(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.
Contaminated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Contaminate
Example Sentences:
(1) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
(2) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(3) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(4) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
(5) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(6) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(7) The inhibitory effect was not due to contaminating rT3 in the liver homogenates.
(8) With an increased quantity o blood per taking by blood bactericidia a decreased contamination rate is to be expected.
(9) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
(10) The mining activity does not seem to have contaminated drinking water significantly.
(11) Furthermore, Methylene Blue contamination of the standard stain increased the rate of error in image analysis of white blood cell nuclei due to variations of staining intensity.
(12) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(13) Whereas the untreated Rhodobacter growth medium was contaminated with 1.2 ppb Mo, as analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), the activated carbon-treated medium was below the ICP-MS detection limit (less than 0.05 ppb).
(14) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
(15) The effect was shown to be due to caldesmon and not to a trace contaminant by its full reversibility after addition of a monospecific caldesmon antibody.
(16) On day 7, washes were collected as on day 0, and a collar was attached to the neck to prevent contamination from saliva.
(17) The continued expression was not due to the presence of antigen or of contaminating lymphocytes.
(18) Both techniques are used by industry and regulatory agencies to monitor levels of fungal contamination at various stages of food handling, storing, processing and marketing.
(19) In all iodine-deficient regions such as the GDR, a frequent occurrence of thyroid autonomy with manifestation of hyperthyroidism following iodine contamination has to be taken into account.
(20) The differences in the microbial contamination of air between the two buildings was the result of reconstructions concerning the ventilation system as well as of making it more effective.