(n.) One of a class of fabled female water spirits who might receive a human soul by intermarrying with a mortal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The main indications for diaphragmatic pacing are paralysis of respiration following high cervical spinal traumata and the chronic central hypoventilation syndrome (sleep apnoea of Undine's curse).
(2) Among the polydisperse RNA in the renal nuclei are small amounts of 45S RNA and large amounts of 32S RNA; the latter first appear when 18S RNA is detectable in the cytoplasm 10 min after administration of undine-H(3).
Unline
Definition:
(v. t.) To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pulpal responses elicited by 1% aqueous citric acid, 1% citric acid in 30% ethanol and 0.1% citric acid in 30% ethanol solutions, in unlined cavities and in cavities lined with Dycal after acid application, were compared with those elicited by a negative control material--(Nobetec), and a positive control material--(Syntrex).
(2) A technique is described in which unlined skin flaps are used after excision of malignant oral lesions.
(3) Ruby is lobbing bloodied lumps of cake into an unlined bowl and sobbing bitterly as she does so.
(4) Silicate cement was inserted in deep unlined cavities in 70 human teeth; 35 cavities were cleaned with an antibacterial cleanser, and the other 35 cavities in the contralateral teeth were treated with water spray only.
(5) Parenchymal cells were highly vacuolated, occasionally with membranous vacuoles, but most often revealing large, clear cytoplasmic zones unlined by any membranes.
(6) Cylindrical specimens were prepared by dead-loading or hand-condensing amalgam in a Teflon mold which was unlined, lined with Panavia EX, or lined with Amalgambond.
(7) Of the 30 cysts, 12 were corpus luteum cysts; 10 were called lutein cysts, nonspecific, and had a lining of luteinized cells of a single cell type; three cysts were luteinized follicles; four cysts were unlined or lined by a single layer of cells.
(8) Unlined channels of blood were found in connective tissue before treatment but not after.
(9) The amount of F retained was reduced significantly from 3.65 mg F in the first appointment, to 1.24 mg F in the second appointment when unlined trays were used.
(10) The use of unlined buccal fat pad as a pedicled graft to close palatal defects is reported.
(11) In addition, all teeth with deep unlined cavities showed inflammatory cells as did 1 with an intermediate depth unlined cavity.
(12) Unlined silicate restorations were placed in intact and experimentally altered monkey, teeth.
(13) The pulpal reactions to amalgams with relatively high Cu content were compared with a conventional amalgam placed in unlined cavities prepared in intact monkey teeth.
(14) The pulpal response to an experimental adhesion promoter (PTP) used in conjunction with a composite resin material, Biogloss, is described, in lined and unlined cavities.
(15) Amalgams were placed in cavities lined with ZOE and in unlined cavities.
(16) In vitro corrosion tests of samples so prepared exhibited corrosion resistance far superior to unlined control samples.
(17) The time dependences of these parameters are nonlinear [correction of unline] curves.
(18) Pseudocyst of the auricle is an asymptomatic, noninflammatory cystic swelling that typically involves the anthelix of the ear and results from an accumulation of fluid within an unlined intracartilaginous cavity.
(19) Less microleakage was observed in resin-bonded amalgam restorations than in Copal varnish-lined or unlined restorations.
(20) In the short observation period the inflammatory reactions were more pronounced when unlined composite fillings were evaluated compared with silicate cement fillings and with lined fillings.