(n.) The common herring, esp. when of large size, smoked, and half dried; -- called also bloat herring.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in 1969-70, dieldrin levels in fish from Lake Huron exceeded the 0.3 ppm tolerance level set by Health and Welfare Canada or the Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in 5 percent of lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) and 10 percent of bloaters.
(2) "Pink puffers" with breathlessness, hyperinflation, mild hypoxemia, and a low PCO2 are contrasted with "blue bloaters" with hypoxemia, secondary polycythemia, CO2 retention, and pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale.
(3) Profound transient nocturnal hypoxemia is common during REM sleep in "blue bloaters" with chronic obstructive lung disease, these patients having hypoxemia and CO2 retention when awake, when breathing air.
(4) Mortality was 2.08% and 12 animals were considered to be chronic bloaters.
(5) As the classic "blue bloater" with attenuated respiratory drive is described as being less dyspneic than his "pink puffer" counterpart, we wondered whether the variability in dyspnea and exercise tolerance in a group of patients with COPD with relatively similar degrees of air-flow obstruction might be partly explained by the variability in resting respiratory drives (unstimulated P0.1 and hypoxic and hypercapnic P0.1 responses).
(6) PCB residues declined in lake trout and lake whitefish caught in Lake Superior between 1971 and 1975, but increased slightly in bloaters and white sucker (Catostomus commersoni).
(7) The extremes of this spectrum, the "pink puffer" (PP) and "blue bloater" (BB) stereotypes differ in their degree of sleep hypoxemia and pulmonary hypertension.
(8) Hypoxemia and sleep quality can probably be improved by oxygen therapy in "blue bloaters," and this treatment can also reverse pulmonary hypertension in REM sleep.
(9) Treatment depends on the cause, and may vary from weight loss and nasal continuous positive airway pressure in obstructive sleep apnoea, to nocturnal oxygen in "blue bloaters", a combination of these two in the overlap syndrome, and long acting bronchodilators such as slow release theophyllines in nocturnal asthma.
(10) Mean PCB residues in bloaters caught in Lake Huron in 1969-71 and 1975-76, and splake (Salvelinus fontinalis and S. namaycush) and cisco (Coregonus artedii) caught in 1975 exceeded the 2 ppm tolerance level.
(11) Blue bloaters have severe nocturnal hypoxemia in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep that is corrected by oxygen or the investigational drug almitrine.
(12) The effect of incentive breathing exercise was evaluated on patients of blue-bloater variety of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a controlled study.
(13) Clinical diagnosis is imprecise with no relationship between the extent of emphysema and either the "pink puffer" or the "blue bloater" types.
(14) Nitrite treatment enhances the direct-acting mutagenicity of various foodstuffs (e.g., chicken, bloater, the soybean flour 'kinako', and Ban-Ban-Chi sauce) on Salmonella typhimurium TA100.
(15) Patients with marked respiratory failure and with the clinical features of the "blue bloater" type of chronic bronchitis responded better to the home oxygen therapy than a group of "advanced pink puffers" with hypercapnia and high pulmonary arterial pressure.
(16) Long-term oxygen therapy is the only treatment known to prolong life in blue bloaters, and oxygen concentrators and transtracheal oxygen delivery are discussed.
(17) "Blue bloater" and "pink puffer" clinical types of chronic airway obstruction continued to reveal differences in airway pathologic features, but no longer revealed a major difference in the severity of emphysema at the time of death.
(18) By 1975, the mean level of sigma DDT had decreased in lake trout and was highest in bloaters (Coregonus hoi) from both lakes: 1.06 ppm and 1.87 ppm, respectively.
(19) By 1975, 50 percent of bloaters caught in Georgian Bay and North Channel had dieldrin levels above 0.3 ppm.
(20) Domiciliary oxygen therapy, given for at least 12 and preferably 16 hours a day, will prolong survival in patients with Type II respiratory failure ('blue bloaters').
Mackerel
Definition:
(n.) A pimp; also, a bawd.
(n.) Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several related genera. They are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are highly prized for food.
Example Sentences:
(1) The smoky density of the mackerel was nicely offset by the pointed black olive tapenade and the fresh, zingy flavours present in little tangles of tomato, shallot, red pepper and spring onion, a layer of pea shoots and red chard, and the generous dressing of grassy olive oil.
(2) Nutritionists recommend we consume two portions a week of fish, including one of oily fish such as mackerel, herring and tuna.
(3) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
(4) Moreover, the level of systolic and diastolic blood pressure before and during a standardized psychophysiological stress test was significantly lower after mackerel diet.
(5) Deliberately spoiled mackerel samples and mackerel samples implicated in outbreaks of scombrotoxicosis were, under medical supervision, tested blind on normal, healthy volunteers of both sexes.
(6) Very low density lipoproteins were lower in the mackerel oil group.
(7) He brings us his mackerel, and his marigolds, as a child just able to walk solemnly brings objects … a birdcage, or a colander … and deposits them as an offering before the attentive adult."
(8) Evidence is presented which establishes that mackerel fed in captivity can, by relay from contaminated shellfish via sand eels, accumulate paralytic shellfish poisons (PSP) in the edible flesh at a level (250 micrograms saxitoxin equivalents per kg) similar to that in the contaminated shellfish.
(9) After diets supplemented with canned mackerel or herring, in a cross-over design, containing different amounts of long-chain n-3 fatty acids (eicosapentaenoic acid, C20:5n-3-EPA, and docosahexaenoic acid, C22(6)n-3-DHA) an increase of both EPA and DHA was confirmed in triglycerides (TG), cholesterol esters (CE) and phospholipids (PL) of very low density (VLDL) and low density lipoproteins (LDL) as well as in high density lipoproteins (HDL) from hyperlipidemic subjects.
(10) The fatty acid composition of blood serum, heart muscle, and liver showed considerable differences, omega3 acids being higher and both omega6 and omega9 acids being lower in the mackerel oil group than in the control group.
(11) Two of the species studied, the northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax and the jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, empty lipase(s) into their gall bladders and produce-phospholipid free bile.
(12) The combination reducing diet with proportion of mackerels proved to be most effectively for the decrease of the atherogenic LDL and was superior to the monotherapies.
(13) Red muscle of mackerel, Australian salmon, pilchard and scad are better vascularised than red muscle of the flathead having 153, 200, 242, 291 and 309 microns 2 of cross-sectional fibre area per peripheral capillary, respectively.
(14) Mackerel, an oily fish packed with Omega 3, has been championed by celebrity chefs such as Guardian writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, who in his Channel 4 Fish Fight programme persuaded sceptical consumers to eat his mackerel baps.
(15) Analysis of commercial samples showed that the core temperature during smoking of herring and mackerel must have been clearly below 70 degrees C in several cases.
(16) Described by the distinguished critic Hilton Kramer as "the best painter of his generation in England", Scott is most often admired for his kitchen-table still lifes, featuring pots, pans, bowls, plates of mackerel, pears and so on – all rendered simple and plain.
(17) Sometimes people put mackerel through the letterboxes because they know there isn’t going to be anyone in the house for months,” says Edwards.
(18) After mackerel diet serum triglycerides and total cholesterol were significantly lower, returning to basal levels 3 months later.
(19) The values for the available methionine and cysteine contents of pure protein (casein, bovine serum albumin) and protein of food (fresh milk, whey, mackerel, beef, pork, wheat flour) estimated by the specific chemical methods were similar to those for the total content determined by the method of Moore et al.
(20) The MCS said the best choice now is Cornish mackerel caught by "hand-line", with British, European or Norwegian mackerel that is "pelagic-caught" – caught in shoals – as the best alternative.