(n.) The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.
(n.) Submersion in water for the purpose of Christian baptism, as, practiced by the Baptists.
(n.) The state of being overhelmed or deeply absorbed; deep engagedness.
(n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The efficacy of the process is dependent on immersion medium, while the degree of surrounding tissue damage is dependent on energy dose.
(2) Water immersion (WI) to the neck induces prompt increases in central blood volume, central venous pressure, and atrial distension.
(3) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
(4) Clinical use of this instrument is no more difficult than conventional immersion ultrasonography.
(5) The bond strength of the resins did not change with the time spent immersed in water up to 6 months, but decreased with any further increase in time.
(6) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
(7) The heat uptake that resulted from immersing the hand and wrist into a water-filled calorimeter maintained at temperatures between 37-40 degrees C was measured under standard conditions in a group of eight subjects of either sex.
(8) Immersion-fixed tissue was found to be inferior to perfusion-fixed tissue for immunocytochemical staining of this serum protein.
(9) In the first few days of immersion high concentrations of dissolved metal ions were observed.
(10) An improved technique to record high-equality electrocardiographic (ECG) signals on the surface, from immersed humans during rest and exercise, in both normothermic and hypothermic exposures, has been devised.
(11) The inactivation of exogenous and neural norepinephrine (NE) by helical strips of rat tail artery was studied with a combination of the techniques of transmural stimulation and oil immersion.
(12) The immersion did not influence the state of ventilation and gas exchange at rest, diminished significantly the functional capabilities of external respiration.
(13) We measured closing volume (CV), expiratory reserve volume (ERV) regional distribution of lung volume (Vr) and perfusion in 7 normal subjects in air and during immersion to the neck in water.
(14) Immersion of polymer membranes blended with the thrombin inhibitor in phosphate-buffered saline for 10 d resulted in the loss of nonthrombogenicity, while the polymer membranes grafted with the thrombin inhibitor derivative maintained the nonthrombogenicity over a long period.
(15) With few exceptions, there is no alteration in cellular morphology if the brain is refrigerated after death, and fixed by immersion within 3 hours.
(16) It was observed that during the cold immersion the linear regression coefficients between the heart rate and the Q-S2T in the supine position as well as between the heart rate and the LVET, Q-S2T and the PEP in the head-up position were greater than the regression coefficients used in the rate correction.
(17) In situations where excessive grooming is elicited by other peptides or by water immersion, TRH does not further activate the operating systems involved in the existing excessive grooming.
(18) During immersion the renal excretion of calcium and magnesium also grew, especially in the evening and at night.
(19) Steady-state responses obtained after the 3rd h of immersion in never-immersed (NI) penguins were compared with those of penguins acclimatized to seawater temperature (A).
(20) SEM and TEM examinations suggested that dentinal collagen exposed by the etching but not entangled and impregnated by poly (4-META-co-MMA) easily deteriorated by water during the longer immersion.
Ingress
Definition:
(n.) The act of entering; entrance; as, the ingress of air into the lungs.
(n.) Power or liberty of entrance or access; means of entering; as, all ingress was prohibited.
(n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
(v. i.) To go in; to enter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, the area with separated HL, which is restricted to the region of the PMC released at the stage of PMC ingression, spreads almost entirely throughout the area of the indenting vegetal plate at gastrulation.
(2) During the development of the PM, all five RNAs exhibited the same schedule of accumulation, appearing de novo, or increasing abruptly just before PM ingression, and remaining at relatively high levels thereafter.
(3) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
(4) Younger grafts were completely filled with the protein, even at 2 days, when the graft vasculature already contained host macrophages, whereas all older grafts showed variability in permeation with protein ingress initiating at the graft-host interface and subsequently diffusing through the extracellular spaces.
(5) Time-lapse video recordings of PMC-deficient embryos indicate that the converting cells are a subpopulation of late-ingressing SMCs.
(6) Using indirect immunofluorescence, the epitope is first detected in nonpigmented cells of the vegetal plate after primary mesenchyme ingression.
(7) It is postulated that the decrease in T-cell "immune surveillance" permits: a) the ingress of viruses whose enzymes modify host glycoproteins and render them immunogenic, and b) the replication of viruses incorporated into the genome of cells during infections in early life.
(8) Sodium thiopental leads to further CBF depression up to critical level in the affected hemisphere with parallel blood flow ingress in the intact brain hemisphere.
(9) (d) The ingress of oxygen through the surface can be reduced by placing a clamp round the proximal tail.
(10) SEM observations have indicated that the pouches were effective in reducing the ingress of bacteria as well as reducing, and in some cases eliminating, cell infiltration through their mesh structure.
(11) Inspection of the pool revealed significant plumbing defects which had allowed ingress of sewage from the main sewer into the circulating pool water.
(12) Dr Burstone's technique of incisor ingression uses an appliance operating only on the superior dental arch with light and constant forces which can be precisely adjusted.
(13) We therefore recommend placement of appropriate monitoring equipment to detect intracardiac air in those major craniofacial procedures in which there is a potential for intravascular air ingress.
(14) This factor may also be involved in the maintenance of the fibroblastic phenotype of the mesoderm cells after their ingression, by effects on the expression of receptors for extracellular matrix and on the deposition of matrix by these cells during their early morphogenesis.
(15) During the operation, we found that the intracerebral pneumatocele in the right frontal lobe communicated with the ipsilateral ethmoidal sinus, through which extracranial air ingressed and CSF egressed.
(16) The sequential topographic development of nerve preceding NSE-taste bud cells in precise morphological locations, suggests that the ingress of precursor NSE-taste bud cells and their subsequent differentiation are contingent upon initial neural derived ontologic signals.
(17) The calcareous larval skeleton of euechinoid sea urchins is synthesized by primary mesenchyme cells which ingress prior to gastrulation.
(18) 41, 227-250) implicated that microtubules are essential components for the normal development, including ingression, of the mesenchymal cells.
(19) It felt like a very natural combination on both sides.” The success of the Pokémon April Fool pranks showed that the underlying mechanics of Ingress could be repurposed, to build something that could bring in millions of players who would never usually look twice at the sci-fi trappings of the original game.
(20) Essential informations for treatment planning are: involved sacral segment, infiltration of sacral foramina and nerve roots, involvement of the sacroiliac joints, ingression of the lumbar spine, infiltration of the pelvic organs and vessels, sciatic nerve and the dorsal soft tissues.