(n.) The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
(n.) The act or process of reducing, by depression of temperature or increase of pressure, etc., to another and denser form, as gas to the condition of a liquid or steam to water.
(n.) A rearrangement or concentration of the different constituents of one or more substances into a distinct and definite compound of greater complexity and molecular weight, often resulting in an increase of density, as the condensation of oxygen into ozone, or of acetone into mesitylene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
(3) The propionyl-CoA condensing enzyme which catalyzes the first step in the biosynthesis of 2-methylbutyrate and 2-methylvalerate by Ascaris muscle appears to exist in at least three forms in the mitochondria of this parasitic nematode.
(4) Because the contour length of these loops was proportionate to the DNA content of the superinfecting lambda phage, it was concluded that the fibers contained DNA condensed 6.5-fold in blocks of about 250 base pairs.
(5) Allyl 4-O-benzyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-3-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside and this was condensed with 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl chloride to give a disaccharide derivative which was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-2-O-(2,3-O-isopropylidene-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-3-O-methyl -alpha- L-rhamnopyranoside.
(6) Moderately dense fragments are interpreted as originating from dying cells in which the cytoplasm is undergoing condensation.
(7) In the scope of our research about the antimicrobial activity of aldehyde-amin-condensates a number of partly new unsymmetrically substituted animals was synthesized by reaction of formaldehyde with different secondary amines.
(8) They are thought to represent condensations of dense bodies in degenerating tumor cells.
(9) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(10) The 2-substituted phenoxy-6-methoxy-8-aminoquinolines (4-6) were afforded by reduction of the corresponding 8-nitroquinolines (1-3) which were obtained by condensation of 2-chloro-6-methoxy-8-nitroquinoline and substituted phenols.
(11) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
(12) Ultrastructurally, transgenic domains were often intimately connected with constitutive heterochromatin and were highly condensed.
(13) This paper describes a new method of condensation (focusing) of extended volumes of mixtures of proteins (or other ampholytes) into an isoelectric spectrum of discrete zones located at points of a pH gradient corresponding to the pI value of the individual proteins.
(14) 4, 323-340, 1978) has a ts defect in its regulatory mechanism for the initiation of chromosome condensation, the so-called, premature chromosome condensation (PCC) being induced at a nonpermissive temperature (Nishimoto, T. et al.
(15) Chemical analysis of the smoke concensate of bidis and cigarettes showed that condensate from bidis had a higher benzo[a]pyrene level than was observed in cigarette smoke condensate, when compared on the basis of the mass (mg) burnt.
(16) On very rare occasions there is missorting such that aggregates of condensed secretory proteins and viruses occur together in post-Golgi vesicles.
(17) The reductions are carried out at the nanogram to microgram level with borane, reacting the solid sample with condensed reagent vapor.
(18) These data suggest that the main route for the formation of the carbon skeleton of aspartate was by a C(3) plus C(1) condensation, with the C(3) unit derived from the isopropyl carbons of valine and the C(1) unit probably from carbon dioxide.
(19) Once an apical hard tissue barrier is formed, a permanent root canal filling can be safely condensed.
(20) While the antiserum against gamma 3-MSH labelled all the secretory granules including intrasaccular condensations in the Golgi apparatus, antisera against alpha-MSH only labelled extra-Golgi secretory vesicles (SV).
Constipation
Definition:
(n.) Act of crowding anything into a less compass, or the state of being crowded or pressed together; condensation.
(n.) A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, abdominal Marlex-mesh rectopexy can be recommended as safe and effective treatment for rectal prolapse, despite some patients developing constipation and some remaining incontinent.
(2) In an open, prospectively randomised, parallel group study, 124 patients with a history of constipation for more than three weeks were treated with either 15 ml bd of lactulose (increasing to 60 ml daily if necessary) or one sachet bd of ispaghula.
(3) In general patients with diarrhoea were more sensitive to stimuli than those with constipation.
(4) Pelvic floor location and mobility did not differ between controls and constipated patients.
(5) Chronic constipation is a very frequent disease in western countries but fibres can often solve the problem.
(6) Pancreatic polypeptide release was reduced in patients with slow transit constipation, but increased in those with functional diarrhoea.
(7) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
(8) Two kinds of radiopaque pellets were ingested as markers to determine GITT in 60 normal subjects, 7 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), 10 patients with idiopathic constipation (IC) and 8 patients with other diseases.
(9) There was a history of facial edema and constipation, which have been managed with "Kanpo medicine (Chinese medicine)" and laxatives for several years.
(10) A 58-year-old man complained of dull left lower quadrant pain and constipation.
(11) The irritable colon syndrome comprises two predominant symptom patterns -- "spastic colon" with pain and constipation, and painless "nervous diarrhea".
(12) There seems no doubt that following rectopexy there is an increased tendency to constipation.
(13) The constipated group required a greater degree of rectal distension than control subjects to induce rectal contractions, anal relaxation and a desire to defaecate.
(14) The effect of Plantago ovata on patients with chronic constipation (CC) with or without irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) has been assessed by a double blind study comprising 20 patients with CC of which 10 had associated IBS.
(15) Certain forms of severe constipation, unresponsive to medical treatment and classified as "idiopathic", have been thought to be anatomical anomalies due to anterior-displacement of the anus.
(16) Those symptoms occurring more frequently in PD patients than in controls included abnormal salivation, dysphagia, nausea, constipation, and defecatory dysfunction.
(17) Transit time is shortened in patients with diarrhea, lengthened in patients with constipation.
(18) Patient beliefs that can block pain management include beliefs about self-concept and the aging process; the patient role; health professionals; pain; and consequences of treatment, including addiction, xerostomia, falls, constipation, and sexual and personality problems.
(19) By convention, people with simple constipation are not usually included in this group of patients.
(20) The incidence of systemic symptoms like fever and anorexia, alternating diarrhoea and constipation, peritoneal and lymph node involvements and associated pulmonary lesions were less frequently observed.