(n.) A soft, unctuous, or waxy substance, of a light brown color, into which the fat and muscle tissue of dead bodies sometimes are converted, by long immersion in water or by burial in moist places. It is a result of fatty degeneration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two homologs of 9-chloro-10-methoxy(9-methoxy-10-chloro) fatty acids were found in adipocere from the human neonate, and identified as 9-chloro-10-methoxy(9-methoxy-10-chloro)hexadecanoic acid and 9-chloro-10-methoxy(9-methoxy-10-chloro)-octadecanoic acid.
(2) 78.5 degrees -79.0 degrees C, was optically inactive and the adipocere contained about 3 to 20% hydroxy fatty acid of the total fatty acids.
(3) The adipocere contained approximately 7.2% 9-chloro-10-methoxy(9-methoxy-10-chloro) fatty acids in the total fatty acids.
(4) The melting point of the hydroxy fatty acid was nearly identical with that of the 10-D, L-hydroxyoctadecanoic acid synthesized organically, suggesting that the hydroxy fatty acid in the adipocere appears to be converted non-enzymatically.
(5) The adipocere contained about 1.3 to 1.6% oxo fatty acid of total fatty acids.
(6) The process of saponification, whereby after death the body's tissue turns to a soap-like substance called adipocere, also called grave-wax, has been slowed.
(7) A proposed mechanism for formation of adipocere is described.
(8) The relationship of adipocere formation to the postmortem interval and the problems of injury interpretation are discussed.
(9) In the adipocere two hydroxy fatty acid components were detected by gas-liquid chromatography (GLC).
(10) Two kinds of oxo fatty acids were found to be present in the adipocere.
(11) These hydroxy fatty acids found in the adipocere appear to play an important role on the formation of adipocere.
(12) Some varieties of aerobic or anaerobic microorganisms from the human stool and adipocere were separated and identified.
(13) Immersion occurred at the time of the year when water temperature was highest (70 degrees F [21 degrees C]) facilitating the rapid formation of adipocere.
(14) Extensive adipocere formation resulted in remarkable preservation of gross anatomic features of internal organs.
(15) It is suggested that some ancient CaCO(3) concretions, especially those enclosing fossils of soft-bodied organisms, may have formed rapidly after death in the form of natural Ca soap (adipocere) which was later converted to CaCO(3).
(16) Aerobic bacteria as well as anaerobic microorganisms were found to be involved in the formation of adipocere.
(17) The analyses of bone marrow and body tissue (adipocere) from a severely decomposed body for the presence of paracetamol and dextropropoxyphene (Distalgesic) are described, and the levels of drugs found are presented.
(18) It is suggested that the autopsy should be supplemented by chemical analysis in order to describe the state of adipocere correctly.
(19) The hydroxy fatty acid purified from the adipocere, m.p.
(20) Microbial synthesis of hydroxy and oxo fatty acids was studied as one of the model of experimental adipocere formation.
Fatty
Definition:
(a.) Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
Example Sentences:
(1) An unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph of Escherichia coli was grown with a series of cis-octadecenoate isomers in which the location of the double bond varied from positions 3 to 17.
(2) Estimations of the degree of incorporation of 14C from the radioactive labeled carbohydrate into the glycerol and fatty acid moieties were carried out.
(3) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
(4) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(5) In fact, the distribution of [3H]oleate between plasma membranes and unilamellar vesicles of lipids extracted from these membranes was in favor of the lipids, indicating the absence of a detectable amount of binding to a putative fatty acid binding protein in plasma membranes.
(6) The content of unsaturated fatty acids in walleye pollock PRM is 1.4 times greater than in frog PRM.
(7) Phospholipids of microsomes prepared from cells incubated with eicosapentaenoic acid were enriched in this fatty acid.
(8) The alpha 2 agonist, clonidine, produced a larger dose-related increase in food intake in lean rats than in the fatty rats.
(9) Each of the phospholipid classes displayed a distinctive fatty acid pattern which was the same in all fractions and in whole platelets.
(10) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
(11) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
(12) Partially purified fatty acid synthetase produced saturated and unsaturated fatty acids with chain lengths of C10 to C18.
(13) The phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine had distinctive fatty acid distributions for position sn-2 of the triacylglycerol had a predominance of unsaturated fatty acids of which 18:1 (69.9%) was the major component.
(14) So far, attempts to produce linolenic acid deficiency in mammals have not revealed an absolute requirement for n-3 fatty acids.
(15) The PC modification was affected by the fatty acid composition of the exogenous PC species.
(16) It has been postulated that the peroxisomal fatty acid-oxidizing system [Lazarow & de Duve (1976) Proc.
(17) This is an inborn error of the mitochondrial beta-oxidation of fatty acids.
(18) All reported studies have documented small 5 to 10 mm Hg decrements of blood pressure with dietary supplementation with these fatty acids and conversion of the ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids toward unity.
(19) Formation of a complex between alpha-tocopherol or its analogues in the excited state and fatty acids or their hydroperoxides has been suggested basing on the fluorescence quenching experimental data.
(20) Both fatty acid composition and the degree of lipid peroxidation were measured in this study in 23 OTC fish oil preparations.