(n.) The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
(n.) A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
(n.) Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.
(n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
(2) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
(3) But what is happening in the UK now has not been seen for decades and has rarely been seen at all since the Chartist agitations of the 1840s.
(4) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
(5) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
(6) The effect of tiapride on the various manifestations of agitation was also spectacular and rapid, and the authors confirm the excellent tolerance of the product.
(7) Therefore, the CDS controlling procollagen production and the CDS controlling the inhibition of growth seemed to be linked because the signaling mechanism is disrupted in a parallel manner by agitation.
(8) The echo intensity produced by this agent was compared with that of agitated saline solution, indocyanine green and SHU-454 (another experimental saccharide agent for right-sided contrast) during 136 injections in eight dogs.
(9) The two groups examined comprise 'hyperactive' mentally handicapped children and senile dementia patients, all of whom showed moderate to severe agitation.
(10) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
(11) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
(12) Ultrasonic preparation with 0.25% sodium hypochlorite solution and final agitation with 50% citric acid solution were found to produce a very clean canal wall, free of smear layer in coronal and middle parts.
(13) Photoreceptors were dissociated from retinas by mechanical agitation after mild protease treatment and characterized by light and electron microscopy.
(14) Two of the targets we tested (SV-COL and SV-COL-E8) both highly sensitive to lysis, stimulated macrophage movement, inducing an "agitated" response.
(15) The cells can be defimbriated by sonication, high-speed agitation, or centrifugation through a 40% sucrose solution.
(16) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
(17) Blot and give 2 fast changes in absolute ethanol with agitation before transferring to xylene.
(18) Distractibility, inappropriate sexual behavior, agitation or seizures were lacking.
(19) The successful use of midazolam to treat psychomotor agitation in this patient is also reported.
(20) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
Stirrer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, stirs something; also, one who moves about, especially after sleep; as, an early stirrer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Long-lasting steady states were observed with method C, where the sample was contained in a cage acting as a stirrer.
(2) The apparatus consists of a cylindrical glass tube of a few centimeters in diameter, an electric motor slowly rotating the cylinder, a fan, a magnetic stirrer, and an ice-water bath.
(3) The procedure is a fluorometric rate method measuring the formation of NADPH catalyzed by immobilized glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and hexokinase held within a tiny stirrer.
(4) The mixing chamber houses a disposable plastic cuvette stirred with a magnetic stirrer.
(5) Inoculation density and stirrer speed were evaluated in batch cultures, whereas dilution rate and pH were optimized in chemostat cultures with respect to high specific antibody production rate and high antibody yield per time and reactor volume.
(6) Yet the calculations of permeability constants of the cell membrane were made with the tacit assumption, that once the labeled materials pass through the cell membrane, they were instantly mixed with the entire cell contents as if a stirrer operating at infinite speed had been present inside the cells.
(7) For the automation of triglyceride extraction, we have modified the sampler, by incorporating a magnetic stirrer under the sample table.
(8) The kinetics of absorbance change were monitored continuously over time in yeast cell cultures that were mixed and aerated in cuvettes fitted with top-loading propeller stirrers.
(9) The immobilized enzymes are stable, and the same immobilized-enzyme stirrer can be used for at least 200 accurate, reproducible assays.
(10) In the succeeding fed-batch phase, the specific growth rate was reduced to muPr by increasing the stirrer speed according to an empirically developed time scale.
(11) By the simple means of constant stirring of the fixative using a magnetic stirrer, we accomplished rapid fixation and achieved results in which positive cells attained 100%.
(12) The influence of stirrer speed in the third preculture on the performance of penicillin V production by Penicillium chrysogenum in complex medium in a 100-l air-lift tower loop reactor was investigated.
(13) In separate experiments the effect of 10(-5) M bumetanide on the O2 consumption was measured in a stirrer bath assembly.
(14) Use of the high-speed blender resulted in faster extractions, but in our laboratory more samples could be more conveniently extracted simultaneously with the wrist-action shaker or mechanical stirrer.
(15) Dissolution profiles in 0.1N hydrochloric acid using both the paddle stirrer apparatus and the spin filter apparatus were obtained for prednisone tablets made by seven different manufacturers and prednisolone tablets made by eight different manufacturers.
(16) Microbial cells were disintegrated in a new type of rotary disintegrator with a disc stirrer by a combination of shear force layers, collisions, and rolling of glass beads which were brought into motion by the stirrer.
(17) Ground substrates and a buffer solution were continuously supplied into 500 ml culture vessels in which the contents were mixed slowly by a stirrer (6 rpm) and the excess medium removed via a small outlet chamber (overflow) by a turning wing (30 rpm).
(18) The sedimentation of red blood cells within a membrane feeding device, and the consequent hazard to arthropod feeding, is prevented by the use of the redesigned feeding unit and electrical blood stirrer.
(19) Finally, the plate is placed on a magnetic stirrer.
(20) The temperature control system was incorporated in the metal sleeve surrounding the glass reaction vessel to shorten the distance between the magnetic stirrer and stirring bar, enabling smooth stirring with a short magnetic bar.