(v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
(v. t.) To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Only one E. coli strain, containing two plasmids that encode endo-pectate lyases, exo-pectate lyase, and endo-polygalacturonase, caused limited maceration.
(2) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(3) A radiologic-pathologic correlative investigation of the normal age-related alterations in the spinous processes and intervening soft tissues was performed using cadaveric spines and both ancient and modern macerated vertebral specimens.
(4) The numbers of spoilage micro-organisms increased throughout storage at 8 degrees C. Carrots macerated in a Stomacher Lab Blender also showed an antilisterial activity which resulted in a decrease in number of viable bacteria and in sublethal damage.
(5) In an attempt to identify the remaining macerating factor(s), a gene library of UM1005 was constructed in Escherichia coli and screened for pectolytic activity.
(6) The export of pectate lyase, polygalacturonase, and cellulase and the maceration of potato tuber tissue occurred with Out+, but not Out-, strains of E. carotovora subsp.
(7) Experimental compression of the skull of the macerated fetus resulted in expulsion of the nervous tissue by way of the vertebral canal and into the retroperitoneal space along the peripheral nerves, with spreading into the adjacent tissues and in blood vessels.
(8) A series of comparative experiments were undertaken by us in order to study the influence of anionic, nonionic and amphoteric detergents on the production of ascitic fluid from macerates of Yoshida sarcoma and fibrosarcoma BUSP.
(9) The finfish livers and entrails were macerated in a Duall tissue grinder containing acetonitrile followed by partitioning of the Kepone into benzene.
(10) Of 93 macerated scapulae that were examined, foramina were observed in 27 specimens (29%).
(11) The mother had previously delivered a macerated, hydropic infant with multiple congenital anomalies.
(12) Intravascular "mulberry-like" bodies in a stillborn female infant with moderate maceration are reported.
(13) Axenic trypomastigotes from macerated gnotobiotic insects were used to infect GF and conventional (CV) mice by intraperitoneal, ocular, and oral routes.
(14) The flexion deformity at the metacarpophalangeal joints of nearly 90 degrees was not correctable passively, and the palmar skin became macerated.
(15) Because of cell maceration and autolysis, the likelihood of successful karyotype analysis of fetal tissue varies inversely with the time between fetal death and delivery.
(16) The effects of sagittal expansion with a cemented expansion appliance were studied in nine noncleft macerated human maxillae ranging from 1-10 years.
(17) The polymannoside was partially solubilized by proteolytic digestion or maceration in sodium dodecyl sulfate-urea mixtures.
(18) When the polymerisation of injected methacrylic resin was completed the specimens were exposed to either chemical or biological maceration of the tissues.
(19) One epidermal layer was scraped off and the mesophyll tissue removed from the epidermis to be studied by maceration in HNO3.
(20) After the cement had set hard, the reproductive tracts were macerated in concentrated acid and the vascular casts resulting were washed clean of digested tissues.
Scanty
Definition:
(a.) Wanting amplitude or extent; narrow; small; not abundant.
(a.) Somewhat less than is needed; insufficient; scant; as, a scanty supply of words; a scanty supply of bread.
(a.) Sparing; niggardly; parsimonious.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) Treatment was monitored by simple measurements, and it's toxicity proved to be scanty.
(3) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(4) At necropsy, a heart with normal dimensions was found with scanty small cicatrices in the myocardium, probably resulting of past myocarditis.
(5) The biopsy findings consisted of eosinophilic individual necrosis of epidermal cells, satellite cell necrosis, basal liquefaction degeneration, and scanty cell infiltration into the dermis.
(6) Tumours harvested after 3 weeks growth in donors, became cystic and had a scanty arterial supply.In both groups there was no portal circulation to the tumours' deposits.It is suggested that prior to intra-arterial treatment of cancer in the liver, the morphology of the tumour should be assessed.
(7) Unfortunately, owing to the scanty description of the work task, the exposure could be analysed only by job title.
(8) The three workers had scanty clinical symptoms; however, their chest x-ray films revealed disseminated nodulations throughout both pulmonary fields.
(9) Control kidneys harboured scanty interstitial T lymphocytes.
(10) However, B cells (B-1), NK cells (Leu-7 and Leu-11), complement proteins and receptor (C4 and C3d receptor), and neutrophils (chloroacetate esterase) were scanty or absent in these foci.
(11) They possess numerous mitochondria with lamellar and tubular cristae, abundant smooth endoplasmic reticulum, lipofuscin bodies and scanty lipid.
(12) The results support the hypotheses implicit in the scanty literature available that the frequency and effects of torture in women differ from those found in men.
(13) Although articles on studies of organized home care programs are numerous, reports of long-term effectiveness of these programs are scanty.
(14) The biopsy specimens in the remaining 254 cases continued scanty detectable IgA (discontinuous pattern) or none.
(15) Data on colonic intraluminal pressures are scanty, but those that exist seem to indicate that the addition of bran to the diet results in a decrease in overall colonic pressures.
(16) A syndrome of scanty, fine, curled hair, thin dysplastic nails, taurodontic molars, hypoplastic-hypomature enamel, dysplasia of dentin, and hypohidrosis segregating as an autosomal dominant trait is described in a Japanese family.
(17) These were supplemented by interactions with medical personnel, as well as a review of the scanty literature (geriatrics is not a recognized medical specialty in the Soviet Union).
(18) The discrepancy between the relatively scanty amount of statistically reliable data on the one hand and the complexity of the manifestation of death by hanging on the other hand proved to be the main problem.
(19) The white pulp was scanty of lymphocytes and decreased in a unit area but it was increased in the whole spleen.
(20) Fine needle aspiration (FNA) biopsies of a thyroid nodule in a patient with longstanding histiocytosis X produced a scanty amount of colloid, a moderately dense mixed inflammatory infiltrate and numerous small papillary fragments lined by cuboidal-to-columnar cells.