(n.) A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of transmission of light and heat; hence often called luminiferous ether.
(n.) Supposed matter above the air; the air itself.
(n.) A light, volatile, mobile, inflammable liquid, (C2H5)2O, of a characteristic aromatic odor, obtained by the distillation of alcohol with sulphuric acid, and hence called also sulphuric ether. It is powerful solvent of fats, resins, and pyroxylin, but finds its chief use as an anaesthetic. Called also ethyl oxide.
(n.) Any similar oxide of hydrocarbon radicals; as, amyl ether; valeric ether.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Glycosyl ceramide concentration was determined by gas-liquid chromatography of the trimethylsilyl ethers of the methyl glycosides.
(4) Ether extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and various chlorinated and non-chlorinated compounds were detected, e.g.
(5) 1 Rats were convulsed once daily for 7 days by exposure to the inhalant convulsant agent, flurothyl (Indoklon, bis (2,2,2-trifluouroethyl)ether).
(6) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
(7) Depletion of extracellular Ca2+ by EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N'N'-tetraacetic acid] attenuated both [Ca2+]i increase and superoxide production induced by particles.
(8) It was presumed that thymohydroquinone is excreted as ethereal sulfuric acid conjugate in man.
(9) The authors have carried out an experimental study of an insufficiently explored problem of the diffusion capacity of the ethers of cholesterol through the skin and the possibility of their intra-articular transport with cholesterol ether of the oleic acid marked 1,2(3)H taken as an example.
(10) Chelation of extracellular calcium with ethyleneglycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)N,N,N',N' tetraacetic acid (EGTA) did not abolish the increase in calcium.
(11) The UE and KE fractions were then separated by silicic acid column chromatography with a stepwise elution method using ether-hexane.
(12) The enzyme appears to be highly specific since D-dopachrome, alpha-methyldopachrome, dopaminochrome, adrenochrome methyl ether and deoxyadrenochrome are not substrates.
(13) After introduction of surgical anesthesia with general agents such as ether and chloroform, a large number of deaths due to anesthetic toxicity were reported.
(14) Data of ether-extracted total fat content versus data of fat marbling planimetry correlated well with r = 0.9.
(15) When the enzyme is inactivated with 16alpha-[2-3H]bromoacetoxyestradiol 3-methyl ether, amino acid analysis of acid hydrolysates reveals 3-carboxymethylhistidine and 1,3-dicarboxymethylhistidine.
(16) In addition these methods of estrogen treatment potentiated the ether-induced increase in plasma prolactin in the morning (9.00-11.00) beginning on week 2 and continuing for 3-8 weeks.
(17) Studies of structure-transacylation relationships for a series of acylhydroxamic acids of chlorinated biphenyl ethers and their related compounds by rat liver N-arylacylhydroxamic acid-dependent N-acyltransferase (AHNAT) are described.
(18) The biologically inactive phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate methyl ether (10 nM) had no effect on 45Ca2+ uptake.
(19) Steroids were extracted with ethyl ether, and cortisol was purified by gel column chromatography prior to assay.
(20) The method comprised adsorption on Extrelut column from alkaline plasma, elution with diethyl ether-methylene chloride, evaporation in the presence of 0.01 M hydrochloric acid and injection of the acid solution onto a mu Bondapak C18 column, using acetonitrile-0.025 M potassium dihydrogenphosphate as mobile phase and ultraviolet detection at 210 nm.
Ethereal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions.
(a.) Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc.
(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, ether; as, ethereal salts.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
(2) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(3) Glycosyl ceramide concentration was determined by gas-liquid chromatography of the trimethylsilyl ethers of the methyl glycosides.
(4) Ether extracts were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and various chlorinated and non-chlorinated compounds were detected, e.g.
(5) 1 Rats were convulsed once daily for 7 days by exposure to the inhalant convulsant agent, flurothyl (Indoklon, bis (2,2,2-trifluouroethyl)ether).
(6) No impurities in the technical grade ether influenced the responses.
(7) Depletion of extracellular Ca2+ by EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N'N'-tetraacetic acid] attenuated both [Ca2+]i increase and superoxide production induced by particles.
(8) It was presumed that thymohydroquinone is excreted as ethereal sulfuric acid conjugate in man.
(9) The authors have carried out an experimental study of an insufficiently explored problem of the diffusion capacity of the ethers of cholesterol through the skin and the possibility of their intra-articular transport with cholesterol ether of the oleic acid marked 1,2(3)H taken as an example.
(10) Chelation of extracellular calcium with ethyleneglycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)N,N,N',N' tetraacetic acid (EGTA) did not abolish the increase in calcium.
(11) The UE and KE fractions were then separated by silicic acid column chromatography with a stepwise elution method using ether-hexane.
(12) The enzyme appears to be highly specific since D-dopachrome, alpha-methyldopachrome, dopaminochrome, adrenochrome methyl ether and deoxyadrenochrome are not substrates.
(13) After introduction of surgical anesthesia with general agents such as ether and chloroform, a large number of deaths due to anesthetic toxicity were reported.
(14) Data of ether-extracted total fat content versus data of fat marbling planimetry correlated well with r = 0.9.
(15) When the enzyme is inactivated with 16alpha-[2-3H]bromoacetoxyestradiol 3-methyl ether, amino acid analysis of acid hydrolysates reveals 3-carboxymethylhistidine and 1,3-dicarboxymethylhistidine.
(16) In addition these methods of estrogen treatment potentiated the ether-induced increase in plasma prolactin in the morning (9.00-11.00) beginning on week 2 and continuing for 3-8 weeks.
(17) Studies of structure-transacylation relationships for a series of acylhydroxamic acids of chlorinated biphenyl ethers and their related compounds by rat liver N-arylacylhydroxamic acid-dependent N-acyltransferase (AHNAT) are described.
(18) The biologically inactive phorbol ester 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol-13-acetate methyl ether (10 nM) had no effect on 45Ca2+ uptake.
(19) Steroids were extracted with ethyl ether, and cortisol was purified by gel column chromatography prior to assay.
(20) The method comprised adsorption on Extrelut column from alkaline plasma, elution with diethyl ether-methylene chloride, evaporation in the presence of 0.01 M hydrochloric acid and injection of the acid solution onto a mu Bondapak C18 column, using acetonitrile-0.025 M potassium dihydrogenphosphate as mobile phase and ultraviolet detection at 210 nm.