Word Finder - swabs

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A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.

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A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).

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A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.

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A mop, especially on a ship.

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A sailor; a swabby.

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A naval officer's epaulet.

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To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.

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swab the deck of a ship

Finally, a short blast of canned air to remove any vestiges of cotton lint from the swabs.

Culture of throat and arm swabs from the donors of this unit did not isolate any group B streptococcus.

And I do want to make the point, there will be people who have negative nasal swabs who will still be treated.

Technicians ' information Assuming 15 working groups Preparation consists of preparing sufficient nutrient agar plates and sterile swabs.

Alternatively, for very young or old donors, cheek swabs can be used.

Many baby showers include a frugal game where guests are asked to predict the quantity of an item, such as cotton balls, cotton swabs, or pink and blue jelly beans, stuffed into a clear jar.

Use cotton swabs to reach farther into the ear canal, but take care not to go too far.

Opinions vary on how often you may need to break out the cotton balls and swabs for cat ear cleaning.

The line features simple items such as cotton swabs, sponges and powder puffs as well as more professional tools such as sharpeners, eyelash curlers and refillable makeup containers.

Cotton Swabs and Alcohol are used for cleaning a dog's ear canals.

Using these pads is also safer for your pet's ears than cotton swabs.

This is because BlackBerry has somewhat become a genericized trademark, much like how some people refer to all cotton swabs as Q-Tips and all facial tissue as Kleenex.

Nasal swabs can be taken in order to identify the causative viral agent, although viral culture takes long enough that the patient is usually on the way to recovery by the time the viral agent has been identified.

This process may involve performing a culture on contaminated material from the suspect food, a stool sample, or swabs of the nose or throat of the affected individual if inhaled spores are a possibility.

Other conditions predisposing to otitis externa include the use of cotton swabs to clean the ear canals.

Parents should teach children not to use cotton swabs or other objects to remove wax from the ear, and should advise older children and adolescents against experimenting with ear candling.

Depending on the STD in question, additional tests may be performed such as blood work, Papanicolaou (pap) smear, rectal swabs, or biopsy.

In the kit, you'll find swabs, which you will use to swipe the inside of your cheek.

You'll place the swabs in a special sterile packet and mail them back to the service provider.