(a.) Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) High-grade left mainstem bronchial obstruction was caused by friable granulation tissue secondary to an underlying foreign body.
(2) As for group I specifically, colonic ulcerations due to Cytomegalovirus were present in all the patients, varying from punctate and superficial erosions to deep ulcerations, with granular and friable intervening mucosa.
(3) A 65-year-old woman experienced transient paralysis of the left arm immediately after palpation of the right carotid artery; at surgery, a friable, atherosclerotic plaque was removed from the bifurcation of the artery.
(4) Thus, the skin appears to develop a relative oxygen debt during CPB which may decrease the threshold for skin injury particularly in older patients who may have other predisposing factors, such as obesity, generalized atherosclerosis, diabetes, or friable skin.
(5) On proctoscopic examination, discrete 2- to 5-mm raised plaques are seen adherent ot an edematous, friable mucosa.
(6) Rhinosporidiosis most commonly involves the nose, and presents as a friable papillomatous mass causing nasal obstruction, epistaxis, purulent discharge, and headache may also occur.
(7) Brinase added to human plasma in vitro caused a decrease in fibrinogen concentration, positive paracoagulation tests and formation of a friable clot in sequence.
(8) In normal bowel segment this may not pose a problem, but forceful attempts at eversion in diseased, thickened, and friable bowel may result in damage to the bowel segment.
(9) Steely hair disease, a neurodegenerative disorder, is characterized by slow growth, progressive cerebral dysfunction, kinky friable hair, x-linked inheritance, and death before three years of age.
(10) The presence of phosphates makes oral medical treatment ineffective, but mixed stones are more friable than pure cystine stones and are therefore easier to treat by extracorporeal lithotripsy.
(11) Although friable callus was obtained from ovary tissue cultured on a medium containing 2 mg per 1 (11 micrometer) naphthaleneacetic acid and 4 mg per 1 (18 micrometer) BAP, it produced shoots after 8 weeks of further subculture on the same medium.
(12) Clustering of largely immobile food resources and friable soils appear to be the major factors influencing chrysochlorid distribution.
(13) The liver was large, friable, and gun-metal blue, with microscopically evident hepatocyte dissociation, degeneration, and necrosis.
(14) Two peaks of activity were observed, when DNP-Gly-Gly-Ile-Arg was used as a substrate, one of them being correspondent to prevalence of dense colonies in the culture and the other to the prevalence of friable networks of hyphae.
(15) Repeated passage of the nasopharyngeal airway and nasotracheal tube over relatively friable nasal mucosa accounted for increased hemorrhage in the dilated group.
(16) Scanning electron microscopy showed that OpaC- and OpaD-containing variants yielded greater mucosal damage than OpaB-containing and Opa- variants with the least damage caused by the OpaA-containing variant (clumped bacteria from dark opaque friable colonies).
(17) Friable vegetation was attached to the auricular surface of the mitral valve.
(18) In elk 3, several of the large muscles of the hindlimbs as well as the biceps brachii muscles of the forelimbs appeared pale, dry, and friable.
(19) The gastric mucosa was erythematous, friable, and bile stained, and the histology revealed chronic inflammation.
(20) Craniotomy showed a tender, friable tumor with a yellowish cyst fluid, but apparently not invading the brain parenchyma.
Minus
Definition:
(a.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
(2) The open probability is weakly voltage dependent, large at zero and positive potentials (cytoplasm minus SR lumen), and decreasing at negative potentials.
(3) A linear increase in heart rate per 10-fold increase of either drug was observed, (-)-isoprenaline: 25 beats - min-1-; (plus or minus)-salbutamol: 14 beats - min-1-.
(4) However, corrected CMTT (CCMTT), i.e., CMTT minus AMTT, may have been prolonged in five subjects either on the left or right, or in both homologous regions.
(5) at -35 degrees C and as long as 10 hours at -5 degrees C. However, C. bovis died within 72-96 hours in muscles of cattle carcasses subjected to the activity of the temperatures minus 18-19 degrees C at a relative humidity of 86-90% under conditions of an industrial cold storage plant.
(6) Stringent (rel+) as well as relaxed (rel minus) strains were able to rapidly curtail their accumulation of ribonculeic acid (RNA) after a downshift imposed by decreasing glucose transport into the cell.
(7) Statistical analysis has shown the following: a) the growth inhibition, which is especially distinct in autumn-spring generation, takes place in the Ist instar larvae 1.76-2.20 mm long inhabiting the walls of the nasal cavity and concha (their average body length at hatching is 1.08 plus or minus 0.004 mm); the inhibition is associated with interpopulation relations and apparently does not depend on the date of its beginning and can last from 6 to 7 months; c) after the growth resumption the development continues uninterruptedly up to the moulting; the inhibition is also possible at the beginning of the 2nd instar and then the development proceeds without any intervals up to the complete maturation of larvae.
(8) This was in contrast to cells expressing a tail-minus variant of Fc gamma RII (hFc gamma RIItail-).
(9) The difference (reduced minus oxidized) spectrum of the purified enzyme possessed alpha,beta, and gamma bands at 550, 523, and 416 nm, respectively.
(10) The increase in cyclic AMP, but not the inhibition of mechanical activity, was blocked by propranolol 3.4 X 10-MINUS 6 M. 4.
(11) For each patient, the BSM and the QRS integral map before, during, and after the inflation was compared by subtraction of recordings "during-minus-before" inflation and "before-minus-after" inflation.
(12) We have isolated and characterized revertants of ts24, a member of the A complementation group of Sindbis HR mutants, that we had demonstrated previously to have a temperature-sensitive defect in the regulation of minus-strand synthesis.
(13) In Nannizzia fulva (M. fulvum), plus-mating-type strains were elastase-positive and minus-mating-type strains elastase-negative.
(14) plus or minus 4.7) mug per g dry wt (p vs controls equals greater than 0.01).
(15) In four additional patients studied serially, the cell-mediated immunity was significantly increased during the recrudescence of herpetic infection, with a mean specific immune release value of 51.7 plus or minus 27.8%, compared to 8.7 plus or minus 1.5% during the convalescent period 2 to 10 weeks later (P is less than 0.05).
(16) A truncated anchor-minus form of the G2 glycoprotein was found to be secreted into the culture medium, but was retained in the Golgi complex when coexpressed with the G1 glycoprotein.
(17) The 6alpha- and 6beta-testosterone derivatives were attached to BSA via a mixed anhydride coupling employing tributylamine and i minus-butylchlorocarbonate.
(18) Each forward pack was tested under the following scrummaging combinations: front-row only; front-row plus second-row; full scrum minus side-row, and full scrum.
(19) Cl minus uptake was a saturatable function of the external Cl minus concentration, and apparent Km values of 6.4 times 10-6 M and 10-4 M were calculated.
(20) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).