Sentences with phrase «prick of»

His Balloon Dogs, for instance, are weightless toys that look as if they could pop at the prick of a pin, despite being made out of steel.

If you begin to see the tell - tale pin - prick of white preceding the quick, or if your dog starts showing heightened sensitivity to the grinding, stop.

Hillary yelped a little from the prick of the needle.

Belfer conjures up a world where death can come from the prick of a rosebush, and where the choices people make can determine the fate of millions.

Prick each of the sausages several times with a fork, then add to the pot.

His work has appeared in more than thirty publications including: The Three Penny Review, Hobart, Fiction Southeast, Sierra Nevada Review, Apt, OxMag, Prick of the Spindle, Bayou Magazine, Catamaran, and Isthmus.

The best moments belong to the under - seen Mina Badie as she struggles to understand her recalcitrant prick of a husband, and to Matt Malloy, delivering a toast to his apparent ex-lover Joe.

Also peppered throughout the film is a supporting cast that only serves to distract audiences from the slightly sloppy script: Amanda Peet as Sandy's worried wife, Jon Favreau as Sandy's prick of a boss, John Cho as a helpful coworker, and Robert Patrick as the gruff hunter.

The bubbly joy of Shaw's Leotine, upon feeling the prick of Cupid's arrows for the first time, is both uplifting and heartbreakingly sad.

i am very selective of who i allow into my inner circle (basically those who have felt the stinging prick of the so - called social norn).

But the thorn, the house my boyfriend and I really wanted was already under contract when he took me to see it and the listing agent hadn't updated the listing we found another house today that I fell in love with though, so I guess I get two roses for the prick of one thorn!

«After the heel prick of both the sucrose and glucose groups the duration of first cry and total crying time was significantly reduced (P = 0.005 and P = 0.007).»

Sugar in your body can be measured as blood glucose, similar to how diabetics measure their blood sugars, using a finger prick of blood.

In summer 2012, Eliasen braced himself for the prick of a needle on his forearm.

Not knowing firsthand the tremendous force of addiction, it seems monstrous to us that someone could trade a child's love for the prick of a needle.

Today, because of concerns about drug resistance, the recommended protocol is to give ACTs only after malaria is confirmed with a finger prick of blood and a rapid diagnostic test (RDT).

Every day millions of Americans living with diabetes must subject themselves to the painful prick of a fingerstick test to monitor their glucose, or blood sugar, levels.

Withdrawal Reflex A very handy reflex: when your baby feels a prick of pain, he will withdraw the hurt limb and extend another one in an effort to push away the offending party.

The blood tests require just one quick prick of a needle on your baby's heel to collect a blood sample.

Crystal Palace are a decent club, but back then they had a complete prick of a centre forward.

Instead, geometry's half «halo of inscription: prick of the compass steel, the line from then to now steady and bright and eerily even for one «hundred «eighty contrite converted degrees.

Theranos, a privately held company founded by Ms. Holmes, 31, after she dropped out of Stanford at age 19, has been trying to swat down suspicions that the capability it has promoted — being able to do a wide range of medical tests cheaply and quickly using only a finger prick of blood — is more hype than reality.

The 2,700 - word story, reported over the course of five months, alleged that Theranos has struggled with and neglected to use its proprietary blood test technology, which purports to perform a wide range of tests with the mere prick of a fingertip.

Of course, I might be holding back out of fear of being invited by Christine O'Donnell to a satanic witchy picnic on a blood - stained altar (said bloodstain most likely caused by a diabetic performing some dark and devilish ceremonial pricking of their finger to check their glucose levels, which obviously is demonic in nature and proof of why the healthcare reform act should be done away with so they can let such practitioners of such technological dark arts die due to lack of insulin)

say, the pricking of the cookies is really is just for decorative purposes.

«My only witness is the pricking of my little finger.»

Freak Show has been preceded by the ghosts of Season 1 (Murder House), serial killers and demonic possession of Season 2 (Asylum) and the pricking of witch's thumbs in Season 3 (Coven).

Yet these breathless asides are little more than pin - pricks of pleasure in a complex film which tries its darndest to be as uncomplex as possible.

Some things annoy me, like the kobo store (if you search a book then click buy now just to see price, then go back it goes all the way back: -LRB--RRB- Also, on mine, when the screens black I can see pricks of defects in the screen where light shines through.

«By the Pricking of my Thumbs has received a few good reviews on Amazon (Kindle), so I'm pretty stoked at the moment!»

When the world looks like it's falling apart, though, perhaps ironic detachment will begin to look less like an antidote to chauvinism and more like a banal evil, unequipped to fight the pricks of history.

«In Udomsak's earliest works, meaning slips and skitters across their smooth monochromatic surfaces or sinks between the pin pricks of light in a blanket of black.

Not exact matches

That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

That means peace of mind for diabetes patients, who no longer have to constantly prick their fingers to measure blood sugar and manually adjust insulin doses, and hope for recovering opioid addicts, who might face a relapse if they don't adhere to a strict treatment protocol.

For Theranos to take lab - testing business from the two major lab companies used by doctors, Quest and LabCorp, and to partner to run tests for more hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and government agencies, it has to show it can get it right at every stage, from the preparation before it pricks someone's finger to the accurate processing of hundreds of thousands of samples.

If the company is going to grow and be a real option for clinical use, it needs to show its system can work accurately and handle every step from the individual finger prick to the processing of hundreds of thousands of samples every day.

Still, he wrote in that review that using this technology it was possible to use «microliters of blood from a finger prick» instead of «milliliters of blood from a [vein]» and process those samples in a few minutes instead of an hour.

But today, as misgivings about Theranos» technology — which purports to perform a full range of blood tests with a mere finger prick — have reached a fever pitch, both parties are looking to dissolve the partnership, the Journal reports.

Finger - prick glucose tests could soon be a pain of the past.

Holmes did confirm that the company, only «as of a few weeks ago,» is using only one «finger prick» blood test commercially, but says that was her own decision, based on her desire to get FDA approval for its process.»

Its charismatic founder, 31 - year - old Stanford dropout Elizabeth Holmes, has promised to provide quick, accurate medical test results from just a few drops of blood pricked from a finger.

«The product was AI based which pricked the interest and was an uncommon portfolio of services we had to offer amidst various other product and service based industries.»

The prototype, which Google says will take at least five years to reach consumers, is one of several medical devices being designed by companies to make glucose monitoring for diabetic patients more convenient and less invasive than the traditional finger pricks.

But according to the Journal, CMS did not examine the «revolutionary» technology that aims to run its tests on only a finger - prick's worth of blood.

«Although some people wear glucose monitors with a glucose sensor embedded under their skin, all people with diabetes must still prick their finger and test drops of blood throughout the day,» the project's co-founders, Brian Otis and Babak Parviz, wrote in a Google blog post.

And instead of waking every few hours to have his finger pricked, he sleeps through the night.

Founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos is now valued at more than $ 9 billion (soon possibly more) based on its push to create blood tests that require just a few drops of blood from a finger prick.

After concerns are raised by the Food and Drug Administration, Theranos temporarily halts its trademark practice of collecting tiny blood samples from finger pricks.

Past generations of Dexcom monitors required finger pricks to calibrate the sensor, which is worn just under the skin typically on the abdomen.

San Diego's Dexcom posted a 30 percent jump in revenue for the March quarter as it prepares for a major launch of its next generation continuous glucose monitors that no longer requires finger pricks for calibration.