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.
Ad. Classically, a sarcophagus is just a big stone box. In some cultures, it is traditional to carve an effigy into the lid of the sarcophagus, depicting the face of the dead person, and in some cases, and effigy may be an entire body.