(v. t.) To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
(v. t.) To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(3) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(4) The approach was to determine the relative importance of predisposing, enabling, and medical need factors in explaining utilization rates among younger and older enrollees of an HMO.
(5) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
(6) This technique enables the demonstration of an hygienic parameter important for food microbiology within a short time.
(7) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
(8) Direct detection of the mutation enables the identification of fragile X negative normal transmitting males and fragile X negative carrier females.
(9) Our results show that paramagnetic enhancement with T1-weighted imaging adds specificity and enables rapid assessment of abnormalities of the blood-brain barrier.
(10) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(11) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(12) US clearly images the cartilaginous femoral head and enables accurate assessment of hip size, shape, and symmetry.
(13) These topographies enabled us to observe serial changes in epileptic discharge dynamically by 1 msec.
(14) This remarkably reliable examination showed a predominance of anterior and anterolateral aneurisms (87% of cases), and enables definition of the critical cardiac surface area (about 25%) above which the aneurysm is operable.
(15) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
(16) Hence, a priori haplotyping cannot exclude a particular CF mutation, but in combination with population genetic data, enables mutations to be ranked by decreasing probability.
(17) This was overcome by using a continuous subcutaneous infusion pump which also enabled the effective daily dosage to be reduced and thereby adverse reactions to be avoided.
(18) The beads enable us to examine several aspects of the adhesion process with particles having uniform properties that can be varied systematically.
(19) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
(20) One aim was to enable patients to take more responsibility for their own preventive care.
Sorbent
Definition:
(n.) An absorbent.
Example Sentences:
(1) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(2) An Immuno Sorbent Binding Bio-Assay (ISBBA) for the detection and the titration of antisera to the highly biologically active proteins, alpha interferons, is described.
(3) The principle can be applied for the preparation of affinity sorbents, e.g., for high-performance affinity chromatography and for the immobilization of enzymes using latex PS particles.
(4) Human basophil degranulation tests with all four allergens were positive and radio allergo sorbent tests to latex were also positive.
(5) A method of hard phasic separation of free and bound forms of the hormone demonstrated the presence of specific (saturated) and nonspecific (unsaturated) binding of dexamethazone in the cytosol of various rat organs; and increase of the sorbent concentration promoted a better detection of the first type of binding on account of selective depression of binding of the second type.
(6) Cardiolipin and group treponemal IgE fractions were indirectly calculated by the difference between the specific activity induced by sera as such and that induced by sera absorbed with cardiolipin and group treponemal sorbents.
(7) The synthesis of chelating sorbents for ligand-exchange chromatography of enzymes is described.
(8) This impressive immunological effect was not associated with any changes in the radio-allergo-sorbent assay (RAST) to house dust mite, or symptom scores; peak expiratory flow rates or histamine induced bronchial reactivity.
(9) Because these contaminants have long column retention times in GLC, it may not be apparent that these contaminants are present and consequently are likely to have modified the sorbent characteristics of the activated charcoal.
(10) Following intravenous injection of radioactive thyroxine, the radiolabeled thyroid hormones were isolated from plasma protein and polar metabolites by solid phase extraction on a C18 sorbent bed.
(11) Despite their apparent similarity, the sorbents show very different chromatographic properties, not only with respect to retention of analyte enantiomers (k' and alpha), but also with respect to column efficiency (affecting Rs values).
(12) In vitro characteristics of the resulting coated sorbent, including permeability to model small and middle molecules, and mechanical integrity, were evaluated to determine the suitability of the process in coating granular sorbents used in hemoperfusion.
(13) The 2-methyl derivatives of tamoxifen (2-methyltamoxifen and 2-methyl-4-hydroxytamoxifen) were extracted from a cell culture medium at pH 5.4 (Earle's Minimum Essential Medium) with an internal standard (tamoxifen) on a phenyl sorbent cartridge.
(14) The data of the study on optimal conditions for the use of a mineral sorbent, bentonite, for isolation of hepatitis A virus and enteroviruses from water bodies are presented.
(15) A major drawback of SPE is the batch-to-batch variation of the sorbents.
(16) Sixty-six patients with diabetes mellitus were treated with carbon-containing sorbents with a resultant decrease in the content of cholesterol in lipoproteins of antiatherogenic classes and an increase in high-density lipoproteins (HDL), glycosylation of lipoproteins was suppressed, detoxicating and synthetic liver function was improved.
(17) We examined serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) in 90 schizophrenic patients in remission and 90 normal controls using enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay (ELISA).
(18) However, considering the potential application of sorbents in modern medicine (hemosorption, enterosorption, application therapy) it is important that sorbents with improved sorption, kinetic and other operational characteristics be developed.
(19) A small strip of special indicator sorbent paper (test stick) is moistened with this mixture for one minute.
(20) A chelating sorbent (in nickel form) was shown to be effective in the purification of exonuclease A5 from actinomyces.