(p. p. & a.) Made solid, hard, or compact; united; joined; solidified.
(p. p. & a.) Having a small surface in proportion to bulk, as in the cactus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(2) At consolidation, the distraction area was composed of lamellar trabecular and partly woven bone.
(3) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(4) The information suggests a certain consolidation of earlier efforts.
(5) The scale of fees that potentially are there in the Italian banking market – from restructurings and consolidation – are substantial,” said Peter Hahn, professor of banking at the London Institute of Banking & Finance.
(6) Therapy included intensive induction and consolidation followed by a cyclic, sequential maintenance program.
(7) This intra-oral model might be useful for studies of the organic material incorporated into enamel during the process of consolidation.
(8) In a single-institution study, 23 consecutive children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) have been treated with a protocol including doxorubicin, cytarabine and 6-thioguanine as induction therapy, followed by four courses of high-dose cytarabine as consolidation.
(9) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
(10) These results suggest that noradrenaline (NA) is required for memory consolidation processes for about 2 h after training.
(11) Chest X-ray revealed cavity and consolidation in the right upper lobe.
(12) These include fibrosis with or without consolidation (n = 12), ground-glass opacities (n = 7), widespread bilateral consolidation (n = 2), and bronchial wall thickening with areas of decreased attenuation (n = 2).
(13) They were thought to be caused by the rotor practice interfering with just-learned ladder skill consolidation, so that the gain in skill was not processed into long-term memory.
(14) In the former, consolidation of the lung was noticed and useful in the diagnosis, but in the latter, no distinct change was observed in plain chest roentogenogram.
(15) The filling of the defect and fracture consolidation took place in 87 (91.7%) patients.
(16) A different, more straightforwardly anti-cuts message could perhaps consolidate a left-vote in a PR system, but is unlikely to work for a party seeking to lead.
(17) Postremission therapy consolidation has been judged to be necessary while the clinical roles of maintenance and intensification remain to be clarified and appear to still require an investigational approach.
(18) LTP in these two structures could underlie their role in memory consolidation and could explain the late involvement of the entorhinal cortex in post-training memory processing.
(19) The functions of medical physicists and their roles in consolidation of the relations between medicine and natural sciences and engineering are discussed.
(20) Hemorrhage, congestion, consolidation, edema and fibrin exudation were prominent in the hilar region of the lungs.
Fused
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Fuse
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
(2) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
(3) DNA fragments coding for signal peptides with different lengths (28, 31, 33 and 41 amino acids from the translation initiator Met) were prepared and fused with the E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene.
(4) When these sequences were fused to the N terminus of yeast cytochrome oxidase subunit IV lacking its own presequence, they directed the attached subunit IV to its correct intramitochondrial location in vivo.
(5) In addition, 15 double mutant xylS genes were constructed in vitro by fusing parts of various mutant genes to produce mutant regulators exhibiting C-terminal and N-terminal amino acid substitutions.
(6) Descending neurons have opposite structural polarity, arising in the brain and terminating in segmental regions of the fused ventral ganglia.
(7) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
(8) Fusing equimolecular amounts of 3-oxaspiro[5.5]undecane-2.4-dione with certain amino compounds afforded the corresponding N-substituted azaspirodiones.
(9) Theoretical analyses of parameters for submicron fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements in intact mitoplasts support the finding of highly mobile redox components diffusing at the same rates as determined in conventional fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements in fused, ultralarge inner membranes.
(10) A simple method has been developed for fusing synaptic vesicles into spherical structures 20-50 micron in diameter.
(11) The results obtained allow to conclude that heterophasic condition of the fused cells is one of the causes of pathological mitosis of polykaryons and of their death.
(12) At high protein concentrations, three footprints fuse to a 106-bp protected region, suggesting that this segment specifically binds several proteins of lower affinity or abundance.
(13) Traction spurs with segmental hypermobility were found more commonly at the L4-5 level in patients whose spines were not fused, particularly women.
(14) As for possible causes of reduced Leydig cell activity it was investigated whether the testis was (1) hypoplastic; (2) abnormally fused with the epididymis; (3) located in the abdomen; (4) or UT was associated with hypospadias.
(15) We report a case of seminoma associated with crossed fused renal ectopia and a duplicated vena cava.
(16) Large intracellular vacuoles, which arose from dilated cisternae of the rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, were fused together, and marked swelling of the mitochondria was also noted.
(17) Apparently the myoblasts have become postmitotic and competent to fuse into muscle fibers during their initial exposure to fusion inducing medium, even though cytodifferentiation has been blocked.
(18) Our results clearly demonstrate that capillary GC analysis of amino acids using fused silica bonded-phase columns provides data with good precision and in general excellent agreement with ion-exchange analyses.
(19) We have perturbed the dynamics of the nuclear lamins by means of cell fusion between mitotic and interphase cells and have studied redistribution of lamins in fused cells as a function of extracellular pH levels.
(20) To identify regulatory elements of these promoters, we fused CSF-1R genomic sequences to bacterial reporter genes and introduced the resulting constructs into human cell lines and mouse fibroblasts.