(a.) Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water.
(n.) That which dilutes.
(n.) An agent used for effecting dilution of the blood; a weak drink.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(2) bolus injection of 400 microCi MAb E48 IgG (number of mice (n = 6, number of tumours (t) = 9) or 800 microCi MAb E48 IgG (n) = 5,t = 7), whereas control groups received either diluent (n = 3,t = 5), unlabelled MAb E48 IgG (n = 4,t = 5) or 800 microCi 131I-labelled isotype-matched control MAb (n = 6,t = 9).
(3) Alteration in the temperature of the Isoton diluent in a Coulter model S counter over a range of possible laboratory working temperatures produced a change in the mean corpuscular volume using EDTA and dipotassium acid citrate dextrose blood and a commercial control, 4C.
(4) Moderate vasodilatory effects also were found with the diluent alone.
(5) Antibody titers also varied in different diluent systems.
(6) It is always purified on Sephadex G-100 immediately before addition to the RIA and in this manner it may be used for up to 2 month after labeling when kept at --20 degrees C. Curves obtained at different dilutions of the H-FSH Standard, carried out with phosphosaline buffer, pH 7.4-7.8 (PBS) containing 1 % human serum albumin, or with horse plasma, of with PBS containing 0,25 % serum from non-immune rabbits (RIA Buffer) have been compared iwth those abtained by serial dilutions of sera from post-menopausal with these diluents.
(7) Our data suggest, however, that each batch of albumin used for this purpose should be checked for the presence of inhibitor, and that treatment with kaolin might be considered as a routine step prior to its incorporation into the test diluent.
(8) For drugs with high osmolalities, 0.45% sodium chloride injection or sterile water for injection may be used as the diluent.
(9) In both studies, a control group received the diluent, artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), icvt.
(10) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
(11) Little difference in survival was observed when monosodium glutamate or the balance of the defined medium was used as the diluent.
(12) Particle-size fractions of lactose ranging from 53 to 177 micron in diameter were employed in different granulations to examine the effect of particle size of the major diluent on drug migration.
(13) The use of the other three diluents resulted in an overestimation of C3a levels.
(14) The diluent, Pluronic F-68, was not associated with any morphologic or clinico-pathologic changes.
(15) In groups of rats pretreated with either PB, gentamicin, or diluent, the LD100 of an oral dose of CCl4 was reduced by PB to an LD50, but the gentamicin pretreatment was without effect.
(16) Compared with the fertility results with semen that had been stored in the hypertonic diluent or was fresh, the fertility of the White Leghorns was not affected after storage in the isotonic diluent; a decrease (P less than 0-05) was observed, however, using Rhode Island Red semen and isotonic diluent.
(17) A standard semen diluent was deposited laparoscopically in each uterine horn of ewes in the treatment group.
(18) Human serum used as diluent of the patient's serum appears to be essential because of high protein binding of some antibiotics.
(19) The survival of six species of anaerobic bacteria was studied in simple or commercially available diluents.
(20) The HEPES-saline-albumin-gelatin (HSAG) diluent found optimal for agglutination of fowl erythrocytes by rubella virus antigen is also optimal for agglutination of trypsin-treated human group O cells.
Thinner
Definition:
(n.) One who thins, or makes thinner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dimensions of the acetabular wall were thinner in the hips that had the thirty-two-millimeter component than in those that had the twenty-two-millimeter component (p less than 0.05).
(2) Both before and after application of the stimulus, the walls of the superficial dermal vessels of the patients with dermographism were thinner and contained less extracellular matrix material than vessel walls of the patients with cold-induced urticaria.
(3) The increased packing density of axons in the nerve was not only due to thinner axons.
(4) It is how I feel when I speak to those who are thinner than me.
(5) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
(6) Ervin Santana is in Atlanta, meaning the rotation is thinner and with reliever Luke Hochevar is out with Tommy John surgery , that’s not a great start.
(7) It is not proved; nonetheless, the view expressed here is that the radial fibers are thinner in the medial segment of the globus pallidus because they may be the same fibers that gave off collaterals in the lateral segment of the globus pallidus.
(8) He was big, maybe 18st [114kg] when I last saw him but he looks thinner in the face in the video.” Muthana added: “What they [Isis] are doing is inhuman, this is not the son I brought up.
(9) At all ages the smokers were thinner than the non-smokers.
(10) The increased functional activity of the endothelium, thinner walls of capillaries and the appearnace of a greater amount of fenestrations against the background of the thyroid stimulation are likely to be factors contributing to penetration of non-hormonal iodine products (iodine tyrosines and products of incomplete hydrolysis of thyroglobulins) into the circulation, which can be observed under certain pathological conditions accompanied by increased thyrotropic stimulation--such as diffused toxic goiter and diffuse non-toxic goiter.
(11) Electron-microscopic examinations revealed that amyloid fibrils in the somatostatinoma were thinner and more randomly distributed than were those in islets from patients with Type II diabetes mellitus.
(12) In both the experiments there were detected cells in their majority with thinner walls, L-form-like structures, protoplasts and single conglomerates of the cells with thicker walls and anomalous division and the cells at the moment of lysis.
(13) The cold was badly affecting smaller, thinner prisoners with little body fat, especially those weakened by their fast, she said.
(14) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
(15) It stores up a problem: you can spread staff thinner for a short period of time but unless there is a managed staff restructuring a department could struggle to ask colleagues to fill in indefinitely.
(16) The dermis and subcutaneous tissue, on the other hand, were significantly thinner after expansion.
(17) This prosthesis was designed so that the stem became thinner as it approached the bearing surfaces.
(18) On electron microscopy the normal lamellar pattern made up of orientated collagen fibrils all about 80 nm diameter is replaced by a random tangled pattern of much thinner irregularly curved fibrils, some as thin as 5nm.
(19) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
(20) Treatment with cytochalasin B caused microridges to disappear or to become thinner and lower or to change short or microvillus-like microridges.