(a.) Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microscopically, lungs were airless and congested with hyaline membrane formation in patent terminal airways.
(2) Various types of high-pressure equipment, including airless paint sprayers, hydraulic apparatus and grease guns, are used in industry, in farming and in the home.
(3) When we meet in her small, airless office in the headquarters of the Assemblée Nationale in Paris, her hair is swept back in a ponytail, her clothes are fashionable but discreet: a black top with zip detailing at the shoulders, tailored beige trousers, boots with a sensible heel.
(4) Using vegetable or livestock waste to generate biogas is now common and growing fast as cattle farmers and food companies in Europe and the US are encouraged with subsidies to set up anaerobic, or airless, digesters like Ta Quang Nha’s rudimentary one.
(5) They’re like the sort of expat communities JG Ballard writes about: airless and sanitised pockets of a home country in a foreign land.
(6) Looking back now I would have started out with far less optimism had I known how many hours I would spend in airless rooms, how many animated discussions, how many sleepless nights mulling over the pros and cons of settling the case.
(7) This is an evil place, as airless and soulless as the inside of Pamela Geller’s head.
(8) The airless paint gun delivers paint at pressures approximating 3,000 psi.
(9) Then human rights activists gathered horrific stories of torture - with former inmates describing being held in airless cells, or in dark mud pits dug out from the ground, often knee-deep in water.
(10) In between, there is lots of interesting and illuminating stuff, particularly when Wood talks about why he left "airless" literary London, sickened by his monitoring of "who's up, who's down"; at another point, Messud offers that only one of them can work in the house at a time, otherwise they run short of air.
(11) We can’t have the windows open because of the fumes so in the summer the house feels pretty airless.
(12) High pressure injection equipment such as airless paint sprayers, high pressure grease guns, and fuel injection apparatus constitute a serious safety hazard resulting in significant morbidity.
(13) It therefore has no idea whether the projected £300m spending reduction in its own budget is outweighed by additional costs elsewhere.” *** Another day in court, and a different litigant in person is sitting in a small airless room just off the main lobby.
(14) We are in a bland, airless meeting room at the London offices of Baby Cow, Steve Coogan's production company (which is behind Gavin & Stacey).
(15) Specifically, two new airless polyurethane foam tires (circular and tapered cross-section) were compared to both a molded polyisoprene tire and a rubber pneumatic tire.
(16) It was sweaty and airless, buzzing with mosquitoes, and it was here his emotions came to the surface.
(17) Given the slightest chance, they will squeeze themselves into cars and airless lorries.
(18) Boarding passes in hand, the three men climbed the stairs to the second floor, an airless hall lined with newsagents, coffee shops and souvenir stores.
(19) In Blackburn's new market, a strange, sanitised place in the airless basement of a shopping centre, Jack Straw is buying fresh fish for his dinner and I am trying hard not to feel too much like a spare part.
(20) For many, the so-called Fan Fests remain airless experiences.
Hairless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
(2) Lymphocyte blastogenesis in hairless descendants of Mexican hairless dogs was examined using the following mitogens: phytohemagglutinin (PHA-M), Concanavalin A (Con A), lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and pokeweed mitogen (PWM).
(3) In the second series of studies, GTN was administered topically to freshly excised, intact hairless mouse skin in conventional in vitro diffusion cells.
(4) Experimental data are presented for: (a) the flux of diflorasone diacetate through hairless mouse skin, (b) the percutaneous penetration profile of propylene glycol, (c) the effects of vehicle concentrations of polyoxypropylene 15 stearyl ether and propylene glycol on the percutaneous flux of diflorasone diacetate, (d) skin--vehicle partition coefficients of diflorasone diacetate, (e) the solubility profile of diflorasone diacetate as a function of solvent concentration, and (f) the alteration of the skin's resistance to the penetration of diflorasone diacetate due to propylene glycol.
(5) In this study, oral therapy with vitamin A or a synthetic analogue, etretinate, was tested for ability to protect hairless mice (Skh-hr1) from the development of skin tumours following exposure to broad-band light (280-700 nm) for 25 weeks.
(6) During the early part of the experiments, when the sink condition was maintained, FAH was the most effective for hairless mouse skin, whereas Azone showed the highest effect in the rat skin.
(7) Hairless mice were irradiated three times a week for 10 weeks with sunlamps (UVA and UVB) and the skin was examined using immunochemical and biochemical techniques.
(8) From the results of mating experiments, an autosomal dominant semi-lethal gene was considered to be responsible for the hairlessness accompanied by defective teeth in the dog.
(9) Albino hairless mice (Skh:HR-1) exposed chronically to suberythemal doses of ultraviolet (UV) radiation display visible and histological alterations in the skin.
(10) An abnormal hairless mouse epidermis was produced by three different methods: ultraviolet light irradiation, topical vitamin A acid and topical acetic acid.
(11) The carcinogenic effect of 3 commercially available ultraviolet A (UVA) tanning sources was studied in lightly pigmented hairless mice.
(12) ISDN permeation through excised hairless rat skin from the different devices was measured in vitro.
(13) If it is to be denuded and buried, however, great care must be taken to select a donor area that is as hairless as possible.
(14) There are two mechanisms for flux enhancement relative to passive flux on "fresh" hairless mouse skin: (1) the effect of the voltage in increasing mass transfer over the passive diffusion level, the effect of electroosmotic flow dominating this contribution in the systems studied in this report; and (2) the effect of prior current flow in increasing the "intrinsic permeability" of the skin.
(15) A comparison of the enhancing effect of 3% 1 on permeation of 2 through rat, hairless mouse, and human cadaver skin was made.
(16) Treatment of herpes simplex virus (HSV)-infected hairless mice with a 2% phosphonoacetic acid (PAA) ointment prevented the appearance of virus-induced skin lesions and subsequent central nervous system (CNS) involvement.
(17) Hairless albino mice were painted with 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and exposed to solar simulated radiation (SSR) for 0, 3 or 6 weeks and subsequently treated with the promoter 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA).
(18) Dopa phosphates have been shown to increase pigment production in the epidermis of hairless mice.
(19) Chronic irradiation (three times a week) with ultraviolet B light of the skin of hairless mouse Uscd (Hr) strains resulted in the induction of skin tumors after 25 to 41 weeks.
(20) Several physiological parameters were measured in hairless mice maintained on a diet supplemented with antioxidants.