(superl.) Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.
(superl.) Not rough, rugged, or harsh to the touch; smooth; delicate; fine; as, soft silk; a soft skin.
(superl.) Hence, agreeable to feel, taste, or inhale; not irritating to the tissues; as, a soft liniment; soft wines.
(superl.) Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring; pleasing to the eye; not exciting by intensity of color or violent contrast; as, soft hues or tints.
(superl.) Not harsh or rough in sound; gentle and pleasing to the ear; flowing; as, soft whispers of music.
(superl.) Easily yielding; susceptible to influence; flexible; gentle; kind.
(superl.) Expressing gentleness, tenderness, or the like; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind; as, soft eyes.
(superl.) Effeminate; not courageous or manly, weak.
(superl.) Having, or consisting of, a gentle curve or curves; not angular or abrupt; as, soft outlines.
(superl.) Not tinged with mineral salts; adapted to decompose soap; as, soft water is the best for washing.
(superl.) Applied to a palatal, a sibilant, or a dental consonant (as g in gem, c in cent, etc.) as distinguished from a guttural mute (as g in go, c in cone, etc.); -- opposed to hard.
(superl.) Belonging to the class of sonant elements as distinguished from the surd, and considered as involving less force in utterance; as, b, d, g, z, v, etc., in contrast with p, t, k, s, f, etc.
(n.) A soft or foolish person; an idiot.
(adv.) Softly; without roughness or harshness; gently; quietly.
(interj.) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
Example Sentences:
(1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(2) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(3) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
(4) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
(5) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(6) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
(7) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
(8) Benign and malignant epithelial and soft tissue tumors of the skin were usually negatively stained with MoAb HMSA-2.
(9) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
(10) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.
(11) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
(12) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
(13) Computed tomography (CT) is the most sensitive radiologic study for detecting these tumors, which usually are small, round, sharply marginated, and of homogeneous soft tissue density.
(14) The latter indicated that, despite the smaller size of the digital image, they were adequate for resolving clinically significant soft-tissue densities.
(15) We isolated soft agar colonies (a-subclones) and sub-clones from foci (h-subclones) of both hybrids, and, as a control, subclones of cells from random areas without foci of one hybrid (BS181 p-subclones).
(16) Three of the tumours represented primary soft tissue lesions, while locally recurrent tumour or pulmonary metastases were studied from the 4 skeletal tumours, all of which had been diagnosed previously as Ewing's sarcomas.
(17) The technique is based on a multiple regression analysis of the renal curves and separate heart and soft tissue curves which together represent background activity.
(18) A hospital-based case-control study on soft tissue sarcomas (STS) was conducted in 1983-84 in Torino and in Padova (Italy).
(19) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
(20) Thirty patients required a second operation to an area previously addressed reflecting inadequacies in technique, the unpredictability of bone grafts, and soft-tissue scarring.
Tid
Definition:
(a.) Tender; soft; nice; -- now only used in tidbit.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, the significantly lower relative bioavailabilities for the prolonged-action hydroxymethylnitrofurantoin formulations suggest that Urfadyn PL 100 mg bid and Uridurine 100 mg tid are not pharmacokinetically equivalent to Furadantine MC.
(2) The membrane-reactive, photoactivatable probe 125I-TID [3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl)-3H-diazirine] was found to label the M protein of vesicular stomatitis virus about 40% as much as G protein in intact virions, in agreement with labeling studies with other probes.
(3) The B-cell activity as measured by the anti-dinitrophenyl (DNP) antibody responses to DNP-thymus-independent carriers (TID) was not impaired in tumor-bearing mice as compared with normal mice, whereas the anti-DNP antibody response to DNP-thymus-dependent carriers (TD) and the development of helper T-cell activity to TD were markedly suppressed in tumor-bearing animals or mice pretreated with cell-free cancerous ascitic fluid.
(4) Kinetic profiles were developed in 12 elderly patients (age range: 72-81 yr) after single (12.5 mg) dose and multiple oral dosages (12.5 mg tid for 17 days).
(5) Using [125I]TID-labelled mf-AChE as substrate, radiolabelled diradylglycerol was obtained with both peak activities.
(6) The acute effects of oral enoximone on rest and exercise hemodynamics, ejection fraction, aerobic metabolism, exercise capacity, and arrhythmias were studied in 11 patients with moderate to moderately severe dilative cardiomyopathy after 8 days of enoximone (100 mg tid) in addition to baseline therapy (diuretics and digitalis).
(7) Mean peak serum netilmicin concentration in the od group was approximately two-fold greater than that in the tid group; mean trough serum netilmicin concentrations were similar for the two groups.
(8) A patient presenting a recurrent episode of pulmonary leiomyomatosis has been treated with the LH-RH agonist buserelin at a dosage of 200 micrograms tid SC for 7 days, then 500 micrograms SC daily for a total period of 6 months.
(9) Membrane proteins were radio-iodinated in their hydrophobic cores with the hydrophobic photoactivatable reagent 3 (trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]iodophenyl) diazirine (TID).
(10) Plasma concentrations of indomethacin have been studied in 5 healthy volunteers after single and multiple doses (25 mg intravenously [iv], 25, 50, and 100 mg orally, 100 mg rectally, and 25 mg three times daily [tid].
(11) The streptokinase titrated initial dose (TID) was estimated in 31 2 patients consecutively admitted to a medical department in Oslo.
(12) Furthermore, increasing concentrations of NaCl, decrease the labeling of apo-alpha-lactalbumin with [125I]TID.
(13) Comparable amounts of TID per mg of protein were incorporated into each subunit.
(14) C9 was assembled on liposomes and after photoactivation, several labeled and non-labeled peptides, obtained by chemical and enzymatic cleavage or the 125I-TID-labeled C9, were analyzed.
(15) It is proposed that caution should be applied in the interpretation of [125I]TID labeling patterns of the yeast plasma membrane H(+)-ATPase and that new and diverse approaches should be developed to provide a more definitive topology model.
(16) The captopril group was administered 25 mg tid and increased to 100 mg tid, while the enalapril group began with 5 mg bid and increased to 20 mg bid, depending on the patient's blood pressure (BP) response.
(17) Labeling of PI-PLC-resistant E DAF with 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-(m-[125I]-iodophenyl)-diazirine ([125I]TID) and TLC analysis of nitrous acid deamination anchor fragments showed a predominant phospholipid species with less polar migration than the 125I-TID-labeled PI.
(18) Patients were randomly assigned to receive either placebo or 10, 25 or 50 mg of encainide 3 times daily (tid) for 2 weeks.
(19) Of special interest is the observation that when complete adjuvant containing increasing amounts of mycobacterial components was administered in conjunction with antigen very early in the tolerance induction phase 5 days after TID, it appears to prevent tolerance production.
(20) After randomization 19 treated with L started with 20 or 40 mg at night according to baseline cholesterol under or above 300 respectively and 20 with B received 200 mg tid.