(n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
(n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
(2) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
(3) At 30 days after injection both stains revealed cellular debris and glial reactions characteristic of cellular dissolution.
(4) The intracellular localization of tachyzoites facilitated diagnosis by obviating potential confusion of extracellular tachyzoites with cellular debris or platelets.
(5) necrobiotic and dead cells, cell debris and phagosomes appear electively fluorescent.
(6) The "sump syndrome" is an unusual complication of side-to-side choledochoduodenostomy in which the portion of the common bile duct distal to the anastamosis acts as a sump and may collect bile, stones, food, and other debris.
(7) Assessment of the technique included radiographic and microscopic analysis of remaining debris.
(8) Much of the particulate material resembled cell debris.
(9) Hypertrophic fibrous astrocytes were common in chronic active lesions, were capable of myelin degradation and on occasion, contained myelin debris attached to clathrin-coated pits.
(10) The remaining fragments and debris were later phagocytized by surrounding ependymoglial processes.
(11) The debris-laden macrophages appear to migrate from the tail to the body.
(12) The Malaysian prime minister later says the debris is very likely wreckage from a Boeing 777 , and that it is being sent to France to establish whether it is from flight MH370.
(13) The amounts of polyethylene and methylmethacrylate debris and the histological reactions in the tissues corresponded closely with those reported in earlier studies of total hip prostheses made of stainless steel or cobalt-chromium alloy.
(14) We concluded that the acetabular component of the Wagner prosthesis is prone to early loosening and that the early loosening is potentiated by a foreign-body response to debris resulting from arthroplastic wear.
(15) The combined action of IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha caused a dose-related cellular exfoliation, leading to the formation of a mucoid cap made of mucus and cellular debris.
(16) But there’s also a chance some elements will survive down to surface,” said Hugh Lewis, a space debris expert at University of Southampton.
(17) Although missiles belonging to Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in Gaza do sometimes fall short, there was no visible evidence of debris from broken Palestinian rockets in the school.
(18) It occurred when granular pneumocytes re-epithelialized along the luminal surface of intra-alveolar debris overlying denuded alveolar epithelial basal laminae.
(19) The cell debris from the surfaces of the separated incisors was either gently wiped off with soft facial tissues or chemically removed by treating with NaOH, NaOCl or trypsin.
(20) They were distinct from astrocytes, which were identified with an antibody to glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and which did not contain oil red O myelin debris.
Detritus
Definition:
(n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
(n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.
Example Sentences:
(1) The structural causes of zone dilatation have been described in Poulsen's disease: sinusoids are empty and dilated, with detritus-filled dilated perisinusoidal spaces.
(2) The histological findings of actinomyces spores, thread-like foreign material and detritus drew out attention to the rare manifestation of abdominal actinomycosis.
(3) In rheumatoid arthritis (RA) joint inflammation is due to two processes: 1) the underlying inflammatory process (UIP) characterized by a lymphoplasmacellular infiltration of the synovial tissue, as well as pannus formation, and 2) the detritogenic synovitis (DS), a synovial response to articular wear products from cartilage and bone (detritus) that induces a preferentially fibrinous inflammation.
(4) This persistence provides a potential for continuous contamination of the water column and biological magnification via detritus- and benthic-feeding organisms.
(5) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
(6) The presence of cement debris and bone detritus in the membranes, and smooth appearance of the removed cement mantles substantiated the presence of mechanical failure.
(7) Secondary phagocytosis of the phagocytes and cell detritus was recorded.
(8) The mass disintegration of lymphocytes and accumulation of nuclear detritus in the thymus as well as neutrophil infiltration of the spleen can be attributed to the acute stress of the reentry and weightlessness--1 g transition stages.
(9) Terminal phase of lysis after two to three days (amorphous detritus).
(10) PCB and sigma DDT concentrations were greater in the predatory bottom animals than in the herbivores or detritus feeders, and the amounts of chlorinated hydrocarbons were greater in profundal animals than in littoral animals.
(11) Biophysical and biochemical changes (particle detritus formation, C and N variation), enzymatic activity involved and sterol production were studied during the transformation process of leaves to mycelial biomass.
(12) Five days after the laser, cell detritus and collapsed cell processes were noted.
(13) Except for the stones and detritus masses, the 'typical' US findings were absence of gas echoes in the periportal structures, normal width of bile ducts, or only a slight dilatation.
(14) Transporting heavy building materials across dirt streets riven with gullies and piled high with detritus is not easy, and theft of building materials is commonplace in Kibera.
(15) SEM also showed cell loss, and remnants of dead cells on the surface together with detritus.
(16) Shedding zones thus processed collapse to structureless detritus.
(17) By daylight, the detritus of people's lives was visible among ruins of the classroom: a ball, a bucket, some blankets, tins of food, a pair of flip-flops.
(18) "Anti-septic Massive Lavage": In all cases of inflammatory diseases of the abdominal cavity, to prevent abscess and adhesion formation, and in peritonitis, to remove bacteria, endotoxins and detritus.
(19) On Wednesday, Pakistan’s army made a point of letting scores of television crews trample over the crime scene in order that they could broadcast pictures of rooms blasted by suicide bombers, floors covered with pools of barely dried blood, and the sad detritus of an ordinary school day suddenly interrupted by seven terrorists.
(20) SYSpur-derm should be changed regularly in order to remove the detritus and exsudate from the wound.