ESL General English Grammar Questions

Re: an X-ray lab/room

Angliholic — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:31:23 GMT

badegine

Yes - more or less. Laboratory implies that the room will be used to analyse the X-Rays after they've been taken [a place using X-Rays for research, such as a Physics department, would also have a laboratory, for example]. Technically, using the word 'room' implies only that the X-Rays will be *taken* in there, not procressed/analysed as well.

But it's really a technicality - no-one would bat an eyelid if you used them interchangeably.

Thanks, Badegine and Huevos.

By the way, I find the phrase "bat an eyelid" very intriguing. Is it equal to say "droop an eyelid" or "wink one's eye?"

Re: an X-ray lab/room

Huevos — Sun, 11 May 2008 15:06:57 GMT

You don't have to say either. For example you could say: My brother works in X-rays as a madical technician. Using the preposition in shows X-rays is a location rather than a line or topic.

Re: an X-ray lab/room

badegine — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:55:53 GMT

Yes - more or less. Laboratory implies that the room will be used to analyse the X-Rays after they've been taken [a place using X-Rays for research, such as a Physics department, would also have a laboratory, for example]. Technically, using the word 'room' implies only that the X-Rays will be *taken* in there, not procressed/analysed as well.

But it's really a technicality - no-one would bat an eyelid if you used them interchangeably.

an X-ray lab/room

Angliholic — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:28:06 GMT

My brother works as a medical technician in an X-ray lab.

Hi,

Does "lab" in the above stand for laboratory? Is it interchangeable with "room?" Thanks.