(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.