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COATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or dressed in a coat
Classified under:
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a coating; covered with an outer layer or film; often used in combination
Example:
sugar-coated pills
Classified under:
Similar:
backed (used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light)
black-coated (coated with black)
glazed ((of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture)
oily (coated or covered with oil)
Antonym:
uncoated (not having a coating)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb coat
Context examples:
Specialized depressions on the cell surface involved in receptor-mediated endocytosis; the visible proteinaceous layer on the cytosolic side of the depression provides the coated appearance.
(Coated Pit, NCI Thesaurus)
A measurement of the antibody or complement-coated erythrocytes in a blood specimen in vivo.
(Direct Antiglobulin Test, NCI Thesaurus)
A vascular metal mesh tube coated with medication.
(Drug Eluting Stent, NCI Thesaurus)
Attachment is improved by using collagen coated flasks.
(PC-12, NCI Thesaurus)
There’s St. James’s, the big, dingy place with the clock, and the two red-coated sentries before it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
An enteric-coated formulation of ixabepilone, a semisynthetic analogue of epothilone B and a non-taxane tubulin inhibitor, with antineoplastic activity.
(Oral Ixabepilone, NCI Thesaurus)
Nanocantilevers coated with antibodies, for example, will bend from the mass added when substrate binds to its antibody, providing a detector capable of sensing the presence of single molecules of clinical importance.
(Nanocantilever, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This process requires clathrin and occurs in clathrin-coated pits, which pinch off from the plasma membrane to form vesicles that move to the early endosome.
(EGF Receptor Downregulation by CBL Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
An enteric-coated orally bioavailable formulation of the hydrochloride salt of a small-molecule agonist for transient receptor potential melastatin member 8 (TRPM8 or Trp-p8) with potential antineoplastic activity.
(Enteric-Coated TRPM8 Agonist D-3263 Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)
A solid or liquid core composed of active and/or inert ingredient(s) enclosed by a polymer coated shell.
(Extended Release Core Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)
