(a.) Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
(n.) A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
(3) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(4) Irrespective of the type of arthropathy, synovial fluid dialysable hydroxyproline levels correlate with urinary hydroxyproline excretion.
(5) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
(6) An inflammatory process than occurs in the airways that is characterized by an influx of eosinophils and neutrophils into the airway epithelium and bronchial fluids.
(7) One of these antibodies, MCaE11, was used for immunohistochemical detection of MAC in tissue and for quantification of the fluid-phase TCC in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid plasma.
(8) The concentrations of five normally occurring protease inhibitors in serum and synovial fluid were compared in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthrosis, and normal controls.
(9) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(10) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
(11) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(12) Chromatography and immunoassays are the two principal techniques used in research and clinical laboratories for the measurement of drug concentrations in biological fluids.
(13) Those without sperm, or with cloudy fluid, will require vasoepididymostomy under general or epidural anesthesia, which takes 4-6 hr.
(14) Thirty-two strains of pectin-fermenting rumen bacteria were isolated from bovine rumen contents in a rumen fluid medium which contained pectin as the only added energy source.
(15) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.
(16) No respiratory-distress syndrome of the newborn occurred when total amniotic-fluid cortisol was greater than 60 ng per milliliter (16 patients).
(17) The sodium level of the ascitic fluid determined in 5 cases was higher than that of serum.
(18) In the study group 43 (64%) children had a confirmed bacterial AOM and 24 (36%) showed no bacterial growth from middle ear fluid.
(19) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
(20) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
Fluidize
Definition:
(v. t.) To render fluid.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 30% maltodextrin solution has been continuously hydrolyzed at 50 degrees C and pH 4.5 in a recycled, fluidized bed reactor (FBR) containing GA immobilized on these magnetic microparticles.
(2) In the absence of these fluidizing agents, the mean values and standard errors of S at 37 degrees C for MHS and MHN are 0.643(2) and 0.652(3) for 7-DS, 0.554(2) and 0.563(3) for 12-DS, respectively, and of tau r are 2.139(12) and 2.223(13) ns for 16-DS, respectively.
(3) The experimentally determined kinetic rate constants may be used directly to predict the size of integral fluidized bed reactors.
(4) 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.
(5) This real fluidizing effect of ethanol "in vivo" was attributed mainly to a significant increase in the polyunsaturated fatty acids amount in patient ghosts in comparison with control subjects.
(6) Propranolol fluidized erythrocyte membranes in a depth-specific fashion, by virtue of its association with the rigid phospholipid acyl chains and cholesterol sterol rings in the hydrophilic regions of the membrane, which produced distant perturbations within the hydrophilic regions of the membrane.
(7) However, there is a general tendency indicating that phospholipids with higher double bond index evoke lower 'rigidizing' and 'fluidizing' interactions.
(8) The increase in incorporation of labeled glucose into these membrane lipids suggests an increase in the synthesis of these lipids, which prevents fluidization of the membrane by alcohol.
(9) In the presence of the membrane fluidizing agents, heptanol or chloroform, NH3 permeability increased in a dose-dependent manner.
(10) Liquid fluidized beds containing porous magnetic ion-exchange particles with densities ca.
(11) The use of a fluidized bed prevents biomass buildup, accommodates particulates in the feed stream, is compatible with gas sparging, and allows easy removal or addition of the active materials.
(12) However, this observation is more likely explained by provision of lymphocytes with nutritional lipids required for optimal growth in vitro, than altered responsiveness of "fluidized" lymphocytes.
(13) An aerobic fluidized bed reactor with a working volume of 801 filled with sand particles as carriers for the bacteria was used.
(14) This study provides evidence that membrane fluidization is not the predominant function of the lipid activator in PKC activation, but may play a role in obtaining the preferred membrane state for maximal activation.
(15) Fluidization of K562 target cell membranes caused a slight but insignificant increase in their lysis by NK cells without affecting the binding step.
(16) The data from the fluidized bed breakthrough tests have been used to assess the validity of a theoretical model adapted from one that predicts the performance of the adsorption phase in the absence of cells in fixed bed systems.
(17) As measured by decreased limiting anisotropy of DPH fluorescence, cationic (prilocaine) and anionic (phenobarbital and pentobarbital) amphipaths preferentially fluidized the cytofacial and exofacial leaflets respectively.
(18) The larger granules from the fluidized batch exhibited considerable intragranular variation with the outer crust containing over twice the average salt concentration.
(19) However, in DMPC bilayers with low cholesterol content (less than 30 mol%), for temperatures below the phase transition of DMPC, both probes detect fluidizing effects induced by lindane.
(20) The degree of fluidization was monitored by a fluorescence polarization method using 1,6-diphenylhexatriene.