Other seeds harvested at ECHO for our seedbank are dried thoroughly, but not so much that such imbibition injury is likely. From Wordnik.com. [12: Seeds and germplasm] Reference
The fluid finds its way between the epithelial cells in the deeper layers, apparently being taken into some of the superficial cells by imbibition. From Wordnik.com. [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference
To manage this little feeding organism, with its wondrous instinct and capacity of imbibition, is the first great question after that of race is settled. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
No blood-vessels pass into these tissues; the cells derive their nourishment by the imbibition of the plasma of the blood exuded into the subjacent tissue. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
If, now, we presuppose absorption or even imbibition on the part of the skin, a swelling of the nerve-ends is comprehensible, as the imbibed fluid reaches them. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
He proposes to support the strength by placing the patient in a tepid bath of nutritious liquids, that might enter by cutaneous imbibition, but does not recommend this. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Theodor Schwann, a founder of cell theory in the mid-nineteenth century, described life as 'nothing but the form under which substances capable of imbibition crystallize.'. From Wordnik.com. [Koestler's Solution] Reference
Here is the transcription of the talk, which not only explains the process of development and imbibition printing, but also notes which color timing corrections are available at which level. From Wordnik.com. [Colored Pictures] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
He points out how organic bodies are remarkable for their powers of imbibition, and he seeks to show that the cell is the form under which a body capable of imbibition must necessarily crystallise, and that the organism is an aggregate of such imbibition-crystals. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
For the mental toiler, also, it is equally important that the period devoted to the restoration of brain material and the imbibition of a fresh supply of nerve power for the ensuing day's requirements should be passed under circumstances the most favourable for bestowing them. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
The cell-substance is either soluble in the cytoblastem and crystallises out only when the latter is saturated with it, or it is insoluble and crystallises as soon as it is formed, according to the aforementioned laws of the crystallisation of imbibition-bodies; it forms thus one or more layers round the nucleolus, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
In spite of this, however, they are in great part dependent on the absorption of water through the general surface of the shoot, and the power of rapid imbibition possessed by their cell-walls, the crowded position of the small leaves on the stem, and special adaptations for the retention of water on the surface, have the same significance as in the foliose liverworts. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
The pellicle prevents imbibition, diffusion, and the consequent disintegration. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
As with full thickness skin grafts, composite grafts must survive initially by imbibition. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Water imbibition rate wheat kernels affected kernel color, weather damage, technique threshing. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Survive by plasmatic imbibition for first 48 hours; thus, cannot be placed over cartilage grafts or avascular tissue. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Comparatively few of them drink anything of consequence during the week, but excessive imbibition is mostly indulged in on Saturdays. From Wordnik.com. [Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Giving the Numerical Strength of Each. In Fact, It Teaches Every Subject of Interest to the Colored People, as Discussed by More than One Hundred of Their Wisest and Best Men and Women.] Reference
Inspiration must have resulted from its imbibition, for immediately afterward he struck the quartered oak soundly with his fist and shouted to the empty dining room. From Wordnik.com. [Strictly business: more stories of the four million] Reference
Bonny Doon Vineyard "can result in a massive imbibition of water, and extreme dilution of flavor, literally swelling the berries to 1.5 times their previous volume.". From Wordnik.com. [Serious Eats: New York] Reference
Their only spiritual exercise is the automatic one of imbibition, the clergyman being the faithful Hermit-crab who is to be depended on every Sunday for at least a week's supply. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference
The principal difficulty to be contended with in using paper, is the different power of imbibition which we often find possessed in the same sheet, owing to trifling inequalities in its texture. From Wordnik.com. [History and Practice of the Art of Photography] Reference
The imbibition thereof might indeed replace suicide and cremation -- it would both kill and cure, and our frozen bodies might be preserved in family ice-safes for the edification of scientific posterity. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
The older men seldom end this meal sober, and cease only when fairly incapable of further imbibition: not only do they drink the very slightly fermented tuak just brought from the trees, but also a distillation of it, made with a most primitive contrivance of a bamboo and a gourd over a slow fire. From Wordnik.com. [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference
Perhaps he’ll manifest himself again at around 10: 58pm tonight, imbibition permitting, and let us all know. talorthane. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
For the mental toiler, also, it is equally important that the period devoted to the restoration of brain material and the imbibition of a fresh supply of nerve power for the ensuing day’s requirements should be passed under circumstances the most favourable for bestowing them. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference
A single element that I knew or possessed, that there came in place of my satiety a thirst — like that with which a dry land burns — for a life which my soul, because it had never until now received one drop of it, would absorb all the more greedily in long draughts, with a more perfect imbibition. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
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