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Bracken


Definition:

  • (n.) A brake or fern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the one hand was the condition found in many parts of the world of bovine enzootic haematuria with uncertain aetiology and, on the other, the investigations conducted on the acute radiomimetic cattle bracken poisoning under laboratory conditions.
  • (2) Mammary cancer was also induced in Sprague-Dawley rats fed a bracken diet.
  • (3) Inbred strain ACI rats of both sexes were divided into 4 groups; Group 1 received a diet containing the unprocessed bracken dried at a room temperature of below 30 degrees, Group 2 received a diet containing bracken dried at 70 approximately 90 degrees with a hot, forced draft, and Group 3 received the diet containing processed bracken that had been minced to a paste-like consistency using a mechanical chopper.
  • (4) Two glucosides to enhance histamine release from rat peritoneal mast cells were isolated from rhizomes of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum (L.) Kuhn) by column chromatography on Sephadex LH-20 and droplet counter-current chromatography, and named braxin A1 and A2.
  • (5) Powdered bracken fern mixed with a basic commercial diet (1:4 by weight) was fed to a group of 40 ICR strain mice for 20 weeks after the implantation of a glass bead into the bladder.
  • (6) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
  • (7) Thirteen cows maintained on natural bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum) were analyzed cytogenetically.
  • (8) In animals experimentally immunosuppressed with azathioprine "bracken type" hemangiomas developed in the bladder lining.
  • (9) It was proved that PT is the carcinogenic principle present in bracken fern, inducing mammary cancer and multiple ileal tumors in high incidences when given orally to female Sprague-Dawley rats.
  • (10) Here, Main, Sidney Bracken, 65, Paul Radley, 52, and David Robinson, 63, are cooking an outdoor breakfast, after hanging a huge banner around the ramparts of the fort.
  • (11) The possible carcinogenicity of bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum, common name: "Broto de Samambaia") which is used as food by the population of Ouro Preto (Minas Gerais, Brazil) and neighboring areas, was studied in rats.
  • (12) The present study compared results obtained for 62 normally developing preschool children on the Bracken Basic Concept Scale, the Preschool Language Scale, and the Slossen Intelligence Test to determine whether scores on the tests correlated and were equivalent.
  • (13) The route leads past Bleamoss Beck, then winds its way through the bracken landscape before crossing a grassy hollow to the foot of Wrynose Pass.
  • (14) Bracken-grazing animals are also heavily immunosuppressed.
  • (15) Dose dependent toxicity was observed in bracken fern (p less than 0.001).
  • (16) The carcinogenicity of bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum, was demonstrated most clearly by the experiment of Evans and Mason in 1965.
  • (17) Histologic examination of the urinary bladders of albino rats fed bracken fern (Pteris aqulinum) showed epithelial hyperplasia in all test animals after 3 weeks of feeding and nuclear abnormalities at 4 to 6 weeks.
  • (18) Evidence is presented to shown that this is associated with the presence of bracken fern on high incidence farms and that many of the carcinomas arise in pre-existing virus-induced papillomas.
  • (19) The two have led to the recognition of the long term cancer dangers of bracken consumption and the vulnerability of a wide variety of species of animals.
  • (20) The moors, covered with bracken turning a rusty brown, stretched as far as the eye could see.

Bracket


Definition:

  • (n.) An architectural member, plain or ornamental, projecting from a wall or pier, to support weight falling outside of the same; also, a decorative feature seeming to discharge such an office.
  • (n.) A piece or combination of pieces, usually triangular in general shape, projecting from, or fastened to, a wall, or other surface, to support heavy bodies or to strengthen angles.
  • (n.) A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.
  • (n.) The cheek or side of an ordnance carriage.
  • (n.) One of two characters [], used to inclose a reference, explanation, or note, or a part to be excluded from a sentence, to indicate an interpolation, to rectify a mistake, or to supply an omission, and for certain other purposes; -- called also crotchet.
  • (n.) A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To place within brackets; to connect by brackets; to furnish with brackets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
  • (2) In 1:1 saturated complexes with the octamers [d(GGATATCC)]2 and [d(GGTTAACC)]2, [N-MeCys3,N-MeCys7]TANDEM binds to each octamer as a bis-intercalator bracketing the TpA step.
  • (3) Simply lengthening the working age bracket is a potential disaster, unless the inequalities at the heart of the policy are addressed in a detailed and sensible way and we achieve full employment.
  • (4) When either predictability or bond strength was considered independently, several bracket systems, coupled with a particular etch time, had either high predictability or high bond strength.
  • (5) The plaque situation around the brackets and along the gingival margins and the gingival condition were assessed according to the criteria of the plaque and gingival index systems by a dental hygienist at each monthly visit during a test period of 6 months.
  • (6) When pseudorabies virus (PrV) strains are grown in chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF), variants ("translocation" mutants) arise in which there is a duplication of the leftmost sequences of the genome and their translocation in inverted orientation next to the internal inverted repeat bracketing the S component.
  • (7) In 2010 there were 2,525 City workers with in the €1m-plus pay bracket with average pay of €2.3m and with a much higher ratio, 611% of variable pay to fixed salary.
  • (8) The results showed that moment-to-force values at the bracket level for translation of a tooth decreased with shorter root length and increased with lower alveolar bone height.
  • (9) The bracket junction is compared with the vertebrate gap junction in terms of both structure and possible roles in facilitating the permeation of the cell by small molecules.
  • (10) Thirty-seven patients entered the trial, and a total of 407 brackets were placed.
  • (11) The purpose of this in vitro study was to determine the tensile bond strengths (TBS) of several orthodontic bonding systems and orthodontic brackets to enamel surfaces exposed to different etching procedures.
  • (12) A pulsed Nd:YAG laser was used to etch the enamel surfaces of teeth in vivo prior to the bonding of orthodontic brackets with composite resin.
  • (13) 6) The strongest bond strength between bracket and etched enamel was obtained with the direct-bonding adhesive containing 2SEM under all conditions.
  • (14) The frequencies of 80 HLA antigen phenotypes in 82 centenarians and 20 nonagenarians in Okinawa, Japan, were compared with those in other healthy adults in various age-brackets.
  • (15) Only three brackets were lost during the experiment.
  • (16) The tensile bond strength of bracket bases coated with metal plasma were examined.
  • (17) They certainly aren't anywhere near the middle, as only 14% of earners hit the 40% bracket.
  • (18) The surface features of incipient caries lesions around bonded orthodontic brackets were assessed longitudinally.
  • (19) For the point of no-net-flux method, animals were perfused with 4 concentrations of DA or DOPAC, bracketing the extracellular concentrations.
  • (20) Inherent defects seen in the morphology of polycrystalline ceramic brackets severely limit their fracture strength.

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