Preposition: of

• resorption: Aspirin and nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug use in elderly women: effects on a marker of bone resorption.

• inflammation: The team looked at their blood for evidence of markers of inflammation.

• turnover: The use of biochemical markers of bone turnover in osteoporosis.

Converse of object

• erase: Dry erase markers write on and wipe off just as easily on the sleeves as on the card itself.

Adjective modifier

• biochemical: The use of biochemical markers of bone turnover in osteoporosis.

• surrogate: Given the chronic nature of the disease, surrogate markers for survival are used in clinical trials.

• polymorphic: The main bottleneck for the feasibility of whole genome association studies is the scarcity of dense polymorphic markers across the whole genome.

• molecular: Samples were then run on an ABI 377 gene scan analysis gel with an internal molecular weight marker.

• prognostic: In this analysis, there is a suggestion that elevated c-fos expression is a good prognostic marker for patients with refractory colorectal carcinoma.

• genetic: The prognostic significance of the genetic markers was also assessed.

Modifies a noun

• pen: With a marker pen, put a small dot on the base of the dish at either end of each root tip.

• gene: Early in the GE process, antibiotic resistance marker genes are used to ' mark ' GE crops, for example.

• genotype: Marker assisted Technique in which selection of the best animals for breeding purposes is selection aided by the marker genotype.

• biopsy: Transurethral tumor marker biopsies were obtained one week before the first instillation of the drug and one week after the last.

Noun used with modifier

• microsatellite: However despite much effort to automate their use, microsatellite markers do have disadvantages.

• paintball: We're proud to present a paintball marker like no other.

• serum: Also, the measurement of serum markers may vary between laboratories.

• tumor: This means that most work done on most tumor markers is almost worthless.

• discourse: For example, a discourse marker may signal importance.

• tumor: At the completion of high-dose chemotherapy, all tumor markers had returned to normal in 6 patients.