(v. t.) To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to terminate; to destroy; to deprive of force; as, to dissolve a partnership; to dissolve Parliament.
(v. t.) To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to disunite; to sunder; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
(v. t.) To convert into a liquid by means of heat, moisture, etc.,; to melt; to liquefy; to soften.
(v. t.) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
(v. t.) To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
(v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction.
(v. i.) To waste away; to be dissipated; to be decomposed or broken up.
(v. i.) To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied.
(v. i.) To fade away; to fall to nothing; to lose power.
Example Sentences:
(1) We investigated this suppression quantitatively, using a chemical assay for cell-bound and dissolved capsular polysaccharide.
(2) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.
(3) Although the brain AP50 is prominently phosphorylated by an endogenous protein kinase in isolated coated vesicle preparations, the neuronal AP50 was not detectably phosphorylated in intact cells as assessed by two-dimensional non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophoresis of labeled cells dissolved directly in SDS-containing buffers.
(4) After Listeria, a bacterium, is phagocytosed by a macrophage, it dissolves the phagosomal membrane and enters the cytoplasm.
(5) In muscle cells the mitochondria were in the process of dissolving and the sarcoplasmic reticulum formed elongate cisternae.
(6) Homogenates of these cells in chloroform-methanol solution showed an identical absorption spectrum with pure bilirubin dissolved in the same solution.
(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) In the first few days of immersion high concentrations of dissolved metal ions were observed.
(9) It expresses the ratio between the partial pressure of the dissolved gas and the reduction of hydrostatic pressure during ascent (given as pressure gradient).
(10) Egypt has been without a sitting lower house of parliament since summer 2012, when it was dissolved by the country's supreme court .
(11) Each hand washing is filtered, and the residue collected on a membrane filter is dissolved in hydrochloric acid.
(12) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
(13) Osteoclasts dissolve bone mineral by the vectorial secretion of hydrogen ion at their osseous attachment site.
(14) This collagenolytic activity, which dissolved the collagen substrate, was derived from B. gingivalis and human GCF.
(15) Dexon's tensile strength is high initially and it retains its strength through the critical period of muscle-scleral wound healing, then dissolves in a rapid uniform manner.
(16) These results show that Mg-containing apatites dissolve to a greater extent than Mg-free apatites with the subsequent reprecipitation of Mg-poor apatites.
(17) In recent years, the clinical application of aerosol inhalation therapy has increased rapidly, however, many problems are not yet fully dissolved.
(18) In 1952, Clarence Agress performed an experiment on dogs to demonstrate his idea that a thrombus in a coronary artery could be dissolved without harm to the myocardium.
(19) The results show that when Cs is dissolved in aqueous buffer, the terminal atoms of residue 1 side chain are not available for binding to antibodies recognizing the face of the molecule defined by residues 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, suggesting that the chain is probably folded back under the molecule, as observed in the crystal structure.
(20) To further characterize the role of superoxide anion-radical in the vanadium redox cycling, the increase of optical density of vanadate(V) dissolved in Tris buffer was measured at 328 nm during the addition of KO2.
Fuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.
(v. t.) To unite or blend, as if melted together.
(v. i.) To be reduced from a solid to a Quid state by heat; to be melted; to melt.
(v. i.) To be blended, as if melted together.
(n.) A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means of which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Synthetic DNA corresponding to the hydrophobic domain of cytochrome b5 was enzymatically fused in-frame to cloned DNA corresponding to the C-terminus of the Escherichia coli enzyme, beta-galactosidase.
(2) The latter findings reinforce the concept that in pathologic states associated with cerebral oedema, pinocytotic vesicles fuse to form transendothelial channels which transport plasma proteins into brain.
(3) DNA fragments coding for signal peptides with different lengths (28, 31, 33 and 41 amino acids from the translation initiator Met) were prepared and fused with the E. coli beta-lactamase structural gene.
(4) When these sequences were fused to the N terminus of yeast cytochrome oxidase subunit IV lacking its own presequence, they directed the attached subunit IV to its correct intramitochondrial location in vivo.
(5) In addition, 15 double mutant xylS genes were constructed in vitro by fusing parts of various mutant genes to produce mutant regulators exhibiting C-terminal and N-terminal amino acid substitutions.
(6) Descending neurons have opposite structural polarity, arising in the brain and terminating in segmental regions of the fused ventral ganglia.
(7) Some of them situated in a particular environment fused with the tail sequence to produce monomeric ubiquitin genes that were maintained across species.
(8) Fusing equimolecular amounts of 3-oxaspiro[5.5]undecane-2.4-dione with certain amino compounds afforded the corresponding N-substituted azaspirodiones.
(9) Theoretical analyses of parameters for submicron fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements in intact mitoplasts support the finding of highly mobile redox components diffusing at the same rates as determined in conventional fluorescence recovery after photobleaching measurements in fused, ultralarge inner membranes.
(10) A simple method has been developed for fusing synaptic vesicles into spherical structures 20-50 micron in diameter.
(11) The results obtained allow to conclude that heterophasic condition of the fused cells is one of the causes of pathological mitosis of polykaryons and of their death.
(12) At high protein concentrations, three footprints fuse to a 106-bp protected region, suggesting that this segment specifically binds several proteins of lower affinity or abundance.
(13) Traction spurs with segmental hypermobility were found more commonly at the L4-5 level in patients whose spines were not fused, particularly women.
(14) As for possible causes of reduced Leydig cell activity it was investigated whether the testis was (1) hypoplastic; (2) abnormally fused with the epididymis; (3) located in the abdomen; (4) or UT was associated with hypospadias.
(15) We report a case of seminoma associated with crossed fused renal ectopia and a duplicated vena cava.
(16) Large intracellular vacuoles, which arose from dilated cisternae of the rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, were fused together, and marked swelling of the mitochondria was also noted.
(17) Apparently the myoblasts have become postmitotic and competent to fuse into muscle fibers during their initial exposure to fusion inducing medium, even though cytodifferentiation has been blocked.
(18) Our results clearly demonstrate that capillary GC analysis of amino acids using fused silica bonded-phase columns provides data with good precision and in general excellent agreement with ion-exchange analyses.
(19) We have perturbed the dynamics of the nuclear lamins by means of cell fusion between mitotic and interphase cells and have studied redistribution of lamins in fused cells as a function of extracellular pH levels.
(20) To identify regulatory elements of these promoters, we fused CSF-1R genomic sequences to bacterial reporter genes and introduced the resulting constructs into human cell lines and mouse fibroblasts.