(n.) Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.
(n.) Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune.
(n.) Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
(2) Several functional properties of MG1, MG2, and PRG have been examined, including their presence in two-hour in vivo enamel pellicle, binding to synthetic hydroxyapatite, lubricating properties, and interactions with oral streptococci.
(3) We have reviewed the functions of salivary secretions and the major role that saliva plays in maintaining oral homeostasis by protection, repair, and lubrication as well as in the initial phase of digestion.
(4) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(5) I used it primarily as a social lubricant but also to alleviate boredom, stress and loneliness.
(6) An artificial joint that articulates with full fluid film lubrication could greatly reduce wear and frictional torque and hence reduce the incidence of loosening and inflammatory tissue reaction.
(7) Sexual dysfunctions which impair coital ability, especially ejaculatory difficulties in the male and genital atrophy and loss of vaginal lubrication in the female, are frequent.
(8) They distribute stresses over a broad area of articular cartilage, absorb shocks during dynamic loading, and probably assist in joint lubrication.
(9) Lubricants, anthralin, and corticosteroids form the mainstay of therapy in mild and moderate psoriasis of the palms and soles.
(10) These include: transcutaneous energy transmission and an implanted variable volume device which eliminate the need for percutaneous access; utilization of an intrathoracic blood pump and variable volume device which allow the diaphragm and abdominal cavity to remain intact; parathoracic or subcutaneous location of the transformer secondary, energy converter, internal battery and interconnecting elements allowing replacement with a minor surgical procedure; employment of the "biolized" continuous blood contacting surface which has the potential of long-term use without anticoagulants and utilization of an electrohydraulic energy converter which provides synchronization without requiring transducers and associated electronics and which provides lubrication of mechanical components.
(11) In the second experimental group the canal negotiation was done in the same way but using a cream (ENDO-PTC) with sodium hypochlorite as a lubrication substance.
(12) This modulates the interaction strength between the polypeptide and water species that "lubricates" the chain's movements, leading to larger protein-volume fluctuation and higher ultrasonic absorption.
(13) Eucerin cream, Gauztex bandages, and DuoDerm pads were used to lubricate and stabilize anesthetic armamentarium.
(14) Since prosthetic meniscal replacement may be performed in the setting of normal articular cartilage, a prosthesis will be required to match the exact joint configuration, induce the same lubricity, produce the same coefficient of friction, and absorb and dampen the same joint forces (without incurring significant creep or abrasion) as does the normal meniscus.
(15) Attention is their choice of lubricant, and we really should not provide it.
(16) The effects of lubrication on the retention of parallel-sided and tapered cast post and cores cemented with zinc phosphate-cement (ZnPO4) and glass ionomer cements were investigated.
(17) Optimal conditions for the protective and lubricant properties of respiratory mucus are represented by high wettability, and adhesiveness high enough not to induce flow of mucus in the respiratory bronchioles under gravity but low enough to mobilize mucus by airflow during coughing.
(18) This lubricant was chosen because it does not damage the tissues defenses of the host and invite infection.
(19) When sharpened with citrus and lubricated with olive oil, this is a real delight.
(20) The final level reached was independent of the specific surface area of the lubricants, but granular magnesium stearate gave a lower surface coverage than the powdered lubricants.
Prurience
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Pruriency
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps more interesting than the drop-off in erotic activity is the gleeful way that it is reported; a mixture of prurience and self-laceration driving these frantic swan songs for our sexual lives.
(2) Though it may seem far-fetched this sunny Saturday morning, future historians could judge that the wives and girlfriends, so long the objects of prurience and mockery, were indirectly the catalyst of a significant realignment.
(3) Patten rejected calls for the BBC to publish individual stars' salaries, saying that would risk encouraging "prurience".
(4) Suicide attracts speculation and prurience like flies to rotting food.
(5) "There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities," he argues.
(6) The adultery "may satisfy public prurience," he remarked, "but that is not a sufficient justification for interfering in the privacy rights of those involved."
(7) Where his previous porn film, as it were, had an undertow of sniggering prurience (to the extent that he appeared as an extra in a gay porno entitled Take A Peak), Twilight Of The Porn Stars is sombre and sympathetic.
(8) They are now pleading for a privacy law, supposedly to mark out that elusive divide between what is in the public's interest and what is of interest to the public, between accountability and prurience.
(9) Other peoples' salaries, at the best of times, are furtively conserved secrets, so it was with delicious prurience that we greeted an entire line-up of leaks which, within days, had been sorted into a hierarchy that found Mr Ross at the top of the heap.
(10) For all that it is strikingly nasty, The Fall is still subtle enough – sometimes, only remembering this or that bit of imagery afterwards, I’ve found myself eagerly complicit in its fevered prurience – to provide wriggle room for those who would defend it.
(11) Using the replies to a sexual attitude questionnaire developed by Eysenck given by 135 males (50 alcoholics, 50 matched normals and 35 sex offenders), item and factor analysis led to the composition of nine short scales measuring sexual satisfaction, heterosexual nervousness, sexual curiosity, tension and hostility, pruriency, sexual repression, heterosexual distaste and sexual promiscuity.
(12) There is now a disproportionate amount of meretricious material aimed at appealing to public prurience, most of which revolves around the philandering of celebrities.
(13) Photograph: Courtesy of Gay Talese The Voyeur’s Motel quotes extensively from Foos’s compulsive observations, but Talese is at pains to present his memoir as much as a work of sociology as one of prurience.
(14) By coincidence the Sunday Times’ grisly annual ritual of materialistic prurience – the Rich List 2016 – was published just as the shadow finally fell across those low-paid BHS workers’ jobs and pensions.
(15) Which is funny when you think about the fact that he's made his name and fortune out of the nation's collective prurience.
(16) But if red-top values are the price we pay for an open society, I would rather that – with all the attendant controversy and prurience – over the closed minds bred by a less free press.
(17) Is he doing so to cater to our prurience, as when Huppert visits the peep show in The Piano Teacher and sniffs a semen-caked tissue she picks from a bin while watching a gross, grunting video of copulation?
(18) "If red-top values are the price we pay for an open society," Lebedev said, "then I would rather that, with all the attendant controversy and prurience, over the closed minds bred by a less free press."
(19) Dughan thought the belief exoneration of the strange prurience that endlessly turned on monoliths rutting miles down.
(20) Benignly billed as a “memoir”, it leaves a sense of grubby prurience, of things one would wish to but can never un-know and a bitter aftertaste.