(superl.) Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid of any kind; -- said especially: (a) Of the weather: Free from rain or mist.
(superl.) Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.
(superl.) Of animals: Not giving milk; as, the cow is dry.
(superl.) Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
(superl.) Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
(superl.) Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire or comparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.
(superl.) Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.
(superl.) Characterized by a quality somewhat severe, grave, or hard; hence, sharp; keen; shrewd; quaint; as, a dry tone or manner; dry wit.
(superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring.
(a.) To make dry; to free from water, or from moisture of any kind, and by any means; to exsiccate; as, to dry the eyes; to dry one's tears; the wind dries the earth; to dry a wet cloth; to dry hay.
(v. i.) To grow dry; to become free from wetness, moisture, or juice; as, the road dries rapidly.
(v. i.) To evaporate wholly; to be exhaled; -- said of moisture, or a liquid; -- sometimes with up; as, the stream dries, or dries up.
(v. i.) To shrivel or wither; to lose vitality.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(2) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(3) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(4) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(5) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
(6) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
(7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(8) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
(9) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
(10) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
(11) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(12) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(13) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(14) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(15) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
(16) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(17) Percentage of dry tissue and protein concentration increased in parallel during the whole period.
(18) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(19) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(20) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
Soave
Definition:
(a.) Sweet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The condition resulted after a Soave endorectal pull-through procedure for Hirschsprung's disease and was secondary to hypoganglionosis which developed in the pulled-through segment.
(2) In 158 of the patients the Duhamel operation was used, 148 patients were operated on after Soave.
(3) The Soave procedure is an increasingly popular procedure for the definitive therapy of patients with ulcerative colitis.
(4) Two hundred and three patients who underwent a Soave endorectal pull-through procedure for Hirschsprung's disease (1974-1990) were evaluated.
(5) Colostomy followed by a Soave procedure was curative.
(6) has been applied to 23 patients, aged between two and 17 years, operated because high imperforate anus by PSARP procedure in 15 cases and by abdomino-perineal pull-through according to Romualdi-Soave technique in eight cases.
(7) Personal experience of seven cases admitted to the Paediatric Surgery Department of the University of Bari is reported, stress being laid in particular on the results of surgical therapy obtained with total colectomy associated with proctomucosectomy according to the Romualdi-Soave technique.
(8) is slightly higher in cases operated by PSARP procedure than in cases treated with Romualdi-Soave technique, when we compare the two groups with similar mean age.
(9) Regardless of the technique selected (Duhamel, Soave or above all, Swenson), surgical treatment can be carried out before two months of age.
(10) An explanation of the Soave procedure and a case report are presented demonstrating the value of CT in examination of the postoperative pelvis.
(11) Vespa, Soave, Roce and MN 1500 at the physiological ripeness stage were used.
(12) From analysis of complications of surgery on 174 primary patients for Hirschsprung's disease who underwent operation by the Soave-Lenyushkin method and treatment of 49 patients who were admitted for various complications and functional disorders resulted from operations performed for Hirschsprung's disease at other therapeutic institutions, the authors revealed the main operative-technical errors depending on the method of the radical operation (Swenson-Chiatt's, Duhamel's, Soave's, Rebein's).
(13) Sixty-two patients with Hirschsprung's disease (operated on according to Duhamel, Swenson, or Soave) were evaluated for quality of defecation and studied manometrically.
(14) The use of a concomitant tube cecostomy with a two-stage Soave procedure is an effective and safe means of providing proximal colonic venting and did not add to mortality or morbidity.
(15) The original pull-through procedure included Soave (2), Duhamel (2), and Swenson (1) operations.
(16) The author reports an infant with extensive aganglionosis including the ileum in whom an endorectal pull-through of the Soave type as modified by Boley was performed with a longitudinal side-to-side anastomosis between the aganglionic and normal intestine, preserving terminal ileum and ileocecal valve.
(17) Operative technique included a modified sutured Soave endorectal pull-through procedure and a Stamm tube cecostomy utilising a large-lumen catheter.
(18) In what we believe to be the first application of the Soave-Bolley technique of ileoendorectal pullthrough to this condition, symptoms were relieved completely and rectal continence preserved.
(19) Swenson's (25), Duhamel's (5), and Soave's procedures (2) were performed.
(20) Anterior resection was performed on one adult patient initially but this was converted subsequently to Soave's pull-through operation.