(v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
(v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
(v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
(v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
(v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
(v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
(v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
(v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
(v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
(v. t.) To cover with varnish.
(n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
(n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
(n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
(n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
(n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
(3) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
(4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(5) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
(6) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(7) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(8) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
(9) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(10) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(11) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
(12) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(13) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(14) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
(15) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
(16) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(17) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
(18) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(19) The effect of these drugs was estimated from the cell growth curve and DNA histogram determined by flow cytometry.
(20) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.
Torrential
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Torrentine
Example Sentences:
(1) Kerry McQuade whose home perched high up on Blenheim Street avoided the worst effects, said: "We had two hours of a torrential downpour, followed by continual rain, from lunchtime.
(2) Three patients could not undergo sclerosis, one because of torrential bleeding and two because of ulcer location.
(3) The freezing New Year rain drove into the dug-outs in such torrential fashion that he initially sheltered in the tunnel but such inclement weather quickly proved the least of his problems.
(4) After days of torrential rains, the French government has issued an orange alert for central Paris.
(5) This rare, potentially curable cause of torrential upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage is usually secondary to perforation of a gastric ulcer into the distal thoracic aorta.
(6) Roads and railway lines were submerged in water after torrential rain and flash flooding hit one small town for the second summer in a row .
(7) García glanced in from a free-kick after 20 minutes to give Bilbao the least they deserved from a match played in torrential rain and on a saturated pitch at the Estadio de San Mamés.
(8) My worst day so far – torrential rain – provided just 7p; the last £2 day was a month ago; will I see its like again before spring?
(9) Torrential hemorrhage is rare in tuberculous affection of the bowel.
(10) Our massively complex society relies on the ability to plant crops knowing that they will grow, and build cities and infrastructure in places that won't be flooded by incoming tides or washed away by torrential rains.
(11) It would have been a daisycutter had the torrential rain not already flattened the wee flowers.
(12) Earthworks were started in late 2011, while the route was still being finessed, and continued despite the difficulties caused by torrential rain that has fallen in the region over the last year.
(13) The UN report said torrential rains caused severe damage to homes, public buildings, infrastructure and farms, affecting maize, soybean and rice fields.
(14) There were eight exclusions: four were inaccessible, one was a torrential haemorrhage and three were excluded for non-technical reasons.
(15) The failure of cessation of hemorrhage to improve survival is thought to be due to the degree of advancement of the underlying disease, to the torrential nature of the hemorrhage, to the frequency of recurrent hemorrhage, and to the use of intraarterial vasopressin in some patients in the conventional treatment group in whom conventional therapy had failed.
(16) Widespread torrential downpours battered the UK coast on Saturday with up to an inch of rain falling in some places.
(17) The strange thing was that the rain in Port Elizabeth was so torrential at that stage that most of the fans in the lower sections had already deserted the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
(18) Severe flood warnings have been issued in the north and east of England, the Midlands and much of Wales, with non-stop torrential rain expected for the next 24 hours and into Saturday in what forecasters are predicting could be the most serious weather conditions yet this year.
(19) Torrential rain fell on the queue of people waiting outside parliament to go through security.
(20) Severe floods around Europe after torrential rain – in pictures Read more People in Nemours were evacuated after the Loing river burst its banks and submerged the high street.