How to Use nasopharyngeal in a Sentence

nasopharyngeal

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• The swabs in short supply, called nasopharyngeal swabs, are long and have to go very far up a patient’s nose.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 16 Apr. 2020
• Those tests are typical nasal swabs — not the 6-inch nasopharyngeal swabs that were used around the world in the early days of the pandemic.
  — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 23 Oct. 2020
• Tests using a nasopharyngeal swab—the one that goes deep into your nose to the back of your throat—are still considered the gold standard.
  — Allison Duncan, Health.com, 7 Oct. 2020
• One study compared tests on saliva samples with those taken with nasopharyngeal swabs and found the results were the same 94 to 99% of the time, Ehresmann said.
  — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 26 Aug. 2020
• Researchers said the tests will be less invasive than the nasopharyngeal swab required by the current method.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2020
• That May she was diagnosed with Stage 4 nasopharyngeal cancer, a rare type of head and neck cancer.
  — Mike Nolan, Daily Southtown, 28 Apr. 2018
• DuFort put a long swab, known as a nasopharyngeal swab, deep into Cuomo's nose for about five seconds.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 17 May 2020
• Hagfish take in water through their nasopharyngeal duct, which leads to their pharynx and gill pouches.
  — Mary Bates, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2014
• Covid tests typically use a nasal swab, or what’s known as a nasopharyngeal swab when a sample is taken from deep inside the nose.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
• The nasopharyngeal swab is the most effective way to obtain a sample, though also the most unpleasant.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 26 June 2020
• Users swab the inside of their nostrils (not as far into the nasal cavity as the deeper nasopharyngeal swabs), then swirl it in a vial that is then placed in the test kit, the FDA press release explains.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 18 Nov. 2020
• The current test requires sticking a long cotton swab deep into the nasal cavity to reach what is known as the nasopharyngeal region.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 18 Mar. 2020
• In the weeks since, manufacturers have been forced to play a frantic game of catchup that’s now being further stymied by a shortage of nasopharyngeal swabs, McAdam says.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2020
• The second way, called a nasopharyngeal swab, requires a professional to probe more deeply into the nasal cavity to get the sample.
  — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• Like the original tests, the test is administered by giving the patient a nasopharyngeal swab.
  — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 10 Apr. 2020
• Before the pandemic, the nasopharyngeal swab was used for detection of many other pathogens.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2020
• Both tests are administered with nasopharyngeal swabs that touch the back of the nose, because that’s where the highest viral concentrations are found.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland, 7 Aug. 2020
• What the testing kits look like Each testing kit has a sterile container and a nasopharyngeal swab in a plastic specimen bag.
  — Jennifer Borresen, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2020
• The tests also missed 48% of cases when they were not conducted with nasopharyngeal swabs that penetrate deeply into the nasal passages.
  — Author: Aaron C. Davis, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2020
• The state health department showed up in full protective gear, and gave each person two swabs: a back of throat swab, and the nasopharyngeal swab that made everyone uncomfortable.
  — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Mar. 2021
• In the Yale study, the saliva tests actually detected the virus more frequently — 81% of the tests came back positive in the first five days of infections, compared to 71% of nasopharyngeal tests.
  — Fortune, 5 Sep. 2020
• Cushion’s email asks for nine items, including sterile nasopharyngeal swabs that collect specimens from the top of a patient’s throat behind the nose.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 19 Mar. 2020
• Technically called a nasopharyngeal airway, this soft tube can be placed through the nose to help a casualty breathe better.
  — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 20 Feb. 2020
• Some schools are using less-invasive techniques than the testing that relies on long nasopharyngeal swabs.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
• Unlike the current nasopharyngeal swab tests that can detect viral RNA with a swab plunged deep into your nasal cavities, the new test looks for viral antigens, proteins on the surface of the virus.
  — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 27 Aug. 2020
• Cornell chose a front-of-the-nose swab rather than the more invasive nasopharyngeal version, said Gary Koretzky, a professor of medicine and vice provost, to increase student compliance.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2020
• That new test involves putting a person’s nasopharyngeal swab in a tube containing chemicals that detect the virus’s surface proteins.
  — Sarah Wild, Scientific American, 16 June 2020
• Anguilla accepts only one type of pre-arrival Covid-19 test, which everyone in your party will need to have: the rt-PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test from a nasopharyngeal swab.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 3 Mar. 2021
• The wife and husband were also retested for the coronavirus every few days, back when uncomfortable nasopharyngeal swab tests — often dubbed the brain biopsy — were the only kind available.
  — Angie Leventis Lourgos, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2020
• Now the newer study contends that inactivating the virus in the mouth’s saliva and mucous membranes could help reduce infection in the adjoining nasopharyngeal area, too.
  — Abdullah Iqbal, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024