(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.
Lacquer
Definition:
(n.) A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made.
(v. t.) To cover with lacquer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Eye-to-eye, the bumbling bonhomie appeared to be a lacquer of likability over a living obelisk of corporate power.
(2) The performed tests provided evidence of a rise of the binding firmness due to the absorption by the resin, and confirmed the stabilized behaviour of the lacquer Conalor.
(3) Data collected on various types of filters (dust and mist; dust, fume, and mist; paint, lacquer, and enamel mist; and high efficiency) challenged with a worst case-type sodium chloride (NaCl) and dioctyl phthalate (DOP) aerosol are presented.
(4) This has been confirmed by clinical work showing that amorolfine is effective in treating dermatomycoses and onychomycoses when administered as cream or nail lacquer.
(5) Histopathologic findings and percentage of eyes affected, in decreasing order of frequency, were myopic configuration of the optic nerve head, 37.7%; posterior staphyloma, 35.4%; degenerative changes of the vitreous, 35.1%; cobblestone degeneration, 14.3%; myopic degeneration of the retina, 11.4%; retinal detachment, 11.4%; retinal pits, holes, or tears, 8.1%; subretinal neovascularization, 5.2%; lattice degeneration, 4.9%; Fuchs spot, 3.2%; and lacquer cracks, 0.6%.
(6) A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method has been developed for the determination of 5 solvents (butanol, butyl acetate, ethyl acetate, 2-propanol, and toluene) and camphor in commerical nail lacquer preparations.
(7) Barium chloride, which is an important industrial chemical used in pigments, lacquers, dyes, glass and pesticide production, leather tanning and cloth dying, was tested on Salmonella typhimurium (TA 1535, TA 1537, TA 1538, TA 97, TA 98, TA 100) with the reverse mutation test, with and without metabolic activation, to assess its possible genotoxic effects and any possible action with respect to standard mutagens (sodium azide, 9-aminoacridine, 2-nitrofluorene, mitomycine-C, 2 aminoacridine).
(8) The problem of visco-elasticity of the cartilage was overcome by using a brittle lacquer coating as a memory device.
(9) These consisted of microgranules of mesalazine coated with Eudragit S in a concentration of either 20 or 25% dry lacquer substance; these in turn were enclosed in capsules coated with Eudragit L. In-vitro dissolution studies of coated microgranules showed that drug release was pH dependent.
(10) From data available on the penetration of amorolfine and on the persistence of mycologically relevant tissue concentrations, it appeared likely that once- or twice-weekly application of nail lacquer should suffice to produce a satisfactory therapeutic effect in onychomycosis.
(11) Like, ‘Don’t send us a CD master of the loudest techno music and expect that to be cuttable on a lacquer.’ (The high and low frequencies associated with this type of music can overheat the cutting lathe and cause the mastering machinery to shut down; pushing the process to its limits is the origin of some records being called “hot cuts”.)
(12) The count efficiency for high efficiency filters was greater than 99.97% at worst case testing conditions, but the worst case count efficiencies for dust and mist; dust, fume and mist; and paint, lacquer and enamel mist filters were not nearly as efficient as existing test methods indicate.
(13) A car painter experienced three episodes of a hypersensitivity pneumonitis-like disease after exposure to two-component acrylic lacquers with hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) as the curing agent.
(14) Seven men aged 17 to 22 years developed severe distal symmetrical predominately motor polyneuropathy after repeated inhalation of a commercially available brand of lacquer thinner.
(15) In evaluating the anatomic and functional status of 22 eyes of 14 patients demonstrating lacquer cracks, these lesions occurred in the eyes of young adults with posterior staphylomas and markedly increased axial lengths.
(16) Altogether 157 patients with onychomycosis affecting not more than 80% of the surface area of nail with intact lunula and matrix were treated once weekly for up to 6 months with amorolfine nail lacquer (2 or 5%) in a double-blind randomized design.
(17) Dental caries reduction was studied in 414 children 1 year following F-year primary caries prevention with the use of sodium fluoride solution, fluorine lacquer, and Ca phosphate-containing gels.
(18) In the combination metal-resin the differences of values are significant, when the top lacquer Conalor is used, the changes of values are not so maded to be statistically significant.
(19) Foods in unlacquered welded cans contain much more lead, chromium and tin than foods in lacquered welded cans.
(20) For a variety of baby foods there was no significant difference in ESBO levels between foods packaged in glass jars with PVC gaskets and foods in cans containing ESBO in the can lacquer.