(n.) A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid.
(n.) A kind of waterproof cloth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effects of common repellents on the membrane fluidity of Escherichia coli were measured by the fluorescence polarization of the probe 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in liposomes made of lipids extracted from the bacteria and in membrane vesicles.
(2) It is suggested that the capacity of large doses of L3T4+ cells to protect mice against lethal GVHD is a reflection of T helper function: the cellular immunity provided by the donor L3T4+ cells enables the host to repel pathogens entering through damaged mucosal surfaces, with the result that GVHD becomes sublethal.
(3) Repellent effect of the Mannich bases (methoxyphenol derivatives) on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas was revealed under laboratory and field conditions.
(4) We have recently prepared a carbon fibre micro-electrode (mCFE) which specifically pretreated and coated with Nafion (a negatively charged polymer which repels acids such as 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC)) allows the direct selective detection of the oxidation of DA and 5-HT in nanomolar concentration in vitro and that of extracellular basal levels of cerebral 5-HT in vivo (peak B at +240 mV).
(5) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
(6) These compounds possess insecticidal and repellent properties.
(7) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(8) Repellent addition has previously been shown to stimulate MCP demethylation.
(9) Of 33 compounds tested, 8 were repellents for B. bacteriovorus strain UKi2: n-caproate, alanine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, cobaltous chloride, and hydronium ion.
(10) The CDC and other health agencies have been operating for months on the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and they have been warning pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, avoid travel to Zika-stricken regions and either abstain from sex or rely on condoms.
(11) But maybe, just maybe, they won’t, for they represent real forces and articulate real passions that Labour and the Conservatives, and now the Lib Dems, have so far utterly failed to repel.
(12) The treatment involved the use of repelling magnets for the distalization of the upper right molar which was in a class II relationship.
(13) The most important stabilizing factor for the intramolecular proton transfer is the zinc ion, which lowers the pKa of zinc-bound water and electrostatically repels the proton.
(14) Both sexes were attracted to the odor of R-(-)-carvone and repelled by the odor of (+)-citronellol.
(15) The paint whooshed down through the freshwater, but as soon as it hit the saltwater it was repelled, spreading out laterally as if the pigment had hit an invisible horizon.
(16) In bacterial chemotaxis, transmembrane receptor proteins detect attractants and repellents in the medium and send intracellular signals that control motility.
(17) Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and encrypting agency, last week used his first public speech to call for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks, and warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive strategy famously symbolised by France's Maginot line, which was meant to repel the Germans and failed.
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(19) Current control measures, stressing the use of mosquito nets, insect repellent, and residual insecticides designed primarily for the less mobile population of rice-farming communities are less effective among more mobile people.
(20) Soldiers damaged three of the vessels before clashes in which the militants were eventually repelled.
Treatment
Definition:
(n.) The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
(n.) Entertainment; treat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(3) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(4) 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.
(5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(6) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(7) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(8) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(9) More than 2 months after the combined treatment were required for the suppression.
(10) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(11) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(12) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(13) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(14) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(15) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(16) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(17) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(18) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(19) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(20) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.