(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.
Gelatinous
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(2) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
(3) The combination vaccine consisted of 12 Lf tetanus toxoid and 10 TCID50 vaccinia virus "MVA" preserved with gelatine and glucosamine.
(4) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
(5) The binding of 125I-labeled core protein to immobilized fibronectin was inhibited by soluble fibronectin and by soluble cold core protein but not by albumin or gelatin.
(6) At low concentrations of gelactin, the gelatin of actin exhibits a bell-shaped dependency on free calcium ion concentration, being stimulated between pCa 8 and 6 and inhibited at pCa below 5.5, while at high gelactin concentrations the calcium sensitivity of actin gelation is apparently abolished.
(7) One hour after induction of shock, the circulating volume was expanded using a colloidal gelatin solution.
(8) A sustained-release property of gelatin microcapsules of piretanide was evaluated by pharmacodynamic parameters.
(9) Soft gelatin capsules were filled with 50 mg of the final mixture to give 0.050 mg of ethinylestradiol.
(10) The arterial network of the fresh animal cadaver was injected with a mixture of lead oxide and gelatin.
(11) An initial insulin loss of 26% (with albumin) to 37% (with gelatine) was followed by only a small loss (less than 9%) during the next 24 hours.
(12) A 35-year-old man developed gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy at age 20.
(13) The use of polymeric silicone film and homograft nasal cartilage was associated with a significant number of complications and has been abandoned, substituting instead absorbable gelatin film and ossicular bone transplants.
(14) The heart and lungs were removed, the pulmonary artery was injected with barium-gelatin, and the lung was fixed in formalin in the inflated state.
(15) 3 The reduction by gelatine was reversed when the protease inhibitor aprotinin was added to the injection vehicle, and hypercalcaemia then persisted for more than 8 h. 4 Of other protease inhibitors studied, epsilon-aminocaproic acid was also found to enhance the hypercalcaemic response to subcutaneous PTH and its fragments but, unlike aprotinin, it was ineffective in the presence of gelatine.
(16) These were activated to inhibit the in-vitro growth of tumour cells much more effectively, when immunoglobulin (IgG), fibronectin (FN), and gelatin conjugates were used than when MDP was used alone.
(17) In second group after thoracotomy the lungs were stabilized with gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue.
(18) A simplified method for the detection of acrosin proteolytic activity (APA) of the individual sperm was developed by using a gelatin substrate slide.
(19) Incorporating polyvinylpyrrolidone, gelatin and methylcellulose binding agents in a metronidazole formulation alters the tensile strength, disintegration and dissolution times of the tablets by reducing their wettability as measured by the adhesion tension of water.
(20) Fish skin gelatin showed much better blocking activity than hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, and it still had the practical advantage of remaining fluid even under refrigeration.