(n.) A compound of arsenic and hydrogen, AsH3, a colorless and exceedingly poisonous gas, having an odor like garlic; arseniureted hydrogen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Higher concentrations of methemoglobin in animals in the 2.500 ppm exposure group (measured after 90 days of exposure) indicated that the rate of oxidation of heme (ferrous to ferric) increased due to exposure to arsine gas.
(2) Arsine and in general airborne arsenic compounds show the main cancer promoting characteristics.
(3) In order to examine possible species differences in response to arsine exposure, multiple inhalation studies consisting of acute (1-day), subacute (14- and 28-day), and subchronic (90-day) exposures to this agent were conducted using three different species of rodents.
(4) Fetuses weighed more than in the control group but other endpoints of developmental toxicity were not affected by arsine exposure.
(5) While the clinical picture suggested arsine or stibine poisoning, preliminary investigation of the plant revealed no obvious source of arsenic, antimony, or hydrogen gas.
(6) Hematocrit values at 24 hr after exposure decreased linearly with increasing arsine concentration in the range 5 to 26 ppmv; the hematocrit of the 26-ppmv group reached 10.5% at 24 hr, compared to 48.4% for control mice.
(7) A 1 g sample is wet washed in a 16 x 150 mm 10 mL volumetric test tube on a programmed heating block with nitric, sulfuric, and perchloric acids at up to 310 degrees C. After treatment with hydrochloric acid and potassium iodide, arsenic is reduced by sodium borohydride to arsine in a simplified continuous flow manifold.
(8) To examine these, we exposed male and female mice to 0.000, 0.025, 0.500 and 2.500 ppm arsine gas for 6 h a day, 5 days a week during a 90-day period.
(9) Concern about semiconductor workers prompted an in-depth study of arsine at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to determine the hematopoietic effects of prolonged exposure to this gas.
(10) Effects on other organs were not observed, suggesting that the hematopoietic system is the primary target for arsine.
(11) At least three times more arsine than dimethylarsine was produced in soil incubated with dimethylarsinate.
(12) The number of live fetuses, mean fetal body weight, and percentages of resorptions or malformations per litter were not affected by arsine exposure.
(13) In most situations where arsine can be formed if antimony is present.
(14) After 5, 15, and 90 days of exposure, blood was collected and routine hematologic profiles were performed to document the effects of arsine gas on peripheral blood.
(15) The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends that appropriate workpractices be implemented to reduce the risk of worker exposure to arsine (AsH3) gas.
(16) We drew a conclusion that TM-As is far less an toxic than arsine, most probably due to its in vivo conversion to TMAO.
(17) A series of eight neutral technetium(II)-99m complexes of general formula tr-[99mTcIID2X2]0, where D represents a chelating ditertary phosphine or arsine ligand and X represents a halide or pseudohalide ligand, has been prepared and characterized by HPLC comparisons to the known 99Tc analogs.
(18) This recommendation is based on several reports of worker exposure to arsine resulting in severe toxic effects or death.
(19) Among these arsines, dimethylarsine was mutagenic in WP2 (wild-type; Exc+Rec+) and WP2uvrA (uvrA-; Exc-Rec+), while trimethylarsine was not.
(20) An accuracy investigation, initiated because of conflicting analytical data on the arsenic content for some 24 drinkinig water locations in the Mojave Desert, revealed that interference with the evolution of arsine in the American Public Health Association silver diethyldithiocarbamate method caused either color enhancement or arsine suppression.
Organic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters peculiar to living organisms; as, organic bodies, organic life, organic remains. Cf. Inorganic.
(a.) Produced by the organs; as, organic pleasure.
(a.) Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
(a.) Forming a whole composed of organs. Hence: Of or pertaining to a system of organs; inherent in, or resulting from, a certain organization; as, an organic government; his love of truth was not inculcated, but organic.
(a.) Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of the large series of substances which, in nature or origin, are connected with vital processes, and include many substances of artificial production which may or may not occur in animals or plants; -- contrasted with inorganic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) These organic compounds were found to be stable on the sorbent tubes for at least seven days.
(3) The main clinical features pertaining to the concept of the "psycho-organic syndrome" (POS) were investigated in a sample of children who suffered from severe craniocerebral trauma.
(4) After 3 and 6 months, blood collected by cardiocentesis using ether anesthesia and then sacrificed to remove CNS and internal organs.
(5) Addition of phospholipase A2 from Vipera russelli venom led to a significant increase in the activity of guanylate cyclase in various rat organs.
(6) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
(7) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(8) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(9) We conclude that chloramphenicol resistance encoded by Tn1696 is due to a permeability barrier and hypothesize that the gene from P. aeruginosa may share a common ancestral origin with these genes from other gram-negative organisms.
(10) Recovery of CV-3988 from plasma averaged 81.7% for the column procedure and 40% for the organic extraction.
(11) One of the main users is coastal planning organizations and conservation organizations that are working on coral reefs.
(12) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(13) The causative organisms included viruses, fungi, and bacteria of both high and low pathogenicity.
(14) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(15) Neither Brucella organisms, nor increased numbers of neutrophils could be found in semen samples collected from the experimental animals.
(16) The lineage and clonality of Hodgkin's disease (HD) were investigated by analyzing the organization of the immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor beta-chain (T beta) gene loci in 18 cases of HD, and for comparison, in a panel of 103 cases of B- and T-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and lymphoid leukemias (LLs).
(17) A review is made from literature and an inventory of psychological and organic factors implicated in this pathology.
(18) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(19) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(20) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.