What's the difference between bioplastic and plastic?
Bioplastic
Definition:
(a.) Bioplasmic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cut surface of the kidney was covered by the combination of tissue adhesive and bioplast without sutures.
(2) For these reasons we recommend Bioplast in ophthalmology.
(3) JD Leadam, 24, a bioplastics producer from Los Angeles, flew in just for the day.
(4) Resorbable Bioplast fibrin film was used as a readily available, biocompatible conjunctival subsitute.
(5) An absorbable implant material, Bioplast fibrin, was used as a graft following the extirpation of 12 eyelid tumors, the treatment of eight fresh, destructive skin injuries, and the removal of deforming scars around the eyes, in 20 cases.
(6) Fibrin bioplast is an implant material made from plasticized fibrin.
(7) After experiments with absorbable bioplasts for substitution of skin defects, this time the absorbable fibrin glue named Tissucol was used by the authors.
(8) In order to avoid the risk of sensitization in man, it is probably advisable to use only human fibrin for the production of Bioplast fibrin powder and Fibrin Bioplast plates for clinical use in human beings.
(9) Scleral reduction combined with the intrascleral implantation of absorbable Bioplast fibrin scleral buckling rods was performed and reattachment achieved in 31 cases.
(10) Later, the dehydrated speciemns were embedded in bioplastic and cut to sections 70 mu thick.
(11) The distal cusps of the third primary molars were sectioned, dehydrated, and embedded in Bioplastic.
(12) Following enucleation of the cyst, a coagulum consisting of Bioplast fibrin powder, thrombin, the patient's venous blood and an antibiotic was implanted and primary closure performed.
(13) The resorption and route of elimenation of 125I-tagged bioplast plates implanted into the back muscle of rats have been studied in 18 experiments.
(14) High bioplastic quality of such transplants allow them to be recommended for wide use in clinics.
(15) Manufacture of personalized nasal masks by Biostar-press hot stamping of a bioplast plate has allowed for better prognosis of children with muscular dystrophy owing to the usually well supported, air-tight ventilation provided.
(16) Properly heat treated Fibrin Bioplast offered the least danger to the host organism.
(17) Sheets from Bioplast fibrin, an absorbable biomaterial, were implanted to prevent thepersistence of perforations.
(18) Absorbable buttons made from fibrin (Bioplast buttons) have been used to facilitate liver biopsy or to control haemorrhage from the liver in 3 dogs and 14 patients.
(19) The work deals with the results of comparative evaluation of different variants of intraoperative aerostasis by means of glue and bioplastic materials in experiments on 75 animals.
(20) The resected surface was covered with absorbable cellulose bioplast (Surgicel)R and fixed by the tissue adhesive Histoacryl-N-Blau.
Plastic
Definition:
(a.) Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
(a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
(a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(3) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(4) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
(5) FGF did not influence P production, while EGF clearly increased basal P production of the cells cultured on plastic.
(6) Alveolar macrophages (greater than 97% esterase positive) were isolated form bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by adherence onto plastic.
(7) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(8) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
(9) Radiological examination provides more accurate indications for plastic surgery of the pelvic floor, influences the operative procedures and permits better evaluation of operative results.
(10) Unlike cells grown on plastic, RME cells grown on type I collagen were readily subculturable and serial subculture resulted in the cells undergoing 15-20 population doublings (5-6 passages) before exhibiting any loss of growth potential.
(11) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
(12) This result contraindicates a general permissive-requisite role for forebrain NE for the mammalian brain's plasticity during its critical periods.
(13) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(14) Thus functional plasticity in response to early experience appears to be a fundamental aspect of cortical development.
(15) A metal-plastic prosthesis was tested in positions and with forces considered applicable to arthritics.
(16) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(17) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
(18) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
(19) This paper reports the findings of a national survey of Medical Schools and Plastic Surgery Units.
(20) Plastic surgery seems to be successful in mitral valve lesions, whereas lesions of the aortic valve are such that valve replacement is required.