(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.
Interaction
Definition:
(n.) Intermediate action.
(n.) Mutual or reciprocal action or influence; as, the interaction of the heart and lungs on each other.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fibulin is a potential mediator of interactions between adhesion receptors and the cytoskeleton.
(2) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(3) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(4) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
(5) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(6) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
(7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(8) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
(9) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(10) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
(11) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
(12) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(13) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(14) The deactivated columns had the residual silanols on the silica gel chemically inactivated to reduce the interaction with basic groups or analytes.
(15) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
(16) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
(17) We have investigated interactions between the erythroid transcription factor GATA-1 and factors binding two cis-acting elements commonly linked to GATA sites in erythroid control elements.
(18) Hormonal interactions play a determining role in pulmonary maturation.
(19) In contrast, the association of serum cholesterol with mortality due to causes other than coronary heart disease changed during follow-up (interaction of cholesterol with follow-up period: p = 0.004).
(20) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.