(n.) Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly five sixths of an English acre. The woodland arpent was about 1 acre, 1 rood, 1 perch, English.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors examined the changes in the nerve-muscular conductivit occuring after acute poisoning with phosdrine and treatment with arpenal and oximic reacytivators of HE-toxogonine and TMB-4 on 20 cats, anesthethised with urethane and atropine protection under the conditions of artificinal respiration.
(2) In contrast to the oximnic reactivators of He (toxogonine, TMB-4) during serial electric stimuli (10,20 and 30 per second after treatment with arpenal there was a quick contraction only after the first stimulus, after which a progresive weakening of the induced electric myopotentials followed till the appearence of a total nerve-muscular block.
(3) After treatment with H-cholinolitics (arpenal) there was a quick recovery of the muscle contractions as well as of the evoked myopotentials after stimulation with single electric stimuli.
(4) Cholinolytics (arpenal and pentaphen) also caused spontaneous muscle contractions, but prevented the increase in muscular activity in response to electrical stimulation in presence of physotigmine.
Aspen
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Asp
(a.) Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The private company Aspen Medical, which won a $20m contract to build an Ebola treatment centre in Sierra Leone, gave $30,000 to the Liberal party.
(2) Rich people glide across it on skis and 4X4s, between resorts at Aspen, Crested Butte and Breckenridge.
(3) Speaking at an address to the Aspen Institute of India, Ramesh hailed the alliance between the Basic countries as a "watershed" moment that highlighted the growing influence of emerging economies in general and China in particular.
(4) Of the 734 adult tibial fractures treated in Aspen, Colorado, from 1968-1978, follow-up results were obtained on 527 (72%).
(5) A cDNA clone (Ptomt 1) encoding a lignin-bispecific O-methyltransferase (OMT) was isolated by immunological screening of a lambda gt11 expression library prepared from mRNA of developing secondary xylem of aspen (Populus tremuloides).
(6) The yeast flora of the majority of studied plants is diverse and comprises 10--20 species (in cabbage, potato, linden, aspen, and pear trees).
(7) Earlier in the Aspen discussion, for example, he talked about the Stuxnet worm – which was used to destroy centrifuges in the Iranian nuclear programme – as something that was obviously created by a nation-state, but affected not to know that the US was one of the nation-states involved.
(8) He told reporters at the Aspen Security Forum: “It was not part of the discussion.” Davutoğlu, when asked if the agreement with the US to use Incirlik base included the long-time Turkish demand of creating a safe haven in northern Syria, said it took into account Turkey’s considerations.
(9) The prime minister said the government would provide up to $20m for an Australian company, Aspen Medical, to run the UK-built medical centre in Sierra Leone until mid next year.
(10) Lyndon Haviland, a senior health fellow at the US-based Aspen Institute, said: "Children have high mortality.
(11) The Aspen Institute's New Voices Fellowship , launched this year with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, is one attempt to start figuring out an answer by providing both media coaching and contacts for development experts from Africa and, eventually, other parts of the developing world.
(12) My personal journey to the iPad began around 16 years ago in Aspen, Colorado.
(13) Palin acknowledged that he is usually painted as the villain for squashing the idea of a stage tour after the Aspen festival, but he was cautiously supportive of the adaptation.
(14) This culture also readily fermented hemicellulose hydrolysates obtained by mild acid hydrolysis of either hydrogen fluoride treated or steam exploded Aspen wood.
(15) Mouse hepatoma cell line, Hepa-1, was exposed to acetone extracts of hardwoods (alder and aspen), softwoods (pine and a mixture of pine and spruce) and cellulose materials.
(16) The inner microflora of blood-sucking mosquitoes genus Aedes inhabiting different biotops of aspen-birch woods of the Tomsc Priob region has been investigated.
(17) The Aspen Art Museum designed by architect Shigeru Ban.
(18) A biphasic pattern of gene expression and enzyme activity for OMT was observed from xylem samples of aspen during the growing season which suggests linkage between gene expression for a monolignol biosynthetic enzyme and seasonal regulation of xylem differentiation in woody plants.
(19) The regular occurrence of Giardia cysts in Aspen and Snowmass water was associated with lower rates of giardiasis acquisition than reported during outbreaks of waterborne giardiasis.
(20) The influence of acetone extract vapours of pepper, poplar buds, linden and aspen was tested.