(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.
Droplet
Definition:
(n.) A little drop; a tear.
Example Sentences:
(1) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
(2) This inclusion, an aggregate 0.3-0.7 mum in size, consists of small membrane-bounded vesicles with a single dense granule associated with other non-membrane bound small dense droplets.
(3) These lipid droplets are expected to have diagnostic value in the histological study of ARVD using endomyocardial biopsy.
(4) Image analysis of selected P2 segments in treated and control rats revealed a high correlation between subcellular localization of alpha 2uG and protein droplet deposition in the cytoplasm of P2 segment cells of the proximal tubule epithelium.
(5) Reversible increases in size and distribution of hyaline droplets within proximal tubular epithelium occurred through 1 year of treatment at a severity that was dose-dependent.
(6) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
(7) J774 and elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages were loaded with cholesteryl ester within lysosomes through phagocytosis of sonicated lipid droplets.
(8) Ultrastructures of the tumor cells showed immature lymphoid features with frequent lipid droplets within the cytoplasms.
(9) One quarter had many autolysosomes or lipid droplets.
(10) vitamin A for three days, remarkable increase in size and number of lipid droplets was observed in slightly hypertrophic fat-storing cells, and the empty cells disappeared simulating an increased number of fat-storing cells.
(11) Fixation with buffered glutaraldehyde resulted in higher counts (P less than 0.01) of proximal protoplasmic droplets (2.47, 1.03, 0.67, and 1.43%, respectively, for glutaraldehyde, Hancock's, Blom's, and formol saline procedures).
(12) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
(13) In the cells of the cardiac region (which occupy 65% of the stomach) at least three types of mucous droplet are present.
(14) For this rather large pressures (about 700 hPa) are required to overcome the surface forces counteracting droplet formation.
(15) One of the earliest ultrastructural abnormalities in tellurium neuropathy is an increased number of cytoplasmic lipid droplets in myelinating Schwann cells.
(16) It is well-established that binding of a chemical to alpha 2u-globulin is the rate-limiting step in the development of male rat-specific hyaline droplet nephropathy.
(17) with nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis Jamaica cells associated with oil-droplet emulsions (WCV) were highly resistant to the i.v.
(18) This equation was used to calculate the mean portal blood flow velocity by this system (V-dopp) in 10 patients with liver disease, and the findings were compared with data simultaneously obtained by cineangiographic mapping of Lipiodol droplets released into the portal vein through a catheter placed in situ at the time of surgery (V-cine).
(19) Changes in lipid droplets and some mitochondrial degeneration were observed in the ICM cells of the glycerol-treated embryos.
(20) The number of multilamellar vesicles in or adjacent to lipid droplets was independent of the duration of ischemia.