(n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(2) Concentrations of the drugs in feces increased with increasing dosage, resulting in greater changes of the intestinal bacterial flora.
(3) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
(4) Morphologic and microbiologic study of the operation and biopsy specimens, obtained from 73 patients with odontogenic inflammatory processes has shown that in 38% of cases the inflammation was induced by mixed fungal and bacterial flora.
(5) Clinical response was associated with eradication of the abnormal anaerobic flora, despite persistence of G vaginalis in nine (26%).
(6) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(7) To be used as a model in dental and medical research, an animal must fulfil experimental needs and information on the composition and variation of its oral flora must be available.
(8) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
(9) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(10) alpha-HCH was also, but more slowly as with gamma-HCH, degraded by the anaerobic mixed flora.
(11) Experimental data on protective function of Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis and Bacteroides distasonis comprising intestinal flora against oral infection of Shigella flexneri which causes localized infection are presented.
(12) Senior figures in the Lockerbie case – including Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the attack, and Professor Robert Black, a lawyer and architect of the trial of two Libyans accused of the atrocity – have said they believe Koussa might have significant information about Libya's role.
(13) The fixed prosthodontic procedures alone altered the subgingival and marginal microbiota toward a more health-associated flora.
(14) Previously, only incomplete information was available regarding the indigenous bacterial flora of the lower intestinal tracts of these coprophagic animals.
(15) Aerobic microorganisms are constantly entering the digestive tract with food, but colonization is resisted by autochthonous anaerobic flora (microbial colonization resistance) and by host-related factors (physiologic colonization resistance).
(16) The need to reappraise methods of reducing transient skin flora in 'hygienic' hand cleansing and the tests used for this purpose are discussed.
(17) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
(18) This mixed bacterial population exhibits many similarities to the native rat flora, and the diversity of bacterial species and the activity of a number of hydrolytic and reductive enzymes (e.g.
(19) All animals were capable of adapting to 20% dietary xylitol and an accompanying enhancement of the ability of caecal and faecal flora to utilize xylitol was observed.
(20) The behaviour of the aerobic skin flora of the flexor sides of the forearms, under a three-week restriction of washing, was investigated in twenty-four patients for its quantitative and qualitative aspects.
Flory
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These changes are in accordance with the theory of Flory (1953) for the swelling of gels.
(2) On Sunday Labour released a copy of a letter sent to all NHS chief executives on 2 February from David Flory, the deputy NHS chief executive, in which he says that in some areas waiting times are unacceptable.
(3) The Flory-Mandelkern paramerter, beta, was found to vary with molecular weight in the manner predicted by the theory of Yamakawa and Fujii.
(4) A letter from the NHS deputy chief executive, David Flory, to senior managers shows rising concern over the deteriorating performance on waiting times .
(5) "In November 2011, 47 commissioners and 30 acute trusts failed to meet the 90 per cent admitted standard," Flory wrote referring to the rule that 90% of patients should be seen within 18 weeks.
(6) Since information on these interactions is not readily available, a new method is proposed here to estimate the copolymer-water Flory interaction parameter, chi, for biomaterials.
(7) These energies, along with a contribution from hydrophobic forces, were then incorporated into an equation due to Flory that described phase equilibria of rod-like polymers.
(8) The pressure from the glycocalyx is assumed to arise from mixing, electrostatic, and elastic interactions of sugar residues, and is described with terms from Flory-Krigbaum and McMillan-Mayer theories.
(9) Key architects of the new NHS, Sir David Nicholson, David Flory and others at the top have been criticised for a "lack of insight" into the cultural difficulties within the NHS.
(10) Nothing is going to make these people go home unless the pipeline is packed up.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kristen Tuske (left), Floris White Bull, Wasté Win Young (right) at Wasté’s home in Fort Yates.
(11) I want to understand his viewpoint, but I can’t,” added Floris White Bull, 33.
(12) A sensitive but non-specific immunofluorescent antibody test and a specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) were used, with the following African phlebovirus antigens: Rift Valley fever (RVF), Arumowot, Gabek Forest, Gordil, Saint Floris and Odrenisrou.
(13) The Flory formalism in turn permitted a calculation of the overall free energy of fibril formation (delta Ff), and an assessment of the relative contribution of electrostatic and hydrophobic forces to delta Ff.
(14) Nearest neighbor interactions are accounted for through Flory-Huggins type interaction parameters.
(15) A Flory-Huggins size correction term improves the prediction of sulfamethoxypyridazine solubilities in these irregular solutions.
(16) Comparison of the experimentally determined DNA concentrations required for anisotropic phase formation with the values predicted from Flory's lattice statistics theory, which explicitly considers the rod length, permitted estimation of the effective DNA radius.
(17) Changes in renaturation kinetics induced by either temperature or added perturbants appeared to conform with the Flory-Weaver model for the collagen transition.
(18) The experimental results were analyzed in terms of the Donnan osmotic pressure, the virial expansion, and Flory's first neighbor interaction parameter.
(19) 264, 7792-7794; Citro, G., Verdina, A., Galati, R., Floris, G., Sabatini, S., and Finazzi-Argo', A.
(20) Phase equilibria of such structures were calculated, using a lattice theory of Matheson and Flory, and the relation of the polymer-solvent interaction parameter chi to the equilibrium solubility was determined.