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1. A thin crisp cake or cracker.
2. A thin round piece of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist.
3. Something (as a piece of candy) that resembles a wafer.
A technique for analyzing and identifying protein antigens: the proteins are separated by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel, then transferred ("blotted") onto a nitrocellulose membrane or treated paper, where they bind in the same pattern as they formed in the gel. The antigen is overlaid first with antibody, then with anti - immunoglobulin or protein A labeled with radioisotope, fluorescent dye, or enzyme.
1. A thin crisp cake or cracker.
2. A thin round piece of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist.
3. Something (as a piece of candy) that resembles a wafer.
Channels in a cell membrane that permit passage of water molecules; chemical substances such as vasopressin cause the opening of new channels and increase permeability.
Susceptible of being dissolved in water.
Osteochondrosis.
A method for testing the body's ability to concentrate urine when plasma osmolality is artificially increased. See also water deprivation test .
Protein that binds to water and provides a transport system for it.
A plasma cell dyscrasia resembling leukemia, with cells of lymphocytic, plasmacytic, or intermediate morphology, that secrete an IgM M component. There is diffuse infiltration of bone marrow and in many cases also of the spleen, liver, lymph nodes, or central nervous system (Bing-Neel syndrome). The circulating macroglobulin produces symptoms of hyperviscosity syndrome: weakness, fatigue, bleeding disorders, and visual disturbances; peak incidence is in the sixth and seventh decades.
A test of the body's ability to concentrate urine when plasma osmolality is artificially increased.
Proteins that bind to water and provide a transport system for it.
1. The limiting structure of a space, hollow organ, or definitive mass of material.
2. The rigid external surface of a horse's hoof.
1. The quantity of measurable water borne by an object or organism.
2. The body content of water, especially as it varies from normal.
1. The liquid that descends as rain and forms rivers, lakes, and seas.
2. A natural mineral water.
3. (Plural) The water occupying or flowing in a particular bed; also, a band of seawater bordering on and under the control of a country.
4. Any of various liquids containing or resembling water; especially, a watery fluid (as tears, urine, or sap) formed or circulating in a living organism.
5. A popular name for amniotic fluid.
6. To supply with or get or take water.
7. To treat so as to give a lustrous appearance in wavy lines.
8. To dilute by or as if by adding water to.
9. To form or secrete water or watery matter.
1. To turn or twist out of shape; also, to become so twisted.
2. To lead astray, pervert; also, falsify, distort.
3. A twist out of a true plane or straight line.
4. The lengthwise threads on a loom or in a woven fabric.
Renal water excretion in response to a water test. (Schrier)
A uniformly advancing disturbance in which the parts moved undergo a double oscillation; any wavelike pattern.
A cleansing or sweeping clean.
The administration of sufficient quantities of water to test the subject's ability to metabolize it.
The distance between the top of one wave and the identical phase of the succeeding one.
The original (1906) nontreponemal antigen serologic test for syphilis.
An inclusive term for the many roles played by water in the functioning of a living organism (Crawford).
1. To fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction.
2. To falter.
3. To give an unsteady sound.
1. Gradual loss, decay, or diminution of bulk.
2. Useless and effete material, unfit for further use within the organism.
3. To pine away or dwindle.
4. A sparsely settled or barren region, desert; also, uncultivated land.
5. Material left over, rejected, or thrown away; also, an unwanted by-product of a manufacturing or chemical process.
6. Refuse (as garbage) that accumulates about habitations.
7. To devastate.
8. To wear away or diminish gradually; consume.
9. To spend or use carelessly or uselessly; squander.
10. To lose or cause to lose weight, strength, or energy.
11. Being wild and uninhabited; barren, desolate; also, uncultivated.
12. Being in a ruined condition.
13. Discarded as worthless after being used (such as waste water).
14. Excreted from or stored in inert form in a living organism as a by-product of vital activity.
The property or state of being permeable to water.
See definition under "wave."
1. Devastated.
2. Worn away or diminished gradually; consumed.
3. Spent or used carelessly or uselessly; squandered.
4. Lost or caused to lose weight, strength, or energy.
5. Diminished in bulk or substance; dwindled.
Permitting passage of water.
1. Lacking strength or vigor; feeble.
2. Not able to sustain or resist much weight, pressure, or strain.
3. Deficient in vigor of mind or character; also, resulting from or indicative of such deficiency.
4. Not supported by truth or logic.
5. Lacking skill or proficiency; also, indicative of a lack of skill or aptitude.
6. Lacking vigor of expression or effect.
7. Of less than usual strength.
8. Not having or exerting authority; also, ineffective, impotent.
9. Of, relating to, or constituting a verb or verb conjugation that forms the past tense and past participle by adding -ed or -d or -t.
1. Gradual loss or decay; emaciation.
2. Excessive depletion.
1. The act or process of absorbing water again.
2. Resorption.
1. The quality or state of being weak; also, an instance or period of being weak.
2. A fault or defect.
3. An object of special desire or fondness.
1. A tasteless, odorless, colorless liquid (H2O), used as the standard of specific gravity and of specific heat. It freezes at 32°F (0°C) and boils at 212°F (100°C). It is present in all organic tissues and in many other substances and is the most universal of the solvents.
2. Aromatic water.
3. Purified water.
The movement of water in biological systems.
The process of discontinuing the breast feeding of an infant, with substitution of other feeding habits.
Fluid balance.
Proteins that bind to water and provide a transport system for it.
A dihydrate of calcium oxalate, seen in urinary calculi.
Disorders caused by the disproportional relationship between the body's ingestion and excretion of water and electrolytes.
Proteins that bind to water and provide a transport system for it.
Small lymphocytic lymphoma.
A channel in the plasma membrane of plant and animal cells that permits passage of water molecules; chemical substances such as vasopressin cause the opening of new channels and increase permeability.
A test of the body's ability to concentrate urine when plasma osmolality is artificially increased.
See Western blot analysis .
See aquaporins.
Demonstrating the body content (of an object or organism) of water, especially as it varies from normal.
A technique for analyzing and identifying protein antigens: the proteins are separated by electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gel, then transferred ("blotted") onto a nitrocellulose membrane or treated paper, where they bind in the same pattern as they formed in the gel. The antigen is overlaid first with antibody, then with anti - immunoglobulin or protein A labeled with radioisotope, fluorescent dye, or enzyme.