(a.) Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.
(a.) Fresh, or new.
(v. t.) To moisten.
Example Sentences:
(1) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(2) Isolated frog retinas kept receptor side-upward in a moist chamber without perfusion showed the well-known slow PIII generated by the potassium decrease around receptors.
(3) All but one of the isolations were made from moist or wet samples.
(4) Cat corneas were stored at refrigerator temperatures in M-K medium (TC-199, 5% dextran), modified M-K medium (TC-199, 1% chondroitin sulfate), or on the intact globe in moist chambers for intervals of one to nine days.
(5) The vacuum flask method of using boiling water to decontaminate soft contact lenses is better and less expensive than other ways of using moist heat and can be safely and effectively applied under most domestic circumstances.
(6) Moist tissues such as the eyes, respiratory tract, and axillary areas are particularly affected.
(7) Artificial air bubbles in amniotic fluid are measured microscopically in a moist chamber.
(8) The lyophilisate, when exposed to moist atmospheres, picks up moisture to a constant weight.
(10) Pneumoperitoneum may be indicated in the investigation of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum, in the exclusion or confirmation of remnants of the omphalomesenteric duct, in chronically moist lesions of the umbilicus resistant to symptomatic treatment, in suspected cases of non-communicating urachal cysts which cannot be diagnosed by cystogram, and in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours related to the umbilical region.
(11) High histamine content of semi-moist cat food was probably due to condensed fish solubles even though it was not one of the major ingredients.
(12) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
(13) As an example the estimated incidence of severe telangiectasia after 44 Gy in 22 fractions increases from 27% to 49% in patients who developed grade greater than or equal to 2 moist desquamation as an early radiation reaction.
(14) Certain E. corrodens strains are mobile on moist surfaces and elaborate an endotoxin, which may destroy human tissues directly and indirectly by means of the immune system.
(15) The kinetics and efficacy of moist heat disinfection for hydrophilic contact lenses were investigated by using representative microorganisms of ophthalmic concern and several heat-resistant species.
(16) The phosphorylated sugars significantly increased and the glycerophosphodiesters significantly decreased in the moist-chamber-stored corneas, whereas both metabolites remained unchanged in the M-K-medium-stored corneas.
(17) It's music that defines compassion, lament, and loss, to which you can only surrender in moist-eyed wonder.
(18) The patient was successfully treated with diuretics and nitrates but on the fifth hospital day moist rales were noted over the entire lung field.
(19) Diets containing gelatinized starch became semi-solid when water was added but the rats still grew faster when fed the moist rather than the dry gelatinized starch diets.
(20) Spores of Aspergillus ochraceus and Septomyxa affinis were produced on a large scale by surface sporulation on moist wheat bran and barley.
Pus
Definition:
(a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that ultrasonography, 67Ga scanning, and CT each have significant limits in diagnosing intra-abdominal pus.
(2) It is important that the nurse recognize when pus is a major factor in an unhealed wound and initiate local care to assist in cleaning the wound bed.
(3) Confirmation of diagnosis was established by exteriorization of pus with US, CT or during surgery.
(4) We isolated a strain of P. penneri from the pus of a patient with suppurative otitis media and an epidural abscess on June 10 and 15, 1989.
(5) Furthermore, useful antibacterial concentrations of both drugs were found in pus, sputum, and middle-ear fluid.
(6) The surgeons were able to aspirate the accumulated pus quite easily in 8 of the 9 patients with AIDS who underwent only intercostal drainage.
(7) Craniotomy disclosed an abscess containing yellow pus from which Streptococcus viridans was cultured.
(8) In the case of the suppurative reaction, pus drained along a root surface, destroying the periodontal ligament and interradicular bone until it emerged at the gingival sulcus.
(9) The final diagnosis was based on direct microscopy (2) or culture (1) of drained pus in the empyema cases and on histologic examination of resected tissue in the others.
(10) The mastoid cavity was found to be filled with pus and cholesteatoma debris.
(11) No macroscopic infection with pus formation occurred, while Micrococcus varians was cultured from each inoculated implant.
(12) When distribution of these organisms were classified depending on clinical materials from which they were isolated, outpatient sources from which S. aureus were isolated at high frequencies were otorrhea and pus, while inpatient sources with high incidents of S. aureus isolation were sputum and pus.
(13) No viability loss of B. fragilis was noted when pus was stored at 25 degrees C. Only slight loss of viaability of B. fragilis was observed at 15 degrees C. Escherichia coli coexisting in pus with B. fragilis increased several 100fold in 24 h when stored at 25 degrees C, but no significant growth occurred when they were kept at 15 degrees C. Approximately 20 to 40% of E. coli lost their viability when such pus was stored at 4 degrees C. We suggest that 15 degrees C may be an alternative temperature for storage of anaerobic specimens in laboratories where some delay in routine processing is unavoidable.
(14) The drug was not degraded by pus containing beta-lactamase and had equally good or better activity than nafcillin or vancomycin against Staphylococcus aureus or Staphylococcus epidermidis in vitro and in vivo.
(15) Pathogenic gram-negative bacilli and gram-positive pus-producing cocci are responsible for the studied pathology.
(16) aureus (in throat swabs and pus specimens), and enterobacteria were found.
(17) Bilateral tonsils were swollen, and covered with pus.
(18) Microflora isolated from cattle with acute postnatal pus-catarrhal endometritis has been studied.
(19) By combined gas chromatography and mass spectrometry the fatty acids of pus in patients with psoriasis pustulosa palmo-plantaris were analysed.
(20) Culture of aspirated pus revealed colonies of gram-positive cocci which were subsequently identified as E. faecalis.