(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.
Sol
Definition:
(n.) The tone itself.
(n.) A sou.
(n.) The sun.
(n.) Gold; -- so called from its brilliancy, color, and value.
(n.) A syllable applied in solmization to the note G, or to the fifth tone of any diatonic scale.
(n.) A silver and gold coin of Peru. The silver sol is the unit of value, and is worth about 68 cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chronic stimulation of the denervated SOL resulted in twitch times-to-peak and half-relaxation times that varied in a graded manner between values longer than those in the normal SOL to values as fast as those in the normal EDL, depending upon the pattern used.
(2) The activity patterns in self- and cross-reinnervated flexor digitorum longus (FDL) and soleus (SOL) muscles were examined during natural movements in awake, unrestrained cats in which electromyographic (EMG) electrodes, tendon-force gauges, and muscle-length gauges had been chronically implanted under anesthesia and aseptic conditions.
(3) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.
(4) 1) Short term follow-up study: Perfusion of the limb with Fluosol-DA solution significantly minimized edema formation and leakage of skeletal muscle enzymes (GOT, CPK) into the serum 5.5 hours after revascularization as compared to Collins sol., lactated Ringer's sol.
(5) As his supporters gathered to demonstrate in Puerta del Sol square in central Madrid on Thursday evening, many claimed there was a conspiracy to bring down one of the world's best-known human rights investigators.
(6) SOL was the most affected, and GST was least affected.
(7) A parallel investigation was carried out on the temporal characteristics of the facilitation of the H-reflex that precedes onset of Sol contraction, in an attempt to point at the different functional organization of the two motor tasks.
(8) A comparison of the solubility of uncarbamylated and heavily carbamylated HbS at Co saturations ranging from 3 to 61 percent showed that the larges difference in [Hb]sol occured at the lowest ligand saturation rather than at intermediate states of ligation.
(9) In a resected specimen that including 4 SOLs that had been detected by operative US, 6 early HCCs, an HCC of the Edmondson grade I + II, and 2 AAHs were found.
(10) We study a sol-gel mechanochemical model for cellular cytoplasm.
(11) We’re all a bit unsure,” says Martin Wilson, from Warrington and now living in the Costa del Sol town of Nerja with his family.
(12) We are encouraged that the DoJ will be investigating the Chicago police department and anticipate useful information will result,” Aislinn Sol, a leader of the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter, told the Guardian.
(13) It uses colloidal metal sols (gold or silver) stabilized with Tween 20 and adjusted to pH 3.
(14) By generating local osmotic gradients, these ion transport processes may regulate the depth of the periciliary sol layer.
(15) Labeling in growing muscles progressively increased to peak levels (approximately 250% of control) at 72 h postexercise, whereas mature muscles exhibited an earlier peak (approximately 250% of control) at 24 (m-SOL) and 48 (m-EDL) h, followed by a more rapid decline to control levels by 120 h postexercise.
(16) To study the role of innervation in the expression of the sarcoplasmic AChE, we cross-reinnervated the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle with the soleus (SOL) nerve and vice versa (X-EDL, X-SOL).
(17) Spindles of the slow SOL and fast EDL muscles had similar features, whereas differences were observed in the organization of the proximal (SOL and EDL) and distal (LUM) muscles.
(18) Standing and holding onto a frame strongly decreased the amplitude and the frequency of occurrence of both early responses and ARs only in the TA muscle, while all Sol responses were not affected.
(19) Functional coupling of the opposing ML and LL SOL and TA muscle responses was confirmed by the nearly coincident onset times and significantly correlated EMG response areas.
(20) In order to understand the process of executing a voluntary standing movement, the parameters latency (AEA-LT), duration (AEA-DUR) and amplitude (AEA-AMP) of the anticipatory electromyographic (EMG) activity (AEA) in the tibialis anterior muscle, Hoffmann (H) reflex amplitude in the soleus muscle (Sol) prior to the onset of EMG activity in that muscle, and EMG reaction time (EMG-RT) were measured during heel raising from the standing position.