(n.) A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.
(n.) A slender thread, as that of a cobweb.
(v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
(2) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
(3) A new propaganda video by Islamic State featuring the British photojournalist John Cantlie, in which he says it is the “last film in this series”, has appeared online.
(4) Only seven films (or 0.7 percent of the entire cohort) showed nodular or rounded opacities of the type typically seen in uncomplicated silicosis.
(5) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(6) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
(7) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
(8) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
(9) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(10) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(11) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
(12) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(13) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
(14) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
(15) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
(16) Yves was the vulnerable, suffering artist and Pierre the fiercely controlling protector: a man who, in Lespert's film, is painfully aware of his public image – "the pimp who's found his all-star hooker".
(17) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
(18) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
(19) In 67 patinets with abnormal mammograms, breast angiography was performed using a "lo-dose vaccum packed film screen system".
(20) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
Ringer
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
(n.) A crowbar.
(n.) A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(2) Whole gastrocnemius muscles were incubated in Ringer's solution enriched with H2-17O; the paired contralateral gastrocnemius muscles were incubated in a similar solution enriched with deuterons, as well.
(3) This study examined the microcirculatory alterations in the hindlimb of the rat caused by ischemia and vascular washout with lactated Ringer's solution.
(4) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
(5) The authors studied the effects of varying Na+ and Ca++ concentrations and of replacing H2O with D2O in Ringer's solution upon the actions of general and local anesthetics on isolated frog sciatic nerves.
(6) With magnesium-Ringer as external bathing solutions, amiloride and ouabain failed to stimulate oxygen consumption.
(7) The pattern of vasodilatation induced by warm Ringer solution was different from the vasodilatory effect of weak EM field radiation.
(8) In contrast ringer's solution had no significant effect on tissue pO2 whereas the hematocrit was comparable to the HES group in the time period of 30-60 min.
(9) The I50 is 7 x 10(-6) M. The inhibitory effect is instantaneous and completely reversed by washing the cells with a Ringer solution.
(10) The iontophoretic release of drugs from micropipettes into free (Ringer's) solution was described using an ion-selective microelectrode assay method.
(11) In zero Ca2(+)-EGTA Ringer solution, the low residual MEPP frequency is independent of terminal length, even when MPP frequency is sharply increased by tetanic stimulation.
(12) In rubidium Ringer solution at pH 7.4 the membrane conductance fell as the inside of the fibre was made more negative, in a manner consistent with the predictions of the constant field theory.4.
(13) Two hours after the bradykinin infusion was stopped, Ringer lactate equal to 10% of the dog's body weight was given intravenously to further increase lymph flow.
(14) 1) Short term follow-up study: Perfusion of the limb with Fluosol-DA solution significantly minimized edema formation and leakage of skeletal muscle enzymes (GOT, CPK) into the serum 5.5 hours after revascularization as compared to Collins sol., lactated Ringer's sol.
(15) The appropriate membrane was removed, the cornea given access to Ringer to swell, and then fluid exchange at that surface blocked with oil.
(16) From the results of application of high K(+) ringer, the conclusion is reached that this shift in e.m.f.
(17) The time required to empty a one litre bag of Ringer's Lactate from a 1.0 meter vertical drop was measured while using four different IV catheters (9.5, 10, 14 and 16 gauge), and the flow rates calculated.
(18) Results obtained in Ringer solution were not modified by pH adjustments or by the addition of ions present in Krebs-Henseleit medium.
(19) When muscles were stimulated with a K2SO4 (substituted for NaCl) Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate (KRB) rather than a N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid-buffered medium, JLac was significantly elevated due to an increased intracellular pH as a result of the low external Cl-.
(20) Electron microscopy indicates that the major structural alterations produced by exposure to concentrated BWSV and 20 mM calcium Ringer solution are the swelling of nerve terminal mitochondria and the clumping of synaptic vesicles, large numbers of which remain in the terminals.