(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.
Stretchable
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Both had congenital heart disease, "floppy valve syndrome", hernias, short stature, stretchable skin and moderate joint hypermobility.
(2) Dexon had low stretchability and tended to result in postoperative hemorrhage.
(3) Avascular retina is stretchable, and therefore much of it stays attached, while vascular retina is nonstretchable and detaches.
(4) The Food Hugger Food hugger These are a range of stretchable silicone covers that prolong the life of cut produce by forming a seal around the cut end of a fruit or vegetable.
(5) In order to find the best suture material to use for vaginal hysterectomies, we examined the tensile strength, stretchability and contractibilty of suture materials such as silk, chromic and plain catgut, and dexon under both wet and dry conditions.
(6) A new, stretchable precordial ECC belt is described.
(7) It is postulated that this regional distribution of elastic tissue is related to the differential functional requirements of the posterior, postero-inferior, and inferior aspects of the capsule for flexibility and stretchability.
(8) These are divided into 3 groups the more fragile as much as they are stretchable.
(9) In the stretchable prostheses (B), which can stretch only longitudinally, the long axes of the smooth muscle cells oriented in rows parallel to the bloodstream.
(10) Plain catgut was easily absorbed and had the greatest tensile strength and stretchability.
(11) It is also stronger and more stretchable than other conductors.
(12) Biochemical analysis of skin samples revealed that the content of type III collagen was greatly reduced in several subjects with joint hypermobility, stretchability and bruisability of skin.
(13) Neoprene is soft, stretchable, lightweight, durable, nontoxic, machine-washable, and has a good memory.
(14) Nylon cloth is cut from a cardboard pattern to fashion a stretchable sock to envelope the balloon.
(15) In addition to the usual features of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (loose-jointedness and excessively stretchable, fragile, and bruisable skin), these patients had severe scoliosis and fragility of ocular tissues leading to rupture of the globe or retinal detachment.
(16) However, the WTR cylinder decayed rapidly for nylon during the first three months but more slowly for Mersilene because of its lack of stretchability.
(17) The early development of a coelom, a primitive body cavity, with stretchable mesothelial cells endows the subsequently developed internal organs a great flexibility to expand, retract, and deform.
(18) The hymen, contrary to common notion, is often a slack, thick, folded, stretchable tissue which may persist after digital or penile penetration.
(19) Under dry conditions, the tensile strength, stretchability and contractibility was greatest in No.
(20) (plain catgut greater than chromic catgut greater than dexon or silk) Under wet conditions, the tensile strength was not so changed, but the stretchability of catgut and silk was increased and that of dexon was low and unchanged.