What's the difference between percolate and underdrain?
Percolate
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.
(v. i.) To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.
Example Sentences:
(1) As soon as the component with the lower mechanical stability is percolating the powder system, tablet hardness is controlled entirely by this component.
(2) This group consisted of 101 cases of whom 38 underwent semen treatment with Centrifugation on a Discontinuous Percoll Gradient (CDPG) and 63 with Pellet Swim-up (PS); the control group was made up of 31 normospermic patients where the semen was treated by PS.
(3) The attempt to fractionate the testicular cells by centrifugation in the continuous and discontinuous Percoll gradient was undertaken.
(4) The platelet subpopulations were separated with discontinuous gradients of Percoll.
(5) By using Percoll discontinuous density gradient centrifugation, peripheral blood nonphagocytic and nonadherent mononuclear cells were divided into the low and high density fractions for which natural killer (NK) cells and T cells were enriched, respectively.
(6) We conclude that both localized memory and percolation are possible in stimulatory idiotypic networks.
(7) The effect of activated PMN was tested on the motility of Percoll-washed spermatozoa in the presence and absence of reactive oxygen species scavengers or seminal plasma (whole or fractionated).
(8) To cope with this problem, in 27 IVF cycles, sperm selection was performed by centrifugation on discontinuous Percoll density gradient.
(9) Thirdly, the discontinuous percoll density gradient centrifugation was used to separate P. carinii cysts.
(10) Fractionation by Percoll density centrifugation of peripheral blood leucocyte cells, from atopic subjects with seasonal hay fever, unmasked IgE-B cell populations whose individual capacities to synthesize IgE in vitro were obscured in cultures of unfractionated B cells.
(11) Inspection of the cavity margins revealed absence of percolation at the dentin margins.
(12) In general, IEL of satisfactory yield and of good viability were obtained with EDTA treatment of the gut tissues, followed by rapid passages of the resultant cells through nylon-wool columns and centrifugation on two-step Percoll density gradients (45% and 80%).
(13) Basolateral membranes obtained by self-orienting Percoll-gradient centrifugation were treated with 5 mM CaCl2 to minimize the cross-contamination by brush border membranes.
(14) Percoll-purified high density small lymphocytes had little or no migratory capacity under these conditions, requiring a longer incubation time (4 hr) for consistent migration.
(15) Guinea pig marrow cell suspensions were first enriched for megakaryocytes by density equilibrium centrifugation in continuous Percoll density gradients.
(16) Using Percoll density gradient centrifugation, 1,25(OH)2D3 receptors could be localized in the basal cell fraction.
(17) After introduction of erythrocyte targets, there was a 20- to 30-min delay before initiation of phagocytosis that was not observed with monocytes prepared by the standard Percoll-gradient technique.
(18) To accomplish this, blood was obtained from patients with ragweed AR, granulocytes were isolated and fractionated by continuous density Percoll gradients, and the density distribution of these cells was determined after centrifugation.
(19) A cellular compartment from brown adipose tissue (BAT) of newborn rats was isolated by Percoll-density-gradient centrifugation and was shown to proliferate and to undergo adipose conversion in vitro in primary culture.
(20) Collagenase-dispersed cells from human chorion laeve were examined on Percoll gradients.
Underdrain
Definition:
(n.) An underground drain or trench with openings through which the water may percolate from the soil or ground above.
(v. t.) To drain by forming an underdrain or underdrains in; as, to underdrain land.