The phrase "as a compartment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that functions or is considered in the capacity of a compartment, often in a metaphorical or literal sense.
Example: "The mind can be viewed as a compartment where different thoughts and memories are stored separately."
Alternatives: "in the role of a compartment" or "functioning as a compartment".
The first description of the cardiovascular system as a compartment model was published in 1733 and termed the windkessel model.
Block copolymer micelle can be used as nano-reactor where separated domains serve as a compartment for the production of nanomaterials, ultimately creating nanocomposite materials.
The ECM is gaining increasing attention as a compartment in which remodeling programs primarily destined to operate during development are reactivated following injurious insults and contribute to aberrant rewiring of neuronal networks that results in pathologically increased excitability and the development of epilepsy.
Caveolae act as a compartment which brings together elements of the endocytotic machinery, lipid transporters and signal cascade components.
The average value of the ratios between the number of mitotic cells and the size of the compartment was used as a compartment mitotic index.
In either case, the cyanobacterium provided the critical function (photosynthesis) and was retained as a compartment, whereas the Chlamydiae provided key genes through endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT) and/or HGT.
In the compartmental modeling technique, analysis can be done by one compartment method which assumes the intravascular and extravascular compartment as a single compartment and allows measurement of tissue perfusion during the first pass of contrast [ 15, 16].
This problem can be solved by treating the CPB process as a separate compartment from the central compartment and the CPB compartment turn on/off when CPB starts/stops.
The so-called Birbeck granules, which are characteristic for dendritic cells, are a special formation of the endocytotic compartment, serving as a loading compartment and/or reservoir of antigens before DC maturation (Fig. 7) (Mc Dermott et al. 2002).
Calculations of brain distribution are often performed by modeling the brain compartment as an effect compartment (15, 45).
With the PFR assumption whether the Golgi is treated as a single compartment or multiple compartments in series the reaction characteristics are the same.
