(v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
(v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
(v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
(v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
(v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.
(v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
(n.) Sequestration; separation.
(n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
(n.) Same as Sequestrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both organisms have previously been found to be sequestered in the posterior lens capsule by histological and microbiological examination of excised capsular specimens.
(2) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
(3) The rate of release of an aqueous solution of pilocarpine hydrochloride sequestered in hydrogel-type materials can be reduced by plasma treatment of the polymer surface.
(4) Clearance into the mediastinum may be the major pathway for liquid sequestered in the loose, binding connective tissue.
(5) Since some genotoxic metals are diffused in the environment and are often sequestered as insoluble precipitates in water sediments and sludges, the introduction of NTA is likely to increase the risk of environmental pollution because of its ability to solubilize and make those metals reactive.
(6) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
(7) MCTP-treated rats receiving control serum (CS) tended to sequester more 111In-labeled platelets than respective DMF controls, but this was not statistically significant.
(8) Although the chemical basis of these results is not known, they indicate that profilin can tightly sequester actin monomers and support the earlier suggestion that the affinity of profilin for actin may be under metabolic control.
(9) Membrane receptor binding of luteolytic hormones activates production of a second messenger (such as a product of PI turnover) that stimulates release of sequestered, intracellular Ca2+ by a mechanism linked to inhibition of microsomal Ca2+-ATPase activity.
(10) The self-antigen may be poorly presented by APC or sequestered in a particular body compartment; alternatively, these T cells may have low affinity receptors needing high levels of antigen.
(11) We found that the 3' splice site of the C4-M1 intron is sequestered in a stem-loop structure, which inhibits the splicing reaction in vitro.
(12) This paper also discusses the effects on tissue concentrations and half-lives of trapping HCB in the intestines by sequestering a large portion of it there.
(13) However, in less than 15 sec, LTB4-treated PMN lose the ability to respond further to LTB4; decrease the affinity and number of high affinity receptors available for binding LTB4; sequester LTB4 in plasmalemma-associated sites that are inaccessible to a releasing buffer regimen; and begin internalizing LTB4.
(14) In the preceding paper we showed that de novo initiation at the L gene is prevented by a hairpin structure that sequesters the ribosomal binding site.
(15) The sequester is about as illogical process as you could possibly conceive."
(16) Light and electron microscopy revealed bacteria sequestered within the capsular bag.
(17) Stimulating the cells with noradrenaline (NA) also induced release of sequestered Ca2+ and an influx of extracellular Ca2+.
(18) Further, they demonstrate that the copper bound to metallothionein is not permanently sequestered, but can be incorporated into other copper proteins.
(19) By contrast, when trout were injected with cadmium intraperitoneally, most of the metal accumulated in the liver where it was sequestered by the two isoforms of metallothionein.
(20) There is as yet no easy explanation for regression in case of prolapsed, perhaps even sequestered, disc tissue.
Sequestrum
Definition:
(n.) A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) The second case concerns a 11 year-old boy who, after having complained from pain of the right wrist during 2 weeks, presented with swelling and on X-ray films a picture of metaphyso-epiphyseal lysis and an aspect of sequestrum in its center.
(2) After platinectomy and excision of a bony sequestrum, there remained only a large fossa with an area equivalent to 3 times that of a usual fenestra ovale.
(3) Direct local thrombolysis with low-dose Urokinase resulted in partial recanalisation with an excellent clinical result despite the persistence of an endovenous sequestrum situated at the catheter tip, a sequela of previous thrombosis.
(4) This may be explained by a different condition of the adipocytes in the sequestrum.
(5) The retained eruption sequestrum may lead to pericoronitis or pit and fissure caries.
(6) Unlike a simple fungus ball (the saprophytic form of aspergillosis), the rounded density of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis consists of sequestrum of devitalized lung tissue owing to blood vessel invasion by Aspergillus hyphae.
(7) The most frequent pulmonary cysts in this series were the bronchogenic and patients with parasitic cysts, lobe emphysema and pulmonary sequestrum were excluded.
(8) A slight loss of crestal alveolar bone occurred in the experimental areas and a bone sequestrum formed in one instance.
(9) Complications included skin loss (5 horses), laminitis of the affected limb (2 horses), laminitis of the contralateral limb (4 horses), osteomyelitis and sequestrum formation (2 horses), and bacteremia (1 horse).
(11) A case of osteomyelitis with a typical sequestrum of the alveolar bone, occurred three months after the extraction of the corresponding tooth, is reported.
(12) In Patient 1, septic arthritis and juxta-articular osteomyelitis with sequestrum formation were demonstrated by CT four weeks before abnormalities were shown on a roentgenogram.
(13) The only role of surgery is incision and drainage of a post-auricular abscess and removal of sequestrum if present.
(14) Sequestrectomy should be reserved for cases where a sequestrum and adequate involucrum can be seen on X-ray.
(15) Protein concentration was determined, using the Bradford technique, in tears from cats with normal corneas and from cats with corneal sequestrum.
(16) Two patterns occur: a localized involvement of the tympanic plate which resolves after the spontaneous separation of a sequestrum of bone, and a more diffuse necrosis of the temporal bone with a high risk of involvement of adjacent structures, in particular the brain, labyrinth and facial nerve and to a lesser extent the temporomandibular joint and the parotid gland.
(17) On the border between the two areas hypervascularity produces a zone of fragility where microfractures develop with detachment of a sequestrum.
(18) The radiographs may demonstrate an eggshell appearance, a sequestrum, marked sclerosis, or cystic changes.
(19) In most cases, SI analysis of nonenhanced T1- and T2-weighted images allows the differentiation of hypervascularized viable tissue from hypovascularized necrotic tissue of the sequestrum.
(20) The infant presented with Livedo reticularis and an ulcer on the right forearm since birth; the underlying radius and ulna showed osteomyelitic changes with sequestrum formation and a pathological fracture.