(v. t.) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
(a.) United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
(a.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
(2) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
(3) Whole-virus vaccines prepared by Merck Sharp and Dohme (West Point, Pa.) and Merrell-National Laboratories (Cincinnati, Ohio) and subunit vaccines prepared by Parke, Davis and Company (Detroit, Mich.) and Wyeth Laboratories (Philadelphia, Pa.) were given intramuscularly in concentrations of 800, 400, or 200 chick cell-agglutinating units per dose.
(4) In high concentrations of antiserum, some of the agglutinated cells of L. h. hertigi were enlarged and showed syncytial characters that included up to five nuclei, two dividing nuclei and five basal bodies associated with a single kinetoplast.
(5) Most cis AB sera have anti-B activity, essentially at 4 degrees C. In saliva A and H substances are found in normal amounts but B substance is only evidenced by inhibition of autologous cells agglutination.
(6) We put forward the hypothesis that the agglutinability in acriflavine, together with the PAGE profile type II, may be associated with particular structures responsible for virulence.
(7) Twenty strains did not agglutinate with commercial serum O-Yersinia IMUNA; they were included in the group "Yersinia enterocolitica other biovars" and 60 strains were "Environmental Yersinia isolates".
(8) All these strains produced an enterotoxic principle, antigenically related to cholera coli family of enterotoxins, as detected by latex agglutination and immuno-dot-blot tests.
(9) In addition, two semiquantitative tests (erythrocytes-agglutination test (FM-test) and ethanol gelation test (EGT] were included in the study.
(10) Monoclonal antibody G9 reacted with surface antigens and, hence, participated in agglutination of M gallisepticum.
(11) These specificities are detected by the agglutination test and have been shown to be present on mature neutrophils.
(12) Heat-treated control antigens had lower agglutination titers than did the alcohol-treated control antigens.
(13) The median level of haptoglobin types 2-2 and 2-1 was found to be proportional to the agglutination titer of T4 antigen-carrying streptococci (Fig.
(14) The reagent did not agglutinate the red blood cells from seven acquired-B red blood cell samples and was strongly reactive with Tn-polyagglutinable red blood cells.
(15) latex agglutination, culture and cytotoxic activity.
(16) Merozoite agglutination was caused by the binding of surface coats on adjacent parasites.
(17) Salmonella typhi O and H antibody titres were determined by the Standard Agglutination Test (SAT) in 85 patients with bacteriologically proven typhoid, 102 patients with non-typhoidal febrile illnesses (control group 1), and 170 healthy subjects (control group 2).
(18) Agglutination tests are not suitable for the estimation of the protective antibody level in the sera of vaccinated animals and should not be used for the quality control testing of blackleg vaccines.
(19) The authors report on the sensitivity and interobserver variability of the assay as performed in a blinded fashion in a hospital laboratory by technologists experienced with other latex agglutination assays.
(20) Three different methods for the determination of circulating immune complexes were compared : precipitation of radioiodinated C1q in polyethyleneglycol-EDTA, inhibition of IgG-coated latex particles agglutination by C1q or polyclonal rheumatoid factor.
Glue
Definition:
(n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
(n.) To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(2) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(3) The most common inhalant stupefacients were "Butapren" glue, trichlorethylene and "Roxy" fluid; wine and vodka were the alcohols used.
(4) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(5) In second group after thoracotomy the lungs were stabilized with gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue.
(6) The proteins are synthesized for approximately 14 hr until puparium formation, when the glue is released from the salivary glands.
(7) The polyphenolic protein is the "glue" in the adhesive plaques of the byssus.
(8) Second, in patients with acute aortic dissection, the false lumen of the aortic root and arch is filled with resorcinformol glue and the layers are readapted by this means after anatomical reconstruction.
(9) Exclusion from external ventilation was performed in animal experiments by instillation of Ethibloc, an amino acid glue, in one main bronchus to create an atelectasis.
(10) Economic openness is the glue that binds the EU together and it is the solution to the crisis of European competitiveness that long predates the current strife.
(11) The fibrinogen in the glue was prepared by ethanol precipitation of plasma separated from 88 ml of the patient's blood.
(12) In addition, they had on the average abused more than twice as many different substances as addicts without a glue use history.
(13) An average of 3.3 ml of glue was applied to the anterior wall of the anastomosis in the treated group.
(14) Sundew use beads of treacly glue to trap flies on their finger-like leaves.
(15) But the existence of elections in England, Scotland and Wales in May will act as party political glue.
(16) This technique is very convenient for adult cholesteatomas developed in a sclerotic mastoid with an extension limited to mesotympanum and attic, to the children cholesteatomas developed in the mesotympanum with a sclerotic mastoid, for the correction of retraction pockets after a closed technique, rehabilitation of radical mastoidectomies, fibroadhesive otitis and some idiopathic glue tympanic membrane with a large cholesterol granuloma.
(17) Children in case families were more likely to be diagnosed as suffering from glue ear rather than recurrent acute otitis media, particularly if an older sibling of the same sex had previously been so diagnosed (for boys RR 6.68; for girls RR 4.55).
(18) Simple formulae expressing average and maximum concentrations of solvent vapour in indoor air during the application of paints, glues, and the like, have been derived using a six parameter mathematical exposure model MEM 1.
(19) Human jejunal brush-border pteroylpolyglutamate hydrolase is an exopeptidase which liberated [14C]Glu as the sole labeled product of PteGlu2[14C]Glue (where PteGlun represents pteroylpolyglutamate), failed to liberate a radioactive product from PteGlu2[14C]GluLeu2, and released all possible labeled PteGlun products during incubation with Pte[14C]GluGlu6 with the accumulation of Pte[14C]Glu.
(20) Histoacryl glue was used in 108 blepharoplasty incisions, 30 facelift incisions, 21 submental incisions for liposuction, and 19 local flaps for facial reconstructive procedures.