(a.) Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard; firm; compact; -- opposed to fluid and liquid or to plastic, like clay, or to incompact, like sand.
(a.) Not hollow; full of matter; as, a solid globe or cone, as distinguished from a hollow one; not spongy; dense; hence, sometimes, heavy.
(a.) Having all the geometrical dimensions; cubic; as, a solid foot contains 1,728 solid inches.
(a.) Firm; compact; strong; stable; unyielding; as, a solid pier; a solid pile; a solid wall.
(a.) Applied to a compound word whose parts are closely united and form an unbroken word; -- opposed to hyphened.
(a.) Fig.: Worthy of credit, trust, or esteem; substantial, as opposed to frivolous or fallacious; weighty; firm; strong; valid; just; genuine.
(a.) Sound; not weakly; as, a solid constitution of body.
(a.) Of a fleshy, uniform, undivided substance, as a bulb or root; not spongy or hollow within, as a stem.
(a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
(a.) Not having the lines separated by leads; not open.
(a.) United; without division; unanimous; as, the delegation is solid for a candidate.
(n.) A substance that is held in a fixed form by cohesion among its particles; a substance not fluid.
(n.) A magnitude which has length, breadth, and thickness; a part of space bounded on all sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) An association of cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil and methotrexate already employed with success against solid tumours in other sites was used in the treatment of 62 patients with advanced tumours of the head and neck.
(2) The sensitivity of 75 non-CNS solid tumors to mismatched dsRNA was compared to the high-grade astrocytomas in the HTCA.
(3) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(4) The peptides, which were synthesized using a FMOC solid phase procedure and purified by HPLC, consisted of residues 6-25 from the putative aqueous domain, residues 22-35, which overlaps the putative aqueous and transmembrane domains, and residues 1-38 and 1-40 representing nearly the full length of beta-AP.
(5) We describe an enzymatic fluorometric method for determining glucose concentrations in blood samples by analysis on a semi-solid surface (silicone-rubber pads).
(6) Of all solid tumors only nine occurred in relapse-free patients.
(7) It also showed weak inhibition of the solid type of Ehrlich carcinoma and prolonged the survival period of mice inoculated with L-1210 cells.
(8) Hybridomas were selected on the basis of solid-phase reactivity with the purified native A transferase, cell immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation of transferase activity, and absence of reactivity with blood group ABH carbohydrate determinants.
(9) The principle of the liquid and solid two-phase radioimmunoassay and its application to measuring the concentrations of triiodothyronine and thyroxine of human serum in a single sample at the same time are described in this paper.
(10) Recently the presence of a coating inhibitory factor was described in human tears which can prevent the binding of proteins to a solid phase.
(11) We therefore conclude that the protective effect displayed by solid grafts might be a local process dependent on the release of diffusible trophic agents.
(12) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(13) The 68-kDa protein of B. bronchiseptica appeared to be the major protective antigen in B. bronchiseptica infection; however, isolated protein alone did not induce such a solid protection, as observed in a previous study after the application of an effective whole cell vaccine.
(14) The median age of patients with bacteremia of unknown origin was 65 years, and their most common underlying disorders were solid malignancy (28% of patients) and diabetes mellitus (18%).
(15) The free energy of activation showed a high negative correlation (r = -0.904, r2 = 0.817) with the percentage of virus adsorption to the solids tested.
(16) It was found that the use of a pH 9.6 buffer during the coating of ELISA plates led to the dissociation of virions into subunits which bound preferentially to the solid phase.
(17) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(18) A solid-phase microtiter assay was developed to investigate the binding properties of the vitronectin receptor.
(20) We conclude that, despite its rarity, adenocarcinomas must be included in the differential diagnosis of solid renal masses in early life.
Solidus
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Greater cracking susceptibility was interpreted by considering that these eutectics solidified at solidification temperatures far lower than the nominal solidus.
(2) The major GSH transferase form in S. solidus (plerocercoid) showed greater biochemical relationship to the Mu family of mammalian GSH transferase compared to the mammalian Alpha or Pi families.
(3) Aspects of the infectivity of the plerocercoid stage and the fecundity of the adult stage of Schistocephalus solidus were examined using the chicken, Gallus gallus, as an experimental host.
(4) The liquidus and solidus phase boundaries were determined by the onset temperature of heating and cooling scans, respectively, because the completion temperature of a phase transition has no meaning in binary solutions.
(5) Gasterosteus aculeatus was the most heavily infected fish with 4 larval cestode species; for two of them (D. ditremum and S. solidus) the three-spined stickleback was found to be the required fish intermediate host.
(6) Protein-lipid interactions are monitored by high sensitive differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measuring (i) the shifts of transition states delta Ts* and delta Tl*, where Ts represents the solidus line, the onset of lipid chain melting, and Tl the liquidus line, the endpoint of chain melting, and (ii) the heats of transition.
(7) From these graphs, densities, at room temperature, solidus point and liquidus point were obtained.
(8) The author then relates how he was given a stickleback infected with the plerocercoid of Schistocephalus solidus, an episode which eventually led to the successful in vitro culture of the adult of this species.
(9) This solidus article reports on two unique cases of naviculo-medial cuneiform coalition in a 20-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman.
(10) Two autogenic (Triaenophorus crassus and T. nodulosus) and four allogenic (Diphyllobothrium latum, D. dendriticum, D. ditremum and Schistocephalus solidus) larval cestode species were found in 13 out of 31 fish species studied from the Bothnian Bay, NE Baltic.
(11) Glutathione (GSH) transferase isoenzymes have been partially resolved from the cytosol of Schistocephalus solidus (plerocercoid) by GSH affinity chromatography and chromatofocusing at pH 7-5.
(12) The in vitro culture of S. solidus led to the development of successful in vitro techniques for Ligula intestinalis and for Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis.
(13) The structures of two low-gold and two silver-palladium alloys were evaluated in the as-cast and hardened conditions and in the condition achieved after annealing for 1 h at 100 degrees C below the solidus temperature.
(14) Using this data, the solidifying shrinkage and the shrinkage in the solidus phase were calculated.
(15) Among allogenic cestode species, those restricted to different definitive host species segregated their larval population in relation to the fish host, while, for example, D. ditremum and S. solidus, both maturing in fish-eating birds, had the highest percentage of co-occurrences.
(16) At the temperature where phase separation occurs, motion is detected as the solidus domains floating on a liquidus medium.
(17) Trial castings of alloys with a thermal expansion room to solidus temperature ranging from 1.60 to 1.91% showed either a very high accuracy or the possibility of improving the accuracy actually found by modifying the glycerol content of the mixing liquid used.
(18) Surprisingly, binary mixtures of DPPC and these cationic amphiphiles also show strongly nonideal mixing, with phase diagrams exhibiting pronounced maxima in their solidus and liquidus curves.
(19) The pure dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine has two well-defined solidus phases P beta' and L beta' and a liquidus phase L alpha while the pure phosphatidylserine has a broad transition from L beta to L alpha.
(20) There were no significant differences of thermal shrinkage in solidus between the five alloys, and each showed approximately 5vol% shrinkage.