Sentences with phrase «of needle sticks»

Glucoses can be monitored at home without the stress of transport to the veterinarian's office or the stress of needle sticks.

What's it like to have a bunch of needles stuck in you?

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«It's almost never the case that someone's walking out of a break room with a needle stuck in his or her arm.

On the other hand, you could get a fentanyl - intensive pinch — in which case you will be found dead soon thereafter with the needle still sticking out of your arm.

This knowledge gives one a responsibility to respect these areas and to resist the temptation to «stick the needle in where it hurts most» in moments of anger.

A California walking stick insect that has evolved to produce individuals with two distinct appearances — an all - green form that camouflages well with broader leaves and a form with a white stripe running down its back that blends better with needle - like leaves — can markedly affect its broader ecological community when the appearance of the bug is mismatched with the plant it's living on.

There's this element of listening to records that's different from any other way you listen to music: The needle can get stuck, get dusty and start making that skipping noise.

I didn't really mind, I was too busy trying not to pass out at the sight of a disgusting needle sticking into my vein.

the thought of the procedure — which involves sticking a large needle into the fluid around your spinal cord — can be a little intimidating.

There were so many more needle sticks from blood sugar checks due to the large amount of insulin we required.

May God have mercy on the soul of the medical professional who suggests I have a needle stuck unnecessarily into my newborn rather than give him a bottle, because I sure as hell won't.

But in the spirit of Tower Hamlets Labour, they might well reply: «I'd rather stick hot needles in my eyes.»

A magnetic wire is inserted into the heart through the groin vein, and matched to another wire from the outside of the heart, inserted from a needle stick into the chest wall.

In speech it's very difficult to get at a lot of things that we want to understand, because humans aren't willing to have needles and probes stuck through their vocal tracts.

«The ability to detect infection using urine rather than blood avoids needle stick and blood sample collection, greatly reduces the cost and necessary clinical infrastructure for screening and diagnosis, helping to promote widespread adoption of the test on a global scale,» Hu said.

«Maybe at the one - cell or two - cell stage,» Eggan and his colleagues reasoned, «there's still some of that stuff in there...» And if they picked the right moment of cell division, when these powerful reprogramming factors were still floating around in the periphery of the cell, they might be able to use drugs to temporarily freeze the cell in the middle of division, stick in the needle of a micromanipulator to suck out the embryonic DNA, squirt in DNA from an adult animal, and then kick - start the process of reprogramming — hours, perhaps even days after an egg had been fertilized.

If proven effective in humans, the engineers say, it could mean only two or three needle sticks to the eye per year instead of the monthly injections that are the current standard of care.

The microscopic, needle - like fibers of asbestos penetrate the lungs and get stuck in the surrounding mesothelial tissues, causing inflammation, scarring and, eventually, cancer.

She flips pages of books and breaks into tears upon seeing Wang — a sign that she «remembers me as the evil doc» who sticks her with needles, he says.

You could in theory stick your finger in there and then rip out the seed, but if you do that you get all these needles into your fingers, this is actually what the birds do because birds of course have Keratinous beaks, so they don't have to worry about those things.

And so diaries, as well as sticking needles in your eyes, are investigating yourself so that you may be able to have any sense of what you might be able to say about the nature of their integrated practices.

A paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examined the effects of the experimental Ebola vaccine VSVΔG - ZEBOV, given to a health - care worker who experienced a needle stick while treating patients in Sierra Leone.

Newborn babies who spend time in the intensive care unit (ICU) undergo an average of 141 painful or stressful procedures during their stay, including suctioning of the nose and throat, heel sticks, and needle jabs, according to a new study.

At the continued urging of the nurse, I opted for the epidural, and after the teeth - grinding experience of having a long needle stuck in my spine, felt much better.

Ben: Yeah, but it turns out that for any of these tests like cholesterol or thyroid hormones or anything else like that you're gonna wonder in your local lab and actually have them stick a needle into your vein...

In the United States a heel stick test (using a needle prick on the baby's heel for a small blood sample) is done at the ripe old age of 3 days old to test for Phenylketonuria (PKU) and other disorders.

Those darm patches are so thick (and the iron - on glue on the back of them never stick well) that once I'd finally get the needle Continue reading...

I have no skillz with a needle & thread so I just stick to spending crazy amounts of cash on shirts!

Dr. Caldwell is desperate to stick a needle into George's fuzzy arm and rid him of the vicious serum.

Still, he's found with a needle still sticking in his arm and an bag of H. near - by.

Many of these needle drop moments were instantly iconic, such as the «Stuck in the Middle with You» torture scene in Dogs and the getting - ready - for - a-party confusion of heroin for cocaine scene from Fiction set to «Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon ``.

Pattinson's Connie Nikas might be the filthiest of the lot — a deeply troubled, dangerously impetuous blue - collar criminal who appears to have snapped the needle off his moral compass and stuck it into his arm.

@user14218 Seriously though, wear gloves and maybe a dust mask, when you drop that thing it may be full of 16 years of leaves, sticks, mice... «stuff», pine needles, dirt, fungus, hair... in various stages of decomposition.

If the bulb socket seems to be stuck in the housing, use a pair of needle nose pliers to gently turn it in the counterclockwise direction.

You may need a pair of needle nose pliers if the socket is stuck.

Almost immediately, the voices of elders he used to know came back to him — spruce needles stick out sharper on the north side of trees; shallow sandbars make the ice buckle — hints about how to find yourself, when the world changed around you.

One of the reasons could be that you just don't like to get stuck with a needle in the arm to draw blood and you would rather not pee in a bottle to give a urine specimen.

Of course, your cat isn't getting up in the morning asking to be stuck with a needle.

Uncap the needle and boldly stick it through the skin right in the center of the triangle.

The cat has many shortness of breath we just found her outside with pine needles stuck in her tail and she was all dirty and we took her in and cared for her we technically saved her.

The slicker brush has a compacted area of many thin needles all sticking up into the air.

For the next few weeks, not sure how long, we will be continuing most of the medications an sticking him with a needle every day to administer subcutaneous fluids.

Aim your needle for the center of this triangle and stick in the needle.

Your vet may stick a needle into the breast tissue and withdraw some of the tumor cells, or he may do a more invasive biopsy, involving actual surgery to remove the lump for pathological analysis.

About 2 months ago, I noticed on my male 3 yr old Siberian husky his left eye pupil was very dialated, two days later it started to bulge and cloud over, I rushed him to the vet, they checked the eye and prescribed ointment, it took care of the cloudiness, but did nothing for the bulging or the enlarged pupil, last weekend I noticed redness or blood in his eye, within a day that cleared, then came back with a vengeance, blood took over the whole eye, rushed him again to vet, they said they couldn't give him a proper examination due to his eye being completely filled with blood, there was no charge, but said it was definitely not trauma and he is too young to be cancer, but there are exceptions to everything, no prescriptions or ointments, said they would do very little and in most cases these symptoms clear on their own, they said to wait and watch, any change, for better or worse to bring him back, if there is discharge and seems to be healing then they can do a proper exam, if there is more bulging then they'll have to stick a needle in the eye to drain it.

Aim your needle for the center of this triangle and stick the needle in.

We stopped just a few times to admire the surroundings: the valley behind us that faded in and out of view with the clouds that passed over it, the needle - sharp ridges on each side that were too steep even for snow to stick, the thick glacier sitting just a few hundred feet to our right.

If I asked a lot of gamers for a list of things they'd rather stick hot needles in their eyes than have to deal with in a game, I can almost promise that water levels would be on it.

Grabbing a pair of scissors and stabbing them into a zombie's neck is as satisfying as picking up a baseball bat filled with needles and sticking it into a zombie's head.

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