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Detrition
Definition:
(n.) A wearing off or away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arthroses and spondyloses are by no means a simple "articular detrition" but a disease in which the time factor is not always of decisive importance.
(2) Muramic acid, a component of the muramyl peptide found only in the cell walls of bacteria and blue-green algae, furnishes a measure of detrital or sedimentary procaryotic biomass.
(3) By late June, a persistent detrital or decomposition layer formed in the lower metalimnion, as well as a hypolimnetic iron layer where the Fe2+ state was predominant.
(4) The high level of bacterial activity is evidently supported by dissolved organic matter transferred from the detrital pool of eelgrass.
(5) Radioactive pulse-labeling studies showed that [14C]acetate is rapidly incorporated into muramic acid by the detrital microflora.
(6) A new pattern of osteolysis accompanied by detritic synovitis occurred in a 71-year-old woman.
(7) The large percentage of Naegleria contributing to FLA in the detrital layer suggests that Naegleria amoeboflagellates sink through the layer, flagellate, and swim back up, such migrations possibly being triggered by a reduction of nutrients below the layer or by the presence of anoxic, reducing conditions in the hypolimnion.
(8) Large-particle breakdown was measured in forage samples subjected to 48-h digestion or 48-h digestion plus detrition.
(9) The plantonic and detrital food pathways exposed fishes to potential dietary concentrations of selenium that were some 770 and 519-1395 times the waterborne exposure, respectively.
(10) Dwarfism in this species is essentially a cessation of body growth at a juvenile stage, accompanied by precocious sexual maturity, as an adaptation to persistent occupation of an interstitial detrital habitat.
(11) Densities of p-CP-degrading bacteria associated with the detrital sediment were 100 times greater than those enumerated in water.
(12) Other names for this condition are silastic detritic synovitis and silastic foreign body synovitis.
(13) The sediments consist of a conglomerate floc of bacteria, diatoms, and inorganic and detrital particles.
(14) In the water column, FLA populations consistently were highest in the detrital layer, which persisted at a depth of 3.0-3.4 m throughout the summer period.
(15) Both digestion and detrition cause a reduction in size of forage particles in vitro; this result supports conclusions drawn from in vivo studies.
(16) To determine the importance of digestion and detrition (rubbing) in the rumen on the breakdown of large particles (LP) in the leaf and stem fractions of temperate and tropical forages, a study was made using a digestion-detrition simulator.
(17) Physiological detrition is considered to be the cause for this.
(18) The only N. fowleri isolated in this study was from the detrital layer.
(19) In one patient, the prostheses broke, with silicone particles present in synovium ("detritic synovitis").
(20) Evidence is presented and reviewed which shows detrital concentration of heavy metals, radionuclides, and organochlorine insecticides.