LAB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lab mean? 

• LAB (noun)
  The noun LAB has 1 sense:

1. a workplace for the conduct of scientific research

  Familiarity information: LAB used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A workplace for the conduct of scientific research

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lab; laboratory; research lab; research laboratory; science lab; science laboratory

Hypernyms ("lab" is a kind of...):

work; workplace (a place where work is done)

Meronyms (parts of "lab"):

lab bench; laboratory bench (a workbench in a laboratory)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lab"):

bio lab; biology lab; biology laboratory (a laboratory for biological research)

chem lab; chemistry lab; chemistry laboratory (a laboratory for research in chemistry)

defense laboratory (a laboratory devoted to research and development for national defense)

physics lab; physics laboratory (a laboratory for research in physics)

 Context examples 

Neural tube defects are usually diagnosed before the infant is born, through lab or imaging tests.

(Neural Tube Defects, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Lab tests can show if you have it and find the cause.

(Cushing's Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Doctors diagnose multiple myeloma using lab tests, imaging tests, and a bone marrow biopsy.

(Multiple Myeloma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Their labs and others have helped to show how narcolepsy may be linked to the loss of hypocretin/orexin-making neurons in the hypothalamus, a peanut-sized area found deep inside the brain.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)

EXAMPLE(S): In a criterion group that is composed of a substance administration activity and a lab test activity, the sequence number indicates which activity precedes the other.

(Defined Criterion Group Composition Relationship Sequence Number, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The work has moved microbiology and genetics research from the wet lab to the data center — creating a computational approach to studying organism interactions and evolution called metagenomics.

(Microbes are at work in our bodies, and researchers have figured out what they're up to, National Science Foundation)

Researchers used mice and liver organoids ('mini-livers' generated in the lab from mouse liver cells) to study adult liver regeneration.

(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)

Wild rodents and squirrels carry it, but it is called monkeypox because scientists saw it first in lab monkeys.

(Monkeypox Virus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

These results in lab animals cannot be extrapolated to dietary advice for people.

(Memory T cells shelter in bone marrow, boosting immunity in mice with restricted diets, National Institutes of Health)

A lab test to find out if cancer cells have estrogen receptors (proteins to which estrogen will bind).

(Estrogen receptor test, NCI Dictionary)