(n.) Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
(n.) An engraved or inscribed stamp, used for marking an impression in wax or other soft substance, to be attached to a document, or otherwise used by way of authentication or security.
(n.) Wax, wafer, or other tenacious substance, set to an instrument, and impressed or stamped with a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal.
(n.) That which seals or fastens; esp., the wax or wafer placed on a letter or other closed paper, etc., to fasten it.
(n.) That which confirms, ratifies, or makes stable; that which authenticates; that which secures; assurance.
(n.) An arrangement for preventing the entrance or return of gas or air into a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap.
(v. t.) To set or affix a seal to; hence, to authenticate; to confirm; to ratify; to establish; as, to seal a deed.
(v. t.) To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality; as, to seal weights and measures; to seal silverware.
(v. t.) To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.
(v. t.) Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.
(v. t.) To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement, plaster, or the like.
(v. t.) To close by means of a seal; as, to seal a drainpipe with water. See 2d Seal, 5.
(v. t.) Among the Mormons, to confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
(v. i.) To affix one's seal, or a seal.
Example Sentences:
(1) To provide a seal with low pressure-high volume cuffed tubes, cuff sizes of 20.5 mm and 27.5 mm are recommended for female and male patients, respectively.
(2) Cermet cement sealings showed defects more frequently.
(3) The channels usually ceased conducting within a few minutes after seal formation with the patch pipette and could not be re-activated with depolarizing voltage steps.
(4) For all the understandable insistence that parliament and London would continue as normal after Wednesday’s terrorist attack, almost 24 hours later a large section of streets around the area remained sealed off by police.
(5) Tone pulses and noise stimuli were mixed acoustically and presented using calibrated, sealed stimulating systems.
(6) In general, after recording a baseline tympanogram, mechanically created positive and negative air pressures are created in a hermetically sealed ear canal causing increased pressure on the middle ear air cushion.
(7) Ecological evidence is considered to suggest that the rapid maturation of C. semerme in rats may also occur when the parasite becomes established in seals.
(8) Increased conversion of 25-OHD to 24,25-(OH)2D and a high capacity for vitamin D storage in their large blubber mass appeared to be factors in the resistance of seals to vitamin D toxicity.
(9) The mechanism of sealed-off perforation of the duct is discussed.
(10) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(11) Treatment animals had the anastomoses and graft sealed with a suspension of N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate and 1.2 g tobramycin powder (antibiotic glue, ANGL) after contamination.
(12) The results demonstrated that, when the coronal half of the root canal filling material was removed immediately after placement with pluggers, there was a loss of the apical seal and leakage in thirteen of twenty teeth.
(13) Ultrastructural study of the Leydig cells of nonbreeding crabeater, leopard and Ross seals showed that three types of cells could be distinguished.
(14) National bans on commercial trading in seal products are already in place in 30 countries including the US, the Netherlands and Italy.
(15) Under these conditions, with careful attention to sealing at ankles and waist, it was possible to estimate penetration as low as 0.3%.
(16) We used transvitreally delivered cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive to seal retinal breaks in 25 selected patients undergoing vitreous surgery for complicated retinal detachment.
(17) To date, numerous products have been evaluated, and many hundreds have received the council's seal of acceptance.
(18) She explained that, as a baby, she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM): her clitoris cut off and her vagina sealed, with only a small hole remaining for urine and menstruation.
(19) After accidental dissection of the thoracic duct in infants, leakage of chyle could be sealed successfully in 6 cases.
(20) These microcapsules can be dried and retain activity when sealed in a jar at 4 degrees C.
Signet
Definition:
(n.) A seal; especially, in England, the seal used by the sovereign in sealing private letters and grants that pass by bill under the sign manual; -- called also privy signet.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to study the progression of signet ring cell carcinomas in the human stomach, we compared cell proliferation and differentiation between small and large intramucosal cancers, and between intramucosal and advanced cancers.
(2) Microscopic examination showed that the tumor was an invasive papillary growth with numerous signet-ring cells and mucous production.
(3) Carcinoma exhibiting signet ring cell appearance in the prostatic gland is rare.
(4) The results show that signet-ring cell carcinoma has a poor prognosis.
(5) Most of the tumours were well or moderately differentiated adenocarcinomas, one was poorly differentiated, and one was a signet ring cell carcinoma.
(6) The signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma cell line (HSKT-C) and the fibroblast cell strain (HSKT-F) were established from a Krukenberg tumor.
(7) Signet ring cell carcinoma of the breast is a rare type of tumor characterized by the presence of numerous cells containing large intracellular and little extracellular amounts of mucin.
(8) At operation, ovarian involvement was found to be secondary to metastatic signet ring cell adenocarcinoma of the colon, an extremely rare malignancy in this age group.
(9) The histologic features that caused diagnostic difficulty were: a solid, sheet-like proliferation of cells (four cases), a pseudoinfiltrative pattern (one case), abundant stromal hyalinization (one case), signet ring cells (two cases), hobnail cells (two cases), and the presence of moderate degrees of nuclear atypicality (two cases) and occasional mitotic figures (two cases).
(10) A review of the literature revealed this case to be the first reported case of triple cancers including signet ring-cell carcinoma of the breast, proven by autopsy in Japan.
(11) An immunoperoxidase method was used to compare the distribution of fibronectin and laminin between superficially spreading and deeply infiltrating parts of signet-ring-cell carcinoma of the stomach.
(12) The subsequent maturation stages are the well-known globular multivacuolated adipocyte and finally the mature univacuolated, signet-ring, white adipocyte.
(13) Argyrophil cells were observed in six cases (14.3%) and argentaffin cells in one (2.3%); their histopathological pattern were well differentiated adenocarcinoma (5) and "signet ring cell carcinoma" (1).
(14) In part of the tumor the direct transition between well-differentiated adenocarcinoma and signet-ring cell carcinoma was seen.
(15) Superficial carcinoma arose multicentrically and showed figures of signet ring cell carcinoma.
(16) Vesical adenocarcinoma has several variants, including signet-ring cell and clear cell types.
(17) Conclusions from formal histogenesis suggest that the signet ring cell type and the anaplastic (solid) type of early gastric cancer might start in the lower part of tubule necks.
(18) Only 1 tumor (a signet ring carcinoma) metastasized to the peritoneal cavity.
(19) Postmortem examination of the patient's brain revealed diffuse leptomeningeal infiltration by a signet-ring adenocarcinoma.
(20) The intestinal properties of the tumor cells were noted not only in the well-differentiated but also in the poorly differentiated or signet ring cell carcinomas, not closely being related to the presence of background intestinal metaplasia.