(n.) That state in which every part of space is supposed to be full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum.
Example Sentences:
(1) We assembled and evaluated a low-pressure plenum system, based upon the Farman entrainer, which was adaptable to spontaneous, assisted or intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV).
(2) Cell Biol., 91:1879, '81; Kasinsky, Mann, Lemke, and Huang: In: Chromosomal Proteins and Gene Expression, Plenum Press, New York, pp.
(3) The effect of the physical characteristics of the carrier gas on the output of automatic plenum vaporizers was studied.
(4) Airborne transfer of these bacteria was practically eliminated by nursing in single isolation rooms with plenum ventilation.
(5) Using S. pyogenes as a tracer organism, an examination of the importance of air-borne infection of clean wounds in the modern, plenum-ventilated operating room has been made.
(6) Obrist (Cardiovascular Psychophysiology: A Perspective, Plenum Press, New York, 1981) has recently argued for the superiority of contractility (e.g.
(7) The fan in the forced aeration process forced air into a perforated plenum beneath the compost piles.
(8) At this velocity the laminar-flow system, in terms of airborne bacteria measured at the wound site, was about 11 times more efficient using horizontal air-flow and 35-90 times more efficient using vertical air-flow than a plenum-ventilated operating-room.
(9) pp 121-145, Plenum, New York and London], we wanted to prepare specific oligonucleotides carrying O2- or O4-alkylthymidine residues.
(10) A long-forgotten chloroform inhaler, probably the first accurately calibrated, temperature compensatable, plenum vaporizer, is described.
(11) Forced-air furnace operation, along with leaky return ducts and plenums, and openings between the substructure and upper floors enhanced mixing of radon-laden substructure air throughout the rest of the building.
(12) Plenum, New York), that at least two lineages, from which sensory and autonomic cell types are derived respectively, are segregated early during neural crest ontogeny and have extremely different survival and trophic requirements.
(13) ), p. 81, Plenum Press, New York] consists of three domains: surfactant apolar tails, bound water and free water.
(14) Raman scattering data are consistent with a mixture of A- and Z-RNAs in 110 mM NaCl buffer at 37 degrees C. Comparison with the spectrum of Z-DNA indicates that there may be different glycosidic torsion angles in Z-RNA and Z-DNA [Tinoco, I., Jr., Cruz, P., Davis, P., Hall, K., Hardin, C. C., Mathies, R. A., Puglisi, J. D., Trulson, M. O., Johnson, W. C., & Neilson, T. (1986) in Structure and Dynamics of RNA, pp 55-68, Plenum, New York].
(15) Studies were made in a modified hospital ward containing 19 beds, 14 of them in the open ward, one in a window-ventilated side-room, two in rooms with partial-recirculation ventilators giving 7-10 air changes per hour, and two in self-contained isolation suites with plenum ventilation (20 air changes per hour), ultra-violet (UV) barriers at doorways and airlocks.Preliminary tests with aerosols of tracer bacteria showed that few bacteria entered the plenum or recirculation-ventilated rooms.
(16) Plenum Press, New York) is an important assessment instrument for use in the treatment of alcoholism and particularly in relapse prevention.
(17) 4): C249-C254, 1979] and mammalian (Molecular Basis of Insulin Action, New York: Plenum, 1985, p. 451-463; Am.
(18) Recently we reported preliminary mechanical experiments on freshly skinned rabbit psoas fibers that suggested that while almost all of the cross-bridges are attached to actin in the presence of 4 mM adenyl-5'-yl-imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP) (ionic strength, 0.13 M), there is an equilibrium between the attached and detached states, so that, in the presence of 4 mM AMP-PNP, fibers should not be able to maintain tension (Schoenberg, et al., 1984, in Contractile Mechanisms in Muscle, Pollack and Sugi, editors., Plenum Publishing Corp., NY).
(19) A wound isolator was used to perform 109 total arthroplasties of the hip, while 108 similar operations were done in a plenum ventilated operating room.
(20) The event carries symbolic weight because Deng Xiaoping used a third plenum in 1978 to establish his vision of economic reform and opening.
Space
Definition:
(n.) Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
(n.) Place, having more or less extension; room.
(n.) A quantity or portion of extension; distance from one thing to another; an interval between any two or more objects; as, the space between two stars or two hills; the sound was heard for the space of a mile.
(n.) Quantity of time; an interval between two points of time; duration; time.
(n.) A short time; a while.
(n.) Walk; track; path; course.
(n.) A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.
(n.) The distance or interval between words or letters in the lines, or between lines, as in books.
(n.) One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff.
(n.) To walk; to rove; to roam.
(n.) To arrange or adjust the spaces in or between; as, to space words, lines, or letters.
Example Sentences:
(1) One hour after direct mechanical cardiomassage (DMCM) a moderately pronounced edema of the intercellular spaces in the basal compartment of the seminiferous epithelium, normal content of lactate and succinate dehydrogenases, and a certain decrease in the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenases and NAD- and NADP-diaphorases were noted.
(2) The extrusion of granules into the intercellular space via exocytosis is frequently observed.
(3) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(4) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
(5) The supravesical portion showed a cystic appearance with a capsule in the space of Retzius.
(6) These and other results suggest that the experimental agents do not provide protection against alloxan inhibition by preventing the entry of alloxan into the intracellular space of the islet.
(7) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(8) The findings indicate that these spaces were lined by a lipid monolayer which formed bilayered lamellae under certain conditions.
(9) However, cimetidine did not show any effect on the proliferation of collagenous fibers in the interstitial space of the mucosa.
(10) Closure of both cleft spaces by orthodontic means was achieved in 20 of the 21 patients in the first group, and in 14 of the 20 patients in the second group.
(11) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
(12) We therefore conclude that widely spaced (and unknown) parts of the protein chain are required for the intersubunit interactions that eventually lead to functional assembly of the receptor.
(13) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
(14) The penetration coefficient, determined by the surface tension, contact angle and viscosity, is a measure of the ability of a liquid to penetrate into a capillary space, such as interproximal regions, gingival pockets and pores.
(15) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
(16) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
(17) On histopathologic examination there were microabscesses in the inner choroid and subretinal space, disrupting the outer retina but sparing the inner retina.
(18) Immediately prior to and at maximal workloads, carbon monoxide shifted into extravascular spaces and returned to the vascular space within five minutes after exercise stopped.
(19) Fluid movement out of the ICF space attenuated the decrease in the ECF space.
(20) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.