(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.
Trocar
Definition:
(n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following this combination procedure the patients were relieved completely of obstructive jaundice and right upper quadrant pain, leaving only small trocar insertion scars made during the short course of hospitalization.
(2) The sutures exit through the periumbilical trocars.
(3) The trocar mounted on the main stem of the circular stapler allows the stem of the main device to be brought out through the distal staple line.
(4) Only endoscopic cryosurgery enables a precise and exact control by means of viewing through the endoscopic trocar along with simultaneous rectal feeling, both of which enable us to achieve an exact supervision of the size of the subvesically-formed freezing sphere adjacent to the rectum.
(5) These observations suggest that direct trocar insertion is safer for patients in terms of operative time, need for additional CO2, and especially risk of multiple instrument insertions, always a blind procedures with potential for injury.
(6) To the authors' knowledge, there have been no previous reports to describe tumor implants in the abdominal trocar sites after diagnostic laparoscopic biopsies of ovarian tumors of low malignant potential.
(7) Round K-wires with either a diamond point or a high rake-angle trocar point were compared with each other and with C-wires, which have a rounded square cross section and a short diamond point.
(8) In this study a new trocar-cannula-unit(10 French) is introduced, which was used in a prospective randomised comparative study in 74 patients for suprapubic bladder punction.
(9) Two cases of tumor implants occurring in the abdominal trocar sites after diagnostic laparoscopic biopsies of ovarian papillary serous tumors of low malignant potential are presented.
(10) Two additional trocars were inserted at the level of the umbilicus at the anterior axillary lines.
(11) A special trocar permits the introduction of the catheter to be done more gently, causes less scarring, and does away with the lower Dacron cuff.
(12) The equipment consisted of the standard fiberoptic Welch-Allyn pediatric sigmoidoscope modified by replacing the obturator with a sharp pyrimidal trocar.
(13) A small trocar is passed under radiographic control, and balloon dilatation is performed over a guidewire.
(14) The trocar catheter was found to be a simple, practical, and safe instrument for suprapubic bladder drainage.
(15) This patient was a 32-year old woman who had Hulka clip sterilization without any difficulties, using a 10 mm trocar and a Wolff laparoscope, with 3 liter carbon dioxide for induction of pneumoperitoneum.
(16) The authors devised a brain biopsy technique through only one burr hole under real time monitoring, using a small foot-print transducer, 12 mm in diameter, and a special trocar with engraved scales on its surface.
(17) Coaxial trocar technique (19 patients) permits initial insertion of softer and often larger catheters (9-14 French feeding tubes), which are less likely to clog or require exchange; the intragastric balloon support method facilitates trocar insertion.
(18) The device consists of two acrylic cylinders, an acrylic template with an array of holes that serve as guides for trocars, and a cover plate.
(19) The sonographically detectable catheter may be placed via a Seldinger technique or trocar method.
(20) The mark V Filshie clip was applied a few cm from the horn of the uterus with an applicator which was introduced intraperitoneally with a special trocar.