(n.) A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography.
Example Sentences:
(1) Separating the distal anterior tip and lateral edges of an ingrown toenail from the adjacent soft tissue with a wisp of absorbent cotton coated with collodion gives immediate relief of pain and provides a firm runway for further growth of the nail.
(2) Hexokinase (ATP:D-glucose 6-phosphotransferase EC 2.7.1.2) and pyruvate kinase (ATP:pyruvate 2-0-phosphotransferase EC 2.7.1.40) were co-immobilized within semipermeable collodion microcapsules.
(3) The correlation was similar if the meter was affixed instead directly to the scalp with collodion gel, and the clinical reliability improved.
(4) The electrical resistances and rates of self-exchange of univalent critical ions across several types of collodion matrix membranes of high ionic selectivity were studied over a wide range of conditions.
(5) All of Goyrand's work was edited by Masson in 1870, including a superb case report of giant elephantiasis of the penis and scrotum, a study on cleft lip and the technique of using collodion bands to close large wounds [corrected].
(6) Collodion is a solution of pyroxylin in a solution of 75% ether and 25% alcohol.
(7) However, 3% ethanol had no effect on osmotic water transfer across artificial collodion membranes.
(8) The skin of a girl born with the typical appearance of "collodion baby," evolved into an exfoliative erythroderma that clinically was lamellar ichthyosis.
(9) Aiming to improve the efficiency of the blood purification convective methods either with spontaneous (CAVH) or with pump-assisted (HF) extracorporeal circulation we inserted after the hemofilter a cartridge containing 70 g of collodion-coated activated charcoal (CAC) microencapsulated, obtaining so hemofiltration and hemoperfusion in series (HF+HP).
(10) This adhesion was prevented by Collodion and Formvar.
(11) The collodion baby is the neonatal expression of different disorders of keratinization and as such, constitutes a syndrome.
(12) Based on these findings as well as the observed steady state levels of VP on 24 h immersions in a small fixed volume, the previously proposed mechanism of pseudo-zero-order release could be evaluated further: the adsorbed peptide molecules function as a stock of near-constant activity, since desorption is rather limited, and as long as rapid exchange of bound peptide by external proteins can be prevented by a sufficiently thick (greater than 60 micron) collodion membrane, a slow long-term diffusion process will take place.
(13) Congenital bullous ichthyosiform erythrodermia never begins as collodion baby syndrome.
(14) With cation permeable membranes prepared by the oxidation of preformed collodion membranes, almost exact agreement was obtained between measured and calculated self-exchange rates; the cause of the apparent absence of an electroosmotic effect with these membranes is unknown.
(15) The prognostic value of permeation studies on artificial phospholipid collodion membranes and of the use of the kinetic absorption model in drug design is demonstrated by corresponding studies with chenodesoxycholic acid, indometacin, and clofibrinic acid.
(16) The case of a collodion baby in whom the condition evolved into a mild form of lamellar ichthyosis is presented.
(17) DNA was complexed with blue tetrazolium (BT), then mixed with collodion, and finally adsorbed on macroporous spherical polymeric adsorbent.
(18) On the other hand, the membrane system, "untreated" collodion in contact with KCl solutions, exhibited a behavior in which the values of phi, low in dilute solutions, increased and then decreased following a gradual increase in the external concentration.
(19) Although differential filtration offers a means of assaying samples containing certain mixtures of antibiotics, the degree of separation exhibited by collodion membranes is not sufficient to make them useful for clinical purposes.
(20) A stable papain membrane has been prepared on a collodion matrix by absorbing papain in a collodion membrane and then cross-linking the papain with bisdiazobenzidine 3,3'-disulfonic acid.
Evaporate
Definition:
(v. t.) To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.
(v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation.
(v. t.) To convert from a liquid or solid state into vapor (usually) by the agency of heat; to dissipate in vapor or fumes.
(v. t.) To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate apples.
(v. t.) To give vent to; to dissipate.
(a.) Dispersed in vapors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
(2) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(3) The method comprised adsorption on Extrelut column from alkaline plasma, elution with diethyl ether-methylene chloride, evaporation in the presence of 0.01 M hydrochloric acid and injection of the acid solution onto a mu Bondapak C18 column, using acetonitrile-0.025 M potassium dihydrogenphosphate as mobile phase and ultraviolet detection at 210 nm.
(4) It is shown that "excision" and "evaporation" of tissues took 15-45 minutes.
(5) Subsequent developments discussed include complementary replicas, replica interpretation with stereo micrograph and reversal negatives, replica reinforcement, and control of resistance evaporation.
(6) Endothelial shape changes were quantified by using a monolayer of endothelial cells grown on a small (10(-3) cm2) evaporated gold electrode and measuring the changes in electrical impedance.
(7) Slight changes of mean skin temperature and respiratory evaporative heat loss could not account for compensation.
(8) After evaporation to dryness, the residue is reconstituted in mobile phase.
(9) Further along the south coast, in Folkestone and Hythe, Ukip has again moved from fourth to second, according to the poll, but the Conservatives look set to hold the seat as a challenge from the Lib Dems evaporates.
(10) Measurements were made before feedings, during the first part of the night, and evaporation rate values were expressed as grams per square meter of body surface area per hour.
(11) Where once Gaga was mysterious and her music unavoidable, the mystique has evaporated and the music easy to miss.
(12) The energy of radiation at the guide outlet being 9 mJ, the resources of fiber work remained at a high level (greater than 10(4) impulses) whereas high velocity of tissue evaporation allowed elimination of an area 3 mm3 in volume during 1 minute, with the rate of impulse repetition amounting to 10 Hz.
(13) A recovery study indicated that no measurable degradation of reserpine occurs during evaporation of the CHCI3 extract.
(14) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
(15) BNP Paribas told investors in two of its funds that they would not be able to withdraw money because it was no longer able to value the assets in them, due to a "complete evaporation of liquidity" in the market.
(16) When air was blown on the dentine, the rate of evaporation increased significantly.
(17) The organic phase was dried with anhydrous sodium sulphate before evaporation.
(18) Dik-dik antelopes lost about 50% more heat evaporatively when exposed to the sun compared to the shade at an ambient temperature (Ta) of 28 degrees C or a Ta of 40 degrees C in a climatic chamber.
(19) Liverpool, wearing black armbands before the 26th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster on Wednesday, appeared on course for a comfortable victory in the immediate aftermath of Sterling’s goal as Newcastle’s resistance evaporated.
(20) Skin wettedness (w) was evaluated as the ratio of the observed Esk to the maximum evaporative capacity of the environment.