(a.) Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(5) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(6) The freeze-etch technique was used to study the morphology of Treponema refringens (Nichols).
(7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(8) The freezing procedure increased sperm motility in approximately 30% of samples from both animals.
(9) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
(10) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(11) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(12) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(13) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
(14) We conclude that differences in incorporation between syngeneic and allogeneic bone grafts are reduced by pretreatment with deep-freezing or demineralisation.
(15) Previous studies are reviewed in the light of new information on retrograde axonal transport, circumventricular organs, the proper use of horseradish peroxidase, freeze-fracturing, immunocytochemistry and plasma protein gene expression in the developing human brain.
(16) Freezing enrichment cultures prior to testing for toxicity eliminated many nonbotulinal toxic substances that killed mice.
(17) The process of interaction between macrophages and promastigote and amastigote forms of Leishmania mexicana amazonensis was analyzed using freeze fracture and cytochemistry.
(18) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(19) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(20) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
Liquefaction
Definition:
(n.) The state of being liquid.
(n.) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
(n.) The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) It leads to ganglia formation due to mucoid liquefaction.
(2) More important, 85 per cent of the initial semen samples had greater than 40 per cent abnormal forms and liquefaction was delayed beyond 20 minutes in 67 per cent of specimen.
(3) The biopsy findings consisted of eosinophilic individual necrosis of epidermal cells, satellite cell necrosis, basal liquefaction degeneration, and scanty cell infiltration into the dermis.
(4) It seems that Pfeiffer-Weber-Christian disease and nodular panniculitis with liquefaction are varying expressions of the same disease entity.
(5) We present two infants with documented Coxsackie B virus infection who also had widespread multifocal areas of liquefaction necrosis unassociated with inflammation.
(6) Coal liquefaction products have been considered as an alternate source of energy to replace conventional crude oil.
(7) The liquefaction time and the concentration of choline, N-acetylamino sugar and zinc decreased significantly in ejaculates after 2 days of abstinence.
(8) Liquefaction time, pH and sperm count was found significantly different in non-vegetarians and vegetarians, perhaps due to difference in their dietary proteins.
(9) These masses were classified into three broad categories: centrally necrotic masses with a large predominantly liquefactive center and higher density periphery (29); multilocular, septated masses with distinct linear bands or striations (21); and miscellaneous masses (9).
(10) The mechanisms for the development of this lesion are: 1. direct extension of the pancreatic cyst into the splenic hilum; 2. digestive effects of pancreatic enzymes on splenic vasculature and parenchyma; 3. pancreatitis occurring in ectopic intrasplenic pancreatic tissue and 4. liquefaction of splenic infarcts secondary to thrombosis of the splenic vessels.
(11) The chemical compositions of the coal tar-based therapeutic agents, the industrial coal tar and direct-liquefaction coal liquid were similar.
(12) In addition it could contribute to the degradation of basic proteins during semen liquefaction.
(13) Proteinases are involved in coagulation and liquefaction of human semen.
(14) Various liquid-liquid extraction methods and column chromatographic separations have been applied to crude products and effluents from oil-shale, coal-liquefaction, and coal-gasification processes.
(15) The diagnosis of porokeratosis was confirmed with a further biopsy, which demonstrated a coronoid lamella and some underlying basal cell liquefaction.
(16) A group of proteins (molecular weights = 20,000 to 23,000) in seminal plasma analyzed immediately after liquefaction was detected in oligospermic men (n = 4) but not in normospermic men (n = 4) or azoospermic men (n = 4).
(17) We present an uncommon late sequela of a compartment syndrome of the leg that presented as liquefaction and calcification.
(18) Human ejaculates were classified into 3 distinct groups depending on their liquefaction time, and the groups were characterized physico-chemically.
(19) Whereas the glomeruli were intact, important damages affected proximal tubule cells which appeared necrotic and showed presence of vacuoles, liquefaction of cytoplasmic material and lost of microvilli.
(20) After treatment, the abscess cavity became homogeneously hypointense on T1-weighted images, corresponding to liquefaction of the abscess center.