(n.) A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta-percha by the action of alcohol or ether.
Example Sentences:
(1) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
(2) Top city fallers Belfast – prices down 37% on Q1 of 2008 to £190,915 Norwich – down 23% to £154,557 St Albans – down 22% to £272,813 Newcastle – down 19% to £147,104 Leeds – down 18% to £156,897 Lowest city fallers Bath – prices down 7% on Q1 of 2008 to £221,695 Durham City – down 8% to £137,821 Glasgow – down 10% to £154,989 Edinburgh – down 10% to £228,528 Sunderland – down 12% to £130,164
(3) January 13, 2016 The Greens leader, Richard Di Natale , who grows his own lettuce, named butter lettuce his favourite but added: “I’m very inclusionary when it comes to lettuce.” There were no personal questions about produce preferences in St Albans.
(4) Uddin was facing allegations over a £100,000 claim in allowances, and Lord Clarke of Hampstead, a former party chairman, admitted his "terrible error" in claiming up to £18,000 a year for overnight subsistence when he often stayed with friends in London or returned home to St Albans, Hertfordshire.
(5) The president of St Albans football club in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as a season ticketholder at Chelsea and Fulham, he collaborated with Michael Parkinson on the book Football Classified (1974), and wrote two of his own, My Sporting Life and Football Final (both 1975).
(6) In a new preface to his 1990 booklet on gay relationships, Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans, writes that, by setting themselves against same-sex marriage, the bishops of the Church have prioritised the union of the Anglican communion over the rights of gay Christians.
(8) Retroviral insertion of the Plowell cDNA into the genome of 3T3 fibroblasts demonstrated that it directed the synthesis of alpha 1AT, but at levels 24% that of the Psaint albans cDNA or the normal M1 (Val213) cDNA, with a pattern of biosynthesis consistent with the concept that the Plowell alpha 1AT deficiency state results from intracellular degradation of the newly synthesized Plowell protein.
(9) The bishop of St Albans, the Rt Rev Dr Alan Smith, told the programme: “The issue is whether we think that what makes for human thriving is more and more shopping and whether actually there are other things that we as a society might want to value and champion.” Research by the New West End Company, which provides management and marketing services to 25 streets within London’s retail heartland, suggests that extending Sunday trading by two hours in the capital would create almost 3,000 jobs and generate more than £200m a year in extra income.
(10) Passengers who travel from St Albans to St Pancras each day (a 20-mile journey) will soon be paying £3,380 a year for their gold card.
(11) Paul Frost, from Sheffield, was jailed for 15 months while a fourth man, 32-year-old Ian Sambridge, of St Albans, Hertfordshire, who admitted distributing indecent images of children, was given a 12-month sentence suspended for two years and 240 hours of community service.
(12) Photograph: PA His rival Luisa Zissman, 25, who runs a cupcake shop in St Albans, Hertfordshire, said she had the "energy of a Duracell bunny, sex appeal of Jessica Rabbit, and a brain like Einstein".
(13) Alban said she held "cordial and constructive" talks with the government at the FCO.
(14) The first, Plowell, is a deficiency allele associated with reduced serum alpha 1AT levels, and the second, Psaint albans, is associated with normal serum levels.
(15) Damage to overhead power lines in St Albans caused trains from St Pancras station in London to be cancelled.
(16) Efficiently told, with full space given to the choreography, this Swan Lake comes with some fine casts: Alina Cojocaru paired with Ivan Vasiliev; Tamara Rojo with Alban Lendorf.
(17) Andrew Grant, headteacher of St Albans School and chair of the HMC, said private schools were "happy to have a fuller clarification on deadlines", but said there still appeared to be "confusion in the minds of the commission" about how private schools should show they are fulfilling the public benefit test.
(18) Ecuador's UK ambassador, Anna Alban, met the government on Wednesday morning, and said he was under its protection while it considered the application, which came after his failed bid to avoid extradition to Sweden under a European arrest warrant to face sex crime allegations.
(19) Pope Adrian IV was born Nicholas Breakspear around 1100 AD, close to St Albans in Hertfordshire, England.
(20) In contrast, Psaint albans, a slightly more cathodally positioned variant on IEF analysis, differed from the coding exons of the normal M1(Val213) allele by two mutations, Asp341 GAC----Asn AAC, and a silent substitution in the same codon as the Plowell variant, Asp256 GAT----Asp GAC.
Galban
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Galbanum
Example Sentences:
(1) Galbanic acid produced much more earlier than in control normalization of the activity of the enzymes alanine- and aspartataminotransferase in blood serum, increased glycogen content and improved the parameters of the redox potential of lactic acid-pyruvic acid system in the liver.
(2) Sodium salt of galbanic acid, a derivative of 7-hydroxycoumarin, was shown to decrease erythrocyte aggregation both in vitro and in vivo at a single intravenous and repeated oral administration.
(3) In the animals with a developed hepatitis receiving galbanic acid there was a more rapid restoration of intensity of bile secretion, synthesis of bile acids and bilirubin, cholesterol excretion as compared with control.
(4) Administration of galbanic acid isolated from the roots of Ferula kopetdaghensis Eug.
(5) During in vitro experiments a sodium salt of galbanic acid was shown to prevent the development of erythrocyte hyperaggregation induced by ATP, thrombin, histamine, adrenaline and acetylcholine.
(6) Intravenous administration of galbanic acid before bloodletting prevented and against the background of bloodletting eliminated platelet hyperaggregation in dogs.