What's the difference between avid and avidious?

Avid


Definition:

  • (a.) Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The characteristics of an arterial wall chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CS-PG) subfraction that binds avidly to low-density lipoproteins (LDL) was studied.
  • (2) There was found an insignificant prevalance of the antibody avidity in the patients with the forms of the disease of moderate severity and severe.
  • (3) In osteoarthritic cartilage, compared with normal cartilage, there was no increase in water binding but water content increased by 9 per cent and the avidity with which the newly bound water was held also increased.
  • (4) In our studies of the 131I-labeled anti-Thy 1.1 antibody treatment of murine lymphoma we have used cell binding assays with a combination of Lineweaver-Burk analysis to determine immunoreactivity and Scatchard analysis to determine antibody avidity.
  • (5) Potassium and K analogs (Tl, Rb, Cs) are avidly taken up into viable tumor cells whose Na+, K+-ATPase activity is elevated.
  • (6) The percentage of kidney-fixing antibody in each fraction and the degree of proteinuria induced as determined 24 h after injection increased with the avidity of the antibody fraction when equal doses were administered.
  • (7) The results also demonstrated that there was not any apparent correlation between the receptor-binding avidities and in vitro monooxygenase enzyme-induction potencies for the most active polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons.
  • (8) We studied techniques to accurately quantify the adherence of L-[35S]methionine-labeled Candida albicans to human umbilical vein endothelial cells in a 96-well microtiter plate system while avoiding specific problems related to Candida coadherence and avid binding to plastic.
  • (9) Furthermore, we conclude that the pre-killer cell is distinct from a memory T cell because: i) its conversion to an effector cell is antigen-independent and ii) because, unlike the memory cell, pre-killers do not bind avidly to allogeneic cell monolayers.
  • (10) Avidity was estimated in liquid phase from the dissociation rate of preformed complexes of antibody and 125-iodinated insulin.
  • (11) Antibodies produced by PC-specific clones have a more restricted pattern of avidities and resemble in quality anti-PC antibodies produced in vivo.
  • (12) Cold target inhibition studies confirmed the cross-reaction, and together with conjugate dissociation studies, indicated that cross-reaction to be of lower "avidity" than the specific recognition of SB2.
  • (13) Avid, Boticca.com is a fashion website, which is about as girly as it gets, but you've come at it from a hard engineering background, haven't you?
  • (14) Thus, the avidity measurement is useful in understanding the immunological events which underlie various clinicopathological features of SLE.
  • (15) The aggregation, although of slow onset, was persistent and of high avidity.
  • (16) Nonopsonized L. pneumophila were avidly phagocytized by alveolar macrophages.
  • (17) Thereafter, 27S species adsorbed avidly to it and collapsed into characteristic configurations containing four globular domains, each linked to the others by three approximately 33-nm struts.
  • (18) High avidity DNP-binding cells gave rise to predominantly high avidity anti-DNP-PFC.
  • (19) Firstly, FcRIII do not cluster lannic acid-modified erythrocytes avidly bound to neutrophils but did not trigger clustering of FcRII.
  • (20) The study has revealed a faintly pronounced inverse correlation between the degree of avidity of serum antibodies and the level of infectious antigenemia.

Avidious


Definition:

  • (a.) Avid.

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