(n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus while the majority of patients with flashes and floaters do merit an urgent ophthalmological opinion, those who complain of a single, isolated floater can safely be reviewed as routine outpatients.
(2) Although there were no specific symptoms which could be correlated to an increased incidence of retinal breaks, those patients who complained of isolated uniocular floaters had an insignificant incidence of breakage, when compared to asymptomatic fellow eyes.
(3) A substantial proportion of the mycobacterial population on an inert surface floated off during its exposure to the glutaraldehyde solution but the 'floaters' were killed at an equivalent rate to the attached bacilli.
(4) Forty-nine patients with bilateral pigmentary dispersion syndrome (abnormal accumulation of pigment in the anterior chamber, principally from the posterior layers of the iris), including 31 patients with pigmentary glaucoma, underwent 10% phenylephrine testing in one eye for evaluation of liberation of pigment floaters into the anterior chamber and the influence of phenylephrine on the intraocular pressure.
(5) Prior to drug application, aqueous cells were observed in none of the cases, while after mydriasis, apparent aqueous floaters appeared in 9.2% of the cases, all of whom were over 40 years of age.
(6) This is underscored by our current inability to explain satisfactorily several patterns including the relative significance of floating, geographic biases in the incidence of cooperative breeding, sexual asymmetries in delayed dispersal, the relationship between delayed dispersal leading to helping behavior and cooperative polygamy, and the rarity of the co-occurrence of helpers and floaters within the same population.
(7) Of 100 patients with a prepapillary annular opacity in age-related posterior vitreous detachment with collapse, 44 had floater symptoms corresponding to their opacity.
(8) 2.02am BST Tigers 1 - Red Sox 0, top of 3rd Don Kelly hits a floater into left field that looks like it will find a piece of turf but Drew tracks it down for the first out.
(9) After Lynch wiggles for three yards, Seattle face a 3rd & 6...in the shotgun, Wilson takes off before sending a floater downfield that barley escapes the fingers of Eric Reid - instead, it falls safely into the hands of Doug Baldwin for 22 yards.
(10) Parker makes a floater that ends the scoring for a crazy last minute.
(11) Yet, much like floaters in your eye, try to focus on these toxins and they scamper from view.
(12) The patients studied comprised four cases with rhegmatogenous retinal detachments and one case with the sudden onset of vitreous floaters with posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).
(13) All patients had either a vitreous hemorrhage, or photopsia and floaters.
(14) Vitreous flare was present in 44% and increase of floaters in 55% of the eyes.
(15) The extreme sensitivity of the instruments enables real-time detection of refractive effects from tear films on the cornea and real-time tracking of floaters.
(16) In 7 eyes a special form of rosettes was found: a rosette scattered in the vitreous body like a floater.
(17) However, equal numbers of whole and PP floaters were deficient in their capacity to present antigen compared with similar populations from spleen.
(18) The project has three phases: a one-day environmental photojournalism workshop; a photography exhibition in schools, malls and government offices and education about how to recycle plastic bottles, such as using them for seaweed floaters.
(19) 1.46am BST Indiana Pacers 14-10 Miami Heat - 5:50 remaining, 1st Quarter The Pacers commit yet another turnover as the officials say the ball has gone off of Lance Stephenson, and Mario Chalmers converts a floater on the other end.
(20) A proportion of the cells remain in the medium as floaters.
Transition
Definition:
(n.) Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold.
(n.) A direct or indirect passing from one key to another; a modulation.
(n.) A passing from one subject to another.
(n.) Change from one form to another.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
(2) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
(3) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
(4) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(5) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(6) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
(7) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(8) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(9) The growth of transitional epithelial cells with different growth media and growth supports was examined.
(10) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
(11) The B cell epitopes included regions of transition between the more hydropathic (including the N-terminal end of the F1 and F2 protein) and hydrophilic sequences.
(12) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
(13) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
(14) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
(15) Sialosyl-Tn antigen expression also was observed in intestinal metaplasia of the stomach and in transitional mucosa adjacent to the colorectal carcinoma, which are considered to be cancer-related lesions.
(16) Refolding was observed by injection of denatured protein into columns having isocratic concentrations in the transition and native base-line zones.
(17) The mutant ribosomes prepared from the transition-phase cells have much lower activity (below 60%) for poly(U)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis than those in exponentially growing or resting stationary-phase cells.
(18) Aside from typical nuclear spheroids, irregularly shaped nuclei were frequently seen, associated with increased nuclear folds, transitional stages between nuclear folds and nuclear spheroids were also present.
(19) 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.
(20) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.