The phrase "a single prick of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing a small puncture or sensation, often in a metaphorical or literal sense.
Example: "She felt a single prick of pain as the needle entered her skin."
Alternatives: "a solitary sting of" or "a lone jab of".
Out of five dog pools in this study, none contained small breeds, two (pool 3 and pool 4) consisted only of breeds with drop ears, one (pool 5) consisted of a single prick eared breed, and two consisted of breeds with a mixture of ear types (pool2 and pool 6; Table 2).
Two of these dog pools contained only drop ear breeds, one contained a single prick ear breed and two contained breeds with a mixture of ear types (Table 2).
The company received glowing press coverage and raised more than $700m from investors based on its promise that it had invented a machine that could conduct hundreds of laboratory tests with a single finger prick of blood.
The San Diego-based startup leverages lab-on-a-chip technology it says can run through up to 128 different tests on a single finger prick of blood in under 15 minutes using what it calls its Maverick Detection Platform.
Genalyte leverages lab-on-a-chip technology it says can run through up to 128 different tests on a single finger prick of blood in under 15 minutes using what it calls its Maverick Detection Platform.
Theranos, founded by Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout, became a symbol of how technology could revolutionize health care after it said it had discovered a way of performing blood tests from a single finger prick at a fraction of the cost of a conventional laboratory.
A single heel prick was performed and the first drop of capillary blood (at least 8 μL) obtained was then applied to the test strip, which was already inserted into the CoaguChek XS device.
In order to be effective with a single finger prick, that sensitivity needs to be improved by an order of magnitude (to picograms per milliliter).
Dasgupta said there is a need for an assay platform that is inexpensive, rugged and lightweight, and uses a relatively small volume of a sample, such as blood obtained from a single finger prick.
