(n.) The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.
Example Sentences:
(1) Precipitates of calcium antimonate were formed almost exclusively in swollen clear pinealocytes, in and along their cell membranes, over their nuclei, in mitochondria, the Golgi apparatus, endoplasmic and integrade reticulums, acervuli, in vesicles surrounding synaptic bars, cytoplasmic matrix, and flocculent extracellular material.
(2) Light and transmission electron microscopic studies demonstrated large cisterns and small inclusion bodies containing a flocculent material within the rough endoplasmic reticulum of the chondrocytes.
(3) The SLS-1182DB exhibited a floccule absent in the other samples.
(4) A solution of crystalline choleragenoid was equivalent to the parent preparation in the flocculation test.
(5) By condensation they progressed from a flocculent type of granule to the definitive spherical homogeneous primary granule.
(6) The influence of pH, algal concentration, and algal growth phase on the requisite cationic flocculant dose is also reported.
(7) An antigen suspension consisting of cholesterol-lecithin particles sensitized with an extract of gonococci was used in a flocculation assay for the detection of human antibodies to Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
(8) This heat-stable component had a strong emulsifying activity, and appears to be involved in both cell surface hydrophobicity and in flocculation ability of the yeast cells.
(9) The haemagglutination, bentonite-flocculation and latex-agglutination tests are the procedures of choice at present.
(10) The 0.25-hr samples showed mitochondrial swelling, loss of cristae, and flocculent material within the inner compartment.
(11) With a similar concentration of lipid the respective quantities of cholesterol and triglyceride do not intervene in the flocculation.
(12) Each bubble was covered by an osmiophilic non-homogeneous coat of cloudy and flocculent material, native to its specific locality.
(13) Cellulose content was significantly higher in flocculating than in nonflocculating cultures.
(14) The antigenic activity of diphtheria toxoid, evaluated by the degree of its maximum binding with diphtheria antitoxin, correlated with its antitoxin-binding activity in animal experiments and did not correlate with its flocculating activity.
(15) The high protein content of milk and the protein nature of enterovirus allowed the detection of these viruses using the organic acid flocculation method.
(16) At the subcellular level, the intracytoplasmic globules in hepatocytes were surrounded by a single membrane, contained flocculent material and had enzymatic properties characteristic of lysosomes.
(17) When the anionic surfactant, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate, was used as a wetting agent, the suspensions were flocculated over a limited polymer concentration range.
(18) In rats electron microscopy showed mitochondria which contained flocculent densities.
(19) Primitive cell SGs average 200-330 nm; some have dense cores with lucent halos while others are filled with a homogeneous dense or flocculent material.
(20) However, flocculent densities continue to increase in size (to 337 nm diam.)
Polymer
Definition:
(n.) Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
(2) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(3) The acetonitrile extract is concentrated and analyzed by HPLC, using a new polymer-based column, and detected by UV spectroscopy at 270 nm.
(4) These results suggest that glomerular IgA are IgA polymers and decreased hepatic clearance of hepatic IgA polymers may be responsible for the glomerular deposition of IgA.
(5) A method for the introduction of side chains containing isonitrile (isocyanide, functional group) on the backbone of polysaccharides and other hydroxylic polymers was developed.
(6) He knows polymer notes from travels in Australia, where they were first introduced in 1988, and he wants Britain to "move with the times" too.
(7) Poly(ortho ester) bioerodible polymers are suitable materials for the topical administration of a wide variety of therapeutic agents; varying the nature and amounts of excipients physically incorporated into the polymer will vary the erosion rates from a few hours to many months.
(8) By performing countercurrent distribution in the presence of a polymer-ligand, the protein that binds the polymer-ligand can be separated from a heterogenous mixture.
(9) Pulse labeling of the polymer with [2-3H]adenosine was also maximal at the same time points.
(10) Charged polymers, known to alter cell surface characteristics, reversibly inhibit the intercellular communication required in kidney tubule induction.
(11) A novel type of ion exchanger was prepared by multipoint covalent binding of polystyrene chains onto the surface of porous silica followed by polymer-analogous modification of the bonded layer.
(12) Another 52 received a 100-g (nonfasting) glucose polymer screening test followed by a 100-g glucose polymer tolerance test.
(13) The important role of the exocellular polymers for the structure, size and density of flocs can be well illustrated.
(14) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
(15) Rather, assembly of sIgM into polymers and their subsequent secretion are prevented in B lymphocytes by preceding targeting of monomeric sIgM to degradation.
(16) The neutral polymer was devoid of type 6 activity although it was serologically active.
(17) The tissue reaction was more severe for polymers having a higher rate of degradation.
(18) Control experiments with other constructs (e.g., allopurinol riboside linked to the mannose-free polymer) confirmed that the enhancement of activity was indeed achieved by means of the mannose homing device.
(19) Of the tested polymers, only polyvinyl methylacetamide and dextran inhibit a decrease in the level of mitochondrial enzyme activity which develops with administration of endotoxin.
(20) At different degrees of DNA damage, the average length of the poly-ADP-ribose chain did not practically alter, thus suggesting the increase in the number of polymer binding sites in the histones.