(1) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
(2) Not via muttering idiots, but upfront, with an acrid twist.
(3) Beijing has issued its first pollution red alert as acrid smog enveloped the Chinese capital for the second time this month.
(4) The acrid taste left by the election was heightened by the US diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks which revealed Amano's assiduous courting of American support .
(5) The controversy became so acrid that in April, more than 100 prominent members of the local church took out a full-page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle asking the pope to remove Cordileone from his position for fostering “an atmosphere of division and intolerance”.
(6) Moscow was veiled in acrid smoke from such fires this morning as landmarks disappeared from view and commuters clutched handkerchiefs to their faces.
(7) As MPs inside debated the draconian economic reforms that eurozone nations and the IMF have demanded in return for the biggest bailout in history, riot police outside fired off rounds of acrid teargas to keep the crowd at bay.
(8) Beyond lies Kamrangir Char, a vast slum where clouds of acrid smoke from burning rubbish hide tenements packed with thin men, anxious women and grubby children with tubercular coughs.
(9) A thick acrid smog enveloped Moscow today as scores of fires blazed and peat bogs smouldered outside the city.
(10) The sun was directly overhead and the acrid smell of burning plastic stung the back of her throat.
(11) Bumper-to-bumper traffic, much of it stationary, the acrid steam of a thousand exhausts hanging in the cold winter air.
(12) Look at the garbage fire right here,” he adds, pointing toward a thick cloud of acrid smoke across the street.
(13) The elder sister, who is 19 and pregnant with her second child, squints but sits still in the acrid air.
(14) The wind carried the acrid smell of several burned vehicles across town, and most Muslims hid in their homes.
(15) The Finns like to have it in everything from drinks to soap and as I drank the sweet, slightly acrid concoction, Eveliina recited a Finnish saying: “If sauna, vodka and tar don’t help, the disease will kill you.” In the sauna itself, there were other treatments.
(16) Acrid plumes of smoke – produced by forest fires triggered by drought and other factors –are already choking cities across south-east Asia.
(17) Its acrid smell and particulate matter irritate the eyes, nose, and lungs and cause nausea; it is also a suspected vector for transmitting infectious materials, such as the human papilloma virus (HPV) associated with condyloma (a wartlike lesion) and cervical cancer.
(18) When the Guardian visited Monywa earlier this week, the air around the plant was filled with the acrid stench of sulphuric acid.
(19) In minutes thick, acrid smoke engulfed the house, swiftly taking the lives of six children, aged five to 13.
(20) Amid this sea of shacks, many constructed from corrugated iron haphazardly bolted together, piles of rubbish go uncollected and acrid water runs down unpaved dirt tracks.
Envenom
Definition:
(v. t.) To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison (a person) by impregnating with venom.
(v. t.) To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 57-year-old man was envenomated via two spur wounds to the right hand from each hind leg of a male platypus.
(2) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
(3) Surprisingly, whole-rat envenomation, using very large doses of venom, produced little dye leakage even though obvious symptoms of neurotoxic action were observed.
(4) Protamine sulphate in vitro antagonized anticoagulant properties but did not protect mice from toxic envenomation; because venom was also neurotoxic and showed a curare like effect at the neuromuscular junction.
(5) The four envenomated patients developed a typical consumption coagulopathy.
(6) The last several decades have seen a marked increase in our knowledge base regarding these fascinating envenomations and intoxications.
(7) An analogy between pit viper envenomization and Adriamycin infiltration is discussed.
(8) The therapy of this dual disorder involves combining treatment of the obvious shock from the allergic reaction with a standard approach to Crotalidae envenomation.
(9) Thirty-four patients envenomed by Bothrops jararaca in Brazil were studied.
(10) In case of viperid envenomation such a postponement of death time was not noticed.
(11) The literature on the neurological effects of tick-envenomation is reviewed.
(12) Unlike the brown recluse spider, wolf spider envenomation seldom causes cutaneous necrosis or systemic symptoms.
(13) The observation of high blood pressure and elevated levels of renin suggests that in addition to increased circulating catecholamines following scorpion envenomation, sympathetically induced renin release may play an important role in the pathogenesis of hypertension.
(14) West Virginia, it would seem, is an unlikely place for physicians to encounter patients with poisonous marine envenomations.
(15) When humans encounter marine creatures a variety of maladies may occur, ranging from dermatitis to life-threatening trauma, allergy, envenomations, or intoxications.
(16) A conspicuous hemorrhage developed in injected muscle rapidly after envenomation, probably due to a drastic alteration in capillaries and larger blood vessels.
(17) While antivenom remains the mainstay in the treatment of snake-bite envenomation, the possible role of anticholinesterase therapy for death-adder bites in Papua New Guinea is discussed.
(18) In all controls the typical envenomation picture produced by scorpion venom was developed, and death was registered in 19% of the animals.
(19) Complicated and mystifying as the snake envenomation process may appear, the toxic principles of snake venoms are biochemical entities that could be isolated, purified and characterized.
(20) Although calcium gluconate usually has been considered the first-line treatment of severe envenomations by black widow spiders, we found it ineffective for pain relief compared with a combination of IV opioids and benzodiazepines.