(a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(2) Comparison between patients with pancreatic cancer and controls revealed different alimentary habits.
(3) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
(4) The virus has an affinity for the alimentary tract, especially the ileum and right colon.
(5) High incidence risk was ascertained for women who suffered previously from various diseases of reproductive organs, circulatory system, thyroid, diabetes, certain diseases of alimentary, urinary and also respiratory tract.
(6) The most frequent association was cancer in the alimentary tract (53%), followed by uterus, breast and others in that order.
(7) It should be noted nevertheless that the Casale Hospital supplies a scarcely industrialized urban area, and a wide rural environment, so that resident population might be included within one of the groups partially protected by environmental and alimentary conritions against the disease.
(8) Experimental data are presented on the formation and retention during 24 hours of a motor alimentary conditioned reflex (MCR) in a T-maze, in rats 4--5 months and 1,5--2 months old.
(9) Fungal hyphae and, occasionally, the characteristic conidial morphology of Aspergillus fumigatus were seen in sections and direct smears from lesions in the respiratory and alimentary tracts.
(10) Alimentary behaviour of the snails and reactions of modulator neurones of alimentary behaviour to carrot juice presentation were inhibited in sensitized animals.
(11) Not only conditioned positive and inhibitory reactions were affected, but unconditioned alimentary reflexes as well, while food motivation sharply decreased.
(12) This study shows the efficacy of both quinolones in eradicating gram-negative bacilli in the alimentary tract of bone marrow transplant patients; however, the finding of the overgrowth of resistant gram-positive organisms during treatment with these agents deserves further evaluation.
(13) Activation of the cholinoreactive system of the amygdalar basolateral part has an inhibitory effect and the blockade has an activating effect on the realization of the secretory component of alimentary conditioned reactions.
(14) The prognosis of congenital heart disease, of obstructions of the alimentary canal and many other conditions has improved beyond recognition.
(15) Interactions between environmental factors and the alimentary tract depend on (1) factors related to the alimentary tract that are determined by anatomic, physiologic, and biochemical considerations; (2) factors related to the environmental agents; and (3) individually determined factors.
(16) The time spent by the amphetaminil in the alimentary canal does not appear to be a critical factor in the stability and degradation of this substance.
(17) Amyloid deposits were prominent, especially in the alimentary tract, kidneys, spleen, and small blood vessels.
(18) Antibodies to erythrocytes of sheep and human serum albumin were formed in rabbits with alimentary atherosclerosis as intensively as in control.
(19) Induction of experimental neurosis (by collision of the alimentary and avoidance reflex) gave rise to changes not only in the output of HCl and gastric proteinases, but also in the ratio of macromolecular substances.
(20) However, among 27 patients examined by means of intracranial EEG recordings, it was evident that a disgust expression occurred with oro-alimentary automatisms at the beginning of mesial temporal lobe seizures, whereas a happy one occurred without oro-alimentary automatisms at the beginning of lateral temporal lobe seizures.
Alimony
Definition:
(n.) Maintenance; means of living.
(n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.
Example Sentences:
(1) Because of this legal status insemination child or his parents cannot demand alimony from the sperm donor or the inseminator.
(2) Most men who divorce or separate are immediately better off because they retain most of their labor incomes, typically do not pay large amounts of alimony and child support to their ex-wives, and no longer have to provide for the level of needs associated with their former families.
(3) The ‘divorce’ bill Until recently, the size of the European alimony request was the subject of conjecture.
(4) Alimony and child support are the principal mechanisms for transfers from the ex-husband to the ex-wife, but payments are rarely frequent or sizeable enough to make up for an appreciable amount of the labor income lost through the departure of the ex-husband.
(5) Much of what we now know about Nancy is none of our business: the square footage of her house, the size of her alimony payments.
(6) Eighteen months later, after countless hours in police stations and waiting for judges who tried to duck the case, Lee won in court , the judge granting her a divorce and ordering her husband pay $1.9m in alimony and compensation.
(7) It had been an acrimonious split – and Brown ended up paying him £1.25m alimony.
(8) Three months later – even after all the warnings from the European leaders soon to be suing us for alimony, the anxiety from business associations and the repeated broadsides from financial markets – delusional thinking remains rife.
(9) In the case of a single woman, or a married women who decided on AID without the husband's consent, financial support should perhaps be offered by the Alimony Fund if the mother has insufficient means.
(10) Divorce under Islamic law also affects the wife's entitlement to alimony, custody of children, and who keeps the family house.