(n.) One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine.
(n.) A spider.
(n.) A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air.
(n.) A spinneret.
Example Sentences:
(1) Countings were made of the number of glassfibers present at the skin of the spinners after the end of the work.
(2) Oxygen diffusion distance was measured in solid tumor "cubes" prepared by excising the tumor from the mouse and incubating 1-2 mm sided tumor cubes in spinner culture flasks with fluorescent drugs (AF-2 or DM113) which bind to hypoxic cells.
(3) We have recently shown that the semi-continuous cultivation of a mouse hybridoma line in spinner flasks, with a basal defined medium (BDM) devoid of serum and protein, increases the secretion of the immunoreactive monoclonal antibody (MAb) by a factor of ca.
(4) Cells were cultured in spinner flasks of 500 ml liquid volume for adaptation to stirred culture conditions.
(5) Blood smears were prepared with the use of a spinner, which rotated with a fixed velocity for a fixed time.
(6) Six water-jacketed 500-ml Bellco spinner flasks were equipped to monitor and control environmental variables to study their effects on the growth and metabolism of mammalian cells.
(7) Two hybridoma cell lines were cultivated in an indirectly aerated 10-1 reactor in batch, fed-batch and continuous (perfusion) operations and in spinner flasks.
(8) To examine the growth of these transfected cells in vivo, cells were grown in spinner culture flasks to form spheroids 250-300 microns in diameter.
(9) In contrast to these results, all the phospholipid to protein and the cholesterol to protein ratios of the internalized plasma membranes were higher in monolayer than in spinner cells, and the proportions of all phospholipids, except phosphatidylethanolamine, were similar in both cell types.
(10) The potential toxicity of these agents was examined in the absence of sparging (i.e., in spinner flasks) by using the attachment-independent Sf9 insect cell line as a model system.
(11) Tourism is an increasing money-spinner, with trips to see the Mountains of the Moon and the rare mountain gorillas in western Uganda especially popular.
(12) Aggregation of NR cells was inhibited by macrophages from mice and rats, and to a greater extent by cancer cell suspensions of mouse Ehrlich and rat Walker 256 lines from spinner culture or in the ascites form.
(13) Isis has been a real beneficiary.” For years, other, often anonymous critics, briefers, spinners and leakers have kept up a running commentary on Chilcot in the newspapers.
(14) Although continuous culturing was not achieved in spinner flasks, the production of litre quantities of heavily parasitised erythrocytes was achieved more simply than by using MASP cultures.
(15) A significant reduction in forced expiratory volumes (FEV1 after a shift) was observed in spinners of both factories.
(16) While influential, it has never been a massive money-spinner, and one estimate suggests it has seen a 57% drop in advertising on a circulation of around 500,000 copies.
(17) A reversion to Type I collagen synthesis occurred when the spinner-cultured cells were returned to monolayer flasks.
(18) Alpha fetoprotein (AFP) synthesis by adult rats during gestation and hepatoma growth was determined in vitro with specific precipitations of radiolabeled AFP antisera after incubation of Spinner cultures of various rat tissues in arginine-free culture medium containing radiolabeled arginine.
(19) IDS's spinners are continuing an increasingly popular political tactic in both the US and UK of using telly references to connect with the electorate.
(20) Spheroids were initiated in bacteriological grade petri dishes seeded with 10(6) 9L rat glioma cells, cultured for four days and thereafter transferred and further developed in a spinner flask.
Wire
Definition:
(n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel.
(n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire.
(v. t.) To bind with wire; to attach with wires; to apply wire to; as, to wire corks in bottling liquors.
(v. t.) To put upon a wire; as, to wire beads.
(v. t.) To snare by means of a wire or wires.
(v. t.) To send (a message) by telegraph.
(v. i.) To pass like a wire; to flow in a wirelike form, or in a tenuous stream.
(v. i.) To send a telegraphic message.
Example Sentences:
(1) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(2) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
(3) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
(4) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
(5) For the attachment of adherent cells, microcarriers or wire springs can be applied to increase the internal surface of the bioreactor.
(6) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
(7) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
(8) Whereas in flexion stress all methods showed a sufficient stability, the rotation tests proved, that in case of a dorsal instability of the lower cervical spine, posterior interlaminar wiring or anterior plate stabilization showed no reliable stabilization effect.
(9) Medial canthal tendon resection and tucks or transnasal wiring are then performed.
(10) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
(11) The steerable guide wire enabled the angioscopic catheter to be accurately and safely inserted into the target lesion in all cases.
(12) The use of wire stylets to facilitate passage of these tubes has increased the chances of unrecognized tracheal intubations, particularly in obtunded patients.
(13) Kirschner improved the wire traction procedure decisevely.
(14) Conservative treatment (immobilisation in a plaster alone) was compared to percutaneous K-wire fixation.
(15) The procedure consists of a Kirschner wire used as the means of traction on the remaining soft tissue of the lower lip, using the upper teeth or pyriform aperture bone as remote fixed points for tissue traction.
(16) Electroencephalographic activity and extracellular discharges from neurons in deep temporal lobe structures were recorded from fine wire microelectrodes chronically implanted in seven psychomotor epileptic patients for diagnostic localization of seizure foci.
(17) Masseter EMG was recorded by fine wire electrodes and amplified by a specially designed amplifier.
(18) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
(19) It was smaller than that reported for patients who had received stabilization of the maxilla with intraosseous and maxillomandibular wiring.
(20) At Charity Hospital in New Orleans transverse Kirschner wires have been routinely used to stabilize the zygoma in these cases.