(a.) A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
(a.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
(a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
(v. t.) To cover with a blanket.
(v. t.) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
(v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prior exposure and subsequent reactions can, however, take a wide variety of forms, and blanket avoidance may prevent many deserving patients from being transplanted.
(2) Now 7, Jackson said the boy, nicknamed Blanket as a baby, was his biological child born from a surrogate mother.
(3) The clinical structure of the revealed neuropsychic disturbances has been studied on the materials of blanket examination of several thousands of employees at a large industrial enterprise.
(4) No differences were detected in gastrointestinal transit, gastric, and small intestinal luminal pH, or in duodenal mucus blanket acidic glycoprotein between animals in the high- and the low-fiber diet groups at the time of cyst inoculation.
(5) In February last year the BBC was forced to apologise to the Mexican ambassador after a joke made by the three presenters that the nation's cars were like the people "lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in the middle on as a coat".
(6) To have a blanket rule of pre-notification really concerns me in terms of the crucial importance for journalists to go out there and investigate wrongdoing," he said.
(7) The unexpected admission breaks Pakistan's policy of blanket denial of involvement.
(8) We aren't surprised that the Romans had nothing to say about, say, the nearby Avebury stone circle, because it's far less manifest than Stonehenge – and by extension, the oblivion of time that blankets scores of British Neolithic and bronze age sites is in keeping with our current ignorance: to this day, so few people visit them that their enigmatic character is itself underimagined.
(9) Where am I?’” “She said, ‘You’re at the Wilson’s accommodation,’ and I like, ‘My God, how did I end up here?’” The woman covered Sarah with a blanket and the pair sat together in the room, while other staff went for help.
(10) Many are swaddled in grey UNHCR blankets, which are discarded by the side of the road either because they are wet and heavy, or because the refugees are not aware that they will spend many more hours in the open air.
(11) Some aid is getting through: a local FSA commander, Abu Ibrahim, dropped by with a couple of blankets for the women.
(12) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.
(13) You can see the stitching in Igglepiggle's blanket; you sense (you'd be right) that the jerky Pontipines are manipulated by magnets, like the players in an old-fashioned toy theatre.
(14) I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school — and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.
(15) Workers have begun delivering tarpaulins to survivors in Kathmandu and baby packs in the Bhaktapur district, which include children’s clothes, blankets and soap.
(16) Overnight, someone had taken it upon themselves to carve an additional ‘S’ and ‘A’ out of the snow that had blanketed the stadium, spelling out the linebacker’s name.
(17) A centralized fund has been created by the Soviet Health Ministry, earmarked for concrete scientific projects instead of blanket financing of medical institutions, who, in addition, by 1989 will start being financially self-supporting.
(18) In southern Africa, informal traders deal mostly in crop products such as maize, rice and beans or clothes and blankets, many avoiding checkpoints and border posts where they are subject to "facilitation payments".
(19) This work was done to evaluate the transcutaneous oxygen tension (TcPO2) in ischaemic legs introducing two variables: O2 breathed at 40% and heating with an electric blanket (HEB).
(20) The in vivo rabbit ileum was used to study the relationship of cholera enterotoxin-induced water and electrolyte secretion and mucus secretion and to determine whether the enterotoxin influenced the intestinal mucus blanket.
Chalon
Definition:
(n.) A bed blanket.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of various fractions of chalone--containing preparation from ascyte Ehrlich's tumour obtained by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) on mitotic activity and DNA synthesis in the tumour has been studied.
(2) It was also found that the maximum number of dividing cells was at the wound edge in the group wounded at 09.00 h, which also agrees with the chalone concept.
(3) Thus the circadian rhythms and S-phase lengths of the test tissues need to be considered when experiments are performed with chalones.
(4) We show here that in our granulocytic and lymphocytic chalones polyamines, either free or bound, are not responsible for the inhibitory effects of the preparation.
(5) Some definite regularities were revealed in the change of the power of linkage among the cells of liver parenchyma after the disturbance of its innervation and chalones affected.
(6) A "negative feedback" mechanism of control with chalone, a tissue-specific, species-nonspecific inhibitor of mitosis, has been suggested by Bullough and Laurence.
(7) Theophylline (an inhibitor of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase) or epidermal chalone inhibited mitoses and enhanced KG production.
(8) However, it is evident that the tumour cells react less than the epidermis to both the G1 and the G2 chalone, and thus the findings of this study do not provide any evidence against the theory that epidermoid transplanted tumours are less sensitive to epidermal chalones than normal tissue of the same histogenetic origin.
(9) The model has been developed to take into account the chalone mechanism of hemopoiesis regulation.
(10) It is suggested that chalones be used both as regulators of cell multiplication and as markers of histogenesis.
(11) It is based on the theory of chalone regulation of hematopoiesis.
(12) Choleragenoid did not block inhibition of mitogen stimulation by a lymphocyte chalone preparation indicating that a different mechanism may be involved with the chalone.
(13) It was prepared from a bovine spleen acetone powder and found to be associated partly with high molecular weight carriers in the form of an active complex characterized previously as part of a 'lymphoid chalone' fraction.
(14) Here there was initially a depression of the mitotic rate and a low concentration of G2 chalone.
(15) In contrast to the G1-chalone preparation, aphidicolin, a potent inhibitor of DNA polymerase alpha, clearly shows S-phase-specific inhibition.
(16) Chalone treatment also resulted in an enhancement of erythropoiesis and megakaryopoiesis, and in phenomena some of which were totally unexpected, such as immunostimulation and a remarkable resistance to bacterial infections in the presence of extreme granulocytopenia.
(17) To explain these observations, it is assumed that the epidermal stem cell population is heterogeneous consisting of G1 chalone-sensitive and G1 chalone-insensitive cells.
(18) However, the titers of erythropoietin and medium molecules rose whereas the titer of erythrocytic chalones was reduced.
(19) Using a recently developed method of culturing T-lymphocyte colonies in agar-containing capillary tubes, the capacity of three different lymphoid extracts with lymphocyte chalone (LC) activity to inhibit colony growth was demonstrated.
(20) An additional advantage is that the capillaries provide a basis for a simple and reliable assay system for determining regulatory factors of lymphocyte proliferation (including chalones).