(n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
(n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
(n.) A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
Example Sentences:
(1) The rhodamine 123-induced growth inhibition was partially reversed by treating the dye-pre-exposed infected erythrocytes with the proton ionophore carbonyl-cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, which dissipates transmembrane proton gradients.
(2) These effects of t-butyl hydroperoxide on [9,10-3H]oleic acid incorporation are not affected by dissipating transmembrane gradients for calcium and potassium.
(3) It has been possible to separate this dissipation from that associated with elongation factor Tu function.
(4) A mutation from one state into another in such system ('bioids') involves an amplification of different 'kinds of information', as 'stochastic' (noise into dissipative structures), 'molecular' (autocatalysts), and 'stoichimetric' information.
(5) A comparison with the same transient input terminal input, the fraction of input charge dissipated by various branches in the neuron model is illustrated.
(6) Therefore, at least 75% of maximal import inhibition observed in the presence of F1 beta 1-32 + 2 and F1 beta 21-51 + 3 does not result from dissipation of delta psi.
(7) The surreal air of calm surrounding Spain's bond market shows no signs of dissipating.
(8) In the present studies, Cl replaced the much less permeant anion methanesulfonate (Mes) either (a) at constant [K], in which increased [K][Cl] permits net KCl and water flux across internal membranes, or (b) at constant [K][Cl] (choline substitution), in which the imposed gradients and diffusion potentials should dissipate slowly.
(9) Similarly, the formation of spatial dissipative structures by coupling of a transport process with an interfacial reaction was investigated as a simple experimental example of symmetry breaking.
(10) In contrast, prior depolarization of the cells using varying concentrations of KCl in the external medium, which dissipated the electrochemical gradient for chloride efflux, resulted in a corresponding prolongation of the transient calcium response to vasopressin and angiotensin.
(11) The ATPase activity and H+ translocation are critically dependent upon the presence of chloride, which suggests that chloride influences H+ translocation by dissipating the H+ gradient and acting at the catalytic site of the ATPase.
(12) Her support dissipated in a fruitless search for a site.
(13) This excess risk was dissipated when selected covariates were added to the model.
(14) The patient is allowed to do functional exercises 24 hours after reduction with the aid of the spring stepping roller, which not only helps dissipate swelling in the early stage but also remold the articular facet.
(15) The results show that there is considerable variation in the rate and pattern of dissipation of the various components of the experimentally produced haematoma.
(16) This was probably caused by either dissipation of membrane potential or damage to the vesicle membranes.
(17) The theoretical function described coherences between recording sites of small separation for linear, non-dispersive, dissipative waves moving on an infinite homogeneous plane medium, and driven by spatio-temporally noisy inputs.
(18) In the same study, it was shown, using a 9-amino acridine fluorescent pH probe, that completion of the first stage was characterized by increase in H+ permeability such that the H+ gradient between sperm head and medium was dissipated.
(19) However, when vesicles were loaded with both KCl and NaCl the height of the overshoot was considerably decreased indicating a Na+-K+-dependent dissipation of the intravesicular to extravesicular chloride gradient.
(20) With less space to dissipate water within the network, it is forced into the main channel.
Dissolute
Definition:
(a.) With nerves unstrung; weak.
(a.) Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched.
Example Sentences:
(1) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
(2) A 2-fold increase in the dissolution rate was observed when the same number of particles was immobilized without macrophages.
(3) Unaltered surface enamel of extracted human teeth was subjected to tests of resistance to dissolution in 10 mM acetic acid at pH 4.0 and 10 mM EDTA at pH 7.4 in a miniature continuous flow system.
(4) At 30 days after injection both stains revealed cellular debris and glial reactions characteristic of cellular dissolution.
(5) The in vitro dissolution study carried out using dynamic dialysis revealed that the release of adriamycin from these particles follows a bi-phasic pattern.
(6) The retreating rate constants deduced from the dissolution results were well coincident with the values directly determined by the needle penetration method, suggesting good applicability of the proposed equation.
(7) However, in some patients absorption of the drug is markedly sensitive to changes in dissolution rate and new pharmacopoeal standards should not be defined until very rapidly-dissolving formulations have been studied.
(8) Instead, a repetitive, stepwise dissolution pattern was observed.
(9) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
(10) Reductions in dissolution rates in a continuous-flow system could best be interpreted by assuming that they reflected changes in the area of the hydrophilic solid exposed to the solvent.
(11) Applications from Serbia, which account for 10% of the total, stem mostly from the dissolution of former Yugoslavia: payment of army reservists, access to savings in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina, pensions in Kosovo.
(12) The minimal advantage in rapidity of stone dissolution offered by tham E over tham is more than offset by the considerably increased potential for toxic side effects.
(13) The differences in the amounts of rapidly releasable calcium were attributed to different kinetics of calcium phosphate and calcium oxalate dissolution.
(14) The steps in the model are the drug elimination rate in the precornea and anterior chamber, the rate of drug dissolution, the rate of drug penetration into the cornea, and the rate of drug transport into the aqueous humor.
(15) Two commercial slow-release potassium chloride tablets, Slow-K and Addi-K have the characteristics of slow-release in the different dissolution conditions.
(16) Two consequences of these conditions are (1) patient classification into syndrome types (e.g., phonological dysgraphia, agrammatism, and so forth) can play no useful role in research concerned with issues about the structure of normal cognitive functioning or its dissolution under conditions of brain damage; and (2) only single-patient studies allow valid inferences about the structure of cognitive mechanisms from the analysis of impaired performance.
(17) Areas suggestive of cellular dissolution and disorganization were also reported in experimental parathyroids
(18) Speaking in Adelaide on Thursday as the government struggles to turn around its polling in South Australia before a possible double dissolution election, the prime minister went on the attack and said Labor was making major policy announcements on the fly.
(19) Although all three formulations were shown to have similar dissolution profiles, dissolution of chlorpropamide was pH-dependent in vitro.
(20) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.