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.
Sarcophagi were most often designed to remain above ground. In Ancient Egypt, a sarcophagus formed the outer layer of protection for a royal mummy, with several layers of coffins nested within, and was often carved out of alabaster.All were usually decorated with painted or carved representations of the deceased.dded to the basin-like main sarcophagi is a broad, rectangular frame, often covered with a white slip and then painted. The huge Lycian Tomb of Payava, now in the British Museum, is a royal tomb monument of about 360 BC designed for an open-air placing, a grand example of a common Lycian style.