(a.) Of or pertaining to America; as, the American continent: American Indians.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the United States.
(n.) A native of America; -- originally applied to the aboriginal inhabitants, but now applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America, and especially to the citizens of the United States.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
(4) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(5) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(6) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(7) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(8) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(9) The thermoregulatory responses of this American marsupial were, in most aspects, similar to those of Australian marsupials.
(10) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(11) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(12) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(13) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(14) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(15) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(16) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
(17) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
(18) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(19) Join a Twitter book club It all started last summer, when 12,000 people took to Twitter to discuss Neil Gaiman's American Gods .
(20) All F. tularensis strains were found to have enzymatic activity irrespective of their subspecies, but neuraminidase activity was higher in the strains belonging to the American subspecies.
Papaya
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Most of the world's cotton and soy are genetically modified and other crops including maize, papaya and rapeseed are benefiting from this new technology.
(2) The allergy questionnaire (atopy, drug allergy, use of papaya, occupational history did not identify sensitized patients.
(3) To examine whether long term occupational exposure to ethylene dibromide (EDB) affects semen quality a cross sectional study of semen quality was conducted among 46 men employed in the papaya fumigation industry in Hawaii, with an average duration of exposure of five years and a geometric mean breathing zone exposure to airborne EDB of 88 ppb (eight hour time weighted average) and peak exposures of up to 262 ppb.
(4) The quantitative separation of chymopapain from papaya latex has been carried out by chromatography on Amberlite IR-120 (Hg2+).
(5) The 3'-terminal 2,561 nucleotide residues of the severe HA strain of papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) was determined.
(6) Papain, a proteolytic enzyme obtained from papaya was found inhibitory on few facultative pathogens.
(7) The traditional use of ten plants can be explained by pharmacologically active principles: Adansonia digitata, Azadirachta indica, Carica papaya, Cassia tora, Fagara leprieurii, Guiera senegalensis, Khaya senegalensis, Mangifera indica, Psidium guajava and Voacanga africana.
(8) A procedure is described for the purification of a previously undetected cysteine proteinase, which we have called papaya proteinase IV, from spray-dried latex of the papaya (Carica papaya) plant.
(9) The smaller filterable particles were generally more susceptible to inactivation, did not survive autoclaving, and were inactivated by papaya protease and lipase.
(10) Ignorance of the scale of the challenge can sometimes be bliss, he added: “You can be halfway up the mountain before you realise what the challenges are.” Stapleton’s keynote speech was followed by a panel discussion by the owners of three very different businesses: Joanna Montgomery, who founded Little Riot , which makes Pillow Talk wristbands; Nick Edwards, founder of software company Papaya Resources ; and Arpana Gandhi, who founded Disarmco , a company that has developed a safe way of disposing of landmines and other unexploded ordnance (explosive weapons).
(11) The enzyme has a high degree of sequence identity with papaya proteinase III, chymopapain and papain (81, 70 and 67%, respectively), and is clearly a member of the papain superfamily of cysteine proteinases.
(12) Protease omega from Carica papaya L. has been purified and crystallized.
(13) The primary structure was determined by sequencing of native protein and the peptides obtained by proteolytic cleavage with beta-trypsin, papaya proteinase IV and by chemical cleavage with cyanogen bromide.
(14) Chymopapain shares 126 identical amino-acid residues (58%) with papain and 141 (65%) with papaya proteinase omega, including the three disulfide bridges and the free cysteine in position 25, required for activity.
(15) The petroleum ether, alcoholic, and aqueous extracts of 5 indigenous plants, known to have antifertility activity in female rats and mice (Areca catechu Linn, Carica papaya Linn, Daucus carota Linn, Mentha arvensis Linn and polygonum hydropiper Linn), were evaluated for their possible antiovulatory activity in rabbits with copper-induced ovulation.
(16) Carica papaya latex inhibits the growth of Candida albicans.
(17) The results indicate that unripe fruits of papaya interrupt estrous cycle and induce abortions.
(18) The method has been adopted official first action for extraction of light filth from whole leaves of alfalfa, papaya, and spearmint.
(19) Guava (Psidium guajava) and pawpaw (Carica papaya) markedly increased Fe absorption (0.126-0.293).
(20) With this technique, papain containing 1 intact catalytic site [thiol with high reactivity towards 2,2'-dipyridyl disulphide (2-Py-S-S-2-Py) at pH4] per mol of protein is readily prepared both from dried papaya latex and from commercial 2xcrystallized partially active papain.