(n.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee.
(n.) A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee.
(n.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; -- called also bee blocks.
Example Sentences:
(1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
(2) The mean of the total daily energy intake was 104% of basal energy expenditure (BEE), and 70% of patients lost their weight.
(3) The hypothesis that metabolic rate, as well as foraging and recruiting activities, depend on the motivational state of the foraging bee determined by the reward at the food source is discussed.
(4) The public must have confidence that the government is doing all it can to safeguard Britain's threatened bees.
(5) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
(6) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(7) Pure honey bee cytochrome c was isolated from workers and used to produce antibodies in rabbits.
(8) In contrast, the bee-venom toxin melittin, which is also cytolytic, increased intracellular cyclic AMP in whole cells, but inhibited adenylate cyclase in isolated membranes.
(9) In subsequent dual-choice tests, the bees' discrimination between the various shapes was measured.
(10) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(11) Under in vitro inhibition of alpha-glucosidasic activity by glucose in hemolymph of Bee prenymphas, the reaction order (n) (predetermined according to the initial natural glycemia) decreases with increasing inhibitor concentration and the affinity constant between enzyme and substrate undergoes lower variations than in other cases where (n) does not change.
(12) Using 5' deletion assay, we found three basal expression elements (BEE) in the BiP670.
(13) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
(14) Also, the clinical pattern and treatment of the acute renal failure secondary to bee stings are discussed.
(15) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(16) What the study shows is that "the spillover for bees is turning into [a] boilover," said University of Illinois entomology professor May Berenbaum, who wasn't part of the study.
(17) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(18) Fifty nine patients (30%) with RXN3 responses to wasps failed to react to either test, while this applied to only 19 (6%) of the patients with RXN3 responses to bee stings.
(19) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(20) In short, SBP rise during TI and DBP rise during BEE may be the markers of an enhanced cardiovascular reactivity of hypertensive subjects.
Beeswax
Definition:
(n.) The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1 week later cotton threads impregnated with a mixture of MCA and beeswax were inserted into the uterine cervix.
(2) G. mellonella reared on its natural food, beeswax and pollen, is not suitable for a continuous rearing of L. diatraeae.
(3) Leukocytosis due to increased numbers of neutrophils occurred in all animals after single injections of histamine in beeswax, although erythrocytes and hematocrit values were unaffected in all species.
(4) Beeswax exhibited the largest r(H2O), followed in order by fully-hydrogenated soy-rapeseed oil, stearyl alcohol, acetylated monoglycerides, hexatriacontane, tristearin, and stearic acid.
(5) The agents evaluated were 1) Avitene (microfibrillar collagen; Medchem Products, Inc, Woburn, MA); 2) bone wax (beeswax with isopropyl palmitate; Ethicon, Inc, Somerville, NJ); 3) Gelfoam (absorbable gelatin sponge; The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, MI); and 4) Surgicel (oxidized regenerated cellulose; Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc, Patient Care Division, New Brunswick, NJ).
(6) The present study was undertaken to examine the effects of exposure to short photoperiod (SD) and treatment with subcutaneous (s.c.) or intrahypothalamic melatonin-containing beeswax implants on reproduction in the Mongolian gerbil Meriones unguiculatus.
(7) Only a 75 per cent gastrectomy Billroth II and a 75 per cent segmental resection of the antrum and corpus plus vagotomy and pyloroplasty consistently protected against histamine in beeswax induced ulceration.
(8) In 1 of 31 rats (3%) given the beeswax-tricaprylin vehicle only, squamous metaplasia was induced.
(9) This light-induced restoration of the gonads was not prevented or retarded by the weekly implantation of either melantonin-beeswax or 5-methoxytrptophol-beeswax pellets.
(10) FSH and TSH gave no significant increases and 25 microgram NIH-LH-S18 resulted in increases only when the hormone was suspended in a sesame oil-beeswax mixture.
(11) To test this hypothesis, adult females received melatonin in beeswax or beeswax alone.
(12) With lower concentrations, where the carcinogen was dissolved in the beeswax, initial release was rapid, and most of the carcinogen was delivered within 4 weeks.
(13) Spectra of polycarbonate, beeswax, and copolymers of methyl and butyl methacrylate are presented.
(14) Continuously available melatonin, in beeswax pellets, had no effect on growth of these tumors.
(15) Insertion of cotton thread impregnated with beeswax and 20-methylcholanthrene (carcinogen) inside the canal of the uterine cervix in intact and oophorectomized mice results in the expression of dysplasia and carcinoma of the cervical epithelium.
(16) Beeswax pellets chronically releasing low doses of corticosterone significantly inhibited receptivity when implanted in the medial hypothalamus and preoptic area, with similar nonsignificant trends in the lateral septum and medial forebrain bundle, but had no effect in the dorsal hippocampus or the amygdala.
(17) Beeswax pellets containing either 500 microgram, 1 or 10 mg melatonin overcame the inhibitory effects of daily melatonin injections.
(18) These chemicals were given in various doses as suspensions in beeswax-trycaprylin and the animals were observed for 100 weeks.
(19) The effect of chronic administration of histamine on the number of cells in peripheral blood of dogs, rabbits and guinea pigs was tested by single and consecutive intramuscular injections of histamine in a beeswax-sesame oil mixture.
(20) Prenatal treatment with beeswax alone did not affect the nature of the signal transferred from mother to fetus; young gestated in 12L:12D and reared in LL developed small testes, while those gestated in 16L:8D had large testes.