(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.
Honeycomb
Definition:
(n.) A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
(n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later alveolar septa between adjacent bronchioles became progressively thickened to produce lesions with similarities to human honeycombing.
(2) Honeycombing was seen in seven patients (30%), while parenchymal bands were seen in six patients (26%).
(3) In all cases the Papanicolaou stained lavage fluid presented a distinctive appearance and contained abundant, often biphasic, staining, "honeycomb" debris, and few alveolar macrophages.
(4) Chest x-ray revealed a honeycombed reticulonodular pattern consistent with pulmonary histiocytosis-X.
(5) Human rotavirus has a characteristic icosahedral structure which has a honeycomb-like appearance on the surface of the smooth particles and 42 polygonal capsomeres in the rough particles.
(6) We found significant differences in grading scores of the following parameters: follicular adenomas showed greater cellularity, greater follicle formation, larger nuclei, and more nuclear pleomorphism and overlap; adenomatous nodules showed more colloid and honeycomb arrangements.
(7) The histological features were similar in all the cases--most strikingly the basket weave pattern of the thickened pleura and a dense subpleural parenchymal interstitial fibrosis with fine honeycombing, extending up to 1 cm into the underlying lung.
(8) Chest X-ray films revealed bilateral diffuse nodular shadows, honeycombing in the lower lung fields and pleural thickening suggestive of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia.
(9) Parenchymal and vascular changes were closely related: Average medial thickness rose from nearly normal values (4.9%) in cases with low area portions of honeycombing and bleeding to the double (11.1%) of normal values in cases with area portions of honeycombing and bleeding greater than 40%.
(10) The specimen showed a honeycomb appearance with mucoid content.
(11) In the lacunae, honeycomb-like structures were found.
(12) Focal honeycombing was the major parenchymal abnormality after 4 weeks.
(13) The branched capillaries from the afferent filament arteriole formed two plates of respiratory capillary networks with irregular honeycomb-shaped meshes.
(14) Granular pial cells usually contained large honeycomb bodies and were a prominent feature of the ageing leptomeninx but in contrast leptomeningeal macrophages showed no evidence of phagocytic activity suggesting that cell death or degeneration was not a feature of cells of the leptomeninx even in extremely old mice.
(15) A characteristic "honeycomb" pattern of the subcutaneous compartment was seen in 10 of these patients.
(16) In the outer part of the enamel the interprismatic substance exhibited a honeycomb appearance.
(17) Post-eruptive lesions that resulted from mechanical stress on hypomineralized enamel during mastication were characterized by steep walls and a typical honeycomb structure on their bottom, a result of fracture of enamel rods; holes left by fractured rods were surrounded by interrod enamel.
(18) Patients with bronchial asthma often develop acute attack in kitchen while burning honeycomb briquet which is widely used for cooking in southern China.
(19) In freeze-fracture, the zonulae occludentes are of variable apicobasal depth and consist of honeycomb-like meshworks of fibrils.
(20) In two lungs with honeycombing, cysts lined by fibrosis were easily seen on high-resolution CT scans.