(n.) The union, or drawing together into one syllable, of two vowels that are ordinarily separated in syllabification; synecphonesis; -- the opposite of diaeresis.
(n.) Same as Synaeresis.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
(2) The reduced pH of cheese curd, which reaches 4.5 to 5.2, depending on the variety, affects at least the following characteristics of curd and cheese: syneresis (and hence cheese composition), retention of calcium (which affects cheese texture), retention and activity of coagulant (which influences the extent and type of proteolysis during ripening), the growth of contaminating bacteria.
(3) The effects of temperature and mechanical shear on the microcrystalline structure of petrolatum are examined; syneresis determinations and rheological methods are utilized as indicators of the integrity of this structure.
(4) The nonfreezable water content is 25% lower in rhesus monkey than in bovine vitreus which is attributed to the syneresis existent in the rhesus monkey vitreus.
(5) Another protein fraction, purified by agarose chromatography, induces shrinking (syneresis) of gels formed from F-actin and any of the gelation factors.
(6) We propose that actin-binding protein and myosin are concentrated in the cell cortex and particularly in pseudopodia where prominent gelation and syneresis of actin occur.
(7) Elevating [Ca2+]i by using EGTA-buffered, ionomycin-containing bathing media with either greater than or equal to 100 microM [Ca2+]o or 1 microM [Ca2+]o with N-methylglucamine substituted for Na+ caused axons to undergo a "syneresis."
(8) Studies on the syneresis of isolated myofibrils indicate that Ni cannot replace Ca in activating this reaction.
(9) The eye findings were seen at the age of 4 to 12 and included syneresis and posterior vitreous detachment; spotty areas of whitish, glistening degeneration, spotty hyperpigmentation, and greyish-white patches with pigmentations suggestive of healed retinochoroiditis in the peripheral retina.
(10) Characterization of the molecular events underlying these changes will elucidate the mechanisms of the phenomena of synchisis, syneresis, and detachment, and may provide methods with which to prevent or induce vitreous detachment prophylactically.
(11) Digitonin-permeabilized axonal field models, which maintained good morphology and particle transport, failed to develop a syneresis even when [Ca2+]o was increased to 250 microM.
(12) Various degrees of vitreal syneresis were observed in 28 of the 30 eyes.
(13) After further studies, it was determined that trace amounts of surface condensation (syneresis fluid) from agar, either added to the cerebrospinal fluid or adhering to the loop, were the probable source of contamination.
(14) Water-baths, water of syneresis and portions of salmonella cultures spurting out of the sterilizing flame were examined.
(15) The most common findings were posterior vitreous detachment with and without vitreous hemorrhage, vitreous syneresis with collagen fibril clumping, diabetic retinopathy with vitreous hemorrhage, retinal tears without retinal separation, and retinal separation.
(16) The investigations described show that the fibrin made in the presence of dextran has a shortened syneresis time, a lowered modulus of elasticity, an increased elongation and diminished ultimate strength at break.
(17) The procedure is proposed for preparation of PAAG which rules out syneresis.
(18) Milk gel prepared by the ropy strain also exhibited decreased syneresis (wheying-off) as compared to that by the non-ropy variant.
(19) The syneresis was characterized by a marked loss in volume and condensation of axoplasm, accompanied by a proliferation of lateral processes, which resulted ultimately in an arrest of visible particle transport.
(20) A bilaterally pseudophakic patient, who had no previous evidence of glaucoma, underwent Nd:YAG laser posterior capsulotomy and dispersal of vitreous syneresis opacities of his left eye.