(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.
Hydrophobic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to hydrophobia; producing or caused by rabies; as, hydrophobic symptoms; the hydrophobic poison.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(2) The results confirm studies performed in our laboratory on cytotoxicity and on functional membrane proteins of fungal and mammalian cells [1,2], suggesting a common mechanism of toxicity by the action of hydrophobic xenobiotics on biomembranes.
(3) Modifications were made in the hydrophobic part (cinnamoyl moiety) and the hydrophilic part (anthranilate moiety) of 3a.
(4) Thus, introduction of arginine in position 5 with a hydrophobic amino acid in position 6 is compatible with high potency in several biological systems and results in compounds with lowered potency to release histamine compared to homologous peptides with tyrosine in position 5 and D-arginine in position 6.
(5) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
(6) One of the proteases obtained was found to catalyse cleavage on the COOH-side of peptide sequences containing consecutive hydrophobic and basic residues.
(7) This sequence was found to contain an unusually large percentage of hydrophobic residues.
(8) The remaining amino acids are mainly hydrophobic (isoleucine, leucine, and phenylalanine).
(9) Secondary structural features of bovine amelogenin, a hydrophobic protein of developing enamel implicated in ename mineralization, are derived using 2D NMR spectroscopy in solution and molecular mechanics-dynamics studies.
(10) The major peak corresponded to a peptide less hydrophobic than synthetic porcine NPY.
(11) Enzyme-inhibiting ability for individual alkylphenols can be estimated based on the quantitative structure-activity relationship developed by Dewhirst (1980) and is a function of the free hydroxyl group, electron-donating ring substituents, and hydrophobic aromatic ring substituents.
(12) Close van der Waals' contacts between the Cys22-Cys63 and Cys51-Cys75 disulfide bridges and the central hydrophobic core composed of the Trp25, Leu46, His48a and Trp62 side-chains are among the distinguishing features of the kringle 2 fold.
(13) of complete tryptic digests of the IRBPs indicate that, although they have in common a similar preponderance of hydrophobic peptides, all three proteins differ extensively in their fine structure.
(14) The helix axes, penetrating the hydrophobic region of the bilayers, were oriented neither parallel nor perpendicular to the membrane normal.
(15) The importance of the hydrophobic effect of exogenous substances and of modifications of membrane order on D-glucose uptake are still poorly defined.
(16) The reduction in accessibility of Asn137 to water cased by mastoparan binding suggests that a part of the mastoparan binding site is probably located in or near the hydrophobic cluster of the C-terminal-half domain.
(17) It is found that neurotropic drugs, whose molecules have positively-charged amino groups and a considerable hydrophobic region (in size), can be incorporated into the phospholipid bilayers.
(18) In addition, the method was successfully applied to less hydrophobic antigens, such as LPS of the classes Ra to Rd and S forms, and lipoteichoic acid.
(19) Attachment of peptides to microtiter plates can be considerably improved with this method by employing the hydrophobic properties of lipopeptide.
(20) The predicted yeast enzyme contains at least four potential membrane-spanning regions and several shorter hydrophobic regions that align exactly with similar sequences in the rat liver protein.