单词 | control subject |
释义 | > as lemmascontrol subject C4. attributive. Designating the subject of an experiment performed as a control (sense 5), as control animal, control sample, control subject, etc.; see also control group n. at Compounds 6. ΚΠ 1886 Wallace's Monthly Aug. 430/2 A large number of animals are kept in the same room..some being artificially infected with tuberculosis and others being simply kept as ‘control’ animals. 1890 Nature 11 Dec. 122 Control mice died of tetanus within 48 hours. 1904 Jrnl. Hygiene 4 380 Toxin locally applied on a very large number of hay-fever patients and control subjects, produced, in the predisposed, characteristic hay-fever symptoms. 1974 New Scientist 9 May 314/3 The control specimen showed considerable rust staining along its welds and seams. 2009 Economist 18 Apr. 86/2 Cabbies, on average, are worse than random control subjects and—horror—also worse than bus drivers, at memory tests. < as lemmas |
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