wet lab

English

Noun

wet lab (plural wet labs)

1. A laboratory that is equipped with plumbing, ventilation, and equipment for performing physical experiments.
   • 2011, Marcus Wohlsen, Biopunk: Solving Biotech's Biggest Problems in Kitchens and Garages, →ISBN:

     After it was over, his small trust fund was $12,500 smaller. But he now has a mobile wet lab he can take wherever someone had a big enough backyard and a good idea.

   • 2013, Bruno Zuberbuhler, Stephen Tuft, David Gartry, Corneal Surgery: Essential Techniques, →ISBN, page 135:

     In the USA, access to a wet lab is a prerequisite for training programmes in ophthalmology; in the UK this requirement is less explicit.

   • 2013, Ashutosh Gupta, Thomas A. Henzinger, Computational Methods in Systems Biology, →ISBN:

     In the beginning, the analysis of the sectors was done by looking at the images of the colony at different time points and deciding if the sector-like patterns are similar to the ones in the wet lab.

Verb

wet lab (third-person singular simple present wet labs, present participle wet labbing, simple past and past participle wet labbed)

1. To perform experiments that require a wet lab.

Related terms

• dry lab