(v. t.) To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
Example Sentences:
(1) The technique is facilitated by an amazingly low tendency to bleeding.
(2) beta-Endorphin blocked the development of fighting responses when a low footshock intensity was used, but facilitated it when a high shock intensity was delivered.
(3) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(4) It was also found that lipocortin I and ONO-RS-082, but not neomycin, facilitated the generation of GIF-producing T cells.
(5) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(6) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
(8) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(9) Early recognition is facilitated by monitoring of arterial blood gas levels for hypoxemia.
(10) Local application of 8-OH-DPAT (0-5 micrograms) into the median raphe nucleus, facilitated male rat sexual behavior, as evidenced by a decrease in number of intromissions preceding ejaculation and in time to ejaculation.
(11) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(12) The presence of these markers has facilitated the identification and characterization of the mononuclear cells in a number of animal and human lymphoid malignancies.
(13) The pathomechanism, how C. pylori facilitates the development of peptic ulcer is since hypothetical.
(14) It facilitated the acquisition of quantitative velocity information with standard Doppler ultrasound techniques by identifying areas of high velocity or turbulent flow and was invaluable in the assessment of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage occurring either as an isolated anomaly or in conjunction with complex intracardiac lesions.
(15) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
(16) Preliminary rhythmic somatic stimulation has a predominantly facilitating effect on EPs appearing in response to tonal stimuli in the areas A1, S2, S1.
(17) Ten patients received intercostal nerve blockade on a total of 29 occasions in order to provide analgesia following liver transplantation and to facilitate weaning from artificial ventilation of the lungs.
(18) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
(19) phenomena) and Facilitation Gradients (measuring E.T.
(20) Finally, a reciprocal facilitating effect of RRs and augmenting responses (ARs), which was studied by combined stimulation of nucleus ventralis posterolateralis (VPL) and NCM, appeared to be dependent upon an intracortical mechanism.
Mordant
Definition:
(a.) Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
(a.) Serving to fix colors.
(n.) Any corroding substance used in etching.
(n.) Any substance, as alum or copperas, which, having a twofold attraction for organic fibers and coloring matter, serves as a bond of union, and thus gives fixity to, or bites in, the dyes.
(n.) Any sticky matter by which the gold leaf is made to adhere.
(v. t.) To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(2) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
(3) But his magnificent, exact rendering of the world, in his mordant, civilised and generous prose, has no comparison.
(4) As suggested by results obtained with various phenolics and benzoic acid derivatives, the functional groups required for the mordanting effect of such agents are the carboxyl group, and at least one hydroxyl group concomitantly present on the benzene ring.
(5) In this study, kinetic estimates derived from chromium-mordanted hay or pellets were compared to estimates derived from rare earth markers (Yb, Dy, or Er) applied individually to samples.
(6) The fractional passage rate of the 1-2 mm particles mordanted with Cr did not differ (P greater than 0.05) between groups.
(7) This phosphotungstic acid-iron-haematoxylin (PTAIH) method is based on pretreating the sections with phosphotungstic acid followed by an iron alum mordant and staining in haematoxylin with subsequent timed differentiation, at certain stages of which the features listed above appear.
(8) His studies into histological staining techniques (principle of elective staining, mordant staining, staining of myelin sheaths) as well as into microtome techniques proved essential to progress in pathology and bacteriology.
(9) In the present study, LDL aggregates were examined by electron microscopy, using new mordant techniques for lipid visualization, and by chemical analysis.
(10) Selected lobules of human term placentae were extracorporeally perfused for a recovery period of 20 min, fixed by perfusion and mordanted with ferrocyanide prior to processing for transmission electron microscopy.
(11) The age of the bacterial culture, the preparation of the smear, the fixation technic, and the mordant have an important influence on the ease with which gram-positive organisms are decolorized.
(12) Mordant in 0.4% tannic acid in distilled water for 1 minute.
(13) Intense staining, which proved dependent on nucleic acid content, was achieved by using either the preformed lake, mordanting followed by hematoxylin, hematoxylin alone or the lake at high ionic strength.
(14) Following our study on the effect of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extraction on nuclear staining with soluble metal mordant dye lakes covering 29 dye lakes we chose a series of lakes representing the three groups: (1) readily prevented by DNA removal, (2) weakened by DNA extraction but not prevented, (3) unaffected by DNA removal, for application of other endgroup blockade reactions.
(15) Small and large particle size wheat bran-supplemented diets were used in combination with the particulate digestion marker chromium mordanted bran (CrMB) and the soluble digestion marker cobalt-EDTA (Co EDTA).
(16) It was concluded that the low-level-mordanting technique in combination with appropriate sampling yielded a realistic quantitative description of forage breakdown and movement processes in the digestive tract of cattle.
(17) Chromium-mordanted fiber was used as a particle phase marker.
(18) Surface analysis by XPS (X-ray photoelection spectroscopy), also called ESCA (electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis), indicates that only certain cations are appreciably sorbed by enamel from an acid etching solution containing phosphoric acid and equimolar concentrations of candidate mordant salts.
(19) In spontaneously hyperlipoproteinemic old Sprague-Dawley rats, endogenous lipoproteins (LP) in the size range of 15 to 40 nm were directly visualized within the blood vessels due to specimen mordanting with tannic acid.
(20) One or two peevish voices thought Imlah too clever, too dustily "Oxonian", failing to see how mordantly modern many of the fables and instances in Birthmarks are, within their formal virtuosity and confidently literary bearing.