(a.) capable of being drawn into a thread, as a glutinous substance; stringy; viscous; tenacious; glutinous; as ropy sirup; ropy lees.
Example Sentences:
(1) The formation of ropy slime also occurred on sausages without added sugars.
(2) Scanning electron micrographs of milk gel prepared by the ropy strain showed that slime was in the form of a network attaching the bacterial cells to the protein matrix.
(3) Examination of the group with myocardial infarction disclosed a significantly higher incidence of soft tissue changes (increased firmness, warmth, ropiness, oedematous changes, heavy musculature), confined almost entirely to the upper four thoracic levels.
(4) The classification of lactic acid bacteria able to cause ropy slime on vacuum-packed cooked meat products was carried out based on DNA-DNA homology.
(5) cremoris strain LAPT 3001 isolated from Swedish ropy sour milk 'långfil' was investigated for the chemical nature of its capsule.
(6) The ropy slime-producing lactobacilli were identified as strains of Lactobacillus sake and the ropy slime-producing leuconostocs, such as Leuconostoc amelibiosum and Leuconostoc mesenteroides.
(7) At three Finnish meat processing plants the processing rooms, meat trimmings and carcasses were examined for the presence of ropy slime-producing lactic acid bacteria.
(8) The ability to produce ropy slime would appear to be a common characteristic of lactobacilli, since altogether 10 different ropy lactobacilli groups were isolated in this study.
(9) Subjects were then examined and the four quadrants of each breast were rated on a scale of 0 to 3 (0 = normal, fatty tissue, 1 = little seedy bumps or fine nodularity, 2 = discrete nodules or ropy tissue, 3 = confluent areas, hard or soft masses).
(10) Two different homofermentative lactobacilli and a Leuconostoc strain were isolated from different ropy vacuum-packed meat products.
(11) Meanwhile, Lynn comes back strong after the ropy second inning, taming LA 1-2-3.
(12) Milk gel prepared by the ropy strain also exhibited decreased syneresis (wheying-off) as compared to that by the non-ropy variant.
(13) Hyperplastic areas had ropy microridges and uniform short microvilli.
(14) Thick, ropy lattice lines were seen to traverse the corneas almost from limbus to limbus and were easily detected with direct illumination.
(15) Ropy Streptococcus (Lactococcus) cremoris strains isolated from a ropy Swedish sour milk ("longfil") and a ropy Finnish milk product ("Viili") were screened for their plasmid-encoded functions.
(16) Measurements of texture showed that milk gel prepared by the ropy strain exhibited remarkably increased adhesiveness as compared to that by the non-ropy variant.
(17) Only 3.7% of acinetobacters from dairy sources was able to produce ropy milk.
(18) For testing purposes, use of the method producing the highest proportion of ropy colonies for each bacterial strain is recommended.
(19) This paper deals with the cause of the formation of ropy slime on the surface of vacuum-packed cooked meat products.
(20) Scanning electron microscopy showed that most surface cells of papillomas had numerous short uniform microvilli and ropy rounded microridges.
Stringy
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.
(a.) Capable of being drawn into a string, as a glutinous substance; ropy; viscid; gluely.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
(2) In vitro dissolution studies showed that the capsules had a tendency to collapse into a stringy mass and to dissolve slowly.
(3) Police reportedly investigated the theory at the time after Lady Osborne, Aspinall’s mother – and chancellor George Osborne’s grandmother – allegedly told them: “The last I heard of him he was being fed to the tigers at my son’s zoo.” Aspinall reportedly responded when questioned: “My tigers are only fed the choicest cuts – do you really think they’re going to eat stringy old Lucky?” A week after the murder, Aspinall, who died in 2000, told ITV News: “I find it difficult to imagine him in Brazil or Haiti as a fugitive.
(4) The excretory pyelogram revealed that the right kidney was hydronephrosis, and a retrograde pyelogram showed stringy filling defects in the middle portion of the right ureter.
(5) Scanning electron micrographs of bronchial mucosa from DG-ventilated lungs showed tangling and matting of cilia with a granular and stringy material attached to most cilia; these changes were much less pronounced in HG-ventilated lungs.
(6) Eventually we went to the RAC Club and ate rather stringy beef and drank a bottle of red together, so he reneged on that as well.” 3.
(7) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that, in both types, a stringy substance interconnected the cells and connected the cells to glass surfaces, with amorphous flocklike materials present in the intercellular space.
(8) Keep handling to a minimum as it is not cold hands (or a warm heart) that are key to quality shortcrust pastry, but minimising the formation of the stringy, elastic protein gluten.
(9) Axons most commonly had longitudinal orientations and stringy shapes.
(10) Thousands of boxes of the green, stringy plant are brought here each week for distribution across the UK.
(11) HS, PER, and NOX arbors had a "stringy" shape without a clear terminal focus, save for the fact that PER and NOX collaterals often terminated in rostrally displaced substantia gelatinosa at the level of the caudal SpVi.
(12) The polymerization process has four stages before final curing: slurry, stringy, dough-like (plastic), and rubber-like (elastic).
(13) In the fully developed syndrome, the upper tarsal plate has an increase in stringy mucus and is covered by large papillae crowded together.
(14) Unlike vibrissa afferents, hairy skin afferents gave rise to sparse and widespread arbors characterized by a string-like appearance, while the Vo collaterals were more stringy.
(15) But Henry VIII aside (a massive fan of the friendship bracelet), this particular stringy accessory truly had its moment among those born around the mid to late 70s and early 80s.
(16) And on days when I feel like what I’m working at is dreadful and not working out at all, I remember that Dorothy felt like “a plain disagreeable child with stringy hair and a yen to write poetry”, like she was only following in the footsteps of other, better women, in dirty sneakers.
(17) The aging neck in which the stringy appearance is due to hyperactive platysma can be surgically treated.
(18) The microscopic pathology shows fibrous tissue, reactive woven bone, and stringy, eosinophilic, extracellular debris.
(19) It may be interpreted that there was a stringy structure embedded in the calcospherites beneath the predentin.