What's the difference between fluid and flush?

Fluid


Definition:

  • (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.

Flush


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.
  • (v. i.) To become suddenly suffused, as the cheeks; to turn red; to blush.
  • (v. i.) To snow red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
  • (v. i.) To start up suddenly; to take wing as a bird.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water; as, to flush the meadows; to flood for the purpose of cleaning; as, to flush a sewer.
  • (v. t.) To cause the blood to rush into (the face); to put to the blush, or to cause to glow with excitement.
  • (v. t.) To make suddenly or temporarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood.
  • (v. t.) To excite; to animate; to stir.
  • (v. t.) To cause to start, as a hunter a bird.
  • (n.) A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
  • (n.) A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
  • (n.) Any tinge of red color like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood; as, the flush on the side of a peach; the flush on the clouds at sunset.
  • (n.) A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement. animation, etc.; as, a flush of joy.
  • (n.) A flock of birds suddenly started up or flushed.
  • (n.) A hand of cards of the same suit.
  • (a.) Full of vigor; fresh; glowing; bright.
  • (a.) Affluent; abounding; well furnished or suppled; hence, liberal; prodigal.
  • (a.) Unbroken or even in surface; on a level with the adjacent surface; forming a continuous surface; as, a flush panel; a flush joint.
  • (a.) Consisting of cards of one suit.
  • (adv.) So as to be level or even.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is basically a large tank (the bigger the better) that collects rain from the house guttering and pumps it into the home, to be used for flushing the loo.
  • (2) The vasodilator effect of both calcium antagonists was responsible for side effects, of which the most common were flushing, edema, headache, and palpitations.
  • (3) No comparable differences in development were found in cultured embryos for which the media had been supplemented with flushings from the same progestational uterine stages as used for transfer.
  • (4) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
  • (5) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
  • (6) Management of obstructive upper ureteral calculi by first flushing the lithiasis to renal cavity and secondary extracorporeal lithotripsy is proposed as a routine guide-line, especially when treatment by ESWL is not immediately available.
  • (7) A rapid and efficient method for obtaining murine bone marrow cells is described, which yields up to twice the amount of cells obtained by the conventional method of flushing through the bones.
  • (8) 31P NMR spectroscopy proved to be an excellent, dynamic, nondestructive method for assessing the liver during cold flush and pulsatile perfusion experiments.
  • (9) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
  • (10) Uterine horns were flushed in 5 cats 6-8 days after mating with expanded blastocysts being collected from 4 cats.
  • (11) This study suggests that a naloxone-sensitive opioid mechanism is not active in modulating luteinizing hormone secretion in the postmenopausal woman and that opioid receptor blockade is not effective in altering the frequency of menopausal flushes.
  • (12) Atracurium, metocurine and in particular d-tubocurarine have histamine-releasing properties and may cause flushing, hypotension and tachycardia.
  • (13) In 13 postorchidectomy patients who reported hot flushes we recorded cutaneous blood-flow and sweating by use of a laser-Doppler flowmeter and an evaporimeter.
  • (14) However, flushing the filters with carbenicillin or gentamicin killed the bacteria and caused the release of endotoxin into the filtrates.
  • (15) These results justify the use of UW solution by intraaortic flush especially during multi-organ procurement.
  • (16) Twelve grafts were flushed with and stored in Perfadex.
  • (17) The fillings were ground flush with the tooth surface and the teeth were cycled thermally between two dye solutions baths.
  • (18) On testing the peripheral vestibular apparatus of astronauts with healthy labyrinths, nystagmus was observed when flushing the ears with hot or cold water even in the absence of gravitation.
  • (19) Using methanesulfonic acid, hydrolysis of cytochrome c at 115 degrees C for 22 h yielded recoveries equal to or higher than hydrolysis at 115 degrees C for 70 h or at 150 degrees C for 22 h. Triple evacuation of the hydrolysis tube alternated with nitrogen flush gave recovery improvements over single evacuation.
  • (20) Lack of isozyme I is responsible for the "flush-syndrome" commonly observed in asian people following alcohol intake.