Definition of Laking

1. Verb. (present participle of lake) ¹

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Definition of Laking

1. the reddening of blood plasma by the release of hemoglobin from the red corpuscles [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laking

lakes
lakeshore
lakeshores
lakeside
lakesides
lakeward
lakewater
lakeweed
lakeweeds
lakewide
lakh
lakhs
lakier
lakiest
lakin
laking (current term)
lakings
lakins
lakish
laksa
laksas
laky
laky blood
lalang
lalangs
lalapalooza
laldie
laldies
laldy
laliatry

Literary usage of Laking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"laking occurs in all. (6) To 5 cc of blood add 0-5 cc of a 3 per cent, ... NaCl solution, and put the mixture at 40° C. laking soon occurs. ..."

2. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"This process is called laking the blood; second, we will consider methods of ... laking the blood.—The separation of hemoglobin from corpuscles is a matter ..."

3. Practical Physiological Chemistry by Sydney William Cole (1920)
"A. The laking of Blood. The red corpuscles consist of an envelope and meshwork called ... This bursting of the corpuscles is known as laking or haemolysis. ..."

4. Experimental Pharmacology by Hugh McGuigan (1919)
"In a few minutes laking will occur and the print can be read through the liquid. laking will also occur if bile salts, chloroform, dilute acetic acid, ..."

5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1905)
"Saponin-laking would thus be reduced to a special form of water- laking, as Nolf' and Hedon * have suggested. My experiments, in so far as they demonstrate ..."

6. Textbook of Chemistry for Nurses and Students of Home Economics by Annie Louise Macleod (1920)
"Illuminating gas contains carbon monoxide, which unites with the haemoglobin (see p. 133). Note the difference in color in the three tubes. (d) laking of ..."

7. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Ecclesiastical Courts at by John Haggard, Great Britain High Court of Delegates (1829)
"MARTIN AND OTHERS V. laking AND OLDHAM. ROBERT MARTIN died on the 14th of December, 1826. In Hilary Term, 1827, a Proctor appeared for Elizabeth Martin, ..."

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