(n.) The act of flowing together; the meeting or junction of two or more streams; the place of meeting.
(n.) Any running together of separate streams or currents; the act of meeting and crowding in a place; hence, a crowd; a concourse; an assemblage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The proteins that were increased or decreased in rate of synthesis as B103 cells became confluent were in general not the same proteins that were increased or decreased in rate of synthesis as B9 cells reached confluence, indicating that most of the changes do not reflect growth control responses common to all cells.
(2) In primary culture, CSM cells attached to the culture vessels by 48 to 72 h, proliferated by 3 to 7 d, and reached confluency by 14 to 17 d with a "hill-and-valley" pattern.
(3) For the first time, synthesis of physiological amounts of the UCP, a key and tissue-specific component of thermogenic mitochondria, was observed in cultures at about confluence (day 6), indicating that a complete differentiation of brown adipocytes was achieved in vitro.
(4) PB increased LPL secretion 2- to 3-fold and intracellular LPL 3- to 10-fold in a time-dependent manner; these increments were less in proportion to the length of the time interval between confluence and initiation of PB treatment.
(5) The alpha 1 and beta-adrenergic receptor metabolism was studied at cell confluency in BC3H1 and C6 glioma cells.
(6) CDR appeared closely related to an increased proportion of non-cycling cells at confluence, as demonstrated by flow cytometry, expression of nuclear antigen recognized by Ki67 MAb and expression of topoisomerase II.
(7) Culture of NFMs to confluence or depletion of growth factors from the culture medium caused reversible, G1 phase-specific, cell cycle growth arrest.
(8) Instead, intracellular K content varied by up to two-fold, and intracellular Na by more than six-fold with marked 'peaks' after confluency.
(9) Nineteen patients with suspected malignant obstruction at the confluence of the bile ducts had exfoliative biliary cytology and fine needle aspiration cytology performed.
(10) But this happy confluence between job creation and technology might be coming to an end, and there are two key reasons for this.
(11) Yet a confluence of events over the past week shows that Cameron's visit is important to Americans.
(12) One type of cells had polygonal morphology, showed density-dependent contact inhibition at confluence in vitro, showed lectin-binding characteristics of endothelium (but only moderate positivity for factor VIII antigen), demonstrated induction of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase when exposed to astrocyte-conditioned media, and responded to insulin by a pronounced increase in DNA synthesis.
(13) For that purpose, cells were incubated for 3 days before reaching confluency in the presence of myo-[3H]inositol in order to label the phosphoinositide pool, and the various [3H]IPs were separated by HPLC on a SAX column with a phosphate gradient.
(14) Some lesions showed confluence and all were at the same developmental stage.
(15) The total number of lesions varied, though not greatly, over the whole follow-up, but there was an influence of the clinical course of MS on the pattern of lesions in MR imaging, mostly in respect to the number of confluences and the size of the lesions.
(16) 3) The pressures of the inferior vena cava at the confluence of right and left common iliac veins with 20 and 40mmHg showed no significant difference immediately after the pressurization, but thereafter showed a increasing tendency in the group with 40mmHg (p less than 0.05).
(17) The vascular and extracellular confluences between host and graft could provide direct access for systematically administered substances to enter brain regions where they, normally, would be excluded.
(18) Signs of osteolysis, such as enlarged osteocyte lacunae surrounded by a metachromatic zone in toluidine blue stained sections, and confluence of osteocyte lacunae in microradiographs, were compared with the fluorochrome labelling pattern.
(19) After the preselection of patients based on knowledge of the anatomical patterns, a systemic-pulmonary artery shunt may be performed without cardiac catheterization if these rules for definitive patient selection are followed: (1) accurate clinical assessment to identify the patients with restricted pulmonary blood flow; (2) precise intracardiac diagnosis by 2-D and Doppler echocardiography; and (3) definitive 2-D echocardiographic visualization of the pulmonary venous connection and the confluence of the pulmonary arteries.
(20) Novel transformed variants generally arise after prolonged confluence and cessation of net growth, with these new types of foci appearing during a second round of confluence, although not in the first round.
Tributary
Definition:
(a.) Paying tribute to another, either from compulsion, as an acknowledgment of submission, or to secure protection, or for the purpose of purchasing peace.
(a.) Hence, subject; subordinate; inferior.
(a.) Paid in tribute.
(a.) Yielding supplies of any kind; serving to form or make up, a greater object of the same kind, as a part, branch, etc.; contributing; as, the Ohio has many tributary streams, and is itself tributary to the Mississippi.
(n.) A ruler or state that pays tribute, or a stated sum, to a conquering power, for the purpose of securing peace and protection, or as an acknowledgment of submission, or for the purchase of security.
(n.) A stream or river flowing into a larger river or into a lake; an affluent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ligation of the left renal vein on the medial side of the adrenolumbar tributary maintained a patent left renal vein in all cases with 60% of left kidney biopsies showing no histological evidence of changes to glomeruli or tubules, and the remainder showing early acute tubular necrosis.
(2) Their tortuous or irregular outline did not usually correspond in position or appearance to normal tributaries of the vein.
(3) Meningeal tributaries are relatively large in humans, and drain principally into the cranio-orbital sinus or sphenoparietal sinus.
(4) Already at the stage of anlage the intestinal trunk is not included in the ThD root system, but serves as the RLS anterior tributary, or its lumbar, preaortic tributary.
(5) This was due to reductions of hepatic arterial and portal venous tributaries.
(6) The occurrence of cell-infiltrated intimal lesions at the confluence of many small tributaries with canine jugular and femoral veins suggested that these areas (confluences) might 1) differ structurally from the rest of the receiving vein and 2) serve as initiation sites for thrombi.
(7) This study shows that somatostatin analogue decreases portal pressure principally by reducing portal tributary blood flow.
(8) Multiplanar CDI can image flow in the circle of Willis and its tributaries and branches.
(9) Factors evaluated included technical success of the examination; visualization of the portal vein, splenic vein, and other tributaries; contrast medium density, portal blood flow direction; presence and type of collaterals and varices; and liver size and configuration.
(10) Obstruction of a major temporal branch vein, or one of its macular tributaries, presents a significant threat to vision.
(11) Twelve variants of ways of spreading vertical reflux of blood along the pelvic veins have been established and two ways of its transmission to the lower extremity veins: a direct way of reflux from the iliac to femoral vein and an indirect ways of reflux--from tributaries of the iliac vein to those of the femoral vein.
(12) Mortality of pelyad (Coregonus peled) caused by Tetraonchus alaskensis took place in winter 1973 in the Voikara and Syn rivers (the Ural tributaries of the Lower Ob) during anadromous and catadromous migrations.
(13) Between the gestational ages of 3 and 4 months, the middle cerebral artery and its tributaries run radially on the sylvian fossa and over the convexity.
(14) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
(15) It is proposed that the vein of Galen aneurysm represents a venous ectasia secondary to an increased flow (usually caused by a deep-seated arteriovenous shunt draining either directly into the vein of Galen aneurysm or into a tributary of the vein of Galen) associated with obstruction of a dural sinus distal to the aneurysm.
(16) Eleven stents were placed successfully in pulmonary arteries (out of thirteen attempted), and 11 of 14 were installed in tributaries of the precava or postcava.
(17) The scintillation camer superior venacavogram provides a quick, safe, and accurate method of evaluating the patency of the SVC and its tributaries.
(18) All of these patients had tumor thrombi in their large tributary veins in addition to the primary tumors.
(19) This paper outlines an objective and reproducible method of mapping hepatic lesions into territories defined solely by the major hepatic veins and their tributaries.
(20) Testicular vein cast--right and left--was prepared in autopsy specimens to identify the course, tributaries and communications of the testicular vein.