(n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger.
(n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc.
(n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.
(n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
(2) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(3) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
(4) At 48 h after pretreatment, a differential effect on the absorption of sulfanilamide and L-tryptophan was observed in in situ recirculation experiments.
(5) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
(6) After absorption of labeled glucose, two pools of trehalose are found in dormant spores, one of which is extractable without breaking the spores, and the other, only after the spores are disintegrated.
(7) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(8) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
(9) PYY inhibited the reduction in net absorption of sodium chloride and water evoked by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), but did not affect the VIP-evoked increase in net potassium secretion.
(10) Acute effects of insulin on protein metabolism (whole body and forearm muscle) were simultaneously assessed using doubly labelled (13C15N) leucine in post-absorptive Type I diabetic patients.
(11) It is concluded that extradural adrenaline does not usefully reduce systemic absorption of 0.5% bupivacaine, but may improve its efficacy in extradural anaesthesia for elective Caesarean section.
(12) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
(13) Differential absorption experiments showed that LG-1 contained a mixture of specific and cross-reacting antibodies.
(14) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
(15) With both approaches, carbohydrate and fat had little influence whereas egg albumin had a significant inhibitory effect on the absorption of nonheme iron.
(16) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
(17) This result was confirmed by atomic absorption spectroscopy, which indicated a stoicheiometry for copper and manganese of approx.
(18) It was found that the initial rate of [14C]oxalate absorption is rapid (6.5 per cent per min), and that after 5 min the rate of absorption decreases to about 0.6 per cent per min.
(19) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(20) The mechanisms responsible for changes in absorption in vitro are unknown.
Plumbism
Definition:
(n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the in vitro inhibition test the same degree of inhibition of red cell P5N activity seen in hereditary red cell P5N deficiency was obtained by using a lead concentration 200--400 times higher than the lead levels detected in human plumbism.
(2) Plumbism neuropathy have the character of subclinical lesions not impairing motor skill.
(3) The case of a patient suffering from plumbism is described.
(4) These "lead bands," while a constant finding, are used as additional laboratory evidence to diagnose plumbism.
(5) Matched female plumbism subjects reported a higher proportion of spontaneous abortion or stillbirths among pregnancies (relative risk = 1.60, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.6-4.0) and a higher proportion of learning disabilities among school-age children (relative risk = 3.0, 95% CI = 0.9-10.2) in comparison with their controls.
(6) Therefore, the degree of lead poisoning can't be classified by the values of FEP, ZPP among plumbism.
(7) The factors leading to plumbism, its evaluation, and treatment are reviewed.
(8) Nevertheless, the EDTA mobilization test identified 2 patients with occult plumbism in this group of patients.
(9) Among the various indicators of lead's critical (or first) effect on hemoglobin synthesis, erythrocyte protoporphyrin potentially is the most practical for monitoring children at high risk for plumbism.
(10) This concern arises, in part, because current screening data show that 5 to 10% of the children tested recently in the United States have a degree of increase in lead absorption sufficient to cause metabolic derangement in heme synthesis, but insufficient, with rare exception, to cause classical acute clinical symptoms of plumbism.
(11) These results, as well as others, raise questions concerning the validity of relying exclusively on Pb-B in the clinical management of groups such as young children in old houses and lead-exposed workmen who are at increased risk for plumbism; The results suggest that chelatable lead is most closely related to lead's inhibitory effect on heme synthesis and that, biologically, it may serve as the best "chemical biopsy" of soft tissue lead concentration; A simple AAS method for measureing chelatable lead in urine is described; A new wet digestion technique which is compatible with ASV is also described.
(12) Pica was more prevalent among children with plumbism.
(13) One matched subject with plumbism had grossly abnormal renal function and an elevated blood lead level of an unclear cause.
(14) Among the remaining 21 matched pairs, the risk of hypertension was significantly higher in subjects with plumbism (relative risk, 7.0; 95% confidence interval, 1.2 to 42.3).
(15) The different clinical symptomatology, effects on hemoglobin synthesis, and response to chelation therapy are all in keeping with the view that organolead poisoning is a separate and distinct toxicologic entity from that of classical elemental lead poisoning or "plumbism".
(16) The criteria for injury remained climical plumbism.
(17) Our study also clearly demonstrated that 4 of 6 patients with renal failure who developed gout de novo had underlying plumbism.
(18) Its investigational use in the United States has been limited to the treatment of men with occupational plumbism.
(19) Screening for lead poisoning among her immediate family members identified two others with different manifestations of plumbism.
(20) He was first seen 16 months later with symptoms, signs, and laboratory values that were consistent with the diagnosis of plumbism.