(n.) A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.
(n.) Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.
(n.) Alt. of Barde
(v. t.) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
(n.) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
(n.) Specifically, Peruvian bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) The air entrainment devices from oxygen masks of four manufacturers (Henleys Medical Supplies Ltd, Vickers Medical, Intersurgical Ltd, C R Bard International Ltd) were studied.
(2) Bard College, New York, offered him and Christie the possibility of teaching there and provided the facilities he needed.
(3) Patients were supported by percutaneous femoral bypass using a BARD CPS machine, and underwent successful PTCA of either two vessels (three patients) or three vessels (two patients); in addition, one patient had dilatation of a stenotic aortic valve.
(4) Systolic (SBP) and diastolic (DBP) blood pressure, and heart rate (HR) were measured by an automatic recorder (Sentron Bard Biomedical) twice at rest after 5 min in a supine position and after 2 and 5 min in an upright position, 24 h after the last antihypertensive dose.
(5) Unfortunately – like a bad student mis-copying Wikipedia, he mistakenly quoted the wrong Shakespeare: not the Bard, but his modern descendant, Telegraph journalist Nicholas Shakespeare.
(6) One window was repaired using a bioabsorbable polyglycolic acid (PGA) mesh graft, and the other using a nonabsorbable Marlex mesh (polypropylene mesh; PP mesh) (C. R. Bard, Inc., Billerica, MA) graft.
(7) Bard Inc. was assessed as to its clinical usefulness and suitability to regular use with artificial kidney.
(8) Two new catheters with a large distal electrode have been recently introduced for catheter ablation: a low energy 7F bipolar catheter (Bard) with a contoured distal electrode, and a 7F deflectable catheter with a 4-mm tip (Mansfield).
(9) Last summer as part of world Shakespeare season celebrating the Olympics, the Globe invited companies to come and perform every play the Bard wrote in 37 different languages – including Troilus and Cressida in Maori, Two Gentlemen of Verona in Shona (spoken in Zimbabwe and Zambia), and the Henry VI plays divided among the Balkans in Serbian, Albanian and Macedonian.
(10) After heparinization with an activated clotting time of greater than 450 seconds, cardiopulmonary bypass was instituted using the Bard CPS system.
(11) Having evaluated various needles, we found the Bard Biopty instrument more efficient than manual needles and open biopsy techniques, and it provides muscle specimens for pathologic interpretation that are comparable with open surgical procedures.
(12) Privacy is the biggest unanswered question,” says Arthur Holland Michel, director of the Centre for the Study of the Drone at Bard College, in New York.
(13) Results of radiofrequency ablation of the AV junction using a custom-designed catheter with a large, 3-mm-long distal electrode, 2-mm interelectrode spacing, and a shaft with increased torsional rigidity were compared with those using a standard quadripolar electrode catheter (Bard EP).
(14) Six external velour (Bionit C. R. Bard, Inc.; Billerica, MA) and 11 double velour (Microvel Meadox Medicals, Inc.; Oakland, NJ) warp-knit Dacron grafts with lengths of 6 cm and diameters of 8 mm were implanted in the canine upper descending thoracic aorta for 56 days.
(15) They are not so good for the diastolic blood pressure as the Bard-Sentron over-estimates by 33 p. 100.
(16) Shakespeare’s Globe will finally have staged every one of the Bard’s known plays when it puts on King John next year to mark Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary.
(17) Photograph: Alamy 3 Shakespeare Part II Celebrations for the bard's 450th birthday started last year but will culminate on the actual day in 2014, 23 April.
(18) The rise in BARD was accompanied by a significant increase in lymphocyte basal ACA in normotensive subjects, but not hypertensive patients.
(19) Researchers selected three models of syringe pumps for evaluation: the Bard Harvard Mini-Infuser 150XL, the Becton Dickinson 360 Infuser, and the Strato Stratofuse System.
(20) The Bard prostate biopsy gun under ultrasonic guidance provides consistent, high quality prostatic core samples for histopathologic diagnosis.
Meat
Definition:
(n.) Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
(n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
(n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
(v. t.) To supply with food.
Example Sentences:
(1) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
(2) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
(3) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(4) The protein quality and iron bioavailability of mechanically deboned turkey meat (MDT) and hand-deboned turkey meat (HDT) were determined in rats.
(5) At temperatures greater than 150 degrees C the mutagenic activity of the cooked meat increased to reach a maximum at 300 degrees C. In another series of experiments, lamb patties were cooked at 250 degrees C for 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 min.
(6) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
(7) Maillard reactions occurring during meat extract production was followed in order to reduce the formation of heterocyclic amines.
(8) A total of 202 cultures of yeasts were isolated and characterized from king crab and Dungeness crab meat.
(9) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
(10) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
(11) Strong positive associations were found in both sexes for low fruit and vegetable consumption, high intake of salted meat and "mate" ingestion.
(12) Japan needs to sell whale meat at a competitive price, similar to that of pork or chicken, and to do that it needs to increase its annual catch."
(13) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
(14) The seasonal rhythm in hypothalamo-hypophyseal-adrenal function was studied in 3-week-old, meat-hybrid chickens, bred under standard conditions, CRF content in the median eminence and ACTH content in the adenohypophysis showed the maximum in February, the minimum in August, to return practically to the February level by November.
(15) Eggs and chicken meat were prepared by administering 67Zn intravenously to chickens, and human milk was collected after an oral dose of 67Zn in a cola drink.
(16) In addition, livestock-rearing can use up to 200 times more water a kilogram of meat compared to a kilo of grain.
(17) We examined AMT with regard to (1) its papain activity; (2) its ability to digest meat cubes in vitro; and (3) its effect on rabbit esophageal mucosa.
(18) Sixty-four subjects were pair-matched for sex, age, weight and sitting systolic blood pressure, and were randomly allocated to receive one of two types of protein supplement: one containing proteins from meat, the other proteins from non-meat sources.
(19) These tacos, the legacy of the city's many Lebanese immigrants, a variation of shawarma , the grilled marinated meat dish popular throughout the Middle East.
(20) The overall failure rate for meat in 2013 in local authority testing held by the FSA was 13.5%, it said.