(n.) The peculiar action by which the surface of a liquid, where it is in contact with a solid (as in a capillary tube), is elevated or depressed; capillary attraction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The influence of chronic iron deficiency anaemia on myoglobin content, maximal enzyme activities and capillarization in the human skeletal muscle was investigated.
(2) Theories of denture retention have suffered from confusion of model, algebraic errors, and misapprehension of the physics of capillarity, adhesion and cohesion, as well as the role of atmospheric pressure.
(3) The study demonstrates that where regenerative liver is capillarized, with replacement of fenestrated sinusoids, Kupffer cells are absent.
(4) They include widespread cytoplasmic shedding, and capillarization and defenestration of sinusoids.
(5) The diameter at the level of the canaliculi should be kept optimal in order to allow proper suction towards the tearsac and free capillarity since surface tension varies to a lesser extent.
(6) The relationship between capillarity and oxidative capacity in the soleus muscle of rats and guinea pigs injected with triiodothyronine (T3) or with saline for up to 4 weeks was studied.
(7) The effects of maturation on the interrelationship between skeletal muscle fiber area and capillarization was investigated in specific fiber types (I, IIa, IIb, IIc) of male Wistar rats at seven developmental periods ranging from 8 to 85 days postnatal.
(8) The capillarization of the occipital cortex has been examined morphometrically.
(9) In this report, we describe 3 patients who had pauci-immune necrotizing alveolar capillaritis-related pulmonary hemorrhage and who never developed other organic involvement, as revealed by clinical and laboratory data and also by autopsy examination in 1 case.
(10) Models are divided into three groups: a) those that assume a sharp interface between the migrating fluids; b) those that incorporate capillarity; and c) those that consider interphase transport of mass.
(11) The effect of growth on the capillarity and fiber type composition of the diaphragm, soleus and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles of rats weighing between 55 and 330 g have been studied.
(12) More effective redistribution of cardiac output to muscles by increased capillarization and more efficient oxygen diffusion to cells may also be an important means of increasing oxygen uptake after training.
(13) Although there were several suspected causes for the pulmonary capillaritis and different final clinicopathologic diagnoses, the histopathologic features in the lung were similar in all cases and distinctive enough to separate capillaritis from other causes of hemorrhagic lung.
(14) This transformation has been termed capillarization.
(15) It is also well established that DLco is lowered in the smokers, but the meaning of this fact is presently bad known: artefact due to the presence of carboxic-hemoglobin; lesion of the alveolar-capillar membrane or anomaly in the bronchiolar permeability.
(16) The excess of SDS was removed in the form of unsoluble Ba2 (SDS) and the lysate was placed on the surface of 1% agarose microgel, performed in a glass capillar with the inner diameter 600 and the length of gel 7--8 nm.
(17) The pigmented purpuric dermatoses are a group of disorders in which there is chronic capillaritis, with pigmented purpuric lesions predominantly on the lower limbs.
(18) Moreover, sinusoidal capillarization was detected at the electron microscopical level whereas no alterations could be seen neither in the distribution nor in the quality of the connective matrix proteins with immunofluorescence technique.
(19) The determinations of the diffusion capacity of lungs for carbon monoxide (DLco) with single breath or steady state methods find their elective indication in the diseases affecting electively the alevolar-capillar membrane, particularly in the cases of fibrosis.
(20) The article introduces a patient with left-side haemangioma capillare of the pleura parietalis with haemopneumothorax and ipsilateral cystic changes of the left upper lobe of the l,ng.
Contact
Definition:
(n.) A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
(n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
(n.) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Contact angles of Silafocon A and PMMA were relatively uninfluenced by front surface radii between 7.7 and 8.85 and 7.3 to 8.8 mm, respectively.
(2) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(3) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(4) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(5) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(6) However, none of the nerve terminals making synaptic contacts with glomus cells exhibited SP-like immunoreactivity.
(7) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
(8) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
(9) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(10) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(11) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(12) The results indicated that the role of contact inhibition phenomena in arresting cellular proliferation was diminished in perfusion system environments.
(13) Rifampin is recommended as a prophylactic treatment for intimate contacts of young children who develop invasive infections with Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib).
(14) One ejaculation followed by daily contact with soiled bedding taken from a male's cage did not increase pregnancy rates.
(15) No statistically significant differences were noted between the IgE-levels, the age of our patients, the type and number of contact allergens, and the duration of skin lesions.
(16) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(17) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(18) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(19) (1) Gastrin release is suppressed primarily by direct contact of acid with the antrum.
(20) We retrospectively studied the incidence and course of epoxy resin contact dermatitis in 2265 patients in whom contact dermatitis was confirmed by patch testing.