What's the difference between free and unbound?

Free


Definition:

  • (superl.) Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one's own course of action; not dependent; at liberty.
  • (superl.) Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty.
  • (superl.) Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master.
  • (superl.) Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.
  • (superl.) Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; -- said of the will.
  • (superl.) Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent.
  • (superl.) Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative.
  • (superl.) Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; -- used in a bad sense.
  • (superl.) Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money.
  • (superl.) Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; -- followed by from, or, rarely, by of.
  • (superl.) Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy.
  • (superl.) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse.
  • (superl.) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; -- followed by of.
  • (superl.) Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; -- said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school.
  • (superl.) Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift.
  • (superl.) Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; -- said of a government, institutions, etc.
  • (superl.) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage.
  • (superl.) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren.
  • (superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells.
  • (adv.) Freely; willingly.
  • (adv.) Without charge; as, children admitted free.
  • (a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
  • (a.) To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
  • (a.) To frank.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
  • (2) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (3) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
  • (4) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
  • (5) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
  • (7) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
  • (8) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (9) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
  • (10) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
  • (11) In Ca free-solution phenylephrine inhibited the response to CaCl2.
  • (12) The actuarial 5-year disease-free survival rates were 83% (group 1), 83% (group 2), and 100% (group 3).
  • (13) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
  • (14) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
  • (15) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (16) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
  • (17) Under milder trypsin digestion conditions three resistant fragments were produced from the free protein.
  • (18) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (19) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
  • (20) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.

Unbound


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Unbind
  • () imp. & p. p. of Unbind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unbound fractions was significantly correlated with serum albumin concentration (r = -0.344, p less than 0.046) and renal clearance (r = 0.394, p less than 0.021) but not with total body clearance or volume of distribution.
  • (2) During photoirradiation, both in vivo and in vitro, the serum polar (ZE)-bilirubin IX alpha concentration increased remarkably, but unbound-bilirubin values were not affected at all.
  • (3) Using sterile conditions, antibodies to G were incubated with a suspension of transformed cells at 4 degrees C, unbound antibodies were then removed, and the cells were incubated with the immunoabsorbent (3 micron magnetic beads; J. Ugelstad et al.
  • (4) A method is described for the accurate, rapid measurement of the unbound fractions of estradiol and of progesterone in small volumes of plasma or serum at 37 degrees C by a miniature method of steady-state gel filtration.
  • (5) Serum unbound bilirubin concentrations (UBC) and serum total bilirubin concentrations (TBC) were measured serially in 138 low birthweight (LBW) infants treated with phototherapy for non-hemolytic hyperbilirubinemia.
  • (6) Chemically modified RNA was incubated with L11 under conditions appropriate for specific binding of L11 and the resulting protein-RNA complex was separated from unbound RNA on Mg(2+)-containing polyacrylamide gels.
  • (7) After exposure to 400 microM aluminum lactate and removal of unbound aluminum, human cytoskeletal proteins were degraded two- to threefold more slowly by calpain.
  • (8) Unbound disopyramide is separated from protein-bound drug by filtration with an Amicon Centrifree filter, which removes 99.6% of protein and does not retain disopyramide.
  • (9) It is suggested that SHBG may act as one common denominator in the pathogenesis of postmenopausal osteoporosis and endometrial disease by regulating the levels of unbound, biologically active androgens and estrogens.
  • (10) Furthermore, the use of norharmane as an inhibitor of L-tryptophan binding did not reveal a simple relationship between its unbound concentration and BUI.
  • (11) [3H]Methyltrienolone-bound and unbound androgen receptors from mouse submandibular glands bound to DNA-cellulose to a similar extent after gel chromatography.
  • (12) The CLi of thiobarbital, thiopental and thioseconal was proportional to the unbound fraction in serum.
  • (13) The Factor XI activity of the platelet membrane-plasma Factor XI complex was inhibited by concanavalin A, whereas unbound plasma Factor XI retained activity.
  • (14) The finding that both the absolute levels of IGFBP-1 and the ratio to IGF-1 were low in amniotic fluid implies that there is a very high level of unbound, biologically active IGF-1 in this compartment in the first trimester.
  • (15) The coefficients when unstimulated saliva was compared to either total or unbound serum concentrations were 0.90 and 0.89, respectively.
  • (16) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
  • (17) The inclusion in the model of the rapidly turning over pool of triglyceride-rich particles, identified in the heparin-unbound fraction, suggests that values for triglyceride production in man have been underestimated.
  • (18) Three bilirubin binding tests (hydroxybenzene-azobenzoic acid dye binding method, the estimation of unbound bilirubin by horseradish peroxidase assay and the saturation of albumin by the salicylate saturation index) were performed on pre-exchange samples of blood and repeated 24 hours after the procedure.
  • (19) The unbound, or free, warfarin fraction was twice as high in the plasma samples withdrawn from patients with renal impairment than in the samples obtained from normal volunteers.
  • (20) The beta2-microglobulin in the cell-sap fraction was present in the unbound state.

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