(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.
Nephelometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.
Example Sentences:
(1) We describe a kinetic immunonephelometric method for the determination of fibronectin in human plasma, used with the Beckman ICS rate nephelometer.
(2) The in vitro synthesized immunoglobulins were measured by a rate nephelometer (Immuno-chemistry system, analyzer II).
(3) The drug is added in increasing concentrations to diluted serum samples and the light scattering is measured with a highly sensitive nephelometer.
(4) Nephelometers commercially available for immunoassays use a variety of light sources; most measure the scattered light at a single angle, and several incorporate microcomputers.
(5) We investigated the analytical performance and imprecision of three commercially available nephelometers for the quantification of various proteins in pooled serum and cerebrospinal fluid.
(6) Using the Laser Nephelometer to obtain the same results on 20 patient specimens took two to three technologist hours.
(7) Use of the newly developed laser nephelometer provides a sensitive immunochemical assay for lysozyme in dog sera by detection of antigen-antibody complexes formed upon cross-reaction with sheep-anti-human lysozyme.
(8) Normotriglyceridemic and hypertriglyceridemic samples were analyzed for apoproteins A-I and B using the Beckman Array System and the Behring Nephelometer, and the nephelometric values were compared to values obtained by highly standardized radioimmunoassays developed at the Northwest Lipid Research Center.
(9) A nephelometer is used to measure the scattered light from the immunoprecipitate.
(10) Sera from 32 patients with atopic dermatitis and 22 patients with psoriasis were examined for the presence of circulating immune complexes (CIC) in comparison to 51 healthy controls using a PEG-precipitation laser nephelometer technique.
(11) We describe a rapid method for the routine determination of protein in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and in urine using laser nephelometer.
(12) The blood is centrifuged at 100 g for 10 min and 10 microliter of the supernatant is added to 3000 microliter of a suspending medium (dilution 1:80); 300 microliter platelet suspension are read in a nephelometer cuvet or tube against blank.
(13) The Hyland and Behring laser nephelometer systems for assay of specific proteins are described.
(14) The intercalibration precision and linearity were determined for two representative analytes, apolipoprotein A1 (apo A1) and immunoglobulin G (IgG), on the Beckman Array and the Behring Nephelometer 100 (BN-100).
(15) The Hyland laser nephelometer PDQ system for the assay of apolipoprotein B (apo-B) in human serum is described.
(16) We describe the measurement of rheumatoid factor in human sera with a rate nephelometer.
(17) the authors have examined the possibility of using Soviet reagents in an ICS Analyzer Beckman (USA) nephelometer.
(18) The Coleman 91 nephelometer provides rapid, simple amylase and lipase assays, which are particularly suited to emergency requests.
(19) The assay is fully automated on the Behring Nephelometer Analyser with a sampling rate of 150 samples per hour.
(20) The temporal variation of airborne dust concentration (less than or equal to microns) was examined with an instrument operating on the nephelometer principle combined with a specifically adapted data processor in two pig fattening houses at night, at day and during feeding.