(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.
Thawing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thaw
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Following thawing, the initial motility index (MI) scores of mf cryopreserved by either method were not significantly different from untreated controls; however, over a period of 15 days in culture the MI scores of both cryopreserved groups showed a small but significant overall decline, with the methanol technique producing the lowest scores.
(3) In order to maintain its activity, the enzyme was always stored in 1.0-ml aliquots at temperatures below -20 degrees C and each aliquot when thawed was used immediately; any left over enzyme was never reused.
(4) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(5) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
(6) The effects of intravenous administration of DDAVP to blood donors and the use of DDAVP plasma for the production of cryoprecipitate in the closed thaw-siphon system were evaluated.
(7) Binding of [125I]-labelled ifenprodil, a non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist acting at the polyamine domain, was studied in washed, frozen-thawed synaptic membranes.
(8) These observations may be important in the development of laboratory protocols for freezing and clinical protocols for using frozen-thawed sperm.
(9) After being thawed at room temperature, the two CM samples were compared as to their pH, spinnbarkeit and ferning patterns, and it was found that they are quite similar.
(10) Freeze-thawed epimastigotes were used as a control antigen.
(11) To gain some understanding of the mechanism of cell fusion, cell ghosts prepared by freeze-thawing intact cells were incubated with intact cells.
(12) Particularly, the losses during blanching and thawing (drip) are discussed.
(13) However, mitochondrial susceptibility to rupture by freezing and thawing was not affected.
(14) Jackets were frozen for storage and were later thawed and placed on experimental alien lambs.
(15) This case illustrates: (1) acid medium, chymotrypsin, or sucrose are not needed for the procedure of zona cutting; (2) the zygotes resulting from zona cutting survive through freezing and thawing; and (3) oocyte retrieval can be done concomitant with conservative surgery for endometriosis.
(16) Ten eyes were treated with a single freeze-thaw cycle and were observed for 3 to 18 months.
(17) The choice of optimal freezing and thawing parameters is discussed.
(18) Although freezing and thawing produced additional decrements in all the assays, the hypotonic stress response was better by a factor of 3.5 than that previously obtained in a cryopreservation method using 0.5 molar glycerol.
(19) Lamb leg and rib roasts were more tender when cooked from the thawed state.
(20) Four- and eight-cell embryos from 3 mouse genotypes were cryopreserved to study the relationship of genetics and freezing variables on post-thaw survival.