(n.) The act or process of passing, or causing to pass, from a fluid to a solid state, as by the abstraction of heat; the act or process of freezing.
(n.) The state of being congealed.
(n.) That which is congealed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cryosurgery is a controlled refrigeration technique used to destroy some tumoral tissues that are more sensitive to congelation than healthy tissues.
(2) An important feature of the installation includes the possibility of recording the temperature directly of the tissue undergoing congelation and not that in the freezing chamber.
(3) We performed 11 epikeratophakias with a congelated lenticule (H. Kaufmann and M. Mac Donald technique) for aphakic post-traumatic eyes.
(4) The comparison of the results showed a similar behaviour between cells with and without congelation, except for few cell alterations in the form of granula which occurred during a short period, probably due to the congelation process.
(5) The sensibility of frozen cells was assessed by comparison of cell reactions before and after 1, 3 and 6 months of congelation, for two dental products called Aquacem and Pulpdent, the cytotoxicity and biocompatibility of which were further confirmed.
(6) We feel that the latter, as in the cases of comparably vascular meningiomas, had its origin in congelation and secondary organization of plasma proteins that have exuded through leaky walls of newly formed blood vessels.
(7) The make-up of an installation for programmed congelation of the bone marrow and nuclei-containing blood cells with liquid nitrogen acting the part of a refrigerant is described.
(8) The correlation between the depth of necrosis and that of freezing, the rate of the tissue congelation, the period of cryogenic action, the temperature of the cryoinstrument and its structural shape, all these factors are analytically interrelated and this enables it to establish optimal performance characteristics in congelation of different tissues.
(9) The presence of DDT and gamma-HCH residues did not change the melting and congelation points of lard.
(10) For local congelation of pathologically altered sections of the tissue the design of an earlier devised cryosprayer has been improved.
(11) The behaviour of cells with and without congelation was microscopically evaluated, the growth and morphology of cells were assessed after 7, 14, 21 and 28 days.
(12) A tumor in the right hepatic lobe was found but a surgeon did not resect the lesion because a congelation biopsy failed to demonstrate tumoral cells.
Solid
Definition:
(a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.
(a.) Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
(a.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
(a.) Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
(a.) Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
(a.) Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.
(a.) Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.
(a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
(a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
(a.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
(a.) United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.
(n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
(n.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(2) The sensitivity of 75 non-CNS solid tumors to mismatched dsRNA was compared to the high-grade astrocytomas in the HTCA.
(3) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(4) The peptides, which were synthesized using a FMOC solid phase procedure and purified by HPLC, consisted of residues 6-25 from the putative aqueous domain, residues 22-35, which overlaps the putative aqueous and transmembrane domains, and residues 1-38 and 1-40 representing nearly the full length of beta-AP.
(5) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
(6) Of all solid tumors only nine occurred in relapse-free patients.
(7) It also showed weak inhibition of the solid type of Ehrlich carcinoma and prolonged the survival period of mice inoculated with L-1210 cells.
(8) Hybridomas were selected on the basis of solid-phase reactivity with the purified native A transferase, cell immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation of transferase activity, and absence of reactivity with blood group ABH carbohydrate determinants.
(9) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
(10) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
(11) We therefore conclude that the protective effect displayed by solid grafts might be a local process dependent on the release of diffusible trophic agents.
(12) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(13) The 68-kDa protein of B. bronchiseptica appeared to be the major protective antigen in B. bronchiseptica infection; however, isolated protein alone did not induce such a solid protection, as observed in a previous study after the application of an effective whole cell vaccine.
(14) The median age of patients with bacteremia of unknown origin was 65 years, and their most common underlying disorders were solid malignancy (28% of patients) and diabetes mellitus (18%).
(15) The free energy of activation showed a high negative correlation (r = -0.904, r2 = 0.817) with the percentage of virus adsorption to the solids tested.
(16) It was found that the use of a pH 9.6 buffer during the coating of ELISA plates led to the dissociation of virions into subunits which bound preferentially to the solid phase.
(17) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(18) A solid-phase microtiter assay was developed to investigate the binding properties of the vitronectin receptor.