swabbed

Four thousand men in the Wichita area have been what they call swabbed for DNA, not that they are suspects but simply to eliminate people.

CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2005 2005

Routine lab tests using cells swabbed from the inside of a cheek can already expose genetic variations associated with cholesterol, cancer and hundreds of other traits and diseases, both common and rare.

Google to Share Genetic Information on the Web | Impact Lab 2007

Scientific data — soil samples swabbed from the silver itself — placed the treasure's burial site in an area with a geological makeup identical to western Hungary's.

The Curse of the Sevso Silver 2001

Scientific data — soil samples swabbed from the silver itself — placed the treasure's burial site in an area with a geological makeup identical to western Hungary's.

The Curse of the Sevso Silver 2001

The soot, the scales, the fire ashes, the mud – all had to be "swabbed" out at the river's brink by means of much water and an Indian "slat" broom.

The Shagganappi 1913

The bunkhouse was scrubbed; -- "swabbed" in the vernacular of the cowboys; the scant bedding was "cured" in the white sunlight; and the cook was adjured to extend himself in the preparation of "chuck"

The Two-Gun Man Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

Panamanian marsupial frog, Hemiphractus fasciatus, getting "swabbed", i.e., tested for the presence of the microscopic fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatis which is sweeping through Central America, decimating entire amphbian communities.

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010

Panamanian marsupial frog, Hemiphractus fasciatus, getting "swabbed", or tested, for the presence of the microscopic fungal pathogen,

Livescience.com 2010

"swabbed" out at the river's brink by means of much water and an Indian

The Shagganappi E. Pauline Johnson 1887

"swabbed" to see if he could become a potential donor.

TheaterMania.com 2010