(n.) A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like.
(n.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
(3) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(4) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(5) A physiologically based model, comprising the reservoir, liver blood and tissue, and bile, was fitted to reservoir concentrations of 3H-oxazepam and 3H-oxazepam glucuronides, and the cumulative amount excreted into bile.
(6) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
(7) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(8) Liquid-dominated hydrothermal reservoirs, which contain saline fluids at high temperatures and pressures, have a significant potential for contamination of the environment by heavy metals.
(9) Pressure waves appeared at all filling volumes in the reservoir but increased in frequency and amplitude with increasing volume.
(10) Astrocytes are regarded to be target cells serving as a reservoir for agent amplification.
(11) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
(12) The left anterior descending coronary artery was cannulated and connected to a reservoir to regulate coronary perfusion pressure.
(13) Theoretically, the low-pressure system afforded by the Kock pouch may be superior in long-term safety to that provided by reservoirs made from other bowel segments.
(14) A group of alcoholics constituted the reservoir of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.
(15) We evaluated nine ambulatory insulin infusion pumps from seven manufacturers, basing our ratings primarily on human factors--size, weight, battery type, and adequate reservoir capacity (i.e., 48 hr insulin supply).
(16) Soils rich in keratinic residues constitute a permanent or occasional reservoir for dermatophytes and keratinolytic and keratinophilic fungi, and are a source of potential infection for man and animals.
(17) In the latter, only the commensal rodents constitute a major problem, whereas in rural tropical areas, native semidomestic species also serve as disease reservoirs and sources of infection to man.
(18) The reservoir is made up using 40 cm of detubulized ileum; on the afferent loop (10 cm long) the right ureter is implanted according to the Camey-Le Duc technique, on the efferent loop (25 cm long) the left ureter is implanted according to the same technique.
(19) Patients with draining X maltophilia surgical wound infections served as reservoirs for X maltophilia, and contamination of the respirometers and the hands of shock-trauma intensive care unit personnel resulted in patient-to-patient transmission of X maltophilia.
(20) A reservoir filled with warm heparinized blood was connected to this shunt.
Wasteweir
Definition:
(n.) An overfall, or weir, for the escape, or overflow, of superfluous water from a canal, reservoir, pond, or the like.