What's the difference between bioplastic and polymer?
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.
Polymer
Definition:
(n.) Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
(2) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(3) The acetonitrile extract is concentrated and analyzed by HPLC, using a new polymer-based column, and detected by UV spectroscopy at 270 nm.
(4) These results suggest that glomerular IgA are IgA polymers and decreased hepatic clearance of hepatic IgA polymers may be responsible for the glomerular deposition of IgA.
(5) A method for the introduction of side chains containing isonitrile (isocyanide, functional group) on the backbone of polysaccharides and other hydroxylic polymers was developed.
(6) He knows polymer notes from travels in Australia, where they were first introduced in 1988, and he wants Britain to "move with the times" too.
(7) Poly(ortho ester) bioerodible polymers are suitable materials for the topical administration of a wide variety of therapeutic agents; varying the nature and amounts of excipients physically incorporated into the polymer will vary the erosion rates from a few hours to many months.
(8) By performing countercurrent distribution in the presence of a polymer-ligand, the protein that binds the polymer-ligand can be separated from a heterogenous mixture.
(9) Pulse labeling of the polymer with [2-3H]adenosine was also maximal at the same time points.
(10) Charged polymers, known to alter cell surface characteristics, reversibly inhibit the intercellular communication required in kidney tubule induction.
(11) A novel type of ion exchanger was prepared by multipoint covalent binding of polystyrene chains onto the surface of porous silica followed by polymer-analogous modification of the bonded layer.
(12) Another 52 received a 100-g (nonfasting) glucose polymer screening test followed by a 100-g glucose polymer tolerance test.
(13) The important role of the exocellular polymers for the structure, size and density of flocs can be well illustrated.
(14) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
(15) Rather, assembly of sIgM into polymers and their subsequent secretion are prevented in B lymphocytes by preceding targeting of monomeric sIgM to degradation.
(16) The neutral polymer was devoid of type 6 activity although it was serologically active.
(17) The tissue reaction was more severe for polymers having a higher rate of degradation.
(18) Control experiments with other constructs (e.g., allopurinol riboside linked to the mannose-free polymer) confirmed that the enhancement of activity was indeed achieved by means of the mannose homing device.
(19) Of the tested polymers, only polyvinyl methylacetamide and dextran inhibit a decrease in the level of mitochondrial enzyme activity which develops with administration of endotoxin.
(20) At different degrees of DNA damage, the average length of the poly-ADP-ribose chain did not practically alter, thus suggesting the increase in the number of polymer binding sites in the histones.