(n.) One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) His attorneys allege that the department contracts with the Apothecary Shoppe to provide the drug set to be used in Taylor’s 26 February lethal injection.
(2) Obstetrics was held in contempt by professionally educated and registered physicians and apothecaries, however, because of the immodesty and messiness of the work and the long hours involved.
(3) The Oklahoma-based compounding pharmacy Apothecary Shoppe agreed last week that it would not supply the pentobarbital for Taylor’s execution, which left Missouri to find a new supplier.
(4) In an attempt to upgrade the position, an apothecary from England, with training in chemistry, was hired in 1768.
(5) The plot of Emma turns on Frank Churchill's "blunder" in mentioning the likelihood of Mr Perry, the local apothecary, "setting up his carriage".
(6) Sketches from the lives of five surgeons (Bonnerme, Giffard, Goupil, Bouchard and Sarrazin), an apothecary (Hébert) and a physician; (Gaultier), are presented to highlight various facets of medical care and the leadership role played by medical practitioners in the development of Canada during that period.
(7) Rubenstein said that though it was uncertain how far Louisiana had gone in its dealings with the Apothecary Shoppe, the rules against cross-state distribution of controlled substances without a license were clear.
(8) The Apothecary Shoppe of Tulsa will not prepare or provide pentobarbital or any other drug for use in Michael Taylor’s execution, the papers say.
(9) Local newspapers revealed that Louisiana has also tried to procure compounded pentobarbital from the Apothecary Shoppe, despite the fact that the pharmacy is not licensed in Louisiana and is therefore not lawfully allowed to distribute in the state.
(10) The Apothecary Shoppe has not acknowledged that it supplies a compounded version of pentobarbital to Missouri for use in lethal injections, as Taylor says, and says it can’t because of a Missouri law requiring the identities of those on the state’s execution team to be kept confidential.
(11) Last week, the Oklahoma-based Apothecary Shoppe agreed that it would not supply the pentobarbital for Taylor’s execution.
(12) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
(13) As a youth he was an apothecary's apprentice, surrendering his indentures at the age of 18 and entering medical school at the London Hospital.
(14) The interior may tick too many modern, bar-design cliches (retro peg-board menu; exposed brick and distressed plasterwork; towering Victorian apothecary-style back bar), but there is no doubting the quality of the beer, nor the sincerity of the staff.
(15) Hellman declined to say whether the Apothecary Shoppe sold compounded pentobarbital to states other than Missouri.
(16) We have studied publicly available documents – information that any citizen can obtain – and concluded that the Apothecary Shoppe was the source,” Pilate told the Guardian.
(17) Mayor's Court interrogatories and depositions in six disputes between apprentices and their surgeon and apothecary masters in London in 1654-1684 are reviewed.
(18) The practice of midwifery by men began in the early 17th century in Britain, but attendance at normal labors by medical practitioners, that is, surgeon-apothecaries, did not become common, and then only in urban areas, until 1730.
(19) Arch-hypochondriac Mr Woodhouse replies "rather warmly", deeply offended at the suggestion that his apothecary relishes minor ailments: "Mr Perry is extremely concerned when any of us are ill." Yet he is getting a carriage because he has battened on the hypochondriacs of Regency England.
(20) In Berne, various decisions were taken early to regulate relations between doctors and apothecaries with a view to protecting public health.
Borax
Definition:
(n.) A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relation of respiratory symptoms, pulmonary function, and abnormalities of chest radiographs to estimated exposures of borax dust has been investigated in a cross sectional study of 629 actively employed borax workers.
(2) In the borax zone the pH is increased compared with the pH of the mobile phase, and when omeprazole (a weak acid) is co-eluting in the borax zone its retention is affected.
(3) We found that in certain buffers, such as tris(hydroxymethyl)-aminomethane-hydrochloride, boric acid-borax, and N-hydroxyethyl piperazine-N'-2-ethanesulfonic acid-sodium hydroxide, hemoglobins released from erythrocytes were easily precipitated by addition of Zn2+, thus resulting in a false inhibition of hemolysin by Zn2+ when hemolysis was assayed by measuring absorbance at 540 nm of released hemoglobins.
(4) Myelin staining was achieved with Harris' hematoxylin when sections were delipidized and were differentiated in either acid-formalin or borax-ferricyanide.
(5) Crude borax ore and kernite ore induced weak transformation that was not dose-dependent and was not reproducible in another experiment.
(6) Laboratory bioassays with Culicoides variipennis larvae from Borax Lake, CA, indicated an LC90 of 16.8 ppb for pyrethrins at 23 degrees C. A field test in a pond adjoining the lake reduced adult C. variipennis emergence greater than 99% for over 30 days after treatment at a rate of 131 ppb pyrethrins.
(7) In the first case we used Bathurin in combination with borax at a concentration of 1.3% for both substances.
(8) Hepatitis B surface antigen (HBSAg) adsorbed from sera onto colloidal silica could be completely eluted through the use of 0.25% sodium deoxycholate in 0.01 M borax, pH 9.3, at 56 degrees C. The HBSAg recovered in the eluate represented 100% of that present in the original serum, and it was contaminated by only trace amounts of serum proteins (in decreasing amounts: beta-lipoprotein, immunoglobulin G, albumin).
(9) The size of the zone varies with the concentration of borax in the sample injected.
(10) By using of dehydration borax as purification agent during melting alloy was illustrated.
(11) Microheterogeneity of human serum albumin was studied by isoelectric focussing in ampholines and the borax-borate buffer-mannite system within the pH range 4.0--6.0 and by fractional precipitation in 3 M KCl.
(12) Dibucaine was dispersed in the gel which was prepared by gelation of the konjac flour in a borax solution at 60 degrees.
(13) To overcome these deficiencies, 3 changes in the method were made: (1) the defatting step was modified to use sodium lauryl sulfate in combination with borax for better defatting; (2) 40% isopropanol was substituted for 60% ethanol as the aqueous phase for cleaner papers; and (3) mineral oil was substituted for n-heptane to improve hair recoveries.
(14) Borax dust appears to act as a simple respiratory irritant and perhaps causes small changes in the FEV1 among smokers who are heavily exposed.
(15) Amongst the traditional medicines, it was noticed that sodium tetraborate (borax) and alum reduced appreciably the fluid requirement in many cases of acute childhood diarrhoea.
(16) pills" (with borax, methanol and cocaine) were delivered freely at the chemist's shop.
(17) A method is described, which is based on mordantings with a silver nitrate solution then with a borax solution and on an physical development.
(18) Flocculation from a homogenate previously clarified by the use of borax is best suited for large-scale operation.
(19) During the course of investigation of two infants with seizure disorders it was discovered that both had been given large amounts of a preparation of borax and honey which resulted in chronic borate intoxication.
(20) DYBH-bait formulations with about 17 per cent borax are very attractive and have a good effectivity.