(n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.
(n.) Collectively, in a broader sense, all the products resulting from the solution of albuminous matter in either gastric or pancreatic juice. In this case, however, intermediate products (albumose bodies), such as antialbumose, hemialbumose, etc., are mixed with the true peptones. Also termed albuminose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Microbiological investigations made by membrane filtration method on antiseptics and disinfectants demonstrated that the filtering membranes present very frequently a remarkable antimicrobial activity, even after washing with 300 ml of peptone water according to the guidelines of the Pharmacopoeia.
(2) Neither NaCl nor peptone influenced VIP levels in peripheral blood.
(3) In the absence of yeast extract or peptone, growth from low-level inocula was not observed when n-hexadecane or two oxidation products, 2-hexadecanol and 3-hexadecanone, were used as substrates.
(4) The highest enzyme activity was found in rapidly growing mycelia (glucose-NH4+ or glucose-peptone medium).
(5) The plating medium consisted of 2.0% peptone, 0.2% yeast extract, 1.0% corn starch, 7% NaCl, and 1.5% agar, with the pH adjusted to 8.0.
(6) Seventy-four of 110 strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa tested produced detectable amounts of HCN from growth in 2% peptone or nutrient agar.
(7) Hemolytic staphylococcus was incubated at 37 degrees C in a Petri dish, on meat-peptone agar with a layer of erythrocytes on its surface.
(8) The antigenic relationship between the milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) and the hydrophobic fraction of proteose-peptone (HFPP) was demonstrated, using a mono-specific anti-HFPP antibody.
(9) In SDS-PAGE, the bands of spirosome protein derived from anaerobic cultures were more intense than those derived from aerobic cultures, either in peptone water or in Davis-Mingioli's minimal medium.
(10) The new medium, designated R2A, contains 0.5 g of yeast extract, 0.5 g of Difco Proteose Peptone no.
(11) Of the 174 samples initially positive for Salmonella, 131 (75.3%) were positive on re-examination using pre-enrichment in buffered peptone water (BPW) and selective enrichment in Rappaport-Vassiliadis medium (RV) and in tetrathionate medium according to Muller-Kauffmann (MK).
(12) Examination of fractional composition of peptone by gel-filtration and fractionation with various precipitants is recommended for rational working out of nutrient media for cultivation of cholera vibrio.
(13) Environemntal conditions which might be present in the human intestinal lumen, such as anaerobiosis, a temperature of 37 degrees C and the presence of bile salts, were examined for their effects on the growth and toxin production by Vibrio cholerae strains 569B and B1307 in Syncase and in peptone water media.
(14) However, the latter group grew in peptone-yeast extract-glucose broth, whereas the H. vaginalis strains did not grow without the addition of starch to peptone-yeast extract-glucose.
(15) Gonococci suspended in 1% proteose peptone containing 8% glycerol can be snap frozen in liquid nitrogen without detectable loss on thawing.
(16) Among the standard laboratory media used trypticase soy broth (TSB) showed the maximum production and poor yields resulted from growth in peptone water and nutrient broth.
(17) In peptone without osmotic support the cells showed a distortion of the normal membrane-wall relationship by 20 minutes.
(18) The same nutrients that increased gastrin mRNA levels caused decreased 2-hour integrated somatostatin mRNA levels; peptone (-30%), phenylalanine (-28%), and olive oil (-21%), but neither glucose nor saline, altered somatostatin mRNA levels.
(19) This, plus the fact that a chemotactic galactose mutant penetrated cores saturated with peptone medium at the same rate with or without a galactose gradient, indicates that chemotaxis may not be required for bacterial penetration through unconsolidated porous media.
(20) The specie Penicillium verrucosum var cyclopium (Westling) has showed that Media containing peptones, especially, trypticase, as a source of nitrogen and maltose or glucose as a source of carbon are most efficient for a good stimulation of the lipolytic activity.
Water
Definition:
(n.) The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.
(n.) A body of water, standing or flowing; a lake, river, or other collection of water.
(n.) Any liquid secretion, humor, or the like, resembling water; esp., the urine.
(n.) A solution in water of a gaseous or readily volatile substance; as, ammonia water.
(n.) The limpidity and luster of a precious stone, especially a diamond; as, a diamond of the first water, that is, perfectly pure and transparent. Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence.
(n.) A wavy, lustrous pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. See Water, v. t., 3, Damask, v. t., and Damaskeen.
(v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or "diluted."
(v. t.) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate; as, to water land; to water flowers.
(v. t.) To supply with water for drink; to cause or allow to drink; as, to water cattle and horses.
(v. t.) To wet and calender, as cloth, so as to impart to it a lustrous appearance in wavy lines; to diversify with wavelike lines; as, to water silk. Cf. Water, n., 6.
(n.) To add water to (anything), thereby extending the quantity or bulk while reducing the strength or quality; to extend; to dilute; to weaken.
(v. i.) To shed, secrete, or fill with, water or liquid matter; as, his eyes began to water.
(v. i.) To get or take in water; as, the ship put into port to water.
Example Sentences:
(1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(2) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(5) We assessed changes in brain water content, as reflected by changes in tissue density, during the early recirculation period following severe forebrain ischemia.
(6) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(7) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(8) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
(9) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(10) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(11) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(12) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(13) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
(14) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(15) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
(16) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(17) The amount of water, creatinine, electrolytes, proteins, and enzymes were higher during the day (up to three fold, p always less than 0.05), while equal amounts of amino acids were excreted in the day and the night period.
(18) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(19) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
(20) Changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) were measured over 254 cortical regions during caloric vestibular stimulation with warm water (44 degrees C).