(a.) Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends.
(a.) Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained.
Example Sentences:
(1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
(2) None of the strains was found to be positive for cytotoxic enterotoxin in the GM1-ELISA.
(3) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
(4) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
(5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
(6) All of the strains examined were motile and hemolytic and produced lipase and liquid gelatin.
(7) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
(8) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(9) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(10) We also show that the gene of the main capsid protein is expressed from its own promoter in an Escherichia coli strain.
(11) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(12) By hybridization studies, three plasmids in two forms (open circular and supercoiled) were detected in the strain A24.
(13) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
(14) Strains isolated from the environment and staff were not implicated.
(15) The compressive strength of bone is proportional to the square of the apparent density and to the strain rate raised to the 0.06 power.
(16) Escherichia enterotoxigenic strains, Yersinia enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium virulent strains, Campylobacter jejuni clinical isolates possess more pronounced capacity for adhesion to enteric cells of Peyer's plaques than to other types of epithelial cells, which may be of importance in the pathogenesis of these infections.
(17) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(18) The isoelectric points (pI) of E1 and E2 for all VEE strains studied were approx.
(19) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
(20) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.
Strainer
Definition:
(n.) One who strains.
(n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tissue was sieved through a large strainer (2 mm2) to produce a homogeneous suspension.
(2) The Brooklyn Bridge Park, High Line and Low Line parks are healthy gauges of this, along with project +POOL , a “plus” shaped pool which will act like a giant strainer dropped into the Hudson river.
(3) In chaps, a battered Stetson and with a soup-strainer moustache, Tex immediately provided – to fans of old western movies like us – a far more thrilling encounter than anything Sin City could offer.
(4) The authors describe a method of plasty of proximal parts of the femoral diaphysis with a nonfree vascularized autotransplant from the iliac crest on the muscular-vascular connections including the strainer of the wide fascia, portion of the musculus gluteus medius and the feeding ascending branch of the lateral artery surrounding the femoral bone with the accompanying veins.
(5) The wash procedure consisted of a jet of tap water over the specimen contained in a tea strainer.
(6) Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a glass.
(7) Application of temephos in unsafe water sources for destroying cyclops, the intermediate hosts of guineaworm, and distribution of fine mesh nylon strainers for promoting prophylaxis against guineaworm are accepted methods of guineaworm control in different endemic countries.
(8) 4 Pour the liquor through a strainer, retaining both liquid and solids.
(9) Occasionally, he’d stray into being a bee, sporting a couple of tea strainers over his eyes.
(10) This procedure utilized a tea strainer, plastic cup and conical centrifuge tube, all of which could be made available at a minimally equipped laboratory.
(11) No worries if you don't have a juicer: a blender and a strainer do the trick.
(12) Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer and drink immediately.
(13) Also, a single isolate of L. ivanovii was obtained from a mesh screen strainer of the waste water treatment plant located near the works.
(14) Hyperchlorination of shower heads and angle valve strainers had only a short-lived effect on legionellae.
(15) 4 Strain with a tea strainer and serve (preferably in two old-fashioned teacups).