(n.) A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances.
(n.) To join with glue or a viscous substance; to cause to stick or hold fast, as if with glue; to fix or fasten.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(2) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(3) The most common inhalant stupefacients were "Butapren" glue, trichlorethylene and "Roxy" fluid; wine and vodka were the alcohols used.
(4) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(5) In second group after thoracotomy the lungs were stabilized with gelatin-resorcin-formaldehyde glue.
(6) The proteins are synthesized for approximately 14 hr until puparium formation, when the glue is released from the salivary glands.
(7) The polyphenolic protein is the "glue" in the adhesive plaques of the byssus.
(8) Second, in patients with acute aortic dissection, the false lumen of the aortic root and arch is filled with resorcinformol glue and the layers are readapted by this means after anatomical reconstruction.
(9) Exclusion from external ventilation was performed in animal experiments by instillation of Ethibloc, an amino acid glue, in one main bronchus to create an atelectasis.
(10) Economic openness is the glue that binds the EU together and it is the solution to the crisis of European competitiveness that long predates the current strife.
(11) The fibrinogen in the glue was prepared by ethanol precipitation of plasma separated from 88 ml of the patient's blood.
(12) In addition, they had on the average abused more than twice as many different substances as addicts without a glue use history.
(13) An average of 3.3 ml of glue was applied to the anterior wall of the anastomosis in the treated group.
(14) Sundew use beads of treacly glue to trap flies on their finger-like leaves.
(15) But the existence of elections in England, Scotland and Wales in May will act as party political glue.
(16) This technique is very convenient for adult cholesteatomas developed in a sclerotic mastoid with an extension limited to mesotympanum and attic, to the children cholesteatomas developed in the mesotympanum with a sclerotic mastoid, for the correction of retraction pockets after a closed technique, rehabilitation of radical mastoidectomies, fibroadhesive otitis and some idiopathic glue tympanic membrane with a large cholesterol granuloma.
(17) Children in case families were more likely to be diagnosed as suffering from glue ear rather than recurrent acute otitis media, particularly if an older sibling of the same sex had previously been so diagnosed (for boys RR 6.68; for girls RR 4.55).
(18) Simple formulae expressing average and maximum concentrations of solvent vapour in indoor air during the application of paints, glues, and the like, have been derived using a six parameter mathematical exposure model MEM 1.
(19) Human jejunal brush-border pteroylpolyglutamate hydrolase is an exopeptidase which liberated [14C]Glu as the sole labeled product of PteGlu2[14C]Glue (where PteGlun represents pteroylpolyglutamate), failed to liberate a radioactive product from PteGlu2[14C]GluLeu2, and released all possible labeled PteGlun products during incubation with Pte[14C]GluGlu6 with the accumulation of Pte[14C]Glu.
(20) Histoacryl glue was used in 108 blepharoplasty incisions, 30 facelift incisions, 21 submental incisions for liposuction, and 19 local flaps for facial reconstructive procedures.
Glutinous
Definition:
(a.) Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.
(a.) Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland.
Example Sentences:
(1) (The day before, they filmed a car chase down the main street and the excitement still ripples through the glutinous air.)
(2) From the digest of beta-limit dextrin (prepared from glutinous rice starch) with saccharifying alpha-amylase of Bacillus subtilis [EC 3.2.1.1] (BSA), two extensibely branched dextrins consisting of nine (No.
(3) This develops strong two-dimensional glutinous layers and traps air between them.
(4) The ultimate form of this glutinous type of pastry is filo, which in its raw form consists of one thin glutinous layer.
(5) A new diterpenoid compound named glutinic acid had been isolated from Caryopteris glutinosa Rehd by liquid chromatography on Al2O3 and silica gel column.
(6) The animals were given milk replacers in which 75% of the dried skim milk protein had been replaced by American soybean flour (ASP), Egyptian soya meal (ESP), or corn glutine (GP).
(7) In other strains, however, even a very high number of bacteria caused death only 7 days after infection or later, in which cases the disease became manifest long in advance by ruffled fur and glutinous eyes.
(8) Best results were obtained in static fermentations on glutinous rice at 30 degrees C. The isolated yield of pure luteoskyrin was approximately 400 mg per kg of rice.
(9) 2 Meanwhile, mix the glutinous rice flour and rice flour or tapioca starch with 150ml luke-warm water to make a soft dough, adding more water if necessary.
(10) Tang yuan (glutinous rice balls) The round shape of these small, sweet dumplings symbolises family togetherness; the stickiness echoing the fact that family should stick together.
(11) Proximal part of stylostome is formed in both cases by amorphous glutinous substance bearing imprints of mite's mobile digits of chelicerae and hypostome.
(12) The growth and ochratoxin A production of Aspergillus ochraceus strains S-235-100 and IFM 0458, which were isolated from green coffee beans and glutinous rice, respectively, were examined in yeast extract-sucrose (YES) medium containing 0.1 to 1.0% caffeine.
(13) A path had been cleared to the garishly decorated church of St Demetrius, a warrior saint popular in the region, but inside the glutinous mud clung to the floor and altar drapes.
(14) In groups 2, 3, and 4, 50% of the milk protein were replaced by American soybean flour, Egyptian soya meal, or corn glutine.
(15) A waxy mutant of O. glaberrima showing a glutinous phenotype was found to contain a substitution mutation generating a termination codon in the coding region of the wx gene.
(16) Glutinous (waxy) rice had the highest values, and mung bean noodles the lowest.
(17) The currently abortive Canadian treaty is a glutinous mess of beef hormones, investor protection, Romanian visas, patent term regulations and cheese definitions.
(18) In the wake of "Tricky" Dicky Keys and Andy "Grey" Gray's Sky Sports shame, where the pundits' banter leaked glutinously through the cracks in media and mutated into news, and the introduction of "banter nights" at comedy clubs, and a sacked postman suing the Royal Mail for unfair dismissal, explaining that what they called bullying was in fact just "a lot of banter", the Uni Lad story only added to the instability.
(19) No significant difference was observed in Cd-R and Pb-R between common rice (188 samples) and glutinous rice (19 samples), whereas effects of polishing were absent on Cd-R and inconclusive on Pb-R.
(20) Occasionally the additives used for the storage, preservation, and coloring of blood bank reagents are a source of anomalous a-glutination reactions.