(a.) In the form, or of the nature, of gas, or of an aeriform fluid.
(a.) Lacking substance or solidity; tenuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The use of gaseous insecticides in the chemical control of T. infestans is discussed.
(2) The DCM sampler is expected to contribute to public health impact assessments by facilitating detailed determinations of the identities, compositions, concentrations, sources, formation mechanisms, and biological activity of environmental toxicants in gaseous atmospheres.
(3) The causes were: restricted respiratory movements due to pain, compression of the lungs or pathological changes in the injured lung, and they affected the normal gaseous exchange in a variety of ways.
(4) Blood gaseous composition, mechanisms controlling hemoglobin affinity to oxygen and hemoglobin effects of a single captopril dose were assessed in 124 patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).
(5) In case of B. cinerea, the effect of the volatile and gaseous exudates of the germinating seeds of all plants used on the fungal spore germination differed according to both the sugar and nitrogen source absorbed.
(6) The physiological measurements were arterial oxygen saturation, heart rate, ventilatory frequency, and gaseous analysis in the mask.
(7) This method offers the possibility of a new approach to study of the mode of action of gaseous aerocontaminants on the respiratory tract and particularly upon phagocytic defences.
(8) This research deals with the gaseous and biochemical changes in the cerebrospinal fluid and their effects on the cerebral blood flow and metabolic rates in the acute stage of brain injury.
(9) About 136 gaseous compounds are analysed in animal house air of which 22 are quantified, only.
(10) These observations indicate that, despite the great variation in the fecal flora among individual mice, it is possible to discover the effects induced by altered gaseous environments.
(11) Different variants of the method are estimated and the optimal conditions of cultivation are described (nutrient medium, gaseous phase, depth of explants' immersion, rate of medium flow, etc).
(12) Suspensions of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus cereus were continuously sparged with nitrogen to remove gaseous products of nitrate reduction.
(13) These include: (1) atmospheric HCl will most commonly exist in the gaseous form; (2) long-range transport of HCl is probably of limited importance; (3) ambient HCI levels are in the low parts per billion range; (4) irritation of the upper airways appears to be the most sensitive indicator of exposure; (5) such effects are likely to occur only at exposure levels much greater than those measured in ambient air; and (6) future health research should focus on occupationally exposed populations and potentially sensitive subgroups, e.g., asthmatics.
(14) It was established that mildronate produced a positive effect on the hemodynamics and gaseous composition of the blood.
(15) Tests based on the analysis of the gaseous components of expired air have been developed to study intestinal absorption and intermediary metabolism of various nutrients.
(16) The oral strains were able to utilize gaseous hydrogen and to grow in a mineral medium with either nitrate of fumarate as hydrogen acceptor.
(17) Significant variations (p less than .005) were observed for the particleboard mass and gaseous formaldehyde collected between sample runs.
(18) Cultures of the sublines were also maintained with either a gaseous phase of 0-1% oxygen or atmospheric (18%) oxygen.
(19) These observations suggested that animals effectively inhaled both gaseous and particulate phase constituents of cigarette smoke.
(20) The concentration of gaseous sulfur showed always a larger variation coefficient than that of particulate sulfur.
Gassy
Definition:
(a.) Full of gas; like gas. Hence: [Colloq.] Inflated; full of boastful or insincere talk.
Example Sentences:
(1) The flesh rolled away like blancmange, soft and gassy with putrefaction.
(2) Independent brewing has boomed as drinkers, often in their 20s, have rejected gassy, bland lagers in favour of characterful beers made with a widening array of ingredients.
(3) Visualizing the gassy effusion above the pleural fluid, the disappearance of the "gliding sign" (n = 11) indicates PN.
(4) But this week, the climate change movement may have gotten a symbol to rally around, because apparently it was never quite enough to motivate ourselves out of love for this large gassy orb,” Oliver joked.