(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.
Polish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
(n.) The language of the Poles.
(v. t.) To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
(v. t.) Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
(v. i.) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
(n.) A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.
(n.) Anything used to produce a gloss.
(n.) Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) The usefulness of porous tarflen materials (tarflen--Polish name of teflon produced by Zakłady Azotowe in Tarnów, Poland) for this application was evaluated by comparing their properties with those of American porous teflon membranes used in membrane oxygenators.
(2) The accident on 10 April 2010, killed the president, first lady and dozens of senior officials, in the worst Polish air disaster since the second world war.
(3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(4) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(5) There is a picture, drawn by Polish cartoonist Marek Raczkowski: a crowd of people demonstrating in the street, carrying aloft a big banner that simply reads "FUUUCK!''.
(6) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(7) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.
(8) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
(9) The results were compared to controls and children with JRA in Polish populations (where amyloidosis is a frequent complication of JRA) as well as to American children with JRA (where amyloidosis in JRA has been observed only sporadically) and American control children.
(10) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
(11) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(12) Obama spoke on the phone with Merkel, the British prime minister, David Cameron , and the Polish president, Bronisław Komorowski.
(13) Russia is Europe's second largest market for food and drink and has been an important consumer of Polish pig meat and Dutch fruit and vegetables.
(14) This cross-sectional study was undertaken after the discovery of cobalt-related fibrosing alveolitis and bronchial asthma in diamond polishers occupationally exposed to cobalt.
(15) Polished rice samples harvested in 1985 were collected from 25 prefectures throughout Japan.
(16) She is very sophisticated, she is polished, and she can speak to the issues.
(17) The leakage of the dye that was observed in each of the groups might have been caused by the ineffectiveness of, or the ineffective use of, the nail polish or cyanoacrylate used to coat all but the apically sealed tips of the endodonticalled prepared teeth.
(18) Early corrosion phenomena required re-polishing every three months.
(19) The remaining incisor was carefully polished and served as an enamel surface.
(20) Cobalt-60, Polish-made BK-10,000 cobalt bombs, and Canadian-made Gammacell were placed in the irradiation chamber to provide irradiation.