(a.) Being in such a state that the component parts move freely among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aeriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or in a state of vapor.
(a.) Flowing or sounding smoothly or without abrupt transitions or harsh tones.
(a.) Pronounced without any jar or harshness; smooth; as, l and r are liquid letters.
(a.) Fluid and transparent; as, the liquid air.
(a.) Clear; definite in terms or amount.
(n.) A substance whose parts change their relative position on the slightest pressure, and therefore retain no definite form; any substance in the state of liquidity; a fluid that is not aeriform.
(n.) A letter which has a smooth, flowing sound, or which flows smoothly after a mute; as, l and r, in bla, bra. M and n also are called liquids.
Example Sentences:
(1) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(2) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(3) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
(4) Glycosyl ceramide concentration was determined by gas-liquid chromatography of the trimethylsilyl ethers of the methyl glycosides.
(5) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
(7) To further characterize the molecular forms of GnRH in each species, the extracts were injected into a high pressure liquid chromatograph (HPLC).
(8) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(9) High pressure liquid chromatography combined with radioimmunoassay showed marked heterogeneity of SPLI and SLI.
(10) After precipitation of plasma proteins by addition of methanol the samples are injected directly into the liquid chromatographic system.
(11) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(12) A rapid method is described for the purification and analysis of synthetic oligonucleotides, based on reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography.
(13) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
(14) These analyses were carried out on unfractionated culture fluids and on fractions obtained by fast protein liquid chromatography separation using Superose 6 gels.
(15) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(16) Between-lot variation exceeded that of within-lot variation in 10 of the 14 liquid antacids for which this variation could be tested.
(17) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
(18) The rats were then sacrificed at either one or four hours after the injections and their brains analyzed for monoamine and metabolite content using High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Electrochemical Detection.
(19) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(20) [8(-14)C]Inosine monophosphate formed was separated by high-voltage electrophoresis and radioactivity was measured by liquid-scintillation counting.
Pipette
Definition:
(n.) A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
Example Sentences:
(1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(2) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(3) The minimum contraction produced by the threshold current involved usually three or four, sometimes two, sarcomers on both sides of the injecting pipette but contraction involving only one sarcomere was not observered.
(4) In the cell-attached (CA) configuration, the presence of isoguvacine (3-5 microM) in the pipette solution triggered the opening of channels displaying multiple current levels.
(5) Spermine potentiation showed fast on-off kinetics, and intracellular spermine, loaded in the recording pipette, did not occlude potentiation by extracellularly applied spermine.
(6) The channels usually ceased conducting within a few minutes after seal formation with the patch pipette and could not be re-activated with depolarizing voltage steps.
(7) When added to the pipette solution and introduced by cell dialysis, trypsin had no effect on whole cell IK, even when significant effects on the amplitude and kinetics of ICa were evident.
(8) The voltage-dependent K+ current, IM (M-current), was maintained by including MgATP in the pipette solution and by buffering the solution pH to 6.7.
(9) The PGCs were picked up with a fine glass pipette, and one hundred were then injected into the terminal sinuses of 2-day-old Japanese quail embryos (24 somites); bubbles were then inserted to prevent haemorrhage.
(10) Accordingly, this method allows rapid and direct recording of channels in the SL membrane without first having to pretreat fibers with proteolytic enzymes to render the SL accessible to patch pipettes.
(11) Whole-cell ICa free of other overlapping currents was recorded with a suction pipette.
(12) To stop the arteriolar flow and allow perfusion pressure, as set by a mercury manometer, to be built up in the lumen of the vessel, the glomerulus was sucked into a constriction pipette.
(13) The recording cylinder, located a known distance from the pipette tip, picks up a continuous, large-amplitude, multiunit response which can be used to accurately position the tip according to physiological criteria.
(14) Membrane responses were recorded by a patch pipette technique in cultured cells isolated from rat portal vein.
(15) Since the collected epithelium cells adhere to the pipettes, these cells were transferred onto a polycarbonate filter by using a micro spatula.
(16) HRP is probably only taken up by damaged fibers so that the amount of fibers labeled is determined by the extent of the lesion caused by the injection pipette.
(17) This prolongation was prevented in standard whole cell recordings when the pipette solution contained 0.5 mM EGTA.
(18) Single thalamocortical axons were recorded extracellularly in the white matter by using horseradish-peroxidase-filled pipettes.
(19) pipette fillers and latex gloves, were found to be the source of these and other compounds in the reagent blank profile.
(20) The placement of the GABA-containing pipette did not appear to be responsible for the observed variation, since vertical repositioning of the pipette did not alter the slope of the charge-response relationship.