(a.) Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible.
Example Sentences:
(1) If ascorbic acid was omitted from the culture medium, the extensive new connective tissue matrix was not produced.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
(4) During capillary growth when endothelial cells (EC) undergo extensive proliferation and migration and pericytes are scarce, hyaluronic acid (HA) levels are elevated.
(5) This method, which permits a more rapid formation of anastomoses, has been used to form Roux-en-Y jejunojejunostomies without extensive complications in six patients.
(6) The curve of mitoses peaked at the same time as that of TK activity but was only 68% as extensive.
(7) Our results show that large complex lipid bodies and extensive accumulations of glycogen are valuable indicators of a functionally suppressed chief cell in atrophic parathyroid glands.
(8) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
(9) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(10) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(11) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(12) Extensive proliferation has been shown to accompany the de novo generation of LAK cytotoxicity.
(13) Extensive sequence homologies and other genetic features are shared with the related oncogenic virus, human papillomavirus type 16, especially in the major reading frames.
(14) Binding of I to plasma proteins was extensive but was less than that of 5-chlorosalicylic acid.
(15) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
(16) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(17) Furthermore, the local interneurons make extensive efferent synaptic connections with unidentified neurons in the terminal medulla.
(18) Light microscopy of both apneics and snorers revealed mucous gland hypertrophy with ductal dilation and focal squamous metaplasia, disruption of muscle bundles by infiltrating mucous glands, focal atrophy of muscle fibers, and extensive edema of the lamina propria with vascular dilation.
(19) The mechanical forces involved in neurite extension have begun to be quantified, and interactions between the actin and microtubule systems are being further characterized.
(20) Concurrent with this change in the level of enforcement of RBT was an extensive publicity campaign, which warned drinking drivers of their increased risk of detection by RBT units.
Inextensible
Definition:
(a.) Not capable of being extended; not elastic; as, inextensible fibers.
Example Sentences:
(1) When small and inextensive these tumours are rare and often surgical; when extensive they are usually unresectable.
(2) To the toxicity of the injected product, which diffuses far from the minimal point of entry, may be added the destructive effect of the high pressure on the cell spaces of the hand, which are narrow and inextensible.
(3) A prototype probe, which is based on inextensible thin plastic balloons filled with oil or saline, was tested in comparison with traditional (perfused) and microtransducer systems to outline the positive and negative aspects of the solution.
(4) Although this domain is functionally inextensible at physiological sarcomere length, the epitope movement in extremely stretched muscle shows that it is intrinsically elastic.
(5) Compared to the cell membrane, the marginal band is nearly inextensible and has a much greater resistance to bending, indicating that the band makes an important contribution to the deformability of the circulating cell.
(6) The circumferential extensibility of leaflets from Medtronic Intact bioprostheses and from fresh porcine aortic valves were not significantly different (p greater than 0.05), whereas leaflets from the other second-generation valves tested and from Carpentier-Edwards 6625 valves were highly inextensible in the circumferential direction.
(7) In addition, this technique makes little demand on the extensibility of the natural tissue in order to adapt to the prosthesis, which is inextensible.
(8) Epitope profiles of nebulin variants in three skeletal muscles revealed that (a) nebulin is inextensible since nebulin epitopes maintain a fixed distance to the Z line irrespective of the degree of sarcomere stretch; (b) a single nebulin polypeptide spans a minimal distance of 0.9 microns from the Z line; (c) nebulin contains repeating epitopes that are spaced at 40 nm or its multiples; (d) nebulin repeats coincide with thin filament periodicity; (e) nebulin variants differ mainly at either or both ends; and (f) nebulin remains in the sarcomere in actin-free sarcomeres produced by gelsolin treatment.
(9) These fabrics are continuous with the tendon body of the prosthesis consisting of an inextensible braided cord which is silicone rubber coated to prevent tissue adherence in the glide zone of the tendon bed.
(10) At low [MgATP] the elastic properties are those of a highly ordered, inextensible fiber; at high [MgATP] they are representative of a much more elastic body.
(11) The pulmonary veins were virtually inextensible at all ages.
(12) The cruciate ligaments are represented as two inextensible fibres which, with the femur and the tibia, are analysed as a crossed four-bar linkage.
(13) Research commenced late in 1940, and a suit was designed with rubber sacs covered externally by inextensible material.
(14) Following ovariectomy on Day 16 of pregnancy the cervix became as inextensible by Day 20 as that of non-pregnant animals.
(15) Nebulin, a family of giant proteins with size-variants from 600 to 900 kD in various skeletal muscles, have been proposed to constitute a set of inextensible filaments anchored at the Z line (Wang, K., and J. Wright.
(16) GPRVS eliminates hernias of the groin by rendering the peritoneum inextensible by placing, in the preperitoneal space, a large prosthesis that extends far beyond the borders of the myopectineal orifice.
(17) Its physical properties are such that it is distensible when the total intrapericardial volume is small and inextensible when total intrapericardial volume is large.
(18) This "modified rotation flap" design works to a maximum advantage in the inextensible region of the scalp and forehead by providing single-stage primary closure of moderate to large defects.
(19) From the observed data it was concluded that any tissue substitute used in mitral valve replacement should be rather inextensible and have a low loss modulus.
(20) Nebulin, which forms a long inextensible filament in sarcomeres, was fragmented into 200-, 180-, 40-, 33-, and 23-kDa subfragments on treatment with 0.1 mM CaCl2.