(v. t.) To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.
(v. t.) To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.
(v. t.) To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.
(v. t.) To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.
(v. i.) To become pregnant.
(a.) Impregnated; made prolific.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(2) The nerve endings in the heart of fishes were studied using silver impregnation techniques.
(3) The silver impregnated axons of these cells converge to a paired centrosuperficial tract forming terminal enlargements at the ventrolateral surface of the spinal cord.
(4) After fixation by perfusion, perikaryal neurofibrils were not impregnated in either newborn or old animals or in animals with facial nerve transection.
(5) The reason behind Burnham's impregnable new confidence may well also explain the coalition's eagerness to drive him on to the backbenches.
(6) Essential features are the use of reagent grade chemicals only, a pretreatment solution to ensure optimal impregnation of different organs from different animals and species, and an unvarying procedure.
(7) These cells were argyrophil with the silver impregnation method of Grimelius.
(8) In Golgi-Cox-impregnated coronal sections of albino rat brains at 1, 4, 26, 24, 30, 60 and 90 days it is presented the evolution of the spine-less, bare initial zone ("nude zone", NZ) at the proximal apical main dendrites of the layer V pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory and anterior limbie cortex.
(9) The epithelial surface is covered with adherent masses composed of desquamated and destroyed epithelial cells and leukocytes impregnated with proteins and penetrated by pseudomycelium.
(10) The use of cryostat and cryoprotective measures for processing Golgi impregnated brain tissue has shortened and simplified the method without loss of quality.
(11) was measured by the radioactive microsphere method in rats at different time intervals after the implantation of carrageenan-impregnated sponges.
(12) The distribution of neurofilament protein-triplet immunoreactivity also correlated with the distribution of staining observed with a silver impregnation method based on Bielschowsky.
(13) The author examined the basic structural elements of the aortic wall by means of histological and impregnation methods.
(14) 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.
(15) Total and partial meso-diencephalic transections and lesions of the central gray matter were performed to trace with the Fink--Heimer silver impregnation method the ascending brain stem pathways to the forebrain.
(16) By means of HPLC mono- and oligomeric carbohydrates are separated on silica, modified chemically with aminopropyl groups or impregnated in situ with an amine modifier (piperazine).
(17) Ovarian activity was controlled for synchronization of oestrus by using progestagen-impregnated intravaginal sponges and multiple ovulations were induced by using exogenous gonadotrophin therapy.
(18) By utilizing the gamma-emitting isotope of selenium, Se-(8-azidoadenosyl)[75Se]selenomethionine eliminates the need for the impregnation of acrylamide gels with fluorographic enhancers and dilution of liquid samples into scintillation cocktails, as is required with the commonly used methyl-3H-labeled and 35S-labeled S-(8-azidoadenosyl)methionine.
(19) Body mass and food intake increased substantially during pregnancy and lactation and the magnitude of the increase was unaffected by daylength; by contrast, body weight was significantly reduced in non-impregnated voles kept in short as compared to long days.
(20) In silver-impregnated sternocleidomastoid muscles of the young adult rat, we measured synaptic parameters such as nerve terminal length, the number of branching points of terminal arborization, and muscle fiber diameter, and used a morphometric approach to explore specific questions concerning neuromuscular remodelling.
Infuse
Definition:
(v. t.) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
(v. t.) To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.
(v. t.) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with.
(v. t.) To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak.
(v. t.) To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate.
(n.) Infusion.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(2) Oxyhaemoglobin (4 microns at 0.35 ml.min-1) infused into the tracheal circulation almost abolished the responses to bradykinin and methacholine.
(3) Spontaneous locomotor activity was lower in naloxone-infused rats on day 3 only.
(4) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(5) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
(6) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
(7) At the same time the duodenum can be isolated from the stomach and maintained under constant stimulus by a continual infusion at regulated pressure, volume and temperature into the distal cannula.
(8) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
(9) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
(10) Infusion of sodium lactate associated with isoproterenol could be used to combat the depressent effects of betablockers in patients with cardiac disorders.
(11) The authors conclude that during the infusion of 5-FU, the rise in FpA activation and reduction in PCa as compared to PCag are compatible with activation of coagulation.
(12) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
(13) Infusion of vincristine may be safely incorporated into multiagent chemotherapy programs of the CHOP type for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
(14) When labelled long-chain fatty acids or glycerol were infused into the lactating goat, there was extensive transfer of radioactivity into milk in spite of the absence of net uptake of substrate by the mammary gland.
(15) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
(16) From the present results it is concluded that secretion of extrapancreatic glucagon increased in response to arginine infusion in the diabetic state, both alloxan diabetic dogs and one-week post-pancreatectomized dogs.
(17) First treatment consisted of six-hour infusions on six successive days.
(18) GnRH infusion produced an immediate increase in plasma LH concentrations in the mares that ovulated during the infusion period and LH levels peaked at the time of ovulation.
(19) Infusion of 1 unit of 25-HCC per hour for 6 hours induced an antiphosphaturia only when administered with 0.2 units of PTH per hour, while neither agent alone changed phosphate excretion.
(20) Paired tolbutamide and glucose infusions using a square wave technique demonstrated that although early phase insulin secretion is dimished in the fetus, this is not due to an absolute deficiency of stored insulin.