What's the difference between material and polymer?

Material


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
  • (a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
  • (a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
  • (n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
  • (v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Membranes of this material were filled with islets of Langerhans and implanted in the peritoneal cavity of rats.
  • (2) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
  • (3) Significant amounts of 35S-labeled material were lost during the alkali treatment.
  • (4) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
  • (5) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
  • (6) Fitch said there was “material risk to the success of the restructuring”.
  • (7) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
  • (8) The present retrospective study reports the results of a survey conducted on 130 patients given elective abdominal and urinary surgery together with the cultivation of routine intraperitoneal drainage material.
  • (9) The base materials caused more pulpal inflammation than the control material, Kalzinol, although by an indirect mechanism.
  • (10) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
  • (11) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
  • (12) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
  • (13) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
  • (14) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
  • (15) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
  • (16) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (17) An electrogenic sodium-potassium pump appears to contribute materially to the steady-state potential and to certain of the transient potential responses of vascular smooth muscle.
  • (18) Pure bile gave 32 correct diagnoses (67%) and 14 diagnoses of inadequate material (29%), which contained few nondegenerated cells and made microscopic diagnosis unreliable.
  • (19) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
  • (20) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.

Polymer


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
  • (2) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
  • (3) The acetonitrile extract is concentrated and analyzed by HPLC, using a new polymer-based column, and detected by UV spectroscopy at 270 nm.
  • (4) These results suggest that glomerular IgA are IgA polymers and decreased hepatic clearance of hepatic IgA polymers may be responsible for the glomerular deposition of IgA.
  • (5) A method for the introduction of side chains containing isonitrile (isocyanide, functional group) on the backbone of polysaccharides and other hydroxylic polymers was developed.
  • (6) He knows polymer notes from travels in Australia, where they were first introduced in 1988, and he wants Britain to "move with the times" too.
  • (7) Poly(ortho ester) bioerodible polymers are suitable materials for the topical administration of a wide variety of therapeutic agents; varying the nature and amounts of excipients physically incorporated into the polymer will vary the erosion rates from a few hours to many months.
  • (8) By performing countercurrent distribution in the presence of a polymer-ligand, the protein that binds the polymer-ligand can be separated from a heterogenous mixture.
  • (9) Pulse labeling of the polymer with [2-3H]adenosine was also maximal at the same time points.
  • (10) Charged polymers, known to alter cell surface characteristics, reversibly inhibit the intercellular communication required in kidney tubule induction.
  • (11) A novel type of ion exchanger was prepared by multipoint covalent binding of polystyrene chains onto the surface of porous silica followed by polymer-analogous modification of the bonded layer.
  • (12) Another 52 received a 100-g (nonfasting) glucose polymer screening test followed by a 100-g glucose polymer tolerance test.
  • (13) The important role of the exocellular polymers for the structure, size and density of flocs can be well illustrated.
  • (14) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
  • (15) Rather, assembly of sIgM into polymers and their subsequent secretion are prevented in B lymphocytes by preceding targeting of monomeric sIgM to degradation.
  • (16) The neutral polymer was devoid of type 6 activity although it was serologically active.
  • (17) The tissue reaction was more severe for polymers having a higher rate of degradation.
  • (18) Control experiments with other constructs (e.g., allopurinol riboside linked to the mannose-free polymer) confirmed that the enhancement of activity was indeed achieved by means of the mannose homing device.
  • (19) Of the tested polymers, only polyvinyl methylacetamide and dextran inhibit a decrease in the level of mitochondrial enzyme activity which develops with administration of endotoxin.
  • (20) At different degrees of DNA damage, the average length of the poly-ADP-ribose chain did not practically alter, thus suggesting the increase in the number of polymer binding sites in the histones.