Vacutainern.
/vakjuːˈteɪnə/ Medicine and Veterinary Medicine.
A proprietary name for an evacuated container in the form of a test-tube sealed with a bung which is used, with a double-ended hypodermic needle, for the collection of samples of blood.
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1946 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 13 Aug. 200/1 Vacutainer... For device used for the collection of blood specimens... Claims use since Sept. 25, 1944.
1973 Nature 26 Jan. 281/2 They were lightly anaesthetized with ether and blood samples collected by intracardiac puncture in hepatinized vacutainer tubes at set time intervals.
1976 Lancet 30 Oct. 963/2 T.B.P.E. has been identified as a contaminant in plasma collected in vacutainers.
1977 Trade Marks Jrnl. 14 Apr. 737/1 Vacutainer... Evacuated containers included in Class 9 for laboratory use... 4th November, 1974.
1990 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 25 Jan. 25/4 The normal procedure was to insert a vacutainer needle laterally into the jugular vein of each horse and draw out sufficient blood for analysis.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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