What's the difference between semifluid and semiliquid?

Semifluid


Definition:

  • (a.) Imperfectly fluid.
  • (n.) A semifluid substance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A new method for removal of aural foreign bodies is introduced, employing the injection of a semifluid impression material into the external auditory canal, and its removal after curing with the engulfed foreign matter.
  • (2) Further improvement of the methods for cloning tumour cells in the semifluid nutrient media is of great interest.
  • (3) The internal shearing stresses are difficult to predict because of the semifluid nature of the tissue in the attachment zone.
  • (4) A new technique, pioneered in France but essentially unpublicized, eliminates active aspiration, replacing it by the principle of capillary suction of fluid or semifluid material into a thin channel (a fine needle).
  • (5) It was shown that when grown in serum semifluid agar capsular staphylococci formed diffuse colonies of three different types.
  • (6) We examined 28 suckling, weanling, and young adult rabbits with lethargy, inappetence, and mucinous, semifluid feces.
  • (7) Sodium hyaluronate, 1.9% solution, with its viscous semifluid properties, coats the nerve roots and dura anteriorly and posteriorly.
  • (8) Samples of normal, semifluid and watery stools were examined for rotavirus by an ELISA-test on faeces.
  • (9) He documented the nature of fundal and antral motility and how antral contractions might convert an admixture of solid food and gastric juice into a uniform homogenous semifluid.
  • (10) These side effects included some passage of semifluid fecal material, intermittent penile relaxation, and mild sedation.
  • (11) The described morphological picture corresponded to the internal part of the L-colonies from the semifluid medium in observation under phase and scanning microscope.
  • (12) A peritreponemal fine reticular halo demonstrable in most fragments is supposed to be due to fixation induced shrinkage of treponemal hyaluronidase-influenced semifluid glycosaminoglycans.

Semiliquid


Definition:

  • (a.) Half liquid; semifluid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (It is presumed that these will enhance linear flow of semiliquid intestinal contents.)
  • (2) The junction between lens and LPC's has critical structural value in that (1) this is the sole anchorage to the lens by the lengthy remainder of the ommatidium, and (2) LPC's enclose the semiliquid pseudocone in the most distal portion of the pseudocone.
  • (3) Hooks of all worms from rats were invested with a semiliquid lipid coat, apparently derived from tegumental excretions at the base of the hooks.
  • (4) A special semiliquid medium was designed and tried, containing agar-agar, peptone, sodium chloride, mannose, gelatin, indicator, Progress agent.
  • (5) A bacterial suspension prepared from a nodule from a patient with lepromatous leprosy was inoculated into the cell-free, semisynthetic, semiliquid agar medium M-Y 11d-modified from the authors' medium M-Y 1c by omitting glycerol and adding pyruvate-and incubated at 37 degrees C. The growth of the organism was stimulated so markedly that after about 50 weeks' incubation of the primary culture microcolonies could be seen floating in the agar layer as tiny white particles, while the medium fluid assumed a yellow tinge.
  • (6) If stored at 4 degrees C in semiliquid agar, S. flexneri cultures have been found to retain their capacity for producing the above-mentioned enzymes as long as 10-13 years.
  • (7) The quality of swallowing was very good in 51.5% of the cases, while 36.7% of the patients suffered from dysphagia for semisolids and 10.1% for semiliquids.
  • (8) Self-reproduction of spheroplasts is most active in a semiliquid potato-meat-peptone medium containing 0.2--0.3 per cent of agar.
  • (9) A semiliquid hematoma was evacuated and a vascular nodule was removed from the posterior wall of the hematoma cavity.
  • (10) The cells of the adapted substrain of P-388 grew also in the semiliquid agarized medium forming compact colonies by the 4th-5th day of cultivation.
  • (11) Preliminary tests had shown a mass of a big orange, size of cystic appearance on the scan, clearly defined by TAC, as an oval shape, of cystic appearance, with semiliquid contents, strictly connected with the left-hand side of the thyroid gland and the big vessels of the neck and the fossa over the collar bone plane which pressed on the trachea and put it out of its original position.
  • (12) Taste stimuli were 20 semiliquid mixtures of soft-white cheese (0, 3 or 7 grams of fat per 100 grams) or heavy cream (30% fat), and sweetened with 1, 5, 10, 20 or 40% sucrose.
  • (13) Basal activity of the interposed colon was limited to occasional monophasic waves of the segmenting type; the acid solution and the semiliquid bolus constantly elicited a peristaltic motor response transporting the contents to the gastric fundus or, in antiperistaltic colon, from the distal to the proximal part.
  • (14) Three nutrition systems were employed: 1) total parenteral feeding (7 patients), 2) feeding by naso-gastric tube or gastric fistula (15 patients), 3) feeding per os with semiliquid foods (9 patients).
  • (15) Better results produced the strain K vaccine against swine fever in combination with semiliquid agar.
  • (16) An animal model was then created in twenty immature dogs, venous drainage was obstructed, and intraosseous pressure of the femoral head and neck was elevated by injection of four milliliters of semiliquid silicone into the femoral neck.
  • (17) Necropsy of dead and sick 5-day-old poults from a flock of 12,500 Broad-Breasted White turkeys having high early mortality (685 the first week) revealed rather large inflamed retained yolk sacs with semiliquid contents, ascites, and swollen greenish-colored livers.
  • (18) To achieve the growth of L-forms, sputum inoculation was done on Shkolnikova's semiliquid culture medium.
  • (19) Rotavirus was detected more frequently in semiliquid, loose stools than in normal or watery stools, and an association between virus detection and diarrhoea could not be demonstrated.
  • (20) All were treated with an individualized disaccharide dose to achieve and maintain two semiliquid bowel movements per day.

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