(n.) The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.
(n.) The European carrion crow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
(2) The dietary fibre intake of 25 patients with the irritable bowel syndrome was assessed by dietary recall over one week for the period before onset of symptoms, at diagnosis and after six months treatment with bran and a fibre-rich diet, and compared with controls matched for age and sex.
(3) On the other hand, wheat bran, pectin, guar gum, and degraded carageenan all stimulate large bowel cell proliferation, the greatest growth response tending to occur in the cecum or proximal colon.
(4) Colonic transit was measured before and after 6 weeks on a bran preparation (Fiberform, 10 g daily) or an ispagula bulk preparation (Lunelax, 10 g daily) in random order.
(5) Gastrointestinal transit time, frequency of defecation, stool weight, and stool consistency were studied in 12 subjects who were each given fiber supplements containing wheat bran, psyllium gum, a combination of wheat bran and psyllium gum, or a low-fiber control for 2 weeks.
(6) Compared to fiber-free, feeding corn bran increased binding in the duodenum 30% and ileum 50% but decreased binding in the jejunum 44%, and feeding guar gum increased binding in the colon 73% but decreased binding in the jejunum 40%.
(7) A kinetic study of hydrolytic catalysis by wheat bran carboxypeptidase (carboxypeptidase W) was carried out using 3-(2-furyl)acryloyl-acylated (Fua-) synthetic substrates.
(8) Urinary and fecal estrogen excretion were studied in male rats fed a non-fiber wheat starch diet (dietary fiber less than 1%; NF group; n = 4), a low-fiber wheat flour diet (dietary fiber 2%; LF group; n = 4) or a high-fiber wheat bran diet (dietary fiber 11.6%; HF group; n = 3).
(9) Bran reduced genotoxicity by restricting uptake of MeIQ from the gut lumen.
(10) In a second study, chicks were fed FFRB, defatted rice bran (DFRB), and CS diets balanced for 18% protein, 14.47% total dietary fiber and 10.78% lipid with 0.5% added cholesterol.
(11) Neither bran influenced fecal wet weight or stool frequency.
(12) Two mixed-food breakfast meals composed predominantly of either red kidney beans or bran cereal were fed to six healthy young men.
(13) Dietary intakes of fiber (wheat bran) and fat (corn oil) by rats were quantitatively varied for 6 wk while intakes of energy and essential nutrients were constant among the diets.
(14) Sensory evaluation indicated no significant differences (P less than 0.05) between the control and 10 per cent bran cakes for moistness, flavor, and overall acceptability.
(15) It means that if I get a little bored with Daenerys refusing to bring her dragons and her army over to the main continent, I just need to wait a few minutes until Bran's adventures take over.
(16) The aim of this study was to determine the effect of wheat bran consumption on exocrine pancreas secretion in pigs.
(17) Data on colonic intraluminal pressures are scanty, but those that exist seem to indicate that the addition of bran to the diet results in a decrease in overall colonic pressures.
(18) Bran reduces faecal mutagenicity, although the mutagen concerned is unknown.
(19) Addition of the extracted material to a wheat-bran diet had no effect on plasma cholesterol.
(20) Similarly, in studies of porcine TPO, extracts of bran fraction 1 caused pronounced (85%) inhibition of enzyme activity, and progressively less inhibition was induced by extracts of bran fractions 2, 3, and 4.
Brawn
Definition:
(n.) A muscle; flesh.
(n.) Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
(n.) The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
(n.) A boar.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Mrs Brawne role is quiet, but has the visceral quality that marks Fox's best work; she is a widow, trying to negotiate her daughter's passion for the penniless Keats and the pressing financial need for her to marry well.
(2) Are brain, brawn, sin and virtue preordained; the elect predestined for high things?
(3) Campaign magazine says: “To help propel an agency to the top through its strategic work takes some doing, but to keep it there for ten years demonstrates a scary strength of will.” When they named her as top media planner for the second year they wrote “the brains behind the brawn of MediaCom her impact and influence on the business remain second to none”.
(4) It was taken over by Brawn GP, who went on to win the constructors' title in the current season, which ended in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
(5) People need to aspire to become partners.” Miranda Brawn, a barrister and a director at Daiwa Capital Markets, said it was important for young people to have role models or mentors so they could see people like themselves in senior legal positions.
(6) Both teams played with three central defenders, which felt sophisticated, but this contest was all about brawn.
(7) But while Brawn supported the idea of an apprenticeship, she was worried that it would come up against snobbery, and there was a general concern among those at the roundtable that without support from the top of the legal profession it could lead to a two-tier system.
(8) Now 43, the boy from Quebec city has gained a little brawn and is no longer quite so feline and delicate.
(9) Their creative cuisine has seduced local Parisians and the place is packed out every lunchtime for dishes such as smoked haddock and cabbage chowder, pork brawn and prune pâté, and lamb chops with broad beans and crunchy puntarella (chicory).
(10) Indeed, with his mixture of brawn and earthy charm, Pratt is increasingly coming to resemble a more contemporary Hollywood star: Harrison Ford.
(11) It was not a party political debate, not left versus right, spooks vs traitors, or even brains versus brawn, though critics of GCHQ and the NSA could probably muster more GCSEs and PhDs on Thursday than the muscular "Spying is what spies do" spooks lobby, several of whom have "interesting" CVs.
(12) I'm a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn.
(13) Fox's other new work is the film Bright Star, a biopic of John Keats and his love Fanny Brawne, whose mother Fox plays.
(14) Under the auspices of Peter Wright, the FIA’s president of the safety commission, the panel comprised such figures as Ross Brawn, Stefano Domenicali, Emerson Fittipaldi and Alex Wurz.
(15) • One hour from £17, kayakrepublic.dk emilydevon Family rafting adventure in Sweden Facebook Twitter Pinterest Building our own timber log raft was a real family team exercise: our 13-year-old became the knots and rope expert, the 15-year-old provided the brawn and the eight-year-old verbally supervised.
(16) Last year's How to Train Your Dragon, for example, bravely centred on a wimpy geek – a feminised hero who relied on brain rather than brawn, thus winning the affections of a physically superior female.
(17) He has to rely on brains, brawn and guts, nothing else.
(18) They laboured to deal with Romelu Lukaku’s brawn, and the invention of Ross Barkley, Aaron Lennon and Kevin Mirallas in midfield, with team-mates forever galloping upfield in support.
(19) Wielding a mixture of legal and diplomatic brawn, the letter warned the institutions to "bear in mind … the sovereignty dispute and … the consequences of any unlawful hydrocarbon exploration activities in the Argentine continenal shelf in proximity to the Malvinas [Falkland] islands".
(20) The property boom, at least in the London area, is also pushing wages for bricklayers above £100,000 a year, according to a report by consultancy EC Harris, after a "brawn drain" of labourers during the recession has left the capital with a shortage of skilled workers.