(a.) Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(2) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(3) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(4) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
(5) The chancellor was full of jokes at Labour’s expense yesterday: gags about Wallace and Gromit, Emily Thornberry, the arid Red Planet.
(6) The present study investigated the release from dogs and subsequent survival of Echinococcus eggs in Turkana huts, water-holes and in the semi-arid environment.
(7) In the arid Ica region where Peruvian asparagus production is concentrated, this thirsty export vegetable has depleted the water resources on which local people depend.
(8) This was found to be the method of choice in coccidiosis control in replacement pullets in the semi-arid subtropical climate of Rhodesia.
(9) Distribution of the lesion follows that of trachoma among contemporary Aboriginal people, with the highest frequencies occurring in the hotter, arid portions of the Australian continent.
(10) Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the vast, arid north say they are caught between the militants and brutal army reprisals.
(11) The town, about 80km from Somalia in Kenya's arid Garissa region, has been drawing in refugees for more than two decades, throwing up complex problems that fuel Kenya's frustration at having handled more than its share of the "Somalia problem", says Badu Katelo, Kenya's acting commissioner for refugees.
(12) arabiensis is the predominant or exclusive species in dry and semi-arid areas.
(13) Our sandfly probe consists of a 3.2 kb fragment of the intergenic 'non-transcribed' spacer of rDNA of P. papatasi that we have detected only in this species: it is present in all six geographically isolated populations tested (from Tunisia through to India) but cannot be detected in the morphologically similar P. (Phlebotomus) duboscqi Neveu-Lemaire, the vector of Leishmania major south of the Sahara; it also cannot be detected in Phlebotomus species of the subgenera Larroussius and Paraphlebotomus that together with P. papatasi are the dominant man-biting sandflies in north African foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, where (as in many arid regions of western Asia) P. papatasi is believed to be the sole vector of L. major.
(14) Arid subtropical climate zones are expanding poleward.
(15) The Kalgoorlie-Boulder-Kambalda area in arid inland Western Australia receives its water supply from distant Perth, through a pipeline constructed in the fabulous goldrush period at the turn of the century.
(16) Although environmental temperature has often been seen as the primary factor determining reproductive cycles in reptiles, this study suggests that temperature is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for successful reproduction and that the availability of adequate resources may assume an overriding importance, especially in arid habitats where annual rainfall may be highly unpredictable.
(17) "It was shortly after the big four-oh, in a car park somewhere in the arid wastes of suburbia, when I was Tasered with the realisation that I would never again have to go on a crash diet" is how South African novelist Lauren Liebenberg opens her fiery burst of autobiography in the new book.
(18) Altogether 900 people were examined in different sites of the semiarid and arid Turkana region.
(19) This article discusses epidemiology and control of equine parasites in the southern United States, where climates vary from warm temperate to subtropical and from humid in the southeast to arid in the southwest.
(20) Altogether 23 male patients with Reiter's disease (RD) were followed-up in an arid zone.
Desiccated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Desiccate
Example Sentences:
(1) In this vision, people will go to polling stations on 18 September with a mindset somewhere between that of a lobby correspondent and a desiccated calculating machine.
(2) In addition, the bag does not abrade or desiccate the bowel, potentially reducing serosal injury and adhesion formation.
(3) It involved preservation of unstained chromosome slides in a vacuum desiccator up to 18 months, Q-staining, destaining, and treatment in Hanks' solution, pH 5.1, at 85 degrees C for 13 min, and acridine orange staining.
(4) By permeabilization of the cell membrane by desiccation or sonication, more antibodies are detected in CELISA (surface and cytoplasmic antibodies), whereas in immunofluorescence on viable RIN cells, only surface reactive antibodies are detected.
(5) Makes around 20 75g butter, melted 75g granulated sugar 1 tbsp vanilla sugar 160g oats 2 tbsp cocoa powder 3 tbsp strong coffee, cooled to room temp Desiccated coconut, to finish 1 Whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then stir in the vanilla sugar, oats, cocoa and coffee.
(6) Such a dressing could help ensure that exudate buildup or wound desiccation is reduced or avoided.
(7) Stripping paratenon and muscle fiber off a free tendon graft while it is immersed in a saline bath facilitates the procedure and prevents desiccation of the tissue.
(8) Triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) were measured by radioimmunoassay in Pronase hydrolysates of four lots each of 1- and 2-grain tablets of desiccated thyroid (Thyroid, Armour) and thyroglobulin (Proloid, Warner-Chilcott).
(9) The ability of these organisms to survive desiccation on formica supports the proposal that transmission by air, dust or fomites may hitherto have been underestimated for this species.
(10) The end point was visible shrinking and desiccation of the sealant, which required about 2 minutes.
(11) Diethyl phthalate in the desiccant in 100-count bottles of brand A levothyroxine sodium tablets appeared to have leached into the tablets.
(12) We investigated potential errors in both the dilution method and the desiccation method in an attempt to resolve this controversy.
(13) The Siluro-Devonian "explosive" colonization of land, and indeed the very evolution of plants, was possible only through such mutualistic partnerships-partnerships that were equipped to cope with the problems of desiccation and starvation associated with terrestrial existence.
(14) With outdoor exposure, remains are more likely to pass through a long period of dehydration of outer tissues, mummification, and reduction of desiccated tissue.
(15) The stress-tolerant properties of Arthrobacter (resistance to nutrient starvation, desiccation and high salt concentration) are discussed with respect to the high glycogen and trehalose contents of the cells.
(16) We tested the influence of the target cell preparation and obtained the best sensitivity and reliability with the CELISA using desiccated cells or desiccated cell homogenate with a cell number of 5 x 10(4) cells per well rather than an adsorbed cell homogenate.
(17) Sporozoites have been detected in laboratory-infected mosquitoes stored at room temperature in the presence of a desiccant for as long as 18 months.
(18) This study documents the efficacy of a biomaterial, hyaluronan (HY) solution, to maintain chondrocyte viability during desiccation.
(19) Petroleum jelly was always used, to prevent heating and desiccation of the specimens.
(20) Reglon (20 per cent dikwad dibromide) is an extensively used herbioide and desiccant.