Qualifications and training required. In order to start work as a trainee biomedical scientist you will need a Certificate of Competence from the Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS) and you must be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).acancies are advertised via the internet, by careers services and in newspapers and scientific publications such as The Biomedical Scientist, New Scientist, Nature and their online equivalents. Starting salaries for an NHS biomedical scientist can be found on the NHS website.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Sarcophagus. sÃ¤r-kofâ²a-gus, n. a kind of limestone used by the Greeks for coffins, and so called because it was thought to consume the flesh of corpses: any stone receptacle for a corpse: an 18th-century form of wine-cooler:âpl.
Greek sarkophagos was borrowed into Latin as sarcophagus and used in the phrase lapis (stone) sarcophagus to refer to the same stone as in Greek. In Latin, too, sarcophagus came to be used as a noun meaning coffin made of any material.. The first known attestation of the word sarcophagus in English dates from 1601 and occurs in a translation of Pliny's description of the stone. Later, sarcophagus begins to be used in English with the meaning stone coffin, especially in descriptions of sarcophagi from antiquity.