swabbing
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3.6
- noun
- /ˈswɑːbɪŋ/
- Specialized
:
toma de muestras
- Now these at home test kits, you're only collecting the sample at home in the swab up your nose, right?
Once it's dried, you know, we're going to take a swab of some sort.
- Once it's dried, you know, we're going to take a swab of some sort.
- Now let's get to cheek swabbing, shall we?
- Wait, am IA Republican, do they have a nasal swab test for that now?
- And they all had that, but their swab was negative.
- So she did take a look at me and did a viral swab.
- Yeah, no, they just stick this a really long swab down, up your nose until your throat until your dreams hurt.
- So removing cells from a substrate, it might be a wall, it might be a vaginal swab, it might be something else.
- You, it's a nose swab that go in your sinus, which was a whole weird phenomenon by itself.
Examples
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Now let's get to cheek swabbing, shall we?
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Ellie's ear infection was obvious to treat: swabbing and a dose of penicillin.
Fiction book (1999) -
How should scientists protect the autonomy of research subjects whose blood is drawn, cheek swabbed, and brain scanned?
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Pap smears also done during routine pelvic exams in women where a swab is used to remove some cells from the cervical region.
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The nurse explained the swabbing procedure for the throat sample to the patient.
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For the COVID-19 test, the swabbing involved taking a sample from my nasal passages.
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Proper swabbing is essential for obtaining accurate results in laboratory tests.
How Invasive
- Specialized
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4.9
- Specialized
1
3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Swabbing comes from swab, a small cloth or cotton used to 'wipe' or collect material, and doctors long used tiny swabs to take samples from the nose or throat. So in medicine swabbing means taking a sample from the body with a small piece of cotton on a stick.