(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.
Weld
Definition:
(v. t.) To wield.
(n.) An herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America; dyer's broom; dyer's rocket; dyer's weed; wild woad. It is used by dyers to give a yellow color.
(n.) Coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.
(v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.
(v. t.) Fig.: To unite closely or intimately.
(n.) The state of being welded; the joint made by welding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tests were undertaken to study resistance to tears in laser welded dental metal alloys.
(2) The possibility of contaminating the breathing air zone with hazardous substances in manual and semi-automated welding increases with the intensity of their formation in the arc zone.
(3) Laser repair has not been widely accepted both because the effect of laser irradiation on intact nerves is not well documented, and the anastomotic strength of the weld has been inferior to suture repair.
(4) The highest combined exposure (10-fold allowable value) was that of welders of steel coated with the zinc layer, using the metal active gas welding.
(5) The concentrations of 17 trace elements (e.g., copper, cobalt, iron, manganese, chromium, silicon and magnesium) were determined in whole blood samples of 81 persons working with different welding methods on stainless steel or aluminium and 68 nonwelders.
(6) These figures represent a participation rate of 37.1% in welders and 36.7% in non-welding subjects.
(7) Weak welds occurred with no thermal damage obtained at lower irradiances: stronger welds with thermal damage confined to the weld site occurred at higher irradiances.
(8) The results support the hypothesis that mild steel welding and to a lesser extent stainless steel welding with tungsten inert gas is associated with reduced semen quality at exposure in the range of the Danish process specific threshold limit values of welding.
(9) Low-level exposure to hexavalent chromium associated with TIG stainless steel and mild steel welding do not appear to be a major hazard for human spermatogenesis.
(10) Whereas the patterns of lung cancer mortality in these results suggest that the risk of lung cancer is higher for stainless steel than mild steel welders the different level of risk for these two categories of welding exposure cannot be quantified with precision.
(11) The occurrence of reduced birthweight, preterm delivery, infant mortality, and congenital malformation was not increased among children at risk from paternal welding exposure in comparison with children not at risk.
(12) The goal of future research should be to make the procedure less operator-dependent (dye enhanced or automated welding).
(13) When nacreous shell produced by the marine oyster Pinctada maxima, used as a biomaterial in oral surgery, is implanted in human bone, new bone formation occurs, resulting in a tight welding of the bone to the nacre [16].
(14) Tensile strength, 0.2% proof stress, and percentage elongation of the welded bars were measured and compared with the corresponding values for the titanium bars as delivered and with those of brazed type-3 gold alloy bars of similar dimensions.
(15) It was proved in experiment that endothelium formation is more adequate in a vascular microsuture formed by laser welding than in the formed by the traditional thread method.
(16) 23.2% of patients with pneumoconiosis caused by electric-welding aerosol showed regress of pneumoconiosis in afterdust period.
(17) Results indicated that excellent welds can be obtained with very little loss of strength and ductility in the area of the weld joint.
(18) Dizziness, headaches, and weakness occurred among three men after short-term hydrocarbon exposure during improper welding procedures in a closed container.
(19) In periods of reconstruction of chemical enterprises, hazardous compounds concentrations may exceed MAC, they are also characterized by contamination of the skin with toxic substances, welding aerosols discharge into the working zone, and microclimate distabilization.
(20) A limited investigation was carried out of the use of glass and ceramic fibre products used as protection against welding 'batter' and oxyacetylene welding flame.