(v. t.) To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.
(v. t.) To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions; as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory.
(n.) Something infixed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Either surface electrodes were attached to the scalp, or needle electrodes were infixed in the subcutaneous tissue.
(2) Swearing in Russian is a linguistically productive exercise; by applying prefixes, infixes, suffixes and different combinations of the four words, khuy, pizda, blyad and yebat can be used to express pretty much anything, and in a surprisingly eloquent manner .
Postfix
Definition:
(n.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix.
(v. t.) To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Postfixation of Kryofix-treated tissue with formalin results in false-negative immunostaining.
(2) The addition of oxalate to a suspension of rabbit peritoneal neutrophils before fixation with glutaraldehyde and postfixation with osmium tetroxide-antimonate greatly enhanced the amount of calcium antimonate precipitate subsequently detectable with the electron microscope.
(3) Intravascular fat in tissue postfixed in osmium tetroxide, embedded in epoxy or paraffin, and stained with toluidine blue, hematoxylin, or Oil Red O is more easily visualized than in frozen tissue that is stained with Oil Red O.
(4) Short (t less than 1 h) postfixation with either OsO4 plus K4Fe (CN)6 or OsO4 plus aminotriazole, added to lysosomal cerium localization a high membrane contrast.
(5) When such sections were postfixed in formalin, immunoreactivity was not diminished even after prolonged fixation.
(6) Postfixation with unbuffered ferrocyanide-reduced osmiumtetroxide contributes to a better localization of microperoxisomes in both celltypes.
(7) The blood cells were subsequently postfixed in osmium tetroxide, embedded in epoxy resins, and studied by electron microscopy.
(8) Tobacco mosaic virus particles were found in small packets and in small numbers, with the electron microscope, in necrotic leaf cells of Nicotiana glutinosa when the samples were fixed in glutaraldehyde and postfixed in OsO(4), and the sections were stained with heavy metals.
(9) Postfixation treatment of glutaraldehyde fixed pericardium aids spontaneous endothelialization and decreases tissue calcification.
(10) On the other hand, when fresh-frozen sections were fixed before or after incubation with various solutions (postfixation method) and then treated with various salt solutions, greater differences were seen in immunostaining of ER between saline-injected and hormone-treated animals.
(11) Slices of lung tissue were fixed in aldehyde, labelled with a battery of lectin-horseradish peroxidase conjugates, incubated in a diaminobenzidine-hydrogen peroxide medium and then postfixed in an osmium tetroxide solution.
(12) The use of gaseous (DEPC, BOV) postfixation of frozen-dried tissues for the fixation of non-hormone proteins was systematically studied.
(13) Sections were postfixed in -20 degrees C methanol and stained immediately by indirect immunofluorescence using sheep anti-mouse laminin, sheep antimouse type IV collagen, rabbit anti-mouse heparan sulfate proteoglycan, and mouse monoclonal anti-porcine plasma fibronectin.
(14) Chitin was visualized in cell walls after hydrolysis with potassium hydroxide and subsequent postfixation of the deacetylated polysaccharide (chitosan) in OsO4.
(15) Following a 30-min buffer wash (4 C) they are postfixed in buffered 2% osmium tetroxide for 2 hr at room temperature, washed, and dehydrated through an ethanol series and two acetone baths.
(16) The method consists of vascular perfusion with 5% glutaraldehyde dissolyed in a 300 mOsm Millonig buffer containing 200 mOsm sucrose and 2.7% low molecular dextran, a postfixation in the same medium, a rinse overnight in a normoton phosphate buffer containing 200 mOsm sucrose, an asmication in 2% OsO4 dissolved in a phosphate buffer, an extensive stepwise dehydration starting in 10% acetone and, finally, embedding in Vestopal W.
(17) However, CD45 and CD74 (LN2) were detectable in B5 postfixed material.
(18) Tissue samples were prepared by glutaraldehyde fixation of whole dissected larvae or whole embryos without osmium tetroxide postfixation.
(19) For the ultrastructural study, some blocks of every portion of the specimen were postfixed in osmium and embedded in Epon.
(20) Marked reductions in the length of the synapses, as determined on EPTA-postfixed tissue where noted.