(n.) The part of a tree which lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.
Example Sentences:
(1) In initial experiments we used a routine agglutination technique with A1LEb and BLea erythrocytes to screen for reactivity with most of the possible antigens.
(2) Though the route is relatively easy it can be very boggy beyond Blea Tarn, so wear appropriate footwear.
(3) Heading east from the hotel past a campsite you pass the woodland-fringed Blea Tarn, which has a magnificent view from the far end across the tarn towards the Langdales.
(4) On thin frozen sections, biotinylated Lycopersicon esculentum (bLEA)-streptavidin-gold conjugates were confined primarily to the luminal plasmalemma of type I cells.
Bled
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Bleed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Bleed
Example Sentences:
(1) Animals were bled 8.7-21.8% of measured blood volume [131] over 3 min, and peripheral and adrenal blood was sampled.
(2) Twelve-day-old hypertransfused neonatal rats nursed for four days by a twice-bled mother exhibited higher 48-hour RBC-59Fe incorporation than control neonates nursed by a normal mother.
(3) Animals were thyroparathyroidectomized or sham-operated and their urine was collected for 3 h. Subsequently they were anaesthetized and bled from the abdominal aorta.
(4) In transgenic mice bled to a hematocrit of 20%, a similar number and distribution of cells contained human EPO mRNA as was found with a 10% hematocrit, but the cells were less heavily labeled, indicating increased EPO production per cell at 10% hematocrit as compared with 20% hematocrit.
(5) Normal rabbits, injected with plasma from repeatedly bled, anemic, and moderately thrombocytopenic rabbits, had a 58 per cent greater maximum incorporation of 75SeM than did control animals.
(6) Mice were bled periodically and circulating idiotype levels were measured using an ELISA assay.
(7) In 21 patients (14 propranolol-, 7 placebo-treated) the hepatic venous pressure gradient decreased to less than or equal to 12 mm Hg; none of them bled from esophageal varices, and their mortality rate also decreased.
(8) Many patients on anti-inflammatory drugs bled repeatedly after apparently adequate medical or surgical treatment.
(9) Guinea pigs immunised with HSV 1 subunit vaccine were bled, and subsequently challenged intravaginally with HSV 2.
(10) After stabilization (1 hour) they were bled (40% of blood volume) over 30 minutes, then maintained in the hypotensive state (MAP = 30-40 mm Hg) for 2 hours, following which, according to randomization, they entered the control group or were resuscitated with whole blood (WB group) or with lactated Ringer's solution (LR group).
(11) Young chickens were inoculated with 5,000 PFU of eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus and bled at intervals thereafter for determinations of hemagglutination-inhibiting (HI), neutralizing (N), immunoglobulin M (IgM), and IgG antibodies.
(12) Histoplasmin-hypersensitive subjects (114) were bled prior to administration of the skin test, 2 days later, at the time this test was read, and 15 and 30 days after testing.
(13) In this group, 4 cases bled again because of enlargement or the development of an aneurysmal bleb.
(14) Five weeks later the mice were bled and the tetanus and diphtheria antibodies in the sera were measured.
(15) Five dairy cows were bled throughout gestation to measure serum levels of PSPB.
(16) A significant reduction of wound strength occurred in animals which had been bled for 30-60 minutes before wounding.
(17) Grossly, the majority of the tumor showed dark reddish polypoid masses with the surface bled easily.
(18) In the anaesthetized rat 0.1 N HCl was instilled into the stomach and the rat was bled to reduce the blood pressure to 30 mmHg for 20 min.
(19) We report the case of a patient with decompensated cirrhosis (Pugh class C) who bled repeatedly from gastric varices despite multiple sessions of sclerotherapy.
(20) Broiler progeny from each company were bled and serum analyzed for neutralization antibody to the S1133 reovirus.