(a.) Resembling glue or jelly; characterized by a jellylike appearance; gelatinous; as, colloid tumors.
(n.) A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself through animal membranes or vegetable parchment more slowly than crystalloids do; -- opposed to crystalloid.
(n.) A gelatinous substance found in colloid degeneration and colloid cancer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Organ distribution of the 99mTc-S-colloid showed marked phagocytic activity of the liver in all age groups including the newborn period.
(2) Volumetric ratio between the thyroid epithelium and colloid did not changed.
(3) Tubular and colloid carcinomas were more likely to present with T1 lesions, hormone receptor positivity, and node negative status than the other histologic subtypes.
(4) Injection of albumin-colloidal gold conjugates resulted in an insignificant uptake.
(5) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
(6) In two patients with extensive marrow necrosis, the diagnosis of marrow necrosis was established by morphologic and radioisotopic studies, and the extent of involvement was accurately assessed by marrow scanning with technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid while the patients were still alive.
(7) Liver scintigraphy with 67-Ga citrate and alphafetoprotein (afp) determinations in the serum were carried out in 84 patients with liver mass lesions in the preceding sulphur colloid scans.
(8) Tissue storage of hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a widely used artificial colloid, has been reported.
(9) 99mTc-PMT scintigraphy is useful in connection with 99mTc-colloid scan and sometimes with 67Ga-citrate in the diagnosis of intrahepatic masses originating from hepatocytes.
(10) Best fit of the thyroid data was achieved with a model in which the trap is described by two compartments, a fast ("follicular cell") compartment and a slower ("colloid") compartment.
(11) Inhibition of lysis by sucrose indicates that hemolysis is of the colloid-osmotic type.
(12) One hour after induction of shock, the circulating volume was expanded using a colloidal gelatin solution.
(13) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(14) The greater somatic and pulmonary fluid accumulation in the LRS group suggests that colloid is preferable to crystalloid in priming fluid.
(15) The viscosity and the colloid osmotic pressure of both solutions were also the same.
(16) Small oval cysts (less than or equal to 1 cm) with strong echo were all diagnosed colloid goiter.
(17) The cost of each life saved using crystalloids is $45.13, and the cost of each life saved using colloidal solutions is $1493.60.
(18) Colloidal gold labeled with monoclonal antibody recognized human hemoglobin was agglutinated with hemoglobin and changed the color from red to gray.
(19) Silver enhancement of immunogold-labeled cells was carried out to increase the applicability of colloidal gold probes for visualization in the backscatter electron imaging (BEI) mode of a scanning electron microscope.
(20) Tissue specimens obtained at autopsy were stained with colloidal iron to demonstrate acid mucopolysaccharides.
Colloidal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, colloids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Organ distribution of the 99mTc-S-colloid showed marked phagocytic activity of the liver in all age groups including the newborn period.
(2) Volumetric ratio between the thyroid epithelium and colloid did not changed.
(3) Tubular and colloid carcinomas were more likely to present with T1 lesions, hormone receptor positivity, and node negative status than the other histologic subtypes.
(4) Injection of albumin-colloidal gold conjugates resulted in an insignificant uptake.
(5) Colloidal gold immuno-electron microscopy is a powerful tool for defining antigenicity at the subcellular level.
(6) In two patients with extensive marrow necrosis, the diagnosis of marrow necrosis was established by morphologic and radioisotopic studies, and the extent of involvement was accurately assessed by marrow scanning with technetium Tc 99m sulfur colloid while the patients were still alive.
(7) Liver scintigraphy with 67-Ga citrate and alphafetoprotein (afp) determinations in the serum were carried out in 84 patients with liver mass lesions in the preceding sulphur colloid scans.
(8) Tissue storage of hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a widely used artificial colloid, has been reported.
(9) 99mTc-PMT scintigraphy is useful in connection with 99mTc-colloid scan and sometimes with 67Ga-citrate in the diagnosis of intrahepatic masses originating from hepatocytes.
(10) Best fit of the thyroid data was achieved with a model in which the trap is described by two compartments, a fast ("follicular cell") compartment and a slower ("colloid") compartment.
(11) Inhibition of lysis by sucrose indicates that hemolysis is of the colloid-osmotic type.
(12) One hour after induction of shock, the circulating volume was expanded using a colloidal gelatin solution.
(13) Neovascular responses were evaluated by daily slit-lamp observations and terminal whole-mount and histologic examinations of colloidal carbon-perfused vessels.
(14) The greater somatic and pulmonary fluid accumulation in the LRS group suggests that colloid is preferable to crystalloid in priming fluid.
(15) The viscosity and the colloid osmotic pressure of both solutions were also the same.
(16) Small oval cysts (less than or equal to 1 cm) with strong echo were all diagnosed colloid goiter.
(17) The cost of each life saved using crystalloids is $45.13, and the cost of each life saved using colloidal solutions is $1493.60.
(18) Colloidal gold labeled with monoclonal antibody recognized human hemoglobin was agglutinated with hemoglobin and changed the color from red to gray.
(19) Silver enhancement of immunogold-labeled cells was carried out to increase the applicability of colloidal gold probes for visualization in the backscatter electron imaging (BEI) mode of a scanning electron microscope.
(20) Tissue specimens obtained at autopsy were stained with colloidal iron to demonstrate acid mucopolysaccharides.