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indicator-dilution curve(medicine)
dilution(dictionary)
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dilution(medicine)
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Claim dilution(money)
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plate(2) (iou) and dye-dilution curve (medicine)


plate(2) (iou)



plate verb trans. LME.
[from the noun.]
a. Cover or overlay with plates of metal, for ornament, protection, or strength; cover (esp. a ship) with armour-plates. LME.
b. Surgery. Treat (a fracture) by fixing the fractured parts together with a metal plate; attach a plate to (a bone). E20.
a. Cover with a thin coating or Film of metal; esp. cover (an article of a baser metal) with gold or silver. L17.
b. Apply (gold, silver, etc.) as a thin covering or coating (on, upon), deposit as a coating, esp. electrolytically. L18.
Make or beat (metal) into plates. L17.
Shoe (a racehorse) with plates. L17.
Biology & Medicine. Inoculate (cells or infective material) into or on to a culture plate, esp. with the object of purifying a particular strain or estimating viable cell numbers. Freq. foll. by out. L19.
Make a plate of (type) for printing. E20.
Provide (a book) with a bookplate. E20.
Practise fellatio or cunnilingus on. slang. M20.
Provide (a goods vehicle) with a plate recording particulars of weight etc. according to government regulations. M20.
Put on a plate; serve ready on a plate. M20.

dye-dilution curve (medicine)


dye-dilution curve
Graph of the serial concentrations (dilutions) of a dye, e.g., Evans blue, following its intravascular or intracardiac injection; useful in the diagnosis of congenital cardiac shunts, measurement of cardiac output, and detection of cardiovalvular incompetence.

Synonym: indicator-dilution curve.