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Tubes

Test tubes labeled with "Whole Blood," "Serum," "Urine," etc.
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Full-strength Blood, Mid-strength blood and the new Blood Lite!
Live
Fri 11-09-2007
ha, ha.
oh a tiger top tube( thats what we call it here in washington) used to seperate the blood, its very intresting to look at it after it has spun in a centrifuge, you can see how high your lipids might be:-)
rtotten
Fri 11-09-2007
Of course Urine is in the yellow tube...just goes without saying.
Kristiara
Fri 11-09-2007
is there a pill inside the urine container?
Joe
Sun 11-11-2007
Whole, 2%, 1% and Skim
Gryphon
Tue 11-13-2007
yep Joe, It looks like a microdot. ;-)
J-131274
Tue 11-13-2007
Micordot? Groovy man! :-)
C-Note
Thu 11-15-2007
nope it is a chemical used that mixes with the urine when collected, its used to produce a urine culture to detect bacteria
rtotten
Thu 11-15-2007
Gosh! It's a great photo. I love its simplicity and the composition. It's interesting for me thereis the same tube for urine sample as for blood's ones. In my country we use different tubes for blood samples but we collect urine in little jars. On the other hand it must me damn difficult to pee into tube like that ;)))
Kera
Thu 11-22-2007
You don't actually pee into the tube. You pee into the cup. With a great deal of care, to avoid spillage, it is poured from the cup, into the tube. The tube is put into a centrifuge, spun down, the majority of the pee is poured off. The lab tech then pours a wee sample of the sludge at the bottom and looks at it under a microscope.
Big Ed
Thu 11-22-2007
Just curious, 'cause this is my domain: was there any EDTA or heparine (both clear fluids) left in de "whole blood" tube?
Zjef
Sat 12-01-2007
Reminds me of my first job @ what was then called Institute for Cancer Reseach (ICR)
Today it's called the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Guitorman
Mon 12-17-2007
Did they leave in a hurry? I doubt it. But it looks like they just left in the middle of the day and never came back.
Jeanette
Thu 01-31-2008
actually Big Ed we use a 18 gauge needle suction like a vacutainer needle to extract the urine from the cup directly into the tube:-) you put the straw in the cup and attatch the urine tube onto the needle and hokus pokus its in the tube.
rtotten
Tue 02-12-2008
rtotten, the term "straw in athe cup", referring to the urine, made me gag as soon as I read it, lol!

Ha.
perk
Tue 03-04-2008
lol to last comment ...

good thing they hadnt already been filled (and left there for you, that would have been disturbing).
aki
Thu 02-19-2009
oooh souvenirs!
emzroz
Mon 01-02-2012

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