(v. t.) To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
(v. t.) To suck up; to drink in; to imbibe; as a sponge or as the lacteals of the body.
(v. t.) To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.
(v. t.) To take up by cohesive, chemical, or any molecular action, as when charcoal absorbs gases. So heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(2) Photoreactions induced in that proper sensitizer molecules absorb UV-light or visible light.
(3) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
(4) Absorbance or fluorescence measurements may be used for detection.
(5) Data are shown for both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, indicating that, in this respect, even the smallest average organ absorbed dose can be effective, particularly for high-LET radiation.
(6) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
(7) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
(8) The drug-picrate chromophores maximally absorb within the first minute of reaction (21 s for phenacemide, 45 s for cephalothin), after which the absorbances decrease.
(9) This implies that these proteins are quantitatively absorbed from the peritoneum without undergoing modifications.
(10) The resulting cortexolone-Sepharose absorbed easily the cytosolic chick thymus glucocorticoid receptor.
(11) The activity of this autoantibody was absorbed by histidine and glutaminic acid.
(12) In these animals, propionate was the major VFA taken up by the liver and approximately 50% of absorbed acetate was also removed by the liver.
(13) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
(14) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
(15) This differential absorbance is linear with increasing concentrations of Na2MoO4 and was used to calculate the molar extinction coefficient of molybdochelin at 425 nm (epsilon similar to 6,200).
(16) Although differences were noted between species, the absolute rates of absorption measured indicate that the phthalate esters are slowly absorbed through both human and rat skin.
(17) By determining the solubility of CaTPA, the concentration of TPA that would be required to achieve urinary saturation was calculated, and a conservative estimate of the amount of TPA or DMT that would have to be absorbed in order to induce calculi was derived.
(18) All recombinants were found to be photochemically active, in that optical bleaching produced a temperature- and lipid chain-length-dependent mixture of species absorbing at 480 and 380 nm.
(19) Carotenoids are absorbed and then partially converted to retinol in the enterocytes.
(20) The filler did not absorb water, so the effect of the filler content on the diffusion coefficients of the water sorption was to be associated with of the law of mixture.
Enwrap
Definition:
(v. t.) To envelop. See Inwrap.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most distal acini consist of cells whose major feature is the enwrapment of each mitochondrion by a cisternal profile of rough endoplasmic reticulum.
(2) Their processes accompany and enwrap neuroendocrine axons that course from hypothalamic nuclei to terminals in the median eminence, but the significance of this interaction is not yet understood.
(3) The latter structures consist of nanometer-sized magnetite (Fe3O4) cores which are enwrapped by a phospholipid bilayer.
(4) It contains an acidic N-terminal domain and two distinct domains at the C-terminal end that are involved in binding to the polymerase protein and the template RNA enwrapped with the nucleocapsid protein.
(5) Cadaveric dissections demonstrated how reduction of the radial head can be blocked by an enwrapped nerve.
(6) In 10-15-day-old animals these cells may be located at a distance of 15 micrometer or more from the axon which they enwrap.
(7) By means of electron microscopy, satellite cell processes in the superior cervical ganglion were found to enwrap ganglion cells very tightly with a marginal space between both cell types.
(8) The cytoplasmic processes of reticular cells enwrapped the smooth-muscle cells, and nerve fibres were distributed between the smooth-muscle cells and the reticular cells.
(9) Myelin is a highly specialized membrane, which enwraps axons and facilitates saltatory nerve conduction in vertebrates.
(10) During the early myelination, one single axon ensheathed concentrically by two different oligodendroglial processes as well as several axons enwrapped by a continuous spiral myelin sheath of one oligodendroglial cell were frequently observed.
(11) The potential for both Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas to enwrap both renal and non-renal tissues has not previously been emphasised.
(12) This report also describes electron microscopic observations of Müller cells and their enwrapping relationship with the axons of the optic nerve fiber layer.
(13) Nerve branches associated with pheromone gland cells are enwrapped in glia and contain dense-core vesicles, suggesting that the innervation of the gland might be neurosecretory.
(14) Intracellular naked vaccinia virus was enwrapped by Golgi membranes to form a double membrane intermediate.
(15) The astrocytic "marker," glial fibrillary acidic protein, was detected in gray and white matter of shiverers as young as 16 days, and the differences from carbonic anhydrase localization supported the conclusion that the processes enwrapping axons in the shiverer mouse CNS are derived from oligodendrocytes, not astrocytes.
(16) P. oligandrum produces numerous thin haustorial threads, searching the hyphae of host species and enwrapping them during the parasitation.
(17) In the other corner you have a serial abuser of women so enwrapped in hedonism that at this point he’s more famous for publicly flaunting his bottomless pit of a bank account than his undefeated professional record.
(18) This correlation suggests an evolutionary trend from gluco- to galactocerebrosides, which corresponds with changes in the nervous system from loosely structured membrane-enwrapped axons to multilamellar highly structured myelin.
(19) In a later parasitation stage the host organs were enwrapped by thicker hyphae of P. oligandrum as well.
(20) The outer capsule is thin, composing of few layers, and the inner capsule ramifying to enwrap the individual fiber, accompanied by the medullated and unmedullated nerve fibers and blood capillaries.