(v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
(v. i.) To waste away slowly.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(2) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(3) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(4) Therefore, we examined the relationship between the usual number of drinks consumed per occasion and the incidence of fatal injuries in a cohort of US adults.
(5) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
(6) Alterations in DNA synthesis induced by a single dose of cyclophosphamide in normal and tumorous tissues in vivo paralleled in many respects the changes seen when the more time-consuming techniques of the LI or granulocyte colony formation were employed.
(7) Diarrhea and excretion of vibrios lasted longer in animals consuming less protein.
(8) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(9) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(10) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(11) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(12) Personalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that influence disease are inaccurate and offer little, if any, benefit to consumers, scientists claimed on Monday.
(13) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(14) Horses in heavy training may require more energy than they can consume on a conventional diet.
(15) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(16) The results suggest that, in PMA-stimulated neutrophils, cytosolic activation factors may be consumed or exhausted with an increasing period of time after the stimulation of neutrophils, and that the affinity of PMA-stimulated neutrophil NADPH oxidase to NADPH may almost be the same as that of control neutrophil oxidase.
(17) Since enrichment is the most time consuming step in conventional methods a PCR procedure which allows the direct detection of L. monocytogenes in milk was developed.
(18) This early hyperphagy had later consequences for the feeding behaviour of adult males, which looked for food and consumed it more intensively in a new environment and also hoarded it.
(19) The majority of subjects consuming supplements of vitamin E, vitamin B-6, and folate near the US RDA maintained normal vitamin status.
(20) The rpST-treated pigs consumed 13% less feed (P less than .01) than the control pigs in both environments, and pigs in H consumed 19% less feed (P less than .01) than pigs in TN.
Fil
Definition:
() imp. of Fall, v. i. Fell.
Example Sentences:
(1) From these results we concluded that the mutants have some defect in cell division after low doses of UV irradiation, similar to the lon(-) or fil(+) mutant of E. coli.
(2) They were able to retransform Fil- and Fil+ yeast strains at high frequency and transformants displayed a slightly unstable phenotype.
(3) This sensitivity is associated with the genetic deficiencies, fil, phr, and recA.
(4) The glass-ionomer cements used were: Ketac-Fil (ESPE), Ketac-Silver (ESPE), Fuji-II (GC), and Miracle Mix (GC).
(5) Five GIC's (Intact, Fuji II, Orthocem B, ChemFil II, and Ketac Fil[capsulated]) and one composite resin (Concise) were tested by bonding GAC eyelets, with a curved photo-etched base, to the buccal surface of human premolars.
(6) There was no evidence of marginal penetration of a tracer dye around Class V preparations lined with a BIS-GMA sealant, filled with Nuva-fil (a composite restorative material), and covered with the sealant.
(7) The distal cavities were restored with Ketac-Fil Glass Ionomer (ESPE).
(8) Based on Alexandre Dumas fils' novel La Dame aux Camélias, it is a collaboration between Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (the creators of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon) with a score by Oscar-winning film composer Michel Legrand.
(9) This study determined the effect of different light exposure times on the polymerization of three composite resins used as cements (Heliosit, Visio-Fil, and Dual) through various thicknesses and shades of two preprocessed composite resins (Isosit and Visio-Gem).
(10) Two mechanically mixed glass ionomer restorative materials (Ketac-Fil and Fuji Cap II) were compared with two manually mixed products (Chelon-Fil and Fuji Type II).
(11) It was also significantly faster than the Vacu-fil and the Instafil with the cuff for filling batches of 60 DMPBs with 100 mL of diluent.
(12) Patients with diffuse FIL had significantly higher values for alkaline phosphatase (p = 0.0016) and serum asparate aminotransferase (p = 0.0251) than those who had the focal pattern.
(13) FIL density was further increased in the body membrane of the procyclic culture form.
(14) Last summer, the fast food outlet Chick-fil-A was inundated with tens of thousands of orders after its CEO made comments hostile to gay marriage.
(15) This study compares the microleakage of a glass ionomer cement, Ketac Fil, used without cavity conditioning, with the established intermediate restorative materials, Cavit-W, and a reinforced zinc oxide-eugenol cement, Kalzinol.
(16) The colour match of the ChemFil II restorations was significantly better than the Fuji Cap II and Ketac-fil Aplicap restorations.
(17) The latter showed higher values but not at a statistically significant level; 3) Both Ketac-Fil and Fuji II provided high bond strengths when the repair occurred on a newly set surface (15 minutes); 4) When Ketac-Fil and Fuji II specimens were repaired at 24 hours, shear bond strength was lower compared to the repair bond strength at 15 minutes and demonstrated less cohesive ability; 5) When 6-day-old specimens were repaired, Fuji II provided higher bond strength values than Ketac-Fil.
(18) The aims of this study were to investigate in vivo the release of fluoride from three glass ionomer cements (GICs) Vitrebond, Ketac-Fil and ChemFil II into the saliva of preschool children for a 1-year period and also to study in vitro the release-absorption-release of fluoride from the same GICs for 16 weeks.
(19) Forty Class II carious lesions were randomly assigned for restoration with one of two composites: Status or Ful-Fil; and using one of two techniques: with and without a glass ionomer base.
(20) Prisma Universal Bond with Prisma-Fil on one group and Prisma Universal Bond and Heliomolar in the other.