(n.) An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Librium (chlordiazeproxide), pain killers (minor analgesics such as aspirin, and cannabis (bhang, ganja, and charas).
(2) We will probe [the incident],” the chief medical officer of Bilaspur, RK Bhange, told the newspaper.
(3) It will be performed in a larger-than-life style known as Bhangwadi , which sprang up in the 19th century among the Gujarati-speaking labourers of Mumbai, many of them serving the darkest aspect of British interests, the opium trade ("bhang" is opium).
(4) The purpose of this preliminary investigation is to systematically characterize the signs and symptoms of cannabis psychosis in individuals who presented for psychiatric treatment in Pakistan after ingestion of bhang; a beverage containing cannabis.
(5) Presenting symptoms of bhang-induced psychosis found in patients included grandiosity, excitement, hostility, uncooperativeness, disorientation, hallucinatory behavior and unusual thought content.
(6) Patients differed from controls in that a higher proportion of patients were found to be chronic users of bhang, and had a past history of psychotic episodes.
(7) A key factor is that low potency preparations (bhang, thandai) are available.
(8) Half of these persons were "Charas" smokers, half "Bhang" drinkers.
(9) The presenting symptoms of bhang-induced psychosis are consistent with a brief mania-like disorder with paranoid psychotic features, and cognitive dysfunction.
(10) In order to control for the behavioral effects of cannabis alone, symptoms produced by bhang ingestion among non-patients consuming the same beverage were compared with those symptoms found among psychotic patients.
Whang
Definition:
(n.) A leather thong.
(v. t.) To beat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The peptides obtained from CNBr digests of N2 were subjected separately to automated amino acid sequencing, and the results indicate that N2 is distinct but closely related to the protein encoded by the human Mu-class cDNA clone GTH4 [DeJong, Chang, Whang-Peng, Knutsen & Tu (1988) Nucleic Acids Res.
(2) A cytogenetic deletion in chromosome 3 (p14-p23) was reported in small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) by Whang-Peng et al.