(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 .
Unfix
Definition:
(v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.
(v. t.) To make fluid; to dissolve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(2) In the second group, a tibial cortical bone graft was detached and refixed with Silar in 12 rats and left unfixed in eight.
(3) Unfixed cells treated with the antiserum had localized areas (capping) of intense membrane fluorescence, whereas fixed cells had bright uniform membranous fluorescence.
(4) The mean activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in hepatocytes near the central vein region of unfixed sections of mouse liver was determined and compared with 3 different histochemical methods: conventional method, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) method, and gel film method.
(5) Enzyme activities in sections of fixed corneas were minimal in comparison with those in cold microtome sections of unfixed material revealed particularly with the technic of semipermeable membranes which is to be preferred.
(6) The requirement for unfixed tissue is a major drawback in the use of immunohistochemistry for the diagnosis of inflammatory and neoplastic disease.
(7) The redistribution and internalisation of two different lectin-binding sites on the same cell was investigated electron microscopically on unfixed rat liver cell cultures.
(8) A new staining technique was employed using acridine orange to differentially stain DNA and RNA in unfixed cells made permeable to the dye and other reagents by treatment with detergent at low ph.
(9) Unfixed kidney pieces or kidney pieces fixed in 4% formaldehyde were embedded in the hydrophilic polyhydroxy aromatic resins LR-Gold and LR-White, following dehydration in up to 70% ethanol, 90% ethanol or 100% ethanol.
(10) The use of unfixed and undecalcified cryostat sections of mouse knee joints is described for the study of enzyme histochemical reactions.
(11) Cell fixation after PMA treatment did not abolish this stimulatory activity, which could be transferred by supernatants from unfixed cells; exogenous interleukin-1 did not mimic the activity.
(12) 2) TH-IR nerve fibers could be detected in unfixed tissue if the sections were post-fixed with aldehydes by the use of a two-step fixation process related to a sudden change of pH.
(13) Contraction damage occurring when longitudinal frozen sections of fresh unfixed muscles are thawed on microscope slides has limited histological examination of this tissue mainly to cross sections.
(14) A panel of 14 monoclonal antibodies (McAb) against hematopoietic cell surface antigens was applied on mononuclear blood or bone marrow cells from 40 cases of acute leukemia in order to compare immunoenzymatic staining (IE) (alkaline phosphatase) of fixed cells with immunofluorescence staining (IF) of unfixed suspended cells.
(15) Unfixed metaphase chromosome preparations from human lymphocyte cultures were immunofluorescently labelled using antibodies to defined histone epitopes.
(16) An antisperm antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that uses whole unfixed sperm and detects immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA antibodies in serum was developed.
(17) A nonisotopic, in situ hybridization procedure is described for detecting Epstein-Barr viral (EBV) DNA in cytopreparations of pepsin-digested, unfixed cells in less than 3 hours.
(18) The localization and activity of the lysosomal enzyme, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, has been studied in unfixed frozen sections of tissues from normal and hemorrhaged rats with the use of a modified postcoupling technique.
(19) The pulmonary artery of unfixated human heart-lung specimens was banded by placing a Dacron tape around the artery and securing the tape with a 5.0 Prolene suture at selected circumferences.
(20) An immunofluorescence study using unfixed cryostat sections of rat pituitary glands was carried out on sera from 34 patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, 28 patients with Graves' disease, 10 patients with thyroid adenoma and 50 healthy subjects.