(n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of behavioral treatment with milk of magnesia eliminated soiling accidents and increased the frequency of appropriate bowel movements.
(2) Composites containing ceria and magnesia as substitutes for yttria behave similarly.
(3) This phenomenon is observed with solids having a dominant basic character (asbestos, magnesia) but is not detected with acidic solids (alumina, silica-alumina).
(4) Detection of aluminum, silicon, magnesium, zirconium and oxygen provided a basis to reason the presence of alumina (Al2O3), silica (SiO2), magnesia (MgO), and zirconia (ZrO2).
(5) Low walls around the site are studded with blue milk of magnesia bottles in wave formations and more than 25,000 seashells.
(6) The intent of this project was to evaluate the susceptibility of a magnesia alumina spinel (Cerestore) to stress corrosion and degradation.
(7) Binding of Carafate (sucralfate; Marion Laboratories, Inc., Kansas City, MO) and Maalox (magnesia-alumina oral suspension; Wm.
(8) Ninety-five mass% magnesia clinker and 5 mass% dental stone were selected for the main constituents.
(9) A detailed 91Zr NMR investigation is presented of the five component (cubic, monoclinic, tetragonal, orthorhombic and delta) phase mixture in the transformation toughened engineering ceramic, magnesia-partially-stabilised zirconia (MgPSZ).
(10) This study indicates that distilled water has a significant degradative effect on a magnesia alumina spinel, more likely affecting the mode of fracture rather than the stress corrosion characteristics.
(11) The screening test was used for samples from Magnesia, an area on the east coast of Greece, and Ningxia, a rural area in northeast China.
(12) This paper reports: (i) the first characterisation of the magnesia-fully-stabilised cubic phase at the eutectic composition (13.5 mol% MgO); (ii) the observation of a poorly ordered tetragonal phase on fast cooling ZrO2 (9.3 mol% MgO) from the cubic phase field at 1720 degrees C, and the subsequent growth and ordering of the tetragonal phase precipitates due to further annealing; (iii) the observation of the (partial) transformation of the cubic phase to the ordered delta-phase (Mg2Zr5O12) on annealing MgPSZ at 1100 degrees C for 8 h; and (iv) the observation of the transformation of the tetragonal phase into the orthorhombic phase after cooling in liquid nitrogen, and the reverse transformation after heating to 600 degrees C.
(13) The sequence included: (1) positive reinforcement of bowel movements and the non-occurrence of soiling accidents; (2) self-evaluation; (3) positive practice; (4) milk of magnesia; (5) diet modifications; and (6) a numbered underwear strategy.
(14) We treated them with milk of magnesia, high fibre diet, and bowel training techniques and evaluated outcome at one year when 43% had recovered.
(15) Prior to LC, esters are saponified, and interfering pigments are removed from ester-free extracts by adsorption on magnesia.
(16) The method consists of (a) acetylation of total lipids with pyridine and acetic anhydride, (b) separation of acetylated glycolipids from nonglycolipids on a magnesia-silica gel (Florisil) column, and (c) deacetylation of glycolipid in chloroform-methanol-sodium methoxide.
(17) During washout periods, which lasted two weeks each, patients were stabilized with neomycin plus milk of magnesia.
(18) The purpose of this research was to study fracture initiation in a glaze-strengthened magnesia ceramic substance used as a core material for all-ceramic crowns.
(19) The magnesia investment itself was scarcely affected by induction heating, so the addition of metal powders such as Fe, Ni, Co were investigated.
(20) Alumina, magnesia, titania, and a zirconia-coated silica were chosen for comparison with silica.
Magnet
Definition:
(n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.
(n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.
Example Sentences:
(1) By presenting the case history of a man who successively developed facial and trigeminal neural dysfunction after Mohs chemosurgery of a PCSCC, this paper documents histologically the occurrence of such neural invasion, and illustrates the utility of gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance scanning in patient management.
(2) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
(3) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(4) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(5) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
(6) Sequelae of chemo- and radiotherapy were only depicted by magnetic resonance imaging.
(7) Magnetic polyethyleneimine (PEI) microcapsules have been developed for trapping electrophilic intermediates in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract.
(8) Our data support the hypothesis that evoked and epileptiform magnetic fields result from intradendritic currents oriented perpendicular to the cortical surface.
(9) We conclude that exposure for 20 min to a 1.5-T static magnetic field does not alter body and skin temperatures in man.
(10) Magnetic resonance imaging of the spinal cord clearly demonstrated the entire lesion.
(11) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(12) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(13) In addition, a 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technique was applied to investigate the in vivo energy metabolism of the graft.
(14) Line broadening detected in several of the high-field nuclear magnetic resonance spectra was attributed to cis-trans isomerization.
(15) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(16) In this critical review of human in vivo nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the questions of which chemical species can be detected and with what sensitivity, their biochemical significance, and their potential clinical value are addressed.
(17) The location of the internal trans and cis isoprene units in ficaprenol-11 isolated from Ficus elastica was determined by 13C nuclear magnetic resonance.
(18) Using sterile conditions, antibodies to G were incubated with a suspension of transformed cells at 4 degrees C, unbound antibodies were then removed, and the cells were incubated with the immunoabsorbent (3 micron magnetic beads; J. Ugelstad et al.
(19) The EMD was miniaturized by using rare earth magnets in the construction of both external transmitter and internal receiver.
(20) We present three patients in whom the diagnosis of intranasal meningoencephalocele was made by magnetic resonance imaging.