of some laboratory experiments.· The laboratory experiment is an obvious case of control, since a complete situation is created by and for the observer.· It has to incorporate a wide range of factors and develop methods of investigation other than laboratory experiments.· Studies of turbulent flows centre on laboratory experiments.· The use of these routes can be demonstrated in simple laboratory experiments which measure the time taken to start pronouncing single words.
· In addition to personnel resources, reference laboratory facilities and services are critical to the effective management of emerging infectious disease threats.· The department has well-equipped laboratory facilities and houses the most advanced parallel computers as well as conducting research at national and international institutions.· Other laboratory facilities are being built.
· He has some electronic equipment originally intended for the language laboratory, which enhances the sound quality.· There is also an audiovisual language laboratory and facilities for receiving and recording satellite transmissions and for videoconferencing.· There are also extensive entries on classroom practice, teaching methods, the language laboratory and the psychology of learning.· It is well equipped with modern teaching aids including video, portable language laboratory sets, etc.· In the Faculty of Humanities, the use of language laboratories and other teaching aids is increasingly important.· The most recent approaches have been language laboratories and computer-based instruction.· A variety of dialogues, drills and exercises are provided for use in the language laboratory, in class or at home.
· The Ministry of Defence is to go ahead with the partial privatisation of its defence research laboratories.· That sort of thing is annoying, but the main product of a research laboratory is ideas.· We are really a basic research laboratory in a clinical department.· A panel of 10 scientists drawn form universities and private research laboratories will advise Bienenstock.· The utilization of consumer electronics-related ReD results, from government research laboratories, is one of the highest in the country.· He had spent most of it indoors in the research laboratories where three offices were being cleared out, stripped and redecorated.· But his research laboratory colleague Tom Hedman can-thanks to generous people who donate their bodies to science.
· Projects are offered in a wide range of science laboratories in the university and medical school.· They conduct flight pattern experiments with paper airplanes in science laboratories with the rest of the student body.· Supplies of liquid helium are an absolute necessity in many modern science laboratories.· They took on extra duties such as building a science laboratory, writing a textbook, or constructing a windmill.
· These laboratory studies have none the less provided some evidence of relationships between risk and sensitivity.· In some instances an interview with a nutritionist will be desirable in addition to or in lieu of laboratory studies.· Quantitative microbial analysis of bone collected during implant surgery: a clinical and laboratory study.· He never strays far from elegant applications of the theory to field and laboratory studies, many of them his own.· On the basis of these laboratory studies, meteorites have been divided into three main classes.· Another potentially useful system for laboratory study could well be the various steps in prostaglandin synthesis.· Coal Board contractors removed overlying rock and Stan and his co-workers systematically excavated 10 tonnes of bone bed for closer laboratory study.
· The inquest heard the laboratory technician suffered from depression and alcoholism.· She has also lost a laboratory technician, an electrician and two hospital attendants in the past year.· The laboratory technician is now the school technician.· His victim was Hikurangi laboratory technician Bernie Hately.· He inspired the creation of Oxford's earliest ancillary scientific post, becoming in effect the first professional laboratory technician.
· The first, a clinical suspect in whom no laboratory tests were done, was reported after he died on Dec 20.· We shared the results of every medical exam and laboratory test with them and with their physicians.· Correlation between the scan score and laboratory tests varied with disease location.· But no laboratory test is foolproof.· No clinic patient received any examination or laboratory test specific for erectile dysfunction or its causes.· No laboratory test or pathological finding can make an absolutely certain diagnosis of sarcoidosis.· Likewise, no chart recorded either a blood lipid profile or any laboratory test relevant to diabetes.· The patients also are examined, and undergo laboratory tests, based on their complaints.
· In laboratory work one may find that the desired values of the non-dimensional parameters are not actually achievable.· The lecture programme extends from October to April and consists of lecture courses, tutorials and laboratory work totalling approximately 260 hours.· As with Denplan, you get preventative and private treatment but have to pay for orthodontic and laboratory work.· They are more difficult to adapt to the small scale of laboratory work, but are sometimes effective.· Students can expect to spend a substantial part of their courses doing practical laboratory work.· We were preparing television programmes on laboratory work when most teachers counted themselves lucky if there was any chalk available.· The lectures and tutorials are complemented by extensive laboratory work and in the final year each student undertakes a supervised research project.· The commission will want tougher safeguards on laboratory work.
VERB· Only a small amount of new technology is needed, and that seems well based on existing laboratory experience.
· Clues for an explanation for this discrepancy may be provided by some laboratory studies.· This vast cultivation and re-design of the body provides an unprecedented laboratory for exploring the limits of human possibility.
· Most staff return to the area office in mid-afternoon with samples to be sent off to the laboratory.· Teachers called in police, who confiscated the vials and sent them to state laboratories for analysis.· If the blood glucose is above 20 mmol/l a sample should be sent to the laboratory for a definitive result.· I had sent kidneys to the laboratory for lead estimation with negative result; like their owner, I was flummoxed.· A sputum specimen was obtained and sent to the laboratory for analysis.· At intervals these plates would be sent to central laboratories to be tested.
· This medium is the one which has been used in many laboratory experiments on this plant.· Studies include analysis of the genetics of growth using laboratory animals and of quantitative production traits in livestock.· We use them around the laboratory.· Here the Doctor uses the on-board laboratory to make a non-functioning facsimile of the Tarranium Core.· It is used by the laboratories of Boots and Glaxo, and in the intensive care units of Bupa hospitals.· Results and Discussion Two basic approaches can be followed when using long-term laboratory heating experiments to investigate the generating potential of coals.· Robotic aids which perform like this are now being developed and are already being used under laboratory conditions in Bristol.
a research laboratorylaboratory tests/experiments/studies tests on laboratory animals → language laboratory