What's the difference between miscible and proportion?

Miscible


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being mixed; mixable; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Additional knowledge of the miscibility properties (phase diagrams) of the binary bulk systems is required.
  • (2) Supplementation with 5-10 times the recommended daily allowance of vitamin E in a water-miscible form increased the plasma alpha-tocopherol concentrations to normal in all 19 CF patients so evaluated.
  • (3) DPPC and C16:0-CBS were miscible in all proportions in the gel phase above 10 mol% CBS and in the liquid-crystalline phase.
  • (4) Sodium salicylate had a marked effect on the release of benzocaine, depending upon the the type of vehicle, with the largest increase observed for the water-miscible base, polyethylene glycol (macrogol ointment BPC).
  • (5) Dimethyl isosorbide (DMI), which is currently under investigation for its potential use as a pharmaceutical vehicle and drug permeation enhancer, is a water-miscible liquid with relatively low viscosity.
  • (6) Each of the normals converted about 3% per day of their rapidly miscible cholesterol pool to cholic acid and 1% per day or less to chenodeoxycholate.
  • (7) The gradients that are used on reversed-phase material with solvent mixtures of water and completely miscible organic solvents are suitable for quantitative routine control of pharmaceutical products.
  • (8) The fractional turnover rates of the tracer-miscible glutamate and glutamine pools were fast, 8.0 and 2.8% min-1, respectively.
  • (9) Marked impairment of vitamin A absorption was noted when administered in a water miscible form in children with 1) combined infection with Giardia lamblia and Ascaris lumbricoides, 2) giardiasis alone, and 3) in a proportion of children with ascariasis alone.
  • (10) The influence of protons or calcium ions on the miscibility of cholesterol in phosphatidylserine has been examined using differential scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction.
  • (11) Successful entrapment was achieved with the following conditions: (1) an alkaline water phase, (2) addition of fatty acid salt in the oily phase, and (3) addition of a water-miscible solvent in the oily phase.
  • (12) In vivo insulin miscibility was performed for soluble and NPH insulin in a mixing ratio of 2:3, administered immediately after mixing in the syringe.
  • (13) This solid miscibility in the 18:2-rich milk fat could be a consequence of the lower proportion of saturated TGs or the presence of high proportions of diene and triene TGs containing 18:2 instead of monoene and diene TGs containing 18:1.
  • (14) Additionally, phase diagrams of egg yolk sphingomyelin (EYSM) with DMPC or DMPC-ether and 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC) or 1,2-O-dioctadecyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC-ether) demonstrated no major differences in miscibility of EYSM in ester and ether PCs.
  • (15) Further, the activity was not impaired during 21 h storage at pH 6.5 in 40% water-miscible solvents including methanol, ethanol, acetone, acetonitrile, dimethylformamide, dimethylsulfoxide, and dioxane.
  • (16) In addition to the differences in the chemical structure of the mixing components, the film states in the monolayer and the miscibility behavior of the bulk systems are also influencing factors.
  • (17) act., contained within the miscible pool, immediately followed by a reduction in calcium transfer from bone.
  • (18) We demonstrate that correction of the deficiency occurs after intramuscular administration of a water-miscible solution of retinyl palmitate (100,000 IU, or 30 mg retinol equivalent).
  • (19) A 4-week, bilateral, controlled study was carried out in 53 patients with various acute and chronic dermatoses to compare the effectiveness of 0.1% halcinonide in a water-miscible base, applied once daily, with 0.05% betamethasone dipropionate cream applied twice daily.
  • (20) The physiologic doses were given as an oil-soluble or a water-miscible preparation.

Proportion


Definition:

  • (n.) The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body.
  • (n.) Harmonic relation between parts, or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.
  • (n.) The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.
  • (n.) A part considered comparatively; a share.
  • (n.) The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth.
  • (n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.
  • (v.) To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.
  • (v.) To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.
  • (v.) To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The proportion of teeth per child with calculus was approximately 8 percent for supragingival and 4 percent for subgingival calculus.
  • (2) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
  • (3) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (4) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
  • (5) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (6) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
  • (7) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (8) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
  • (9) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
  • (10) At a fixed concentration of nucleotide the effectiveness of elution was proportional to the charge on the eluting molecule.
  • (11) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
  • (12) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
  • (13) Little difference exists between the proportion of programs that offer training in first-trimester techniques and the proportion that train in second-trimester techniques.
  • (14) B and C, were identified and their relative proportions shown to be considerably greater in the foetus than in the adult.
  • (15) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
  • (16) The fragile site at 10q25 was expressed in larger proportions of malignant than normal cells.
  • (17) The failure rates of the 2 regimens to suppress lactation were similar; however, rebound lactation occurred in a small proportion of women treated with bromocriptine.
  • (18) The antibody-hapten profiles revealed that the DNCB-fed animalss contained predominatly IgG2 in their serum by the time of their initial bleedings, whereas sensitized animals still contained a considerable proportion of more acidic antibodies having marked charge heterogeneity.
  • (19) The resistance proved to be directly dependent upon the specific antisense RNA and to be inversely proportional to the multiplicity of infecting polyoma.
  • (20) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.