(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.
Rarefaction
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three mechanisms are held responsible for the resistance increase: (1) a rarefaction of the smallest arterioles and capillaries, (2) an increased wall to lumen ratio and (3) a decreased internal diameter.
(2) When enalapril was given up to 14 weeks of age, the long-term suppression of amplifier properties was probably mainly through prevention of smooth muscle hypertrophy in resistance vessels and possibly through other mechanisms (e.g., "rarefaction").
(3) The cochlear summating potential (SP) preceding the auditory nerve compound action potential (AP) was elicited by broadband alternating condensation and rarefaction clicks and recorded by noninvasive electrodes from the external auditory meatus (EAM) of 60 volunteers of both sexes, 12 to 67 years old, who had normal hearing for age.
(4) BAEPs utilized rarefaction stimulation at 70 dB SL, with 150-3,000 Hz filter band pass and 10 ms. analysis time.
(5) On the basis of this property and a previously observed favourable effect of the enzyme on microcirculation, the capacity for more rapid rarefaction and elimination of caseous masses and prevention of excessive fibrosis, it was recommended for use in treatment of cerebrospinal disorders in tuberculous spondylitis.
(6) Rarefaction clicks produced shorter wave I latency and longer I-III interpeak latency, but the differences were significant in the female only.
(7) Typical features of rarefaction, osteoporosis, cysts, and cortical erosions were present.
(8) Multiple infarcts and white matter rarefaction are commonly seen as a component of Alzheimer disease, in keeping with the development of congophilic angiopathy and possibly other vascular changes in the latter disease.
(9) Thus the intensity functions of the round window N1 potential have a two-segment course and there is a difference in the response to rarefaction and condensation clicks, depending upon the content of low-frequency components in the click stimulus.
(10) Besides an obvious increase in blood rachemia in the arteries and veins, its rarefaction is observed in the capillaries.
(11) The lesion specific to the white matter showed rarefaction and gliosis without locally associated ischemic changes.
(12) Prevention of the experimental bone rarefaction which occurs in rats put on a low calcium diet was attempted by using salmon calcitonin and 25 hydroxyvitamin D given with a similar regimen to that used in human disease.
(13) Tone pip stimuli produced polarity differences that were inversely related to stimulus frequency: the higher the frequency, the smaller the ABR latency differences between responses to rarefaction and condensation stimuli, and the smaller the difference potentials.
(14) Foci of myeloid metaplasia may occasionally result in clinical disability, with bone pain and rarefaction.
(15) The following classification of the cerebellar granular layer damage was used: I degrees - focal rarefaction, II degrees - diffuse distinct rarefaction, III degrees - focal atrophy, IV degrees - diffuse atrophy.
(16) The latter ranged from spongiform transformation of the neuropil and scattered foci of demyelination to large perivenous areas with marked rarefaction of myelinated fibers.
(17) Along with this there occurs a rarefaction of the frequency of miniature potential of the end plate, and reduction of its amplitude.
(18) Recordings were obtained from normal hearing adults to separate trains of 5 rarefaction and 5 condensation clicks with interclick intervals of 10 msec and intertrain intervals of 500 msec at three intensities.
(19) The purpose of this study was to examine the muscle at the ultrastructural level to search for evidence of microvessel degeneration that would correlate with the concept of anatomic rarefaction in chronic hypertension.
(20) Electron microscopical examination was carried out in the renal tissue of 7 such cases, and showed dense mesangial deposits and a marked subendothelial rarefaction within the basement membrane.