(n.) The act, process, or method, of reducing a gas or vapor to a liquid by means of cold or pressure; as, the liquefaction of oxygen or hydrogen.
(n.) The act or operation of making or becoming liquid; especially, the conversion of a solid into a liquid by the sole agency of heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) It leads to ganglia formation due to mucoid liquefaction.
(2) More important, 85 per cent of the initial semen samples had greater than 40 per cent abnormal forms and liquefaction was delayed beyond 20 minutes in 67 per cent of specimen.
(3) The biopsy findings consisted of eosinophilic individual necrosis of epidermal cells, satellite cell necrosis, basal liquefaction degeneration, and scanty cell infiltration into the dermis.
(4) It seems that Pfeiffer-Weber-Christian disease and nodular panniculitis with liquefaction are varying expressions of the same disease entity.
(5) We present two infants with documented Coxsackie B virus infection who also had widespread multifocal areas of liquefaction necrosis unassociated with inflammation.
(6) Coal liquefaction products have been considered as an alternate source of energy to replace conventional crude oil.
(7) The liquefaction time and the concentration of choline, N-acetylamino sugar and zinc decreased significantly in ejaculates after 2 days of abstinence.
(8) Liquefaction time, pH and sperm count was found significantly different in non-vegetarians and vegetarians, perhaps due to difference in their dietary proteins.
(9) These masses were classified into three broad categories: centrally necrotic masses with a large predominantly liquefactive center and higher density periphery (29); multilocular, septated masses with distinct linear bands or striations (21); and miscellaneous masses (9).
(10) The mechanisms for the development of this lesion are: 1. direct extension of the pancreatic cyst into the splenic hilum; 2. digestive effects of pancreatic enzymes on splenic vasculature and parenchyma; 3. pancreatitis occurring in ectopic intrasplenic pancreatic tissue and 4. liquefaction of splenic infarcts secondary to thrombosis of the splenic vessels.
(11) The chemical compositions of the coal tar-based therapeutic agents, the industrial coal tar and direct-liquefaction coal liquid were similar.
(12) In addition it could contribute to the degradation of basic proteins during semen liquefaction.
(13) Proteinases are involved in coagulation and liquefaction of human semen.
(14) Various liquid-liquid extraction methods and column chromatographic separations have been applied to crude products and effluents from oil-shale, coal-liquefaction, and coal-gasification processes.
(15) The diagnosis of porokeratosis was confirmed with a further biopsy, which demonstrated a coronoid lamella and some underlying basal cell liquefaction.
(16) A group of proteins (molecular weights = 20,000 to 23,000) in seminal plasma analyzed immediately after liquefaction was detected in oligospermic men (n = 4) but not in normospermic men (n = 4) or azoospermic men (n = 4).
(17) We present an uncommon late sequela of a compartment syndrome of the leg that presented as liquefaction and calcification.
(18) Human ejaculates were classified into 3 distinct groups depending on their liquefaction time, and the groups were characterized physico-chemically.
(19) Whereas the glomeruli were intact, important damages affected proximal tubule cells which appeared necrotic and showed presence of vacuoles, liquefaction of cytoplasmic material and lost of microvilli.
(20) After treatment, the abscess cavity became homogeneously hypointense on T1-weighted images, corresponding to liquefaction of the abscess center.
Quicksand
Definition:
(n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
Example Sentences:
(1) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(2) If you think coalition was bad – backroom deals, cut-and-paste policymaking, good ideas lost in the quicksand between the two parties – then try the looser varieties of alliance.
(3) "Debt-to-GDP ratios are already eye-wateringly high, and this week's stunning capitulation in May industrial production data from Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands has raised fears that the so-called eurozone recovery has become stuck in quicksand, and without growth to erode the debt levels, the money that has flowed into Europe could well come flooding back out."
(4) Inequality meets unrealistic promises There are few places where the political landscape is turning to quicksand as quickly as McDowell, the poorest county in West Virginia.
(5) As the once proud defender of the people against the excesses of capitalism sank into the quicksand, financial storm clouds swiftly gathered overhead.
(6) It was like opening the book of Necronomicon or falling into quicksand."
(7) The FRC revealed that it had been monitoring Quindell since March 2014, a month before a US fund accused the company of being a “country club based on quicksand”.
(8) There has been a huge amount of discussion about whether the business model was valid and whether there was value in the business and this should put that to bed.” Quindell was thrown into turmoil almost a year ago when Gotham City Research, a US short-seller, published a report questioning the company’s revenues and profits, saying its business was “built on quicksand”.
(9) If we are homeowners, we worry that the home we own outright has a monetary value that is as solid as quicksand and that the future we thought was secure will turn out to have been a pipedream.
(10) So while the past week's figures suggest that the foundations for an eventual recovery may be starting to be laid, we are not out of the quicksand yet, let alone out of the woods."
(11) Government attempts to encourage or enact new rules in the wake of the Leveson inquiry have run into the same quicksands of definition, because they require the law to decide who or what is something called a " relevant publisher ".
(12) Looking through the self-interested anecdotes various protagonists are feeding to journalists in order to deepen this current crisis in order to force a resolution, understanding that in a leadership crisis everybody lies and everything is quicksand – the simple facts are Abbott’s leadership is on death watch because he has lost, comprehensively, in the court of public opinion.
(13) Many listeners of The Archers would argue that Helen is not ill, but drowning in toxic environmental quicksand.
(14) But when she chooses to turn it on, she has immense personal magnetism, which has enabled her to forge close and lasting relationships with designers, business moguls and other models – relationships that have done much to shield her from the quicksand into which many models' careers disappear.
(15) When Canada looks at Donald Trump, all we can see is Rob Ford | Matthew Hays Read more But for the rest of us, the last nine years have felt more like a standstill, a collective gang of non-Conservatives stuck in quicksand.
(16) The sensation is one of, having been sure of my path, stepping into quicksand and being slowly pulled under,” Oliver recalls.
(17) And despite the slight ease in activity contraction, economists caution that Britain is "not out of the quicksand yet".
(18) Why did the party allow itself to become stuck in this quicksand?
(19) He followed it with Hunky Dory (1972), a mix of wordy, elaborate songwriting ( The Bewlay Brothers or Quicksand ), crunchy rockers ( Queen Bitch ) and infectious pop songs ( Kooks ).
(20) Kicking the can down the road is still mostly better than kicking it into the quicksands.