(n.) Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry, in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In tissue culture we tested the influence of two injectable solutions [lens epithelial necrosis factor (LENF)] and aqua bidest.
(2) The use of self-topping aqua privies, discharging through sewers to oxidation ponds, has made possible the economic installation of water-carriage systems of waste disposal in low-cost high-density housing areas.In the oxidation ponds, typhoid bacteria appear to be more resistant than indicator organisms; helminths, cysts and ova settle out; there are no snails and, if peripheral vegetation is removed, mosquitos will not breed.
(3) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
(4) The second-order rate constants estimated for the association of Zn2+ and Cd2+ to the tetrameric site indicate that the loss of the first inner-sphere aqua ligand is the rate-limiting step for binding.
(5) I group--control; II group--animals treated with aqua solution of cadmium sulphate; III group--animals treated with aqua solution of cadmium sulphate and lead acetate simultaneously and IV group--animals treated with aqua solution of lead acetate.
(6) The pathophysiologic effects of anatoxin-a(s) from the cyanobacterium Anabaena flos-aquae NRC-525-17 were investigated in anaesthetized adult male Sprague Dawley rats given the toxin by continuous intravenous infusion until death.
(7) It is conspicous that P. aeruginosa dies off in aqua bidest, within 4 d while it is able to grow in tap-water.
(8) Thin-layer chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography results indicate that Aphanizomenon flos-aquae NH-5 may produce paralytic shellfish poisons, mainly neo-saxitoxin and saxitoxin.
(9) A total of 18 scotochromogenic isolates cultured from 14 patients with positive X-ray findings were identified as Mycobacterium aquae (M. gordonae) and its variants: strains showing slow Tween hydrolysis and 1 strain of rapid growth.
(10) The reversibility of inhibition of plasma, red blood cell (RBC), and diaphragm cholinesterase (ChE) and clinical signs in mice given anatoxin-a(s) [antx-a(s)], a ChE inhibitor from Anabaena flos-aquae NRC-525-17, were characterized and compared with the effects of 2 known ChE inhibitors, the organophosphorus compound paraoxon and the carbamate pyridostigmine bromide.
(11) Incubation of 5 micrometer cryostat sections in narrow jars in the following medium (38.5 ml):--10 ml of 0.2 M sodium phosphate buffer pH 7.6 (52 mM).--18 mg tetranitro-BT in 0.5 ml dimethylformamide and aqua bidest.
(12) The samples were digested in micro-Kjeldahl flasks with a mixture of sulfuric, perchloric, and nitric acids; the residue was treated with aqua regia and extracted into methylisobutyl ketone (MIBK); levels of gold were then measured by GFAA.
(13) A new instrument, the aqua-stream and aspirator (AS & A) is useful and safe for microscopical neurosurgery.
(14) Samples are solubilized in dilute aqua regia after being subjected to an oxygen plasma, low-temperature (less than 190 degrees C) ashing system for 20 to 30 hours.
(15) Its "aqua thermal journey" invites guests to spend two hours enjoying seven different heat experiences.
(16) For aqua regia etching, Type 2 inlay wax appeared to provide sufficient protection.
(17) The observation system consists of a special aquarium coupled to a recirculating water system, and an Opto-Varimex-Aqua activity tracking meter (Columbus Instruments, Columbus, Ohio) interfaced to a microcomputer.
(18) Cows were infected subcutaneously with Mycobacterium aquae, Mycobacterium fortuitum, Micobacterium vaccae, and Mycobacterium smegmatis.
(19) The behaviour in moist environment is examined at room temperature in aqua bidest.
(20) Specially designed orthodontic bands were cemented with either Ketac-Cem (K-C) or Aqua-Cem (A-C).
Aqueduct
Definition:
(n.) A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.
(n.) A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
(2) When histamine (5 micrograms) was injected into three different levels of the ventricular system, the magnitude and duration of the resulting increases in plasma epinephrine and glucose were in the following rank order: the third ventricle greater than aqueduct much greater than fourth ventricle.
(3) The majority of the responsive neurons were located in regions surrounding the aqueduct and the medial part of PAG.
(4) When outcome was examined in patients who were stuporous or comatose on admission, a significant increase in septal shift was found among patients with a poor outcome, but there was no significant relationship between outcome and degree of pineal or aqueductal shift.
(5) This is the first case of a fulminant phase of mumps ventriculitis leading to aqueductal stenosis, which has been treated using a ventriculoscope for the first time.
(6) A series of 55 cases is described in which hydrocephalus associated with non-neoplastic narrowing of the Sylvian aqueduct produced symptoms for the first time in adult life.
(7) With systole there is downward (caudal) flow of CSF in the aqueduct of Sylvius, the foramen of Magendie, the basal cisterns and the dorsal and ventral subarachnoid spaces while during diastole, upward (cranial) flow of CSF in these same structures is seen.
(8) A patent cochlear aqueduct indicated on computed tomography scan was found and repaired through a posterior cranial fossa approach.
(9) Rats from the H-Tx strain develop hydrocephalus through a developmental obstruction of the cerebral aqueduct.
(10) In group A, kaolin was present in the fourth ventricle and Sylvian aqueduct.
(11) SE images obtained with gradient moment nulling did not allow confident distinction between patent and obstructed aqueducts.
(12) The signal intensity of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the cerebral aqueduct and lateral ventricles on magnetic resonance (MR) images was evaluated in 16 healthy individuals and in 32 patients with various forms of hydrocephalus (20 with chronic normal pressure hydrocephalus [NPH], seven with acute communicating hydrocephalus, and five with hydrocephalus ex vacuo [atrophy]).
(13) Tentorial herniation secondary to supratentorial mass lesions will cause aqueductal compression and raised intraventricular pressure.
(14) However, these cytoplasmic edema of the ependymal and glial cells totally subsided by day 30 postinjection, leaving an obliterated aqueduct with a few remnants of ependymal cells without reactive gliosis.
(15) The effect of intracranial pressure on cerebrospinal fluid formation has been studied in cats by ventricular perfusion with the aqueduct of Sylvius blocked (isolated ventricular perfusion).
(16) The disappearance of patency in the cochlear aqueduct is a progressive phenomenon reflecting the biological process of aging in the organism.
(17) The results suggest that under physiological conditions the CSF also flows through the cochleae aqueduct and the protein concentration in the Scala tympani decreases especially in the basal winding.
(18) We demonstrate that the stenosis of the aqueduct is a secondary phenomenon, not causally related to the pathogenesis of hydrocephalus, and discuss the significance of this finding to human aqueduct stenosis.
(19) In the other 71%, the pars rugosa in the vestibular aqueduct was surrounded by dura more commonly than normal.
(20) In this paper we attempted MR visualization of the vestibular aqueduct (VA) with a surface coil.