(v. t.) To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.
(v. t.) To make fluid; to dissolve.
Example Sentences:
(1) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(2) In the second group, a tibial cortical bone graft was detached and refixed with Silar in 12 rats and left unfixed in eight.
(3) Unfixed cells treated with the antiserum had localized areas (capping) of intense membrane fluorescence, whereas fixed cells had bright uniform membranous fluorescence.
(4) The mean activity of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in hepatocytes near the central vein region of unfixed sections of mouse liver was determined and compared with 3 different histochemical methods: conventional method, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) method, and gel film method.
(5) Enzyme activities in sections of fixed corneas were minimal in comparison with those in cold microtome sections of unfixed material revealed particularly with the technic of semipermeable membranes which is to be preferred.
(6) The requirement for unfixed tissue is a major drawback in the use of immunohistochemistry for the diagnosis of inflammatory and neoplastic disease.
(7) The redistribution and internalisation of two different lectin-binding sites on the same cell was investigated electron microscopically on unfixed rat liver cell cultures.
(8) A new staining technique was employed using acridine orange to differentially stain DNA and RNA in unfixed cells made permeable to the dye and other reagents by treatment with detergent at low ph.
(9) Unfixed kidney pieces or kidney pieces fixed in 4% formaldehyde were embedded in the hydrophilic polyhydroxy aromatic resins LR-Gold and LR-White, following dehydration in up to 70% ethanol, 90% ethanol or 100% ethanol.
(10) The use of unfixed and undecalcified cryostat sections of mouse knee joints is described for the study of enzyme histochemical reactions.
(11) Cell fixation after PMA treatment did not abolish this stimulatory activity, which could be transferred by supernatants from unfixed cells; exogenous interleukin-1 did not mimic the activity.
(12) 2) TH-IR nerve fibers could be detected in unfixed tissue if the sections were post-fixed with aldehydes by the use of a two-step fixation process related to a sudden change of pH.
(13) Contraction damage occurring when longitudinal frozen sections of fresh unfixed muscles are thawed on microscope slides has limited histological examination of this tissue mainly to cross sections.
(14) A panel of 14 monoclonal antibodies (McAb) against hematopoietic cell surface antigens was applied on mononuclear blood or bone marrow cells from 40 cases of acute leukemia in order to compare immunoenzymatic staining (IE) (alkaline phosphatase) of fixed cells with immunofluorescence staining (IF) of unfixed suspended cells.
(15) Unfixed metaphase chromosome preparations from human lymphocyte cultures were immunofluorescently labelled using antibodies to defined histone epitopes.
(16) An antisperm antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that uses whole unfixed sperm and detects immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgA antibodies in serum was developed.
(17) A nonisotopic, in situ hybridization procedure is described for detecting Epstein-Barr viral (EBV) DNA in cytopreparations of pepsin-digested, unfixed cells in less than 3 hours.
(18) The localization and activity of the lysosomal enzyme, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase, has been studied in unfixed frozen sections of tissues from normal and hemorrhaged rats with the use of a modified postcoupling technique.
(19) The pulmonary artery of unfixated human heart-lung specimens was banded by placing a Dacron tape around the artery and securing the tape with a 5.0 Prolene suture at selected circumferences.
(20) An immunofluorescence study using unfixed cryostat sections of rat pituitary glands was carried out on sera from 34 patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, 28 patients with Graves' disease, 10 patients with thyroid adenoma and 50 healthy subjects.
Unmoor
Definition:
(v. t.) To cause to ride with one anchor less than before, after having been moored by two or more anchors.
(v. t.) To loose from anchorage. See Moor, v. t.
(v. i.) To weigh anchor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro, London It makes no sense in many ways for us to think in national terms in art or politics or anything else any more - our world is characterised by interdependence - but is the “international” artist in danger of becoming unmoored in some ways, of losing a connection with the audience?
(2) Shannon Minter, the legal director of National Center for Lesbian Rights, which is acting as co-counsel in the Utah case, Kitchen v Herbert, said such arguments were “unmoored from any reality”.
(3) Historical amnesia is certainly liberating – so liberating that America is once again diving into free fall, unmoored by any critical or intellectual insight into its own myths, or even into the histories of the debates that we think define our moment.
(4) Memories are false, people misspeak, they are misunderstood, mistakes are repeated until they are unmoored from the original and turn into concrete evidence for conspiracy nuts.
(5) For there is, together with a flat and fluid world, a more tribal, fragmented, and divisive world, as people unmoored from millennial traditions and cultures flail about in search of a social identity that is at once individual and intimate but with a greater sense of purpose and possibility of survival than the sorrow of here today, gone tomorrow … Jihad offers the group pride of great achievements for the underachieving.
(6) As a violated man, he knew the “unmooring” that violation can bring.
(7) Their hope [is] that some individual, lost, unmoored, [for] whatever reason, drawn to a violent ideology, will connect with theirs and will then act on behalf of that ideology.
(8) The world is as unmoored, as ripe with menace and possibility, today as it was a century ago.
(9) I wouldn’t say that Western Union: Small Boats was unmoored.
(10) I was thinking about that a lot, that feeling of being unmoored."
(11) Russia, trying to catch up with the west, produced many such spiritually unmoored young men who had a quasi-Byronic conception of freedom, further inflated by German idealism, but the most unpromising conditions in which to realise them.
(12) Without heroin and cocaine she felt unmoored, and for a while was unsure if she would ever take a good photograph again.