(n.) One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books.
(n.) Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-five children with stable chronic renal failure, not on dialysis, were treated conservatively with a regimen of mild dietary phosphate restriction and high-dose phosphate binders for up to 5 years.
(2) The use of the pellet binder "Lingnosol FG" in broiler diets at three levels plus a control group revealed differences in the consistency, quantity and color of the caecal contents between the treated and untreated groups.
(3) Epithelial components in both pulmonary blastomas and hamartomas showed a reactivity for R-binder, suggesting that these tumors contained components composed of cells with bronchiolar cell differentiation.
(4) We have studied the time-resolved and the steady-state fluorescence of the DNA groove binders 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and Hoechst 33258 with the double stranded DNAs poly(dA-dU) and poly(dI-dC) and their halogenated analogs, poly(dA-I5dU) and poly(dI-Br5dC).
(5) Extracts from solubilized kidneys were shown to contain a folate binder with the same relative affinities for folates and methotrexate as the in vivo system.
(6) In the present study the vitamin B12 complexes of the two vitamin B12 binders were separated at a pH of 1.8 using the cationic exchange chromatograph Mono S attached to the fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) system.
(7) (5) There was renal release or production of TC II (6) Some TC II but more of a larger molecular size binder came from the liver.
(8) "They brought us whole binders full of women," he relates after he complained that there weren't enough qualified women candidates.
(9) Association and binder dilution curves were prepared in order to optimize the reagent concentrations and the analytical conditions.
(10) Health hazards from environmental pollution may be irritation of the mucous membranes when the indoor environment is painted and fish mortality due to slowly degradable polyacrylate binders.
(11) These findings support the view that abdominal binders assist breathing in tetraplegic patients who are seated or raised to near vertical positions.
(12) The assay incorporated an antibody against purified human salivary R binder as the binding reagent.
(13) Are the 'Set Piece' binders to stay like we are playing a weird version of American Football?'
(14) Transcobalamin I (TCI) is a member of the R binder family of vitamin B12 binding proteins.
(15) Evaluation of the binding parameters of the high affinity binders in both AP and PP gave similar association constants.
(16) Cholestyramine was found to be the most effective bile acid binder, with more than 90% of bile acids adsorbed at all of the pH values studied.
(17) In competition experiments with T cell hybridomas, the poor binder I-Ed molecule required 10- to 15-fold higher competitor concentrations than the good binder I-Ak molecule to achieve 50% inhibition of antigen presentation.
(18) High definition microfocal radiography permitted the quantitative assessment of the radiographic features of renal osteodystrophy in the phalanges of 11 children in stable chronic renal failure, treated with phosphate binders for 1 year.
(19) Use of magnesium hydroxide-containing antacids as phosphate binders in patients with CRF was largely discontinued 2 decades ago after reports described increases in serum magnesium concentrations to toxic levels.
(20) At pH 7.4 the relative affinities are quite disparate, with folic acid showing the greater affinity for milk binder.
Ligature
Definition:
(n.) The act of binding.
(n.) Anything that binds; a band or bandage.
(n.) A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage.
(n.) A thread or wire used to remove tumors, etc.
(n.) The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint.
(n.) Impotence caused by magic or charms.
(n.) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
(n.) A double character, or a type consisting of two or more letters or characters united, as ae, /, /.
(v. t.) To ligate; to tie.
Example Sentences:
(1) This proved that all four fistulas were acquired and that they were probably caused by the catgut ligatures used for ampullary ligation.
(2) With CCK specific antisera (directed to the N-terminal portion of CCK-8 or the midportion of CCK-33) accumulation of peptide-like immunoreactivity (LI) was observed in large, dilated axonal swellings proximal to, but at some distance from, the ligature.
(3) The CF from beagle dogs was collected from gingivitis and active periodontitis (ligature-induced) sites.
(4) After performing the ligature the animals were administered 3H-thymidine, 3H-proline or 35S-sulphate at different times.
(5) A local resection of the liver was performed and the intrahepatic bile duct fistula closed by a ligature.
(6) For correction of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage into the azygos vein with this technique, ligature of the azygos vein must be placed distally to the site of anomalous drainage.
(7) 1 A method for stimulating the lumbar sympathetic outflow from the spinal cord of the rat is described which does not require artificial respiration of the animal.2 In some, but not all experiments continuous stimulation at 2 Hz or intermittently at 10 Hz accelerated the rate at which noradrenaline and dopamine-beta-hydroxylase accumulated central to a ligature on the sciatic nerve by approximately 40%.3 It is concluded that, although nervous activity is not necessary for axonal transport of transmitter granules in sympathetic neurones, intense nervous activity may accelerate the rate of granule transport.
(8) Retrograde transport was examined by allowing orthogradely transported materials to reverse at the regenerating region and then to accumulate at a ligature during a second incubation period.
(9) In the ligature strangulation, the reactions of histamine exclusively demonstrated in the Weibel-Palade bodies of the splenic central arterial endothelial cells.
(10) The authors have gained minimum blood losses when suturing with provisional catgut ligature through the urinary bladder bottom between interureteral fold and internal urethral orifice yet before dessection of adenoma surgical capsule and tumor enucleation.
(11) A larger group who underwent abdominal hysterectomy allowed comparison between MFC on the bladder muscularis and conventional suture ligature in terms of blood loss, operating time success of method used, and complications.
(12) These results suggest that the increased responsiveness to norepinephrine of arteries proximal to the ligature is due to changes in muscle mass and that the increased responsiveness of the veins is due to increased sensitivity to norepinephrine.
(13) The preoperatory treatment is associated: blocking of adrenergic alpha-receptors and beta-receptors; correction of hypovolemia, also applied during the surgical phase I (until the venous ligature is made and the tumor excised) under continuous monitoring (ECG, ABP and central venous pressure).
(14) Venous ligature was performed in five with good effect in two.
(15) Electron-optic investigation revealed mitochondrial alterations 30 minutes after ligature of the pulmonary veins and 2 hours after that of the pulmonary arteries.
(16) After rhizotomia (Dandys method) 3 patients died, one of them because of a meningitis, one of them because of damage of the superior petrosal vein and one after ligature of an irregular auditive artery.
(17) According to maturity stage of the newborn and to the time period between removal of the cervical ligature and delivery we judged the effectiveness and the necessity of Shirodkar operation in the different patient groups.
(18) Six monkeys had significant drops in alveolar bone mass 14 days after the the application of a silk ligature around the gingival margin of an adjacent tooth.
(19) The authors studied the development of collateral circulation between the thoracic duct and the azygous vein system, in 30 adult dogs, after thoracic duct ligature.
(20) Ligature of the rat bile duct induces a large and selective increase of the IgA level in serum.