(n.) An irregular, narrow, projecting part of a field.
Example Sentences:
(1) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(2) Similar sponges were reintroduced into four ewes at each of the intervals 1, 3, 5, and 7 days later; three ewes served as controls.
(3) After washing for 7 days and freeze drying the resultant collagen sponge was tested with regard to mechanical, physical, enzymatic degradation properties and biological responses.
(4) The substance benzalconium chloride (BZC) was contained in vaginal sponges (n = 46), pessaries (n = 4) and cream (n = 6) at a dose rate of 1.18%.
(5) Depending on depth regions from which the sponges were collected, differences in occurrence of metabolites were observed.
(6) Turn the sponge out onto the paper, then carefully peel off the lining paper.
(7) The concentrations of NaB3H4-reducible collagen cross-links were determined at the time when collagen fibres and bundles are observed in electron micrographs of connective tissue developing around the implanted Ivalon sponge in adult male rats.
(8) Nonetheless, these donor-reactive CTL rarely constitute more than 0.5% of the T cells recovered from sponge allografts, even at the peak of the rejection response.
(9) Attention is given to the poor design of a disposable cellulose sponge that results in frequent hooking of sutures during microsurgical procedures.
(10) The effects of epidermal growth factor (EGF) on granulation-tissue formation and collagen-gene expression were studied in experimental sponge-induced granulomas in rats.
(11) In spite of the growing variety of materials being used in the manufacture of intraabdominal packs (sponges), no data have been published on their adhesion-producing properties.
(12) Of the 19 women, 4 of 6 sponge users (66%) developed a bacterial vaginosis recurrence (RR 2.93, 95% CI: 1.43-6.02).
(13) Explants of a human sacral chordoma were successfully maintained on collagen-coated coverslips, gelfoam sponge matrices, and Millipore filter platforms for up to 30 days.
(14) A fraction prepared from normal human plasma inhibits the migration of polymorphonuclear and mononuclear leucocytes into inflammatory exudates produced by the intrapleural injection of carrageeman or turpentine by the subcutaneous implantation of polyvinyl sponges in the rat.
(15) These sponges were dissociated both mechanically, which leaves the factor on the cell surface, and by Humphrey's (1963) method, which isolates the factor from the cells.
(16) Five new 20,24-bishomoscalarane sesterterpenes, phyllactones A [1], B [2], C [3], D [4], and E [5], are reported from the sponge Phyllospongia foliascens collected in the waters of the Nansha Islands in the South China Sea.
(17) To determine if alloantigen-induced .N = O production might be operative in vivo, cells that had infiltrated a rat sponge matrix allograft were tested for de novo .N = O production as well as .N = O production upon restimulation with the sensitizing alloantigen.
(18) The fine structure of four glioblastomas and two cerebellar astrocytomas maintained in organ culture systems up to 137 days and 43 days, respectively, using either a three-dimensional sponge foam matrix technic or a Millipore filter platform technic, is described and compared.
(19) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(20) Initially, 4-5 days post-operative, the plasma clot maintained the grafted cells in a loose sponge-like sack at the site of implantation.
Stong
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A stong downward trend in average daily dose was found, equivalent to a halving in lanoxin, almost as much in digoxin, and a one-fifth fall in prepared digitalis.
(2) After the rabbits became tuberculin positive, the stongly activated macrophage population contained a) fewer parasitized cell, b) fewer bacilli in each parasitized cell, and c) more "free" 14C-label (not associated with intact bacilli) than the weakly activated macrophage population.
(3) The sequence shows regions of stong clustering of hydrophobic, basic and acidic amino acids, with an apparent calcium-binding site in the acidic cluster.
(4) There is a stong correlation between the extent of fetal damage and the bilirubin content of the amniotic fluid.
(5) These results are stongly suggestive that the salivary determination of this activity may be convenient indicatior for determining the day of ovulation.
(6) Stongly charged groups like sulphate, carboxymethyl and diethylaminoethyl abolish reactivity with anti-B-512-dextran at relatively lower degrees of substitution than more neutral groups like methyl and acetyl.
(7) At a particular pH, the divalent ion Ca-2+ stongly influences the intensity of the spectra in the presence of negatively charged liposomes, but has no effect with neutral liposomes.
(8) The same properties of the two forms of enzymes and the positive cross reaction against anti free and anti cell-associated globulins stongly suggest the identity of the two enzymes.
(9) They were stongly oriented toward working with people, had altruistic goals and values, and were highly confident of their interpersonal skills.
(10) T stongly indicates the overzealous resection of the mitral leaflets and papillary muscle as an important eitiologic factor.
(11) Our observations establish that ACTH and beta-LPH are contained in the same nerve cells They stongly favor biosynthesis in brain, probably from a common precursor molecule, as has been demonstrated in the pituitary gland.
(12) It is concluded that restorations placed below the gingival margin indirectly are stongly involved in the etiology of destructive periodontal disease and the cause of many extractions.
(13) Palmitate and linoleate also augmented albumin synthesis although not as stongly as fibrinogen synthesis.
(14) I stongly urge you and your colleagues to reconsider how we can intevene to help some of the most vulnerable victims of an internecine conflict,” he wrote.