(v.) The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; separation; division; distribution; as, the partition of a kingdom.
(v.) That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; separating boundary; dividing line or space; specifically, an interior wall dividing one part or apartment of a house, an inclosure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions.
(v.) A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
(v.) The servance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
(v.) A score.
(v. t.) To divide into parts or shares; to divide and distribute; as, to partition an estate among various heirs.
(v. t.) To divide into distinct parts by lines, walls, etc.; as, to partition a house.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relative rates of reduction of several spin-labeled molecules that partition differently across the hy-drophobic-interface of inner membranes from rat liver mitochondria were investigated.
(2) Isoprenylated proteins were enriched in the detergent phase upon partition with the non-ionic detergent Triton X-114.
(3) This provides unequivocal evidence that partitioning is the dominant form of retention for small nonpolar solutes.
(4) Folch extraction and partition followed by silicic acid column chromatography revealed the antigens to be glycolipids.
(5) The volume changes of the respiratory system were partitioned using an inductance plethysmograph.
(6) Equilibrium-partitioning measurements indicate that the relative affinities of different probes for PC-rich vesicles, in competition with HODMA or DOTAP vesicles, increase with increasing hydrogen-bonding capacity of the probe headgroup in the order PC less than N,N-dimethyl PE less than N-methyl PE less than PE approximately phosphatidyl-2-amino-1-propanol.
(7) The partition ratio of 2.0 obtained for the reaction with L 658758 approaches that of an optimal inhibitor.
(8) In addition, our data suggest that part of the difference may reside in differential partitioning of lipid into lysosomes.
(9) Changing the partition of the load on the femoral surface and the permeability at the tibial surface changes the time-dependent response, but has little effect on the strain distributions at times of the order of 5 s considered in this study.
(10) This symmetry, with respect to the sign of the charge, indicates that discreteness-of-charge effects are not significant in determining the potential-sensitive phase partitioning of these probes in model membranes.
(11) At pH 7.0, acrylamide partitions between the bulk aqueous phase and the proteins, human serum albumin, monellin and ovalbumin.
(12) Two-phase systems consisting of water, dextran and poly(ethylene glycol) have been used for partition of membranes obtained from Torpedo marmorata electric organ.
(13) P61 is solubilized by Triton X-114 treatment of membranes and partitions into the detergent phase upon warming.
(14) It was founded in 1984 by Hussain, a former Chicago cab driver, and won broad support among the "mohajirs" - Muslims who fled India after partition in 1947.
(15) The history of the relationship of biological activity to partition coefficient and related properties is briefly reviewed.
(16) Triton X-114 solubilized material from both the virulent and attenuated strains, which partitioned into the hydrophobic, detergent phase, contained LLS and major proteins of 41 and 44 kDa, which were also immunoprecipitable from intact organisms.
(17) This may lead to large errors in pathological tissue because the partition coefficient changes significantly in brain tumors.
(18) Experimental data are presented for: (a) the flux of diflorasone diacetate through hairless mouse skin, (b) the percutaneous penetration profile of propylene glycol, (c) the effects of vehicle concentrations of polyoxypropylene 15 stearyl ether and propylene glycol on the percutaneous flux of diflorasone diacetate, (d) skin--vehicle partition coefficients of diflorasone diacetate, (e) the solubility profile of diflorasone diacetate as a function of solvent concentration, and (f) the alteration of the skin's resistance to the penetration of diflorasone diacetate due to propylene glycol.
(19) Our present results thus provide parameters for the separation of cells by partition in addition to or instead of membrane charge depending on the polymer and salt composition and concentration selected.
(20) A methanol-aqueous KCl extraction is used, followed by cleanup with clarifying agents and partition into chloroform.
Tympanum
Definition:
(n.) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.
(n.) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.
(n.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.
(n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.
(n.) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
(n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.
Example Sentences:
(1) To test ciliary clearance, the fluid was placed in either the tympanum or the mastoid bulla.
(2) These areas are the anterior epi-tympanum, the recess between the tympanic membrane and the anterior and inferior canal walls, the facial ridge and the sump that can form behind it, the sino-dural angle and the mastoid tip.
(3) This study has demonstrated the anatomical relations of the cochlea to structures in the medial wall of the tympanum, and has shown that surgical access can be obtained to the terminal auditory nerve fibres supplying the basal, middle and apical turns of the cochlea.
(4) From this preliminary investigation, the device successfully maintained atmospheric pressures in the tympanum, compensated for Eustachian tube malfunction, prevented otorrhea and recurrence of middle ear effusions.
(5) Temperature within the brain and the esophagus and at the tympanum were obtained in a 12-yr-old male in a series of experiments that began 8 days after surgery for implantation of a drainage catheter.
(6) This is invariably indicated on a pre-operative basis, except in two circumstances: --when the glomus, tumour is small and situated close to the drum of the tympanum, its surgical excision posing no problem of haemostasis under these circumstances: --when radiotherapy is envisaged as treatment of the glomus tumour when surgery is impossible.
(7) Although the clinical importance of these differences remains to be established, the authors believe they are substantial enough to justify continued use of tympanostomy tubes in the primary surgical therapy of chronic secretory otitis media, when medical therapy and observation indicate the need for drainage to improve hearing or correct anatomic deformities of the tympanum.
(8) The thick tympanum, while disadvantageous as an aerial receptor, likely enhances low-frequency bone conduction hearing.
(9) The inflammatory process, issuing from the external auditory passage and under circumvention of the tympanum, spreads to the skull base and according to the localisation causes adequate pareses of the brain nerves.
(10) Massive discharge occurred only with low viscosity fluid placed in the tympanum, whereas small amounts of highly viscous fluid were cleared by linear discharge.
(11) Otorrhea is the most common complication of surgical drainage of the tympanum for the treatment of chronic secretory otitis media.
(12) The authors report six cases of rare ear diseases: fibrous dysplasia of the tympanum mimicking an partially obstructive osteoma of the external auditory canal.
(13) The tube with a beveled head and split shank is very convenient and effective for the treatment since it is not only easily inserted but also easily removed, preventing it from migration into the tympanum.
(14) The existing peri-ligamentous space of the disco-malleolar ligament is a latent way between temporomandibular joint rear and tympanum.
(15) It has been assumed that the common inheritance of all early tetrapods was a light, rod-like stapes associated with a temporal notch in the otic region that was thought to have supported a tympanum, or eardrum.
(16) Seromucous effusions were found in the tympanum in 91% of 208 cases of cleft palate.
(17) The experimental evidence of cochleovestibular toxicity of aminoglycosides applied locally in the presence of a perforated tympanum leaves no room for doubt.
(18) Insertion of tympanostomy tubes to provide prolonged aeration and drainage of the tympanum in cases of chronic secretory otitis media has become the most commonly performed operation in children.
(19) In all animals, nontympanic surfaces were most responsive to low frequencies, and the tympanum was most responsive to high frequencies.
(20) The method seems to have the following merits: permanent ventilation of the tympanum with preservation of an intact drum (from the functional point of view); no tympanophonia or autophonia; simple technique, short operative period (five minutes); no risk of postoperative complications; and no danger of ascending infection of the middle ear from the ear canal.