What's the difference between alum and graduate?

Alum


Definition:

  • (n.) A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
  • (v. t.) To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although alum adsorbed allergen could induce IgE synthesis in mice primed with liposome entrapped allergen the increase in serum specific IgE levels was lower than the animals primed and challenged with alum adsorbed allergen.
  • (2) Effective adjuvanticity as measured by the titre of the anti-peptide or anti-protein response in mice varied in the order: Algammulin, Montanide ISA 50 greater than or equal to Freund's adjuvant, Montanide ISA 708, 721, 70 much greater than alum, Squalene Arlacel greater than SAF-1.
  • (3) IgE levels in nude mice were estimated by the one-step single radial radiodiffusion method antisera prepared by immunization of guinea pigs with an IgE-rich fraction obtained from sera of normal mice infected with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and immunized with DNP-ovalbumin in alum gel.
  • (4) Over 90% of the anti-OVA antibodies were of the IgGl isotype with both adjuvants; OVA in alum induced slightly more IgGl anti-OVA antibodies than cFA.
  • (5) Sections are brought to water, stained in Delafield's alum hematoxylin for 10 minutes, washed in tap water for 10 minutes, counterstained in 1% Procion brillant orange M-GS for 15 minutes and washed in distilled water for 10 minutes.
  • (6) The antibody responses of animals immunised with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in Freund's Incomplete Adjuvant (FIA), diethylaminoethyl dextran (DEAE-dextran) and aluminium hydroxide (alum) were compared with the response to antigen administered in the absence of adjuvants.
  • (7) Wash thoroughly in water and place in 4% iron alum solution for two hours.
  • (8) The stability of ragweed extracts as measured by Antigen E content is markedly enhanced with little loss after 15 month storage at 4 degrees C, when the extract is prepared as an alum precipitated suspension.
  • (9) The choice of the carrier seemed to play an important role for both the level and maintenance of the secondary IgG response, attained as a consequence of a booster immunization with TT-alum.
  • (10) Six commercially available clostridial vaccines comprising one oil-emulsion, two alum-precipitated and three aluminum hydroxide adjuvanted preparations, each containing between two and seven antigenic components, were administered to groups of 10 rabbits and eight sheep in accordance with manufacturers' recommendations.
  • (11) So those undesirable gastric mucosa side effects that can be observed or presumed by the intake of NaF and CaF2 + alum are presumably neglibile.
  • (12) We reported previously that CBA mice pretreated with dinitrophenyl-Bordetella pertussis (DNP-BP) conjugates exhibited sharply decreased anti-DNP IgE, and increased IgG2a antibodies following immunization with DNP-ovalbumin (DNP-OA) in alum.
  • (13) An experimental review of the Feulgen and gallocyanine-chrome-alum stains for quantitative cytophotometry of DNA in tissue sections yielded information on the preparation and staining of tissue for quantitative absorbance microspectrophotometry.
  • (14) Alum, due to its safety and efficacy remains the drug of first choice for persistent vesical hematuria.
  • (15) Antibodies to the preparation were induced in rabbits by using alum as an adjuvant.
  • (16) Prior inoculation of mice with alum-adsorbed anti-idiotype potentiated the immune response to a subsequent inoculation with either native HBsAg particles or with a synthetic HBsAg peptide.
  • (17) Genetically modified M (pre-S2+S; P31) protein (M-P31c) particles were formulated into a vaccine (TGP-943) through adsorption on to an alum adjuvant.
  • (18) Sequential treatment with 5 X Denhardt's solution followed by gelatin-chrome alum resulted in enhanced specificity of labelling and excellent chromosome morphology, as well as reduced levels of background.
  • (19) Despite positive staining reactions with the presumptive neurosecretory stains, paraldehyde-fuchsin and chrome-alum-hematoxylin, ultrastructurally these glands exhibit many non-neural characteristics.
  • (20) Primary immunization with alum prepared using AlK(SO4)2 and adjuvant enhanced IgE production in the guinea pig.

Graduate


Definition:

  • (n.) To mark with degrees; to divide into regular steps, grades, or intervals, as the scale of a thermometer, a scheme of punishment or rewards, etc.
  • (n.) To admit or elevate to a certain grade or degree; esp., in a college or university, to admit, at the close of the course, to an honorable standing defined by a diploma; as, he was graduated at Yale College.
  • (n.) To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven.
  • (n.) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
  • (v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz.
  • (v. i.) To taper, as the tail of certain birds.
  • (v. i.) To take a degree in a college or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma.
  • (n.) One who has received an academical or professional degree; one who has completed the prescribed course of study in any school or institution of learning.
  • (n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated.
  • (n. & v.) Arranged by successive steps or degrees; graduated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That motivation is echoed by Nicola Saunders, 25, an Edinburgh University graduate who has just been called to the bar to practise as a barrister and is tutoring Moses, an ex-convict, in maths.
  • (2) We are also running our graduate internship scheme this summer.
  • (3) Controversy exists regarding immunization with pertussis vaccine of high-risk special care nursery graduates.
  • (4) Approximately half the foreign graduates born in the United States studied in Italy, and 10% in Switzerland, Mexico and Belgium.
  • (5) Labour's education spokesman, Ed Balls, said it was important to continue expanding the number of graduates.
  • (6) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
  • (7) In 1984, 286 male US graduates matched in pathology, but this number dropped to 150 in 1985 and 149 in 1986.
  • (8) The school, funded by a £75m gift from a US philanthropist, will train graduates from around the world in the "skills and responsibilities of government," the university said.
  • (9) 31 junior high students and seven university undergraduates who graduated from the same junior high school seven years before were asked to draw a layout of the school campus.
  • (10) Other findings showed highly satisfactory to above average performance of graduates whether based on residency supervisors' evaluations or self-evaluations and higher ratings for the graduates who selected surgery residency programs than for those pursuing other disciplines.
  • (11) This conclusion is based on a misconception: that science graduates are limited to a career in science.
  • (12) That’s why many parents in North Korea have started bribing government officers even before their kids graduate high school.
  • (13) Also, when using these drugs, one must often follow a meticulously graduated dosage regimen, while carefully monitoring the patient for toxic and potentially lethal side effects.
  • (14) A graduate can earn £240,000 more than a non-maths graduate.
  • (15) A graduate education program in public health for American Indians was introduced in the fall of 1971 at the College of Public Health, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
  • (16) However, only the doctors who graduated from the two modern universities in Kuopio and Tampere were satisfied with their undergraduate health centre teaching.
  • (17) A questionnaire was administered to 57 UWI-trained medical graduates presently doing their internship in Jamaica.
  • (18) THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF EDUCATION FOR MEDICAL LIBRARY PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES CONSISTS OF FOUR MAJOR COMPONENTS: graduate degree programs in library science with specialization in medical librarianship; graduate degree programs in library science with no such specialization; postgraduate internships in medical libraries; continuing education programs.
  • (19) As a result of the clerkship's success, over 50 percent of the program's graduates actively practice in primary medical manpower shortage or medically underserved areas.
  • (20) (2) COME is third-grade medical education producing third-grade graduates and 'barefoot doctors'.