(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.
Rinse
Definition:
(v. t.) To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing.
(v. t.) To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle.
(n.) The act of rinsing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(2) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
(3) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
(4) The ASI said the UK should be prepared to adapt its standards, pointing to an assessment by the European Food Safety Authority that the chemical rinses, including chlorine dioxide, were safe to eat.
(5) Six individuals wore the appliances while rinsing daily with a neutral 0.2% NaF solution for 4 wk.
(6) This also has automatic rinsing, cleaning and descaling programmes.
(7) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
(8) Gingival bleeding decreased by 26% in both scaled and unscaled sites following CHX (0.12%) rinses and by 40% at both types of sites following CHX (0.06%) irrigation.
(9) The source of these nitrates was probably water incompletely removed after washing and rinsing of collector containers.
(10) Allopurinol mouth wash was prepared for patients to rinse their mouth with the solution 4-5 times daily before and after treatment with anti-cancer drugs.
(11) The swab method (according to the guide-lines of the DGHM) occasionally resulted in the finding "adequate efficacy" already if 10(4) to 10(5) surviving germs were demonstrable by the rinsing method.
(12) The results of this study suggest that using PLAX as prebrushing rinse is the same as using a placebo.
(13) After rinsing with a fluoride solution, the amounts of fluoride taken up by small pieces of dentine placed strategically about the mouth varied considerably from site to site in the oral cavity.
(14) During continuing infusion, following 210 min of iodoinsulin delivery, intact conceptuses (embryo, amnion, and yolk sac), and portions of adjacent decidua, liver, and spleen were excised, rinsed, and frozen in liquid N2 within 2 min.
(15) One hundred and three adults completed a double-blind, 6-month controlled study to assess the effects of rinsing with Plax (Oral Care Division of Pfizer Inc., New York, NY) before brushing on plaque, gingivitis and calculus.
(16) The results showed a significant decrease in salivary mutants streptococci after rinsing periods with XYLIHEX and CHX when compared with F (p less than 0.001).
(17) From a zero baseline, plaque regrowth at day 5 was significantly reduced by chlorhexidine compared to peroxyborate; and, in turn, significantly reduced by peroxyborate compared to the other rinses.
(18) After a rinse in 1% acetic acid, the sections were silver enhanced.
(19) Compared to placebo at 6 months, the group rinsing with 0.12% chlorhexidine had significantly less gingivitis (31% reduction), gingival bleeding (39% reduction), and plaque (49% reduction) and was significantly better than any of the other treatment groups (P less than 0.05).
(20) Taste detection thresholds for sodium chloride, sucrose, citric acid and quinine sulfate were determined with the Henkin three drop forced-choice method at stimulus volumes 0.05 ml, 0.50 ml, and 0.90 ml, with and without water rinses.