What's the difference between dissolve and penetrate?

Dissolve


Definition:

  • (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.

Penetrate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
  • (v. t.) To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity.
  • (v. t.) To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand.
  • (v. i.) To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used figuratively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
  • (2) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (3) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
  • (4) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
  • (5) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (6) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
  • (7) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
  • (8) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (9) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
  • (10) All of these factors make morbidity and mortality associated with penetrating injuries low.
  • (11) The treatment led to decreased spinnbarkeit, arborization and sperum penetration in the cervical mucus.
  • (12) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
  • (13) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
  • (14) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
  • (15) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
  • (16) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
  • (17) The time of sperm penetration in the mouse eggs, however, was delayed for one-half to one hour when ejaculated sperm were used.
  • (18) Enzymatic lability does not, however, play as important a role as lipophilicity in the corneal and conjunctival penetration of cycloalkyl and aryl ester prodrugs.
  • (19) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
  • (20) Kinetic studies showed that significant inhibition of virus production occurred when the inhibitor was added to infected cultures up to 5 h after virus penetration.