(v. t.) To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.
(v. i.) To commit adultery.
(a.) Tainted with adultery.
(a.) Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.
Example Sentences:
(1) The means for detecting adulterated urine samples are offered, and a procedure for the management of urine-testing results is provided.
(2) While these results do not rule out effects of DHEA on metabolic rate or lipogenesis, they do indicate that the unpalatability of DHEA-adulterated diets may be a contributing factor in the observed effects on food intake and body weight.
(3) The most characteristic examples of nutritive value adulterations are presented: ascorbic and dehydroascorbic acids, other vitamins, derivatives of the insaturated fatty acids oxidation, changes in proteins.
(4) This paper reports a study on the application of derivative spectrum to the identification of tinglizi and its adulterants.
(5) Gough, as the degenerate black sheep of an English family trying to blackmail an American adulterer, would curl a long lip into a sneering smile, which became a characteristic of this fine actor's style.
(6) The effect during hypovolemia was evident when subjects had access to adulterated physiological saline, a solution more responsive to the PEG-induced need state, and quinine group behavior was not easily explained in terms of the tastes of quinine and saline combined together nor in terms of a posttreatment malaise effect.
(7) Her own debut album, 12 Stories (released on 22 October), displays the full range of her emotional acuity and wit in dissecting the strung-out, pill-addicted, adulterous heart of small-town America.
(8) This is a public health scandal easily on a par to those of the 1980s and 1990s and reminds me of the outrage over food adulteration and contamination in the mid 19th century.
(9) The absence of a significant creatinine concentration in a specimen can be used as an indication of direct or indirect adulteration of the urine specimen by dilution or replacement with water.
(10) Laboratory rats were exposed to chow adulterated with either 500 or 1000 ppm Aroclor 1254 for 30 days.
(11) Another unintentional source of poisoning is its use as an adulterant in heroin for "street" use.
(12) It is suggested that the citric: isocitric acid ratio can be used to detect adulterated products.
(13) To obtain a definitive identification of the adulterant it was necessary to also examine the electrophoretic mobility of myoglobin in sodium dodecylsulphate gels.
(14) We did not clearly establish the mechanism, but this case is unique since adulterants and contaminants were excluded unlike all previously reported patients.
(15) Direct toxicity or hypersensitivity to heroin or an adulterant is considered in the pathogenesis of myolysis.
(16) The intake of the adulterated fluid was near zero during food deprivation, and when a vegetable and fruit diet was available.
(17) All animals reduced their food intake in response to the dietary adulteration, with evidence of a dose-response effect, but this response did not differ as a function of litter size.
(18) These multiple mechanisms of action combined with the deleterious effects of often-present adulterants give rise to an unpredictable, variable, and potentially life-threatening cardiovascular response to cocaine administration.
(19) In experiment 2, pups were tested with dam's artificially adulterated food.
(20) In May 1981 a new disease caused by widespread food poisoning with adulterated rape-seed oil appeared in Spain.
Adulteration
Definition:
(n.) The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
(n.) An adulterated state or product.
Example Sentences:
(1) The means for detecting adulterated urine samples are offered, and a procedure for the management of urine-testing results is provided.
(2) While these results do not rule out effects of DHEA on metabolic rate or lipogenesis, they do indicate that the unpalatability of DHEA-adulterated diets may be a contributing factor in the observed effects on food intake and body weight.
(3) The most characteristic examples of nutritive value adulterations are presented: ascorbic and dehydroascorbic acids, other vitamins, derivatives of the insaturated fatty acids oxidation, changes in proteins.
(4) This paper reports a study on the application of derivative spectrum to the identification of tinglizi and its adulterants.
(5) Gough, as the degenerate black sheep of an English family trying to blackmail an American adulterer, would curl a long lip into a sneering smile, which became a characteristic of this fine actor's style.
(6) The effect during hypovolemia was evident when subjects had access to adulterated physiological saline, a solution more responsive to the PEG-induced need state, and quinine group behavior was not easily explained in terms of the tastes of quinine and saline combined together nor in terms of a posttreatment malaise effect.
(7) Her own debut album, 12 Stories (released on 22 October), displays the full range of her emotional acuity and wit in dissecting the strung-out, pill-addicted, adulterous heart of small-town America.
(8) This is a public health scandal easily on a par to those of the 1980s and 1990s and reminds me of the outrage over food adulteration and contamination in the mid 19th century.
(9) The absence of a significant creatinine concentration in a specimen can be used as an indication of direct or indirect adulteration of the urine specimen by dilution or replacement with water.
(10) Laboratory rats were exposed to chow adulterated with either 500 or 1000 ppm Aroclor 1254 for 30 days.
(11) Another unintentional source of poisoning is its use as an adulterant in heroin for "street" use.
(12) It is suggested that the citric: isocitric acid ratio can be used to detect adulterated products.
(13) To obtain a definitive identification of the adulterant it was necessary to also examine the electrophoretic mobility of myoglobin in sodium dodecylsulphate gels.
(14) We did not clearly establish the mechanism, but this case is unique since adulterants and contaminants were excluded unlike all previously reported patients.
(15) Direct toxicity or hypersensitivity to heroin or an adulterant is considered in the pathogenesis of myolysis.
(16) The intake of the adulterated fluid was near zero during food deprivation, and when a vegetable and fruit diet was available.
(17) All animals reduced their food intake in response to the dietary adulteration, with evidence of a dose-response effect, but this response did not differ as a function of litter size.
(18) These multiple mechanisms of action combined with the deleterious effects of often-present adulterants give rise to an unpredictable, variable, and potentially life-threatening cardiovascular response to cocaine administration.
(19) In experiment 2, pups were tested with dam's artificially adulterated food.
(20) In May 1981 a new disease caused by widespread food poisoning with adulterated rape-seed oil appeared in Spain.