(n.) The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.
(n.) An unguent of the gods.
(n.) A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell.
(n.) Formerly, a kind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) All patients were found to be sensitive to Ambrosia.
(2) The acute and subchronic toxicity of the molluscicidal plant, Ambrosia maritima L., has been tested on rats.
(3) A new species of the genus Zygozyma, Z. smithiae, was recovered from frass of the ambrosia beetle, Crossotarsus externedentatus in Northern Natal.
(4) Four hundred children were skin tested with following allergens: Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, moulds, animal dander (mixture of dog, cat, sheep and horse dander), tree pollens, weed pollen (Ambrosia artemisifolia), and six grass pollens, as well as three nutritive allergens in children less than three years of age.
(5) Comparison of pollen capture with meteorologic data demonstrated that photoperiodic responses probably account for the initiation and termination of Ambrosia flowering, and to some extent that of Parthenium, and not sharply lowered temperatures or frost for ending pollen release.
(6) Skin tests with Ambrosia allergen extracts showed a positive rate of 67.7% in 624 cases of pollinosis.
(7) The total allergenicity of a pollen extract Ambrosia elatior was measured by quantitative prick test applied to the skin of seven highly sensitive patients and by standardized method of RAST-inhibition.
(8) The animals were placed in a cell in which an allergen-water-dialyzed extract of ambrosia pollen was dispersed by means of coaxial pulveriser.
(9) Anthemis cotula (dog fennel) and Xanthium strumarium (cocklebur) gave the most frequent positive results, demonstrating a change of frequency in sensitivity compared to the 1950s, when Ambrosia artemisiifolia (ragweed) was recognized as the most frequently sensitizing weed.
(10) This study analyzes Amb a I, a family of related proteins formerly known as Ag E, that comprise the major allergens of short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia).
(11) Since both Parthenium and Ambrosia are significant allergenic plants, correlations between airborne pollen of Parthenium and allergic potential suggest that a prolonged pollination season and perhaps increased allergenicity of unique Parthenium pollen proteins allow Parthenium to be a major allergen despite significantly less ambient pollen.
(12) Capture of native Ambrosia species and P. hysterophorus peaked in September and October in 1987 and 1988, but Parthenium pollen was also found year round with a smaller secondary peak during May, 1988 and 1989.
(13) The cloning of the AmbtV cDNA is important, since the 4.4-kDa AmbtV, one of the allergens in giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida) pollen, serves as a simple model system to study the basic structural requirements for immune recognition of foreign protein allergens.
(14) Mean radionuclide levels in cattle tissue and environmental samples from Ambrosia Lake were higher in almost every comparison than those found in respective controls.
(15) Seeds of the short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) were collected from 38 different sites in Champaign County, Ill. Plants from these seeds were grown under similar conditions, and antigen E (AgE) was determined on pollen samples harvested from individual plants.
(16) Mowing or hand weeding cannot eradicate Ambrosia artemisiifolia but if they are consistently used, they could reduce its population level over several years by decreasing seed production.
(17) These spectra were very close to those of the polysaccharides from the C. clavata and C. ambrosia groups of Ceratocystis species.
(18) Previous studies have associated skin test sensitivity and specific IgE response to Ambrosia artemisiifolia V (Amb a V) with HLA-DR2, and to Ambrosia trifida V (Amb t V) with HLA-DRw52 haplotypes in atopic individuals.
(19) Ambrosia Lake, New Mexico, has been the site of extensive U mining for 30 y and contains several underground U mines, a processing mill, and two large U tailings piles.
(20) Positive patch test reactions were 2+ for dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), false ragweed (Ambrosia acanthicarpa), giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifida), short ragweed (Ambrosia artemisifolia), sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), wild feverfew (Parthenium hysterophorus), yarrow (Achillea millifolium), and tansy (Tanacetum vulgare) and 1+ for Dahlia species and English ivy (Hedera helix).
Confer
Definition:
(v. t.) To bring together for comparison; to compare.
(v. t.) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
(v. t.) To contribute; to conduce.
(v. i.) To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
(2) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
(3) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
(4) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
(5) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(6) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
(7) The data suggest that the presence of a bromoacetate group at the 12 position on cardiotonic steroids does not confer CS binding site directed alkylating properties on these drugs.
(8) It is possible that the formation of a mycetoma grain may limit a patient's exposure to antigens which confer specificity, an explanation which may also account for the variability in antibody responses seen.
(9) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
(10) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
(11) Substitution of a single amino acid residue, proline for glycine-9 in [pGlu6]SP6-11, a hexapeptide analogue of substance P, confers on the peptide selective agonist activity toward the SP-P receptor subtype.
(12) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(13) The 5'-terminal methylated cap (m7G(5')ppp(5')Gm) in reovirus messenger RNA comprises part of the ribosomes binding site, since attachment of 40 S wheat germ ribosomal subunits to reovirus small (s), medium (m), and large (l) RNA classes conferred almost complete protection of the cap against RNase digestion.
(14) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
(15) Furthermore, immunization of mice with persistently infected cells conferred resistance to tumor growth after challenge with the highly malignant NS20Y cells.
(16) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
(17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(18) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
(19) Of CD patients, 92% (50% DR3 and 42% DR5,7) compared to 18% of the controls carry both DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles, so that the combination confers an RR of 52, higher than both the risks of the single alleles (DQA1*0501 RR = 19, DQB1*0201 RR = 30), confirming the primary role of the dimer in determining genetic predisposition to CD both in DR3 and in DR5,7 subjects.
(20) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.