(n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
(n.) A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
(v. i.) To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The % by weight content of leaf-like, stem, boll, seed, and weed materials sifted (3360 mum greater than particle size greater than or equal to 595 mum) from visible wastes of the Shirley Analyzer was determined for a lint sample taken after ginning but before cleaning and for a second lint sample taken after one stage of saw-type cleaning.
(2) There was no significant difference in the numbers of contaminated bolls between the excised and field-matured treatments.
(3) These results were discussed in the context of the species-specific defense reaction (SSDR) avoidance theory of Bolles.
(4) But I am confident that we as a city can shape the coexistence of different cultures we have here now.” “We have to bring the city into the camps,” says refugee coordinator Hadjiandreou-Boll.
(5) Expression of heat shock proteins (hsp) in the BRL-AG-3C cell line from the cotton boll weevil was examined.
(6) Muraschi, Thelma F. (Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany), John K. Miller, Victor N. Tompkins, and Dorothy M. Bolles.
(7) A heterogeneous group of 100 subjects were selected from the neuropsychological testing case records published by Golden, Osmon, Moses, and Berg in 1981, Boll (undated), and Reitan (undated).
(8) All of the bolls inoculated through the carpel wall had A. flavus in the seed, but only 11% of the stem and peduncle sections were infected, indicating that the fungus does not readily grow downward from the boll into the supporting stem or peduncle.
(9) Alix Bolle of the European association Energy Cities says many Scandinavian and German cities do well on energy not only because they have highly efficient district heating and cooling systems, but because powers to harness and manage energy are decentralised.
(10) Boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) eggs contain two yolk proteins, YP47 and YP160.
(11) The seed and stem and peduncle sections of each boll were surface-sterilized, plated on agar media and observed for A. flavus.
(12) Raw cotton from 4 machine picked varieties and 2 machine stripped varieties is examined by stereomicroscope and bright-field microscopy for presence of plant trash(bract, leaf, stem, seed, boll, and weed fragments-size range 841-2000mum) that gives rise to cotton dust during yarn manufacturing operations.
(13) The FokI method of gene synthesis [Mandecki and Bolling, Gene 68 (1988) 101-107] was used to assemble the plasmid from 30 oligodeoxyribonucleotides.
(14) The fungus was present in 20 to 58% of the immature bolls harvested 25 or 35 days after anthesis.
(15) Bolles tells us he is playing at the Echo in a few minutes with his band The Fancy Space People.
(16) Whole plants, assayed under conditions of high insect pressure with Heliothis zea (cotton bollworm) showed effective square and boll protection.
(17) Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used to examine gut, Malpighian tube, fat-body, testes, and ovarioles tissues of the adult cotton boll weevil, Anthonomus grandis Boh.
(18) The first are called vitellogenins and are found in frog, chicken, nematode, fish, and some insects such as the boll weevil.
(19) Bolls developing from early-season flowers had significantly higher percentages of A. flavus-infected seed than did bolls from flowers formed later in the season.
(20) The esterases of the cotton boll weevil were separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into four major regions.
Coll
Definition:
(v. t.) To embrace.
Example Sentences:
(1) Roentgenograms of 40 rereduced Colles' fractures are reviewed in order to answer the following questions.
(2) The relative importance of each of these factors was studied in a series of 14 patients with malunited Colles' fractures and severe disabilities.
(3) "It was a certain kind of titillation the shop offered," the critic Matthew Collings has written, "sexual but also hopeless, destructive, foolish, funny, sad."
(4) When the fracture patients were examined, we found also generalized bone deficit as the prominent feature, amounting to about 20% of the premenopausal level for Colles' and spinal fractures, and about 25% for femoral neck-fracture.
(5) A case of flexor pollicis longus tendon rupture as a complication of a Colles' fracture in a 17-year-old male is described.
(6) The results indicate that contact with the occupational therapist shortly after the injury is valuable in patients with stable Colles' fractures.
(7) Prostatic specific antigen (PSA), glycoprotein with molecular weight of 34000, was first identified by Wang and Coll.
(8) In Colles fracture good functional results can be achieved by conservative treatment.
(9) A prospective radiological and functional assessment has been performed on 235 consecutively treated displaced Colles' fractures.
(10) A comparison between the functional end results of Colles' fractures, treated in two different hospitals, was performed by a follow up study of 100 patients from each hospital 18-24 months after fracture.
(11) Of 19 patients with an increase in the scapholunate gap, five were eventually considered to have significant scapholunate instability, two in association with Colles' fractures.
(12) The demonstration of fluorescent catecholamines and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in the same neuron has been achieved in the Rat in two ways: by submitting vibratome sections to a modified glyoxylic acid fluorescence method followed by the usual procedure to reveal HRP; or by combining the last procedure with the cryostat technique of Chiba et coll.
(13) The inactive complex is very stable and can be isolated free of other components by 48 h of dialysis at 4 degrees C (Murphy, A. J., and Coll, R. J.
(14) An unusual case of traumatic neuritis of ulnar nerve associated with Colles's fracture is described.
(15) In an experimental work published in 1973, it was found, that it was possible to preserve pig kidneys with up to one hour of warm ischemia for 24 hours using pretreatment with chlorpromazine and subsequent preservation with simpel hypothermia (Collings C2-solution).
(16) Untreated shunts and shunts heparinized according to a modification of the method of Eriksson et coll.
(17) In contrast, binding to Coll was increased only 1.2-fold with Mg++, and 1.7-fold in Mn++, as compared to the level seen with Ca++.
(18) Flexor tendon ruptures are a very rare complication of Colles' fracture.
(19) A practical classification of Colles' fractures according to intra-articular fracture lines was shown to be useful in assessing the severity of these fractures.
(20) Cardioangiographic scores of coronary artery obstructions and corresponding myocardial involvement (MCOS), presence of collaterals (CollS), and asynergy of the left ventricular wall (LVMS) as well as the left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) were examined in 67 patients with coronary heart disease.