(n.) A letter, syllable, or word, added to the end of another word; a suffix.
(v. t.) To annex; specifically (Gram.), to add or annex, as a letter, syllable, or word, to the end of another or principal word; to suffix.
Example Sentences:
(1) Postfixation of Kryofix-treated tissue with formalin results in false-negative immunostaining.
(2) The addition of oxalate to a suspension of rabbit peritoneal neutrophils before fixation with glutaraldehyde and postfixation with osmium tetroxide-antimonate greatly enhanced the amount of calcium antimonate precipitate subsequently detectable with the electron microscope.
(3) Intravascular fat in tissue postfixed in osmium tetroxide, embedded in epoxy or paraffin, and stained with toluidine blue, hematoxylin, or Oil Red O is more easily visualized than in frozen tissue that is stained with Oil Red O.
(4) Short (t less than 1 h) postfixation with either OsO4 plus K4Fe (CN)6 or OsO4 plus aminotriazole, added to lysosomal cerium localization a high membrane contrast.
(5) When such sections were postfixed in formalin, immunoreactivity was not diminished even after prolonged fixation.
(6) Postfixation with unbuffered ferrocyanide-reduced osmiumtetroxide contributes to a better localization of microperoxisomes in both celltypes.
(7) The blood cells were subsequently postfixed in osmium tetroxide, embedded in epoxy resins, and studied by electron microscopy.
(8) Tobacco mosaic virus particles were found in small packets and in small numbers, with the electron microscope, in necrotic leaf cells of Nicotiana glutinosa when the samples were fixed in glutaraldehyde and postfixed in OsO(4), and the sections were stained with heavy metals.
(9) Postfixation treatment of glutaraldehyde fixed pericardium aids spontaneous endothelialization and decreases tissue calcification.
(10) On the other hand, when fresh-frozen sections were fixed before or after incubation with various solutions (postfixation method) and then treated with various salt solutions, greater differences were seen in immunostaining of ER between saline-injected and hormone-treated animals.
(11) Slices of lung tissue were fixed in aldehyde, labelled with a battery of lectin-horseradish peroxidase conjugates, incubated in a diaminobenzidine-hydrogen peroxide medium and then postfixed in an osmium tetroxide solution.
(12) The use of gaseous (DEPC, BOV) postfixation of frozen-dried tissues for the fixation of non-hormone proteins was systematically studied.
(13) Sections were postfixed in -20 degrees C methanol and stained immediately by indirect immunofluorescence using sheep anti-mouse laminin, sheep antimouse type IV collagen, rabbit anti-mouse heparan sulfate proteoglycan, and mouse monoclonal anti-porcine plasma fibronectin.
(14) Chitin was visualized in cell walls after hydrolysis with potassium hydroxide and subsequent postfixation of the deacetylated polysaccharide (chitosan) in OsO4.
(15) Following a 30-min buffer wash (4 C) they are postfixed in buffered 2% osmium tetroxide for 2 hr at room temperature, washed, and dehydrated through an ethanol series and two acetone baths.
(16) The method consists of vascular perfusion with 5% glutaraldehyde dissolyed in a 300 mOsm Millonig buffer containing 200 mOsm sucrose and 2.7% low molecular dextran, a postfixation in the same medium, a rinse overnight in a normoton phosphate buffer containing 200 mOsm sucrose, an asmication in 2% OsO4 dissolved in a phosphate buffer, an extensive stepwise dehydration starting in 10% acetone and, finally, embedding in Vestopal W.
(17) However, CD45 and CD74 (LN2) were detectable in B5 postfixed material.
(18) Tissue samples were prepared by glutaraldehyde fixation of whole dissected larvae or whole embryos without osmium tetroxide postfixation.
(19) For the ultrastructural study, some blocks of every portion of the specimen were postfixed in osmium and embedded in Epon.
(20) Marked reductions in the length of the synapses, as determined on EPTA-postfixed tissue where noted.
Suffix
Definition:
(n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
(n.) A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.
(v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
Example Sentences:
(1) The home of the newspaper's content has been theguardian.com, which is the only non-"dot com" domain suffix in the top 10 Google News list of digital news outlets.
(2) Non-speech sounds, on the other hand, produce no suffix effect even when the subjects are forced to process them.
(3) The functioning genes contain short insertions carrying polyadenylation signals and polyadenylation sites at the same position of the suffix.
(4) Picture and graphic suffixes led to small, reliable end-of-sequence suffix effects, but spoken suffixes did not.
(5) Two experiments were conducted to investigate the nature of the delayed-suffix effect reported by Watkins and Todres (1980).
(6) The results yielded a significant reduction in the recall of the terminal words of the definitions in the speech suffix conditions compared with the tone control.
(7) In two other experiments involving auditory and visual presentation, respectively, subjects who had never been given paired associate training were required to recall the English words that had previously been associated with the ASL and QV stimuli, in a standard suffix paradigm.
(8) 2) There was a normal suffix effect or attenuation of the recency effect when the digits were followed by an another irrelevant speech suffix, the "8".
(9) The grammatical forms assessed were verb-subject agreement third person singular, negative concord, possessive suffix, and continuative be.
(10) Errors of the auxiliary and suffix were easier for children to identify than an adverbial error which required a sentence analysis to determine the incompatibility.
(11) The company choose the event to announce, not one, but two new consoles: an updated version of the Xbox One with a simple “S” suffix, and a more powerful upgrade – codenamed Project Scorpio – due out next year.
(12) Thus, in noise suffix mode, probability of recall was increased at the last one or two digits as similarly with in no suffix mode.
(13) The semantic and syntactic implications of the suffix are never evaluated.
(14) These recency effects are greatly reduced when an irrelevant auditory stimulus (a stimulus suffix) is presented.
(15) Whatever crumbs of wrongdoing there may be, they don’t amount to something worthy of Watergate, or even the myriad gate-suffixed scandals since.
(16) The primary effect, the recency effect and the suffix effect are already regarded as the characteristic items of acoustic memory produced in subjects with normal hearing ability.
(17) The suffixes phys and abol, respectively, mean the physiological and solely Vm-abolished conditions.
(18) The nucleotide sequences of 8 genomic and 2 mRNA copies of the suffix were studied.
(19) Serial recall of lip-read, auditory, and audiovisual memory lists with and without a verbal suffix was examined.
(20) Advanced disorders are designated by a composed term classifying them among the groups of primary disease and specifying the advanced stage by a suffix, so that the underlying disease remains coining the term, even in unclassifiable cases in which only CMPDs can be applied.