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Equilibrity


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being balanced; equality of weight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
  • (2) By applying this method to rat cardiac whole muscle, high-molecular weight proteins, such as myosin heavy chains, are focused on the first-dimensional gels and, in addition, minor components are resolved on the second-dimensional gels, without loss during equilibration with detergent.
  • (3) Pre-equilibration was more effective in the absence of insulin than in the presence of the hormone.
  • (4) Pulse-chase analysis of the labelling of these lipids indicates that PI and lysoPI rapidly equilibrate after the initial slow synthesis of PI.
  • (5) Significant temperature differences are predicted between the vessels and the immediately adjacent tissue when the equilibration length is comparable to or longer than the size of the heated tissue region.
  • (6) During phase 1 (3-day equilibration period; ad libitum regular hospital diet), plasma choline levels were within the normal range for all subjects.
  • (7) Halothane variably increased the current produced (and therefore the estimated oxygen tension) at all polarizing voltages in saline solution equilibrated with either N2 or air.
  • (8) Human mononuclear phagocytes cultured in vitro were tested after preincubation with uremic plasma dialyzed in vitro and the effects of pre and post hemodialysis plasma were compared with the effect of dialyzates equilibrated with uremic plasma in vivo.
  • (9) Two types of transport systems are described: active transport accumulates glucose in specific cells, whereas facilitative transport equilibrates blood glucose and intracellular glucose inside all mammalian cells.
  • (10) Oxygenation of crystalloid cardioplegic solutions is beneficial, yet bicarbonate-containing solutions equilibrated with 100% oxygen become highly alkaline as carbon dioxide is released.
  • (11) Blood pressure, blood volume and renal blood flow were determined in 101 men; forty-three were normal subjects and fifty-eight were untreated permanent essential hypertensive patients with normal renal function and equilibrated sodium balance.
  • (12) For glucose this process is passive and leads to equilibration of intracellular and extracellular concentrations.
  • (13) This method does not require changing the medium to one with high KCl to depolarize the membrane potential nor does the proton concentration need to be equilibrated across the plasma membrane.
  • (14) In 78% of HI LCBF measurements, clearances following a brief H2 inhalation were faster than clearances following tissue equilibration with H2.
  • (15) Following injection at pressures between 2.8 and 26.6 kPa, the mean PO2 of equilibrated saline containing an air bubble was 0.80 kPa higher than the mean value obtained at injection pressures of less than 2.8 kPa.
  • (16) During this time, no apparent change in the rate of equilibration of 45Ca++ from the extracellular medium could be detected, whereas in cells preloaded with 45Ca, net 45Ca was lost from the cells at a greater rate than controls.
  • (17) This paper presents data revealing the regulating, equilibrating role of the melatonin-free pineal extract.
  • (18) Thus the relative magnitude of contrast enhancement of a tissue appears to be related to the volume of the rapidly equilibrating extracellular space.
  • (19) Second, the cytoplasmic extracts were subfractionated by equilibration in sucrose density gradient.
  • (20) Both in the HA and the dental mineral systems, the results are consistent with the precipitation of another carbonate-containing apatitic phase during equilibration.

Weight


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
  • (v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
  • (v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
  • (v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
  • (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
  • (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
  • (v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
  • (v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
  • (v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
  • (v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
  • (3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (4) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (5) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
  • (6) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
  • (7) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
  • (8) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
  • (9) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
  • (10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
  • (11) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (12) 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.
  • (13) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
  • (14) The molecular weight of antigen RFB2 was estimated to be approximately 85,000 daltons based on the results of gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B.
  • (15) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
  • (16) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
  • (17) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
  • (18) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
  • (19) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
  • (20) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.

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