titration

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These results strengthen the hypothesis that large duplications titrate out the RIP machinery and suggest the "equivalence point" for the titration is close to 300 kb.

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  1. noun The process, operation, or method of determining the concentration of a substance in solution by adding to it a standard reagent of known concentration in carefully measured amounts until a reaction of definite and known proportion is completed, as shown by a color change or by electrical measurement, and then calculating the unknown concentration.

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  • Apparently, what they do normally is make you do another sleep study so they can determine the optimal pressure of air to pump down your airway to keep it open -- this is called titration (hee).
  • About two weeks after the sleep study CPAP titration was performed to determine the level of air pressure needed to eliminate breathing pauses during sleep. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Olanzapine may induce orthostatic hypotension associated with dizziness, tachycardia, bradycardia, and in some patients, syncope, especially during the initial dose-titration period. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Automation in titration, voltammetry, ion chromatography and process control —  FoodQualityNews RSS
  • Optimal common conditions were defined for the titration of lipase activity in two commercial calibrators and in a home-purified preparation of human pancreatic lipase (HPL). —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
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/tɪˈtreɪʃən/
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