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Liquefacient


Definition:

  • (n.) That which serves to liquefy.
  • (n.) An agent, as mercury, iodine, etc., which promotes the liquefying processes of the system, and increases the secretions.

Example Sentences:

Liquefy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
  • (v. i.) To become liquid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) About 35 million were egg-laying hens that provided 80% of the eggs for the breaker market – eggs broken then liquefied, dried or frozen to be used in processed foods like mayonnaise and pancake mixes, or sold to bakeries to make cakes, cookies and other products.
  • (2) The BBMs between Bosch and Rodriguez include references to code names for numerous banned substances, such as: Gummies (troches containing testosterone); Pink Food or Pink Cream (a transdermal cream containing testosterone); Blue or PM Cream (a transdermal cream containing testosterone); Liquid Soup or Red Liquid (a melted or liquefied form of a troche containing testosterone); and Cojete or Rocket (a subcutaneous syringe containing, among other things IGF­1, [insulin growth factor].
  • (3) Results of the demonstration tests show that the system, which uses liquefied propane, successfully removed PCBs from contaminated sediments in New Bedford Harbor.
  • (4) These results indicate that if a clot in the subdural space causes the formation of neomembrane, and excessive fibrinolysis occurs, the subdural clot would not only liquefy, but also enlarge by continuous hemorrhage from the neomembrane.
  • (5) The vitreous between and above the vitreous-retinal attachments is always liquefied and structureless.
  • (6) Copper IUDs work by causing a general inflammatory response, reducing implantation, and by liquefying endometrial mucopolysaccharides thereby decreasing sperm transport and metabolism.
  • (7) The mechanism proposed for the passage of ghost cells to the anterior chamber is through a defect in the anterior hyaloid face, created as the vitreous liquefies and degenerates.
  • (8) It was not differentiated from C. perfringens in the nitrite motility test, but could be distinguished by its inability to liquefy gelatin.
  • (9) The lowest level of amylase did not alter these parameters significantly and was sufficient to liquefy 80 per cent of the viscous semen samples.
  • (10) Read more Reputex says the detailed rules confirm none of Australia’s top 20 emitting facilities – including brown coal-fired power stations Loy Yang A and B and Hazelwood, and new liquefied natural gas processing facilities such as Wheatstone, Gorgon, Itchys and Pluto – will be forced to reduce emissions.
  • (11) In addition, pepsin or pancrex V could be used to liquefy solidified feed.
  • (12) In inactive cases, the vitreous was often liquefied.
  • (13) He points out that if all the CO2 that is likely to be pumped into the air over the next 20 years were captured and liquefied it would fill Lake Michigan.
  • (14) It was found that the parts of the ejaculate taking more time to liquefy possessed higher concentration of protein than those of the parts liquefied earlier, a relation also appeared to exist with the whole ejaculates.
  • (15) It consists of drilling three or four small holes into the paraffin block, sealing this block at the extremity of a glass holder and, from the other extremity of the holder attached to a rubber hose, aspirating a liquefied mixture of charcoal-paraffin to fill these cylindrical holes.
  • (16) If you handle the butter too much with warm hands, it will liquefy.
  • (17) The source of the emboli was apparently a localized liquefying hematoma with necrotic muscle and fat in the left retroperitoneal space.
  • (18) Aliquots of the liquefying seminal fluid were removed at specific time points and further liquefaction inhibited with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
  • (19) In supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC), the mobile phase is a gas (e.g., carbon dioxide) maintained at its supercritical state--that is, above its critical temperature and pressure, above which it cannot be liquefied even with further increases in applied pressure.
  • (20) Human ejaculates after collecting as a whole, were almost equally divided into five fractions through liquefaction known vesicular, prostatic and testicular components were measured in these subsequently liquefied fractions.

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