(v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
(v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
(v. t.) To filter.
(v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
(v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
(n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
(n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
(n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(2) Intraperitoneal drain should therefore be used when choledochus has been explored.
(3) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
(4) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
(5) Radioactive lactic acid was detected in the drained perfusion solution with D(U-14C)-glucose, but not when D(U-14C)-fructose was used.
(6) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.
(7) Regarding ureters read as true positives on indirect study, if that ureter has ever shown reflux at any time, or if it drained a scarred kidney specificity was improved to 97% without changing the sensitivity.
(8) In tests on 13 cells pacing at a 200 mua drain without recharging, the simulated mean duration of pacing before total discharge was 4.8 years.
(9) An abscess of a lingual tonsil should be drained under general anesthesia, and lingual thyroid should be treated conservatively unless it produces obstructive symptoms.
(10) Among them 8 cases were coelio-drained for 24 hours with very little thin bloody drainage.
(11) Lymphocytes obtained from lymph nodes draining foot pads infected with R. conorii or R. akari demonstrated cross-reactivity similar to that found with immune spleen cells.
(12) The experiments show that the single cephalad channel venous island flap is perfused by and drains through its single cephalad vein.
(13) But it has a tainted reputation: the 2007 foot and mouth outbreak was traced to a leak from Pirbright’s drains.
(14) The well drained soils of the Suiá--Missu forest are very uniform, deep latosols (oxisols) of very dystrophic nature with pH (in water) between 4.0 and 5.0 (see table 2, p. 203).
(15) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
(16) In 13 growing pigs (mini-pigs) all veins draining the head of femur were ligated intra-abdominally.
(17) However, we demonstrate that topical exposure to DNTB causes activation of the draining lymph node in mice and the induction of contact sensitization in both rodents and a single human volunteer.
(18) The malformations over the surface drain into the superior sagittal sinus.
(19) Our current recommendation for initial treatment is excision of the primary tumor followed by irradiation with generous fields to include the primary tumor site and draining regional lymphatics to doses of 46-50 Gy in 2 Gy fractions.
(20) The region was perfused at constant flow through the aorta and drained at constant pressure from the inferior vena cava.
Emulge
Definition:
(v. t.) To milk out; to drain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several disposing factors are under discussion: (a) physico-chemical irritation of the surrounding tissue by the fabric itself (release of monomers, emulgators etc.
(2) Creams containing nonionic emulgators were only slightly affected by ageing.
(3) The effect of water content on the release of hydrocortisone was also dependent on the emulgator used.
(4) Massa Estarinum 299 containing 5% of Emulgator BTO proved to be the best in case of chosen suppositories containing aminophenazone.
(5) In the case of ionic emulgators, release of hydrocortisone was retarded as the amounts of water in the cream increased up to 60% water content; above this, the release was enhanced, probably owing to changes in the liquid crystalline microstructure of the cream.
(6) However, the plasma is mainly cleared of emulgated fat by extracellular liberation of fatty acids, the smaller part of which is oxidized immediately, the major part being reesterified to storage fat in adipose tissues by energy requiring process.
(7) These included European standard, vehicles and emulgators, topical medications, and preservatives and biocides.
(8) Both results, the decreasing half life and the change in composition of the circulating emulsion may best be explained by a shrinking and instability of the emulgator film, showing the necessity for development of a superior surfactant.
(9) In high concentrations of Metaupon, Fekunil 602, Fekunil S-BA, Emulgator W 270, and Emulgator O-BA the plaque formation by the phages M 12 and f2 was inhibited and in low concentrations it was promoted.
(10) The release of hydrocortisone from creams containing emulgators increased in the same order as the solubilizing capacity of these emulgators for hydrocortisone, which indicates how important the concentration of dissolved hydrocortisone in the cream is for release.
(11) With a nonionic emulgator, release was enhanced slightly as the water content in the cream increased.
(12) Up to 12 weeks of storage, ageing affected the creams containing ionic emulgators by retarding the release of hydrocortisone; after that, hydrocortisone release was enhanced and the release profile also changed.
(13) Floccculant treatment provided a significant increase in the quality of the fermentation broth filtrates with respect to the main parameters: levels of proteins, pigments, emulgation capacity.
(14) In the presence of natural (liver mitochondria and microsomes) and artificial (liposomes from saturated phosphatidyl cholines) membranes, the rate of oxidation of an emulgated polyunsaturated fatty acid by reticulocyte lipoxygenase sharply increases and correlates with the amount of polyunsaturated fatty acid incorporated into the membrane.
(15) The solubility of hydrocortisone in water-emulgator systems and the solubilizing capacity of these emulgators for hydrocortisone were also determined.
(16) The combination of the synthetic emulgator with lecithin did not improve fat digestion but diminished the total fat content in the blood.
(17) All the surfactants, except Emulgator EL and Emulgator IP, at 0.1% increased the efficacy of OTC at 0.25% and the maximum reduction of 83.93% in fertility was observed for the combination OTC+Arkopal N-110.
(18) the differences found may perhaps be explained by the action of the emulgent on the intravascular metabolism of the fats.
(19) The creams consisted of ionic or non-ionic surfactants as emulgators, contained different amounts of water, and had a hydrocortisone concentration of 1%.
(20) The influence of ageing was dependent on the type of emulgator and the amount of water in the cream.