(n.) The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.
(n.) The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(2) The erythrocyte sedimentation rate is almost always markedly elevated.
(3) Histone mRNA, labeled with 32P or 3H-methionine during the S phase of partially synchronized HeLa cells, was isolated from the polyribosomes and purified as a "9S" component by sucrose gradient sedimentation.
(4) In cases without septic complications the level returned to normal within seven days, while the sedimentation rate only became normal after three months.
(5) The distance of nucleoid sedimentation increased as a function of exposure temperature and exposure time, and was proportional to an increased protein to DNA ratio in the nucleoids.
(6) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(7) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
(8) Partially purified VLPs were found to sediment at 183S in sucrose gradients and to cross-react with antibody in acute phase sera from geographically isolated cases of ET-NANBH.
(9) The following factors were studied: relative ability to adsorb virus, sedimentation of the adsorbing components, heat lability of the components, virus elution, and recovery of cell-associated virus.
(10) Other than an elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate, there are no consistent laboratory abnormalities, and cultures of affected bone are negative.
(11) A molecular weight of 51,500 was determined from sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, while sedimentation equilibrium ultracentrifugation gave a value of 49,500.
(12) Mononucleosomes obtained from labeled cells were fractionated by rate zonal sedimentation through a sucrose gradient in heavy water (Senshu et al.
(13) Microbiological analyses of sediments located near a point source for petrogenic chemicals resulted in the isolation of a pyrene-mineralizing bacterium.
(14) The major form, an amphiphilic dimer (G2a) which sediments at 5.3 S, and the minor form, an amphiphilic monomer (G1a) which sediments at 3.5 S. Extraction in the presence of the sulfhydryl alkylating agent N-ethylmaleimide was required to preserve the G2a form.
(15) A sedimentation coefficient of 5.6S was also determined.
(16) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
(17) Human granulocytes from the peripheral blood of healthy donors were subjected to transient gravity sedimentation analysis in Ficoll density gradient columns (37 degrees C) containing different concentrations of Escherichia coli endotoxin-activated serum and medium 199.
(18) Sedimentation-velocity experiments indicate the M. elsdenii enzyme (s20,w = 4.95 S) to be essentially globular, while the D. vulgaris enzyme (s20,w = 4.1 S) has a less symmetric shape.
(19) Membranes were fractionated into material that sedimented at 20,000g and 100,000g.
(20) The flounder developed renal and pancreatic neoplasms and hepatotoxic neoplastic precursor lesions, demonstrating trophic transfer of sediment-bound carcinogens up the food chain.
Turbid
Definition:
(a.) Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
(a.) Disturbed; confused; disordered.
Example Sentences:
(1) There were found out one-sided relations for instance concerning the proportion of transaminases, thymol turbidity test as well as creatinine to the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
(2) This paper describes the properties and use of a fiber optic probe as an attachment to a spectrophotometer and its use for measurements in solutions and turbid suspensions.
(3) Depriving the mutant of glucosamine resulted in a rapid loss of viability of the cells, followed by a decrease in the turbidity of the culture.
(4) This test is a rapid, inexpensive alternative to current 48- to 72-h methods in which broth turbidity is used as the end point.
(5) All phase II-contaminated TPN solutions showed visual turbidity after 96 hr, and all test organisms were recovered and identified.
(6) Continuous measurements were made of the turbidity of growing cultures of Escherichia coli, Streptococcus mutans, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(7) However, the effects of temperature on the rate of assembly above 37 degrees C were opposite to the effects seen at temperatures below 37 degrees C. In the range of 37-41 degrees C, the turbidity propagation rate decreased markedly with temperature.
(8) In addition, control myosin synthetic thick filament length as well as turbidity in solution, measured by light scattering, were twice as large as those of the myopathic heart myosin.
(9) The turbidities are remarkably high when one considers the low concentrations of protein and nucleic acid materials that are used.
(10) It is therefore essential to take into consideration the pH and turbidity of the water before applying molluscicidal treatment.
(11) With increasing hydrostatic pressure, the turbidity of an alpha-crystallin solution increases exponentially to a plateau at about 6000-8000 psi; upon release of pressure, the samples slowly return to their original turbidity level.
(12) Turbidity curves, measured following addition of thrombin to purified fibrinogen Milano IV, both in presence of calcium or EDTA, were markedly delayed.
(13) The liposomal solubilization, which was monitored by turbidity measurements or by determination of phospholipid sedimentability, was accompanied by the formation of a phospholipid-protein complex similar or identical to the one we previously reported to be formed from sonicated liposomes of egg phosphatidylcholine (Scherphof, G., Roerdink, F., Waite, M. and Parks, J.
(14) The decrease in turbidity at 400 nm, resulting from the uptake of the micro-organisms by the neutrophils, was measured for 20-30 min and the area under the curves was taken as a measure of the opsonizing capacity of the serum or the phagocytic capacity of the neutrophils.
(15) After removal of the methyl ester on the side chain of Glu, these polymers exhibited a remarkable pH dependence of the temperature for their inverse temperature transitions, which are followed as turbidity development at 300 nm.
(16) The modified medium (MBLA) is less turbid, less particulate, and easier to prepare than BLA.
(17) In death from intracranial injuries and asphyxia the strong turbidity developed earlier than in the other types of death.
(18) These results indicate that visually clear supernates may show optical turbidity; the turbidity is likely due to triglyceride-rich particles, which contain cholesterol; the fall in cholesterol with ultrafiltration is due to removal of these floating particles and some adsorbance of HDL particles to the filters.
(19) A deposit obtained by high-speed centrifugation could be separated into a heavy ribosome layer and a light turbid layer.
(20) Semen samples were analyzed for pH, volume, turbidity, liquidity, viability by stain exclusion and hypo-osmotic stress, sperm density and count per ejaculate, motility using a videotape technique, morphology, and morphometry.