Precollected

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    collected prior to some other operation not-comparable

    "Finally, to investigate whether the DEGs obtained from the further screening might identify the susceptible animals, we performed the real-time PCR analysis to these genes with the blood samples precollected before APAP treatment from an independent test set of 37 rats (two groups, control group (n = 5) and APAP group (n = 32))."

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"Finally, to investigate whether the DEGs obtained from the further screening might identify the susceptible animals, we performed the real-time PCR analysis to these genes with the blood samples precollected before APAP treatment from an independent test set of 37 rats (two groups, control group (n = 5) and APAP group (n = 32))."

Etymology

From pre- + collected.

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