(a.) Of or pertaining to measurement by weight; measured by weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Quantity of water in the lung (Qwl) was also measured by gravimetric method.
(2) The gravimetric or loss-on-drying method is no longer listed as the required method; the 1.0% moisture limit is no longer specifically stated in the regulation.
(3) We used a gravimetric method to determine the ratio (gamma) of pulmonary venous to total pulmonary vascular resistance in intact dog lungs.
(4) The 3 gravimetric assays (oven-drying, freeze-drying or freeze-drying as well as oven-drying) had a very high precision (coefficients of variation (CV) 0.2-0.4%) and were easy to perform.
(5) We measured CO2 production using the Haldane gravimetric technique and compared these values with estimates derived from isotopic data.
(6) Dust was measured by the gravimetric method according to the Finnish standard.
(7) Gravimetric and histological studies of lymphoreticular tissues during growth of a syngeneic squamous cell carcinoma in Wistar rats show that the regional lymph node anergy reported previously in this system is associated with replacement of paracortical small lymphocytes by large blastoid cells.
(8) EVLW was determined gravimetrically at 6 hr to confirm the final double indicator dilution values.
(9) Determination of fungal elastase, however, requires partial purification of culture extracts and the orcein elastin or gravimetric method.
(10) The ratio of the extravascular lung water measured in this way to that measured gravimetrically also increased, to reach an asymptotic proportion of close to 100%.
(11) The injection of plasma, saline, or erythrocyte (RBC) concentrate into the pulmonary circulation produces a change in the gravimetric density of the blood outflow similar to the dilution curve of dye.
(12) A gravimetric plethysmograph, the technique of its use and its evaluation in vascular surgical practice are described.
(13) To test the method a regression equation was developed using the 40K counts and body weight of young adult rats weighing 333-788 g; the results were compared with those obtained from the gravimetric determination of fat in the carcass.
(14) The gravimetric density was determined for both left and right lungs by averaging the CT numerical data within lung slices traced on a magnified video image of the thorax.
(15) On a gravimetric basis, dermatan and heparan were 10 fold less hemorrhagic than heparin.
(16) Total blood volume in an isolated organ system decreases and is manifested as a decrease in volume (plethysmographic) or weight (gravimetric).
(17) The line of best fit of the relative standard deviation between-laboratories (RSDR) plotted against the negative logarithm of the fractional concentration, C, extends from 1.2 and 1.0% for the gravimetric and titrimetric methods, respectively, at 100% concentration to 2.2 and 2.8% at 1.0% concentration.
(18) Gravimetric changes found in the thymus and the spleen suggest that the thymus plays an essential role until death in a tumor-bearing host and that the thymus and the spleen have inverse functions in relation to tumor growth.
(19) The time course of pulmonary congestion and pulmonary edema was examined using a gravimetric method in 19 open-chest anesthetized dogs.
(20) The advantages of the titrimetric method include simplicity, rapidity, convenience, sensitivity, reproducibility and specificity, whereas the gravimetric method is tedious and time-consuming.
Weight
Definition:
(v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
(v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
(v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
(v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
(v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
(v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
(v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
(v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
(v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
(v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.
Example Sentences:
(1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
(2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(4) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(5) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(6) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
(7) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
(8) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(9) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
(10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(11) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
(12) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(13) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
(14) The molecular weight of antigen RFB2 was estimated to be approximately 85,000 daltons based on the results of gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B.
(15) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
(16) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
(17) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
(18) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
(19) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
(20) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.