How to Use nasopharyngeal in a Sentence

nasopharyngeal

adjective
  • 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
  • Researchers said the tests will be less invasive than the nasopharyngeal swab required by the current method.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 17 Aug. 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
  • The virus has since been shown to increase the risk of Hodgkin lymphoma, as well as nasopharyngeal and stomach cancer.
    — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • So did testing of two patients’ nasopharyngeal swabs, one patient’s blood, and one patient’s saliva.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 16 June 2022
  • 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
  • Some schools are using less-invasive techniques than the testing that relies on long nasopharyngeal swabs.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Before the pandemic, the nasopharyngeal swab was used for detection of many other pathogens.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The nasopharyngeal swab is the most effective way to obtain a sample, though also the most unpleasant.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 26 June 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
  • 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
  • Like the original tests, the test is administered by giving the patient a nasopharyngeal swab.
    — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 10 Apr. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For example, my company was able to produce thousands of nasopharyngeal swabs at scale for healthcare use during the pandemic.
    — Donovan Weber, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • 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
  • Coronavirus tests are pretty different — how much virus a sample collects might depend on whether someone gets a saliva sample, a throat swab or a nasopharyngeal swab.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Sep. 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
  • To confirm this suspicion the virus was isolated from infected patient nasopharyngeal tissue, saliva, stool, and blood samples to clone the viral genome.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the physician's office, the CDC states that physicians will collect a serum sample and a throat swab (or nasopharyngeal swab) from patients suspected of measles at first contact.
    — Doris Alvarez Cea, Florida Times-Union, 6 Feb. 2026
  • 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

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