(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.
Silicify
Definition:
(v. t.) To convert into, or to impregnate with, silica, or with the compounds of silicon.
(v. i.) To become converted into silica, or to be impregnated with silica.
Example Sentences:
(1) But we think it’s more likely that they were building their own monument [in Wales], that somewhere near the quarries there is the first Stonehenge and that what we’re seeing at Stonehenge is a second-hand monument.” There is also the possibility that the stones were taken to Salisbury Plain around 3200 BC and that the giant sarsens – silicified sandstone found within 20 miles of the site – were added much later.
(2) This microfossil is preserved as a single occurrence in a silicified carbonate sequence containing stromatolitic laminae.