A third effect of increasing acidity is that it induces increased imbibition of water by the colloidal gel and causes swelling of the tissue.
During the swelling of gels by imbibition of water, the total volume of the system (i.
In order to gather further light upon the possibility of cadaveric imbibition of embalming fluid through the unbroken skin, test was made for zinc in the heart and stomach, and distinct traces of the metal were found in each instance.
Reece has also made some experiments on the imbibition of arsenic after death.
For though it be dry, yet will it upon imbibition of moisture dilate its leaves, and explicate its flowers contracted, and seemingly dried up.
In the constitution of the cell-wall we may have part of our starch-grain aiding in imbibition or in the establishment of elastic tensions in turgidity: and, finally, parts may be built up into the living protoplasmic machinery of the plant.
Thus sodium sulphate and sodium iodide hinder and promote imbibition respectively as could be expected from their strong lyotrope power.
The worm has neither mouth nor intestine, but is nourished by imbibition from the surrounding liquid in which it lies constantly bathed.
The organ is traversed by fibrous bands, and the {1035} intervening portion is a soft, juicy pulp, stained by the imbibition of bile.
He adds that they swell up by the imbibition of albuminous substances, and by this very swelling die and slowly degenerate.
On this depends the capacity for absorption or imbibition in the plasm, and the mobility of its molecules, which is very important for the performance of the vital actions.
The watery and usually clear and transparent nuclear sap (caryolymph) is formed by imbibition of watery fluid (like the frothy structure of the plasm in general).
This temperature must always be between the freezing-point and boiling-point of water, as fluid water is indispensable for the imbibition of the living matter and the molecular movements within the plasm.
This is especially the case when the imbibition of the cell wall is one-sided, and causes a bending of the cell.
As the cellulose membrane of plant-cells has this property of imbibition in a high degree (either in the living or the dead cell), the movements it causes are of great physiological importance.
However, these phenomena of imbibition are not active vital processes; they are independent of the living plasm, and due solely to the physical constitution of the dead cell-membranes.
Throughout the whole attack the vagina should be occasionally washed out with warm water, more especially if we have reason to suspect that the disease has arisen from the imbibition or absorption of putrid matter.
The endocardium may be stained from the imbibition of blood.
It may be attended by no change in the secretion except dilution of its solids (diabetes insipidus), as in certain nervous cases or after very large imbibition of fluids.
At first an increased degree of congestion, followed by suppuration, is observed at the edges of the sloughs, which before their complete detachment may often acquire a yellow, green, or brown color from the imbibition of bile.
The pigmentation, which is such a common transitory sequela of the skin lesions, is due both to the imbibition of the coloring matter of the blood by the epithelia and by direct hemorrhagic exudation into both the rete and derma.
The darkish brown or purple discolorations which are sometimes seen as the result of decomposition are due to the imbibition from the vessels of decomposed hæmoglobin.
But to that purpose the paper should be, although not exactly necessary, well sized as before directed, and sensitized with extra care to prevent the imbibition of the iron solution into the paper.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "imbibition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: drunkenness; eating; gulp; ingestion; lapping; potation; pulling; swallow; symposium; tasting
