(a.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Group teaching compared to individualized teaching of the patients to collect their own aliquots did not appear to have a measurable effect upon the levels of bacteriuria.
(2) In order to maintain its activity, the enzyme was always stored in 1.0-ml aliquots at temperatures below -20 degrees C and each aliquot when thawed was used immediately; any left over enzyme was never reused.
(3) Five ml aliquots of ORS were collected at 6, 12 and 24 hours after reconstitution for bacteriologic study.
(4) The tissue and an aliquot of bathing medium were counted for 3H and 14C content and the values entered into the Wadell and Butler equation.
(5) In SYD fT is estimated from the rate at which radiolabelled testosterone redistributes between two identical (undiluted) plasma aliquots separated by a dialysis membrane.
(6) For direct measurement of the ESR signal of superoxide anion (O2-) produced in biological samples, O2- generated at a physiological pH was trapped in alkaline media instead of by a rapid freezing method, and then its signal was measured by ESR spectroscopy at 77 K. A reaction mixture for O2- generation, such as xanthine oxidase-xanthine and neutrophils, was incubated at a physiological pH (pH 7.0-7.5) for a suitable reaction period (30s), then an aliquot (300 microliters) was pipetted out and squirted into 600 microliters of 0.5 M NaOH to stabilize O2- (pH-jump).
(7) In order to determine piretanide in urine, bumetanide was added to a urine aliquot.
(8) This reaction is performed in solution and the evaluation is accomplished by dotting aliquots of the reaction mixture onto phosphocellulose paper, washing with water, and autoradiography.
(9) Aliquots of the fluids in the outer and inner condoms were grown in culture.
(10) Fluidification of sputum with reduction in certain measurements of the viscosity of morning sputum aliquots, associated with improvement in the ability to cough up bronchial secretions, significant increase in sputum volume output, and improvement in ventilation (as estimated by the forced expiratory volume in one second), were observed in both trials as dose-related responses, with an increase in the ease of expectoration and a reduction in cough frequency and dyspnea.
(11) Aliquots of saliva from 50 schoolchildren and 51 adults were tested by the dip-slide method and by conventional plating methods in MSB agar.
(12) Aliquots of sera from women with hypogonadism were subjected to gel filtration chromatography to be assayed for follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) by the use of radioimmunoassay.
(13) Heparinized blood from six healthy controls and nine patients on cardiopulmonary bypass was aliquoted and mixed with various concentrations of aprotinin.
(14) This method used semi-micro scale material and 200-microliters biological aliquots.
(15) A good correlation existed between histamine levels on an aliquot of lysed BAL cells and BAL histamine levels, R = 0.655 and p = 0.02, but not with either the total number or percent mast-basophiloid cells in BAL assessed on Wright's stained cytocentrifuge preparations.
(16) Aliquots of timed urine specimens of known volume should be stored frozen without preservative.
(17) Aliquots of 24-h urine collections are acidified and applied to columns of Dowex 50W cation-exchange resin.
(18) Frozen aliquots of each sample were dispatched to each of the laboratories, where the aliquots were assayed using the same one-stage, two-stage and chromogenic methods.
(19) Fractions from the boronate gel column or aliquots of NaIO4-treated cell extract are quantitated directly by the RIA.
(20) Aliquots from 13As containing human blood and seeded with eight mycobacterial species were also concentrated directly and using both reagents.
Ergo
Definition:
(conj. / adv.) Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way.
Example Sentences:
(1) That’s the Australian experience.” When asked whether he accepted that there is potentially a causal relationship between rising temperatures and bushfires, Hunt replied: “Well by definition, bushfires happen in hot weather.” Iqbal then pushed on the science behind fire weather being impacted by “changes in the climate, ergo climate change”.
(2) This is a good example of the post hoc, ergo propter hoc – “after this, therefore because of this” – fallacy.
(3) MRI scans have been singularly effective at capturing the public imagination, but the claims made – this part of the brain is lighting up, ergo, this baby or mother is experiencing love – are egregious.
(4) Another said: “I ‘hate’ cruelty, liars, those who profit from an others tragedy, ergo my ‘hate for Kate and Gerry’ is justified.
(5) Ergo, they are losing £2m a year by keeping it open.
(6) The risk factors were examined by exercise stress test on Quinton-2000 ECG monitor and treadmill Q-model 24-26, Bruce protocol, along with Ergo-oxyscreen, by laboratory tests of fasting blood lipid levels, and by interview using a questionnaire.
(7) And I've taken pleasure in consulting women half my age about whether I should opt for an Ergo carrier or a Baby Bjorn , whether my feet will ever shrink back to their pre-pregnancy size and whether we really need a nappy bin?
(8) If not, he has fallen into that GCSE syllogism: this book is about women; women are feminists; ergo this book is about feminism.
(9) All segments of control vessels vasoconstricted to ERGO and vasodilated to NTG (p less than 0.05 versus baseline), indicating a normal response.
(10) The US policy-making Principals Committee, meeting on 19 May, expressed its view that: “The only realistic option is to seek Allied support for an Unprofor pull-back from vulnerable positions” – ergo, the safe areas – “coupled with more robust enforcement of the remaining mandate, including Nato air strikes.” The French general Bernard Janvier, overall commander of UN troops on the ground, told the security council member states on 24 May that: “The enclaves are indefensible, and the status quo untenable.” He said UN troops were too vulnerable in the safe areas, and should either be reinforced, or withdrawn to make way for air strikes.
(11) The ISO test was not accompanied with adverse effects and could be considered as a useful method in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease, similar to ERGO.
(12) Electrosleep is still controversial, hydro-, ergo- and physical therapy are supportive therapies and as such indicated in all depressions.
(13) Ergo the municipal axe, and the newly familiar austerity.
(14) Ergo, shove it up your preconceptions, Hollywood Me.
(15) The maintaining of sufficient support and normal walking through the use of plantar prostheses or custommade toe prostheses and by wearing shoes of excellent quality, the maintainance and preservation of articular flexibility and muscular trophicity by adapted kinestherapy and ergo therapy.
(16) Ergo, men have evolved their comedic skills to a greater level.
(17) I'm an existentialist, I'm in a car, ergo farther up the road.
(18) The correct assessment of residual respiratory lesions after a chest injury requires clinical examination, roentgenographic examination in two planes, lung function tests including ergo-spirometry and blood gas analyses before and after exercise.
(19) ERGO (£3.99) Okay, so the appeal of this app may be as much to show off as for security reasons.
(20) In time I realised a certain intellectual laziness was in play, that because those journalists did not recognise the things I wrote about as coming from their own lives, ergo they must have come from mine.