(n.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
(n.) Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
(n.) A small stream of water.
(n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
Example Sentences:
(1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
(2) On buccal tooth surfaces, the cleaning effect of a multitufted nylon brush was superior to that of a wooden toothpick or unwaxed dental floss.
(3) For their oral hygiene, the patients had to use, in the right side toothbrush and dental floss (Control 1), in the left side the oral irrigator alone (Test 1).
(4) The terminology "flossing cleft" is suggested by the authors to describe linear or V-shaped interdental marginal tissue deformities that result from dental floss-induced injury.
(5) Brushing and flossing ability increased dramatically 3 weeks following 2 sessions of oral hygiene instructions.
(6) Questions were also fielded on dental behaviours such as preventive visits to the dentist, toothbrushing and flossing.
(7) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
(8) The control group did not receive any gel treatment or flossing.
(9) The relative effectiveness of waxed dental floss, dental tape and Superfloss as proximal plaque removal aids were compared in 20 subjects.
(10) The aim was to study the effect of flossing on proximal caries in children grouped according to different combinations of dietary and oral hygiene habits.
(11) A control group of 32 individuals was instructed to use dental floss and a sulcular toothbrushing method as a regular oral hygiene regimen.
(12) The results indicate that the interdental brush used in combination with a toothbrush is more effective in the removal of plaque from proximal tooth surfaces than a toothbrush used alone or in combination with dental floss.
(13) After 2 weeks of flossing contralateral quadrants, the 1st floss was withdrawn and replaced with the alternative floss for another similar 2-week trial period.
(14) Teeth were brushed ad lib throughout; four of the five groups used either an interdental cleaner, dental floss, an essential oil mouthwash or a cetypyridinium mouthwash.
(15) A number of factors are apparent when investigating compliance to oral hygiene habits, viz only approximately 50% of the population brushes twice a day or more, brushing time is probably much too short and use of dental floss is not very prevalent.
(16) Small minorities thought about using floss and then for removal of food, not plaque.
(17) In addition, there was a significant increase in the frequency with which the girls in the experimental group reportedly used the toothbrush (P = 0.01) and dental floss (P = 0.01).
(18) The students use dental floss (87%) and rinse their mouth with Cepacol (37%), and females brush their tongue at higher frequency (70%).
(19) The regular floss-holder users reported flossing slightly more often than the hand-flossers.
(20) Though far from a scholarship boy and privately educated, my life was changed by The Uses of Literacy in 1959. Who can forget some of its chapter mottoes, from Wordsworth, de Tocqueville, Arnold and "Schnozzle" Durante, and the chapter titles Unbending the Springs of Action and Invitations to a Candy-Floss World?
Vitrification
Definition:
(n.) Same as Vitrifaction.
Example Sentences:
(1) Included in the thermal destruction category are treatment technologies such as rotary kiln incineration, fluidized bed incineration, infrared thermal treatment, wet air oxidation, pyrolytic incineration, and vitrification.
(2) The purpose of the present survey is to show that a general understanding of the physical behavior and biological effects of vitrification solutions, as well as an understanding of the conditions under which vitrification solutions are required, is gradually emerging.
(3) The embryos were transferred to an equilibration medium [10% 1,2-propanediol and 20% glycerol in modified PBS (mPBS)] for 10 minutes and frozen in a vitrification medium (25% glycerol and 25% 1,2-prapanediol in mPBS) by direct lowering into liquid nitrogen.
(4) The key technique, which came into use in 2001, is vitrification.
(5) The results show that the optimum time for exposure of the embryos to the EFS solution before rapid cooling varies with the ambient temperature, i.e., 0.5 min at 25 degrees C, 0.5-5 min at 20 degrees C, 2-5 min at 10 degrees C, and 2-10 min at 5 degrees C. If they are exposed for an optimum period, almost all mouse morulae can survive vitrification (94-100%).
(6) Devitrification (ice formation during warming) is one of the primary obstacles to successful organ vitrification (solidification without ice formation).
(7) After a minimum, an increase of survival is observed at the fastest cooling rates, which would correspond to complete vitrification.
(8) A system has been developed that ensures that a liquid or partially liquid specimen is maintained in its original state while it is being prepared before vitrification and, once prepared, is vitrified with little alteration of its microstructure.
(9) These results suggest that the simple vitrification solution described in this study is effective for the cryopreservation of mouse blastocysts.
(10) Factors that influence the survival of embryos include the concentration and composition of the vitrification solution, the procedure used to equilibrate embryos in this solution, the cooling and warming conditions, and the procedure used to dilute embryos from the vitrification solution.
(11) Preimplantation stage mouse embryos have been used to examine the response of a simple multicellular system to cryopreservation by the complete vitrification of the suspension.
(12) They were cryopreserved by the vitrification method.
(13) Embryos were exposed to intracellular cryoprotecting medium (glycerol 10%, 1-2 propanediol 20% in PBS) for 10 min and then transferred to extracellular vitrification medium (25% glycerol, 25% 1-2 propanediol in PBS).
(14) Vitrification solutions are aqueous cryoprotectant solutions which do not freeze when cooled at moderate rates to very low temperatures.
(15) The possibility of cryopreservation of islets of Langerhans by vitrification using a mixture of cryoprotectants was investigated and the results were compared with a more conventional freezing method using Me2SO as cryoprotectant.
(16) In all cases there was vaporization of the pathological dentition and vitrification of the superficial dentin layer.
(17) Of the 200 DNA-injected 8-cell embryos cryopreserved by vitrification in microdrops, 194 (97%) were recovered and 188 (94%) embryos were intact one hour after thawing.
(18) Vitrification of such specimens is assessed by cryo-X-ray diffraction.
(19) Exposure of oocytes to the cryoprotectant media, but without the vitrification, resulted in 30.8% developing to blastocysts.
(20) Vitrification offers a way to cryopreserve human liver slices for the study of xenobiotic metabolism in humans.