(n.) A genus of succulent plants, some classed as trees, others as shrubs, but the greater number having the habit and appearance of evergreen herbaceous plants; from some of which are prepared articles for medicine and the arts. They are natives of warm countries.
(n.) The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative.
Example Sentences:
(1) A definite difference in plaque consistency was alos observed.
(2) Inactivation of G-protein as measured by PDE turnoff and dissociation signal recovery is found to be faster at higher than lower [GTP], consistent with the observation that the higher GTPase activity associated with the higher Km alos resides in the G-protein.
(3) We have used 2-(beta-(3-125iodo-4-hydroxyphenyl)-ethylaminoethyl)-tetr alo ne ([125I]HEAT or BE2254), an alpha 1-selective antagonist, and [3H]yohimbine, an alpha 2-selective antagonist, to demonstrate and characterize binding sites in basolateral membranes from rat kidney cortex.
(4) Patients undergoing dermabrasion or chemical peel procedures should be cautioned specifically against the use of aloe vera or vitamin E topically in the first weeks after surgery.
(5) The mechanism of action of aloe-emodin-9-anthrone, a decomposition product of barbaloin, in causing a significant increase in the water content of the rat large intestine, was investigated.
(6) It is the author's opinion that much of the macrotrauma is alos related to the biomechanical parameters of the foot type and lower leg function, indirectly or directly contributing to the mechanism of injury.
(7) The bacterium grew in PYF broth containing barbaloin and converted barbaloin to aloe-emodin anthrone.
(8) These antagonists alos reduced concentration dependently the near-maximal amylase response to bombesin, the concentration required for 50% reduction (IC50) being about 10(-7) M for RC-3095 and RC-3100 and 10(-6) M for RC-3120.
(9) At 2.3 h after oral administration of sennoside C, nearly equimolar amounts of aloe-emodin anthrone and rhein anthrone were detected in the large intestine of mice.
(10) Aloe vera preparations were evaluated for topical anti-inflammatory activity using the croton oil-induced edema assay.
(11) The tumoricidal activity was dependent on the dose of mitomycin C injected and it was alos detectable against allogeneic and xenogeneic tumor target cells.
(12) The results showed that tolbutamide and studied plants (except Aloe barbadensis) decreased significantly (p less than 0.05) the area under glucose tolerance curve, in relation with the water control.
(13) ALO 2145 appears to be effective in eliminating large, acute IOP elevations after argon laser trabeculoplasty.
(14) No antigenic relationship was found between ALO and Aerococcus viridans (NCTC 8251) in crossed immunoelectrophoretic assay.
(15) The total effective sGPT-lowering rate of Aloe injection on 38 patients of chronic hepatitis with positive HBsAg was 86.8%.
(16) The following agents were applied daily for a period of 27 days: scarlet red ointment, benzoyl peroxide lotion, bacitracin ointment, silver sulfadiazine cream, aloe vera gel, tretinoin cream, capsaicin cream, and mupirocin ointment.
(17) And when I got sunburnt, Roberto cut a fresh leaf of aloe vera for its soothing gel.
(18) Several biologically active substances, such as aloenin (1), magnesium lactate, aloe-emodin (4), barbaloin (5), and succinic acid, were found to be contained in the leaf juice of Aloe arborescens Mill.
(19) The intracanial and spinal subarachnoid space alos was invaded by disseminated embryonal carcinoma.
(20) ALO 2145 1% was shown to be effective and well tolerated in the dosage regimen employed in this study.
Floe
Definition:
(n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
(2) Small, sporadic floes grow larger, the great Atlantic swells flatten out, the bitter polar winds are stronger and the utter stillness begins.
(3) Left to the market, this infrastructure could melt away and leave UK language programmes stranded, like a polar bear on a lonely ice floe.
(4) The ship, Xue Long – or Snow Dragon – signalled that it might need to be rescued from ice floes off the coast of Antarctica, where 24 hours earlier its crew had helped free passengers from the Shokalskiy .
(5) You saw David Attenborough , hunkered down on an ice floe somewhere near Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic.
(6) "Only this time can we have Sam looking pathetic on an ice-floe while a whole school of whales attacks him?"
(7) Last March and April – typically the time of year when the ice floes are at their thickest – there was just 15,000 cubic km of ice.
(8) Some drilling had to be halted abruptly after it emerged that an ice floe 30-miles long and 12-miles wide appeared to be heading towards the drill ship.
(9) She will have to swim across ice-cold stretches of open water, walk on ice floes and climb snowy ridges.
(10) Originally a 1940s eco-concept by modernist architect Luis Barragán, the district was an exercise in plumbing clean architectural lines through the nature of lava floes that bubbled and rolled here as rock.
(11) Creating a habitat compatible with each creature's original home would have been impossible; for example, bamboo plantations for the pandas, eucalyptus groves for the koala bears, ice floes for the penguins and polar bears, tanks for the freshwater creatures at risk from flood conditions, plus the filtering and pump systems necessary to maintain hygiene standards.
(12) The average thickness of the ice floes measured by the team was 1.8m, a depth considered too thin to survive the next summer's ice melt season.
(13) On the short walk to Insurgentes it becomes clear that people have made with concrete what Barragán made of the lava floes.
(14) First it will be glassy, thin "shuga", "grease" or "pancake" ice, unable to bind the floes together.
(15) Duncan said that the idea of consolidating UK advertiser-funded broadcasters was like "penguins crowding together for safety on a rapidly melting ice floe".
(16) Antarctic ice floes extended further than ever recorded this southern winter, confounding the world’s most-trusted climate models.
(17) Meanwhile, the NSIDC said ice floes surrounding Antarctica reached a relatively high summer minimum on 20 February.
(18) At shear rates less than 1 sec-1, flow occurred by the relative movement of irregular, roughly ellipsoidal actin domains 40-140 microns long; the appearance was similar to moving ice floes.
(19) In the north, the ice-floes have melted considerably since we were here a few years ago to make what was basically the same film about polar bears and stuff: incontrovertible proof, if any more were needed, that global warming is having a devastating effect on the region's fauna.
(20) The floes are piled up and compressed in fantastic shapes and shades of grey and blue; they crack, rumble and groan as we nudge them aside or climb over them.