(n.) A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.
(n.) Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
(n.) A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.
(n.) A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.
(n.) A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
(n.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
(v. t.) To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Anti-corruption campaigners have already trooped past the €18.9m mansion on Rue de La Baume, bought in 2007 in the name of two Bongo children, then 13 and 16, and other relatives, in what some call Paris's "ill-gotten gains" walking tour.
(3) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(4) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
(5) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
(6) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
(7) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
(8) He had been extremely frustrated that indicators of economic recovery over the past few days had been drowned out by the clamour over the Labour leadership.
(9) We reviewed our experience with femorofemoral bypass during the past 10 years to define its role relative to other methods in the treatment of aortoiliac occlusive disease.
(10) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(11) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(12) I’m hopeful but I just can’t get over all my experiences in the past.
(13) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
(14) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
(15) Although they were praised in the last five years as the most efficient drugs against cancer and infectious diseases, no great success was clinically and experimentally reported in the past.
(16) Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
(17) Cameron famously broke with the past, and highlighted his green credentials, by posing with huskies on a visit to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic in 2006.
(18) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(19) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(20) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
Semisolid
Definition:
(a.) Partially solid.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the first assay, we used a simple density separation technique to remove dense neutrophils (PMN) from suspensions of blood and of bone marrow cells prior to culture in semisolid agar.
(2) After 12 days, 100% of the cells terminally differentiate, and clonogenic assays in IL 3-containing semisolid media indicate that the whole population has irreversibly lost proliferative capability.
(3) Three short-term human melanoma cell lines were tested for sensitivity to human recombinant alpha-tumor necrosis factor (TNF) in a semisolid agar colony formation assay.
(4) A 2 h exposure to HIV-1 resulted in a progressive and significant reduction of viable CD34+ cell number in liquid cultures and of granulocyte-macrophage, erythroid and megakaryocytic progenitors in semisolid cultures.
(5) When SV-MSCs were cultured in semisolid medium, they formed colonies of blast-like cells that, when replated on plastic, resumed adherent growth.
(6) The effects of transforming growth factor beta 3 (TGF-beta 3) on growth in semisolid cultures of enriched hematopoietic progenitors derived from normal human marrow and blood were evaluated.
(7) A culture system of semisolid medium was able to detect colony-forming units of chondrocytes.
(8) The expression of HLA-DR antigenic determinants on human hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPC) capable of differentiating into mature blood cells, as determined in semisolid cultures, has been demonstrated previously (3-7).
(9) Their B cells also have a characteristically low cloning efficiency in semisolid agar cultures, where LPS does not seem to be required.
(10) Colony-Stimulating Factor (CSF) production by peripheral blood leukocytes of renal transplant recipients was assayed using semisolid agar culture.
(11) on the basis of semisolid motility and ornithine decarboxylase tests.
(12) A transformed cystinotic cell line which was recovered from the crisis stage was indistinguishable from its transformed precrisis parental cell strain in growth rate in media containing either 1% or 10% serum, cloning efficiency on plastic, in semisolid media, or upon confluent monolayers of normal skin fibroblasts, expression of SV40 T antigen, or production of virus.
(13) After gel filtration, the 30-kDa activity stimulated the growth of very large colonies in semisolid medium consisting mainly of granulocytes with the remainder being macrophages.
(14) Single cell cloning of FD-TCL cells in semisolid medium required the addition of exogenous conditioned medium.
(15) The influence of lithium chloride on the proliferation of normal granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells (CFU-GM) and clonogenic blasts (CFU-L) from patients with acute myeloid leukaemia in the semisolid cultures in vitro was investigated.
(16) The expression of EBNA-1, EBNA-2,EBNA-3A,EBNA-Lp or LMP caused shortening of doubling time, increased saturation cell density, reduced serum dependence, anchorage-independent growth in semisolid agar and activation of c-myc.
(17) Comparative studies of clonogenic ability of twenty four lung cancer samples have been performed in semisolid agar in vitro and in diffusion chambers in vivo.
(18) Semisolid cloning systems are now available to detect the specific progenitor cells of neutrophilmacrophages, eosinophils, megakaryocytes and erythroid cells.
(19) Microplaque formation is rapid, reproducible, and easily quantitated, occurs at temperatures ranging from 33 to 40 degrees C, and does not require a semisolid overlay.
(20) Organisms grown in a liquid overlay on a semisolid slant (biphasic medium) showed slow logarithmic growth and the presence of chromatoid material.