(n.) The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.
(n.) The ratio of mass, or quantity of matter, to bulk or volume, esp. as compared with the mass and volume of a portion of some substance used as a standard.
(n.) Depth of shade.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(2) Ca2+ transport was positively correlated with MR cell density.
(3) Osteoporosis is characterized by a reduction in bone density.
(4) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
(5) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
(6) In schizophrenic patients the density of dopamine uptake sites in the basal ganglia was slightly reduced, mainly in the middle third of putamen.
(7) Size analysis of the solubilized IgA IP employing sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation, indicated that these were heterogeneous, with a size generally larger than 19 S.
(8) Estimates of the risk probability for each dose level and sacrifice time are found utilizing the sample likelihood as the posterior density.
(9) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(10) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(11) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(12) Macrophages internalize aggregated low density lipoprotein (LDL) by LDL receptor-dependent phagocytosis.
(13) The capillary-adipocyte distances were shorter and the vascularization density was higher in old rats.
(14) By means of computed tomography (CT) values related to bone density and mass were assessed in the femoral head, neck, trochanter, shaft, and condyles.
(15) When compared with nonspecialized regions of the cell membranes, these contact sites were characterized by a decreased intercellular distance, subplasmalemmal densities and coated pits.
(16) Furthermore, high-density catalase-positive--but not catalase-negative--E. coli can survive and multiply in the presence of competitive, peroxide-generating streptococci.
(17) The deep cerebellar nuclei were moderately labeled at birth and gradually decreased in density thereafter.
(18) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(19) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(20) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
Gravity
Definition:
(a.) The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.
(a.) Sobriety of character or demeanor.
(a.) Importance, significance, dignity, etc; hence, seriousness; enormity; as, the gravity of an offense.
(a.) The tendency of a mass of matter toward a center of attraction; esp., the tendency of a body toward the center of the earth; terrestrial gravitation.
(a.) Lowness of tone; -- opposed to acuteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(2) Phycomyces sporangiophores respond to four distinct physical stimuli: gravity, light, stretch, and an avoidance stimulus.
(3) Human granulocytes from the peripheral blood of healthy donors were subjected to transient gravity sedimentation analysis in Ficoll density gradient columns (37 degrees C) containing different concentrations of Escherichia coli endotoxin-activated serum and medium 199.
(4) In contrast, large territories may reflect widespread motor-unit actions, advantageous in force development where fine movement control is less important, as in biting in the intercuspal position or opposing gravity.
(5) The ball sat up; gravity would bring it down again and, when it did, he would score.
(6) Recent data on smoking patterns in the USA are listed and the gravity of the effects of passive smoking is brought out.
(7) Data were obtained on hen-day egg production, egg weight, egg mass, egg specific gravity, Haugh units, feed consumption, and feed efficiency.
(8) Egg production and egg specific gravity were correlated to D3 level in a quadratic fashion.
(9) "I am not trying to minimise the gravity of these offences, just simply make the observation that a sense of proportion needs to be maintained.
(10) Five experiments were conducted using 36 dietary treatments to compare chloride salts and HCl as chemical sources of Cl for the adjustment of dietary Cl when using sodium aluminosilicate (SAS), to compare SAS to natural zeolites (clinoptilolite and mordenite), and to determine the appropriate level of dietary SAS for optimum egg specific gravity.
(11) Specific gravity was only intermittently affected by dietary salt removal.
(12) Host cells were isolated by enzymatic disaggregation of the tumor and fractionated by sedimentation velocity at unit gravity on a Ficoll gradient.
(13) Because the contribution of position represents the additive effect of gravity between two opposite positions, the contribution of gravity to perfusion heterogeneity in one position may be as little as 4%.
(14) Was he being put forward as the foremost literary novelist of his generation, one whose best-known work stands comparison with The Naked and the Dead , Gravity's Rainbow , American Pastoral , Beloved and Underworld ?
(15) Fully 45 of these patients (92%) were operated on in emergency conditions and the choice of the operation was imposed by the gravity of the lesions observed.
(16) A brief image from the television feed before the gravity of the situation became apparent – as a physio reaches and tries to turn over the stricken midfielder – was widely available, especially in postings from outside the UK, where the match was shown on other networks.
(17) The three-dimensional displacements of the center of gravity were computed by the integration of force plate data.
(18) The diagnosis of gravity rests on the measurement of the mean gradient by applying Bernouilli's equation and the point by point quadratic transformation of the transmitral velocity curve obtained by Doppler and the measurement of the mitral area either by measurement of the half-decrease time in pressure or by applying the continuity equation.
(19) Tabulations of the constituents, elemental compositions, specific gravities, and the photon and electron interaction characteristics of 64 materials are given together with recommendations of systems having useful simulation properties.
(20) Hyponatremia complicates ascitic hepatic cirrhosis with frequency and gravity related to the gravity of the cirrhosis itself.