(v. t.) To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man from a leader or from a party.
(v. t.) To separate for a special object or use; -- used especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.
(v. i.) To push asunder; to come off or separate from anything; to disengage.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
(2) In 22 cases (63%), retinal detachment was at least partially flattened in the area of the posterior pole of the eye.
(3) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(4) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(5) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
(6) The yield of such studies may be high for an understanding of such diseases as myopia, retinal detachment, and keratoconus.
(7) A large exudative retinal detachment and hypopyon developed in one eye, and cultures from the anterior chamber aspirate grew CMV.
(8) The results are discussed in the light of the pathophysiological changes following retinal detachment including detachment of the macular area.
(9) The perfluoropropane gas was used as an adjunct to vitreoretinal microsurgery in 60 eyes of 60 patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment complicated by proliferative vitreoretinopathy.
(10) Analysed were the results of surgical treatment, causes of the failure and early recurrence in 108 patients with retinal detachment in whom was performed an indentation of the sclera by means of a balloon (1st group--50) or by an episcleral implant (2d group--58).
(11) Retinal Pigment epithelial tears have been well documented as a complication of pigment epithelial detachment in patients with age related macular degeneration.
(12) On examination by cholangiography at 1, 2, 3, and 4 weeks after the initial laparotomy, no significant cholangiectasis was found in dogs subjected to either cholecystectomy alone or to detachment of the surrounding tissue alone.
(13) At the acute stage, hypotonia and exudative retinal detachment were found.
(14) Cells were synchronized by selective detachment of cells blocked in metaphase using colcemid.
(15) The authors have treated seven patients by using percutaneous placement of a detachable balloon to occlude a pseudoaneurysm of an upper extremity graft.
(16) The clinical features and results of surgical management of 68 out of a series of 101 cases of traumatic retinal detachment in childhood are described and analysed.
(17) In 17 cases of recurrent retinal tears occurring after successful retinal detachment surgery, the new tears developed on or near the treated primary tear in seven cases and away from the treated tear in ten cases.
(18) To obtain the subcellular fractions, cell monolayers or cells previously detached from the culture dish were treated with non-ionic detergent N onidet P-40.
(19) It was also recorded that patients with edematous fibroplastic process in the central zone accompanied by vitreoretinal tractions often develop equatorial dystrophies, this being a risk factor of retinal detachment.
(20) Associated features were severe blunt or penetrating injury, total retinal detachment, surbretinal proteinaceous exudate, and concomitant presence of preretinal fibrocellular or fibrovascular proliferations.
Uncouple
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose, as dogs, from their couples; also, to set loose; to disconnect; to disjoin; as, to uncouple railroad cars.
(v. i.) To roam at liberty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.
(2) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
(3) Thus, 4'-OH-4-CB acts as both an uncoupler and an inhibitor of oxidative phosphorylation.
(4) We suggest that radiation-induced specific chromosome 2 rearrangement associated with IL-1 beta deregulation may initiate murine leukemogenesis through the uncoupling of normal proliferative control mechanisms in multipotential hemopoietic cells.
(5) The entry of CH3NH3+ supported by glucose oxidation in an F1F0-ATPase-deficient mutant was blocked by uncoupler.
(6) We report here, for the first time, the primary structure of uncoupling protein as established by amino acid sequencing.
(7) The present experiment was conducted to determine if a single direct dopamine (DA) agonist, apomorphine (APO), pretreatment could produce a rapid uncoupling of the striatal DA D-2 receptor from its G-proteins.
(8) A model is proposed in which this region interacts with a catalytic core to maintain the I state, and in which phosphorylation serves to uncouple this interaction.
(9) It was strongly inhibited by the metabolic inhibitor antimycin A and to a lesser extend by the uncoupler carbonylcyanide-m-chlorophenylhydrazone.
(10) It is concluded that the fatty acids "uncouple" the amino acid carrier proteins from the cytochrome-linked electron transport system (to which they may be coupled via protein interaction or via a cation gradient).
(11) It was concluded that LPS acted as an uncoupler of oxidative phosphorylation and that it produced effects similar to those observed with the classical uncoupler 2,4-dinitrophenol.
(12) These data indicate that the phenolic hydroxyl groups of xanthomegnin might contribute to its uncoupling action on the oxidative phosphorylation of mitochondria.
(13) The uncoupled enzyme, however, exhibited greater storage stability than the covalently linked enzyme at 25 degrees after 24 hrs and at 0 degrees after 21 days.
(14) In contrast, an uncoupler of mitochondrial respiration, sodium salicylate (375 mg per kg), increased the decarboxylation of alpha-ketoisocaproic acid (56.3% of the dose recovered as 14CO2 in 1 hr).
(15) Titration of glucose-depleted synaptosomes with pyruvate in the presence of either veratridine or uncoupler stimulates respiration in a Ca2+-independent manner.
(16) Stimulation of respiration, perhaps reflective of uncoupling of oxidative phosphorylation, was produced by an ochratoxin A concentration of 1 mM.
(17) Sodium nitrite, a substance with unknown promoting activity, effectively uncoupled cells.
(18) These effects of ATP are abolished by oligomycin and uncoupling agents and may, therefore, be reflections of the coupling of the mitochondrial ATP synthetase to the respiratory chain at the level of cytochrome c oxidase, which is the basis of the mechanism of coupling respiration to ATP synthesis and respiratory control.
(19) In the control group, the uncoupled respiration rate is also higher, while the ascorbate+ +TMPD oxidation rate is lower than in the cold- and cold + T-activin-treated groups.
(20) Marker incubation of ultrathin cryosections obtained by cryo transverse sectioning of IgG-labeled semithick cryosections shows also that penetration of uncoupled antibodies into cytoplasm and nuclei of chicken erythrocytes is limited.