(n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Use of the multiple-dose syringe pump system resulted in a savings of $934.81 in material costs compared with the bottle and burette system and $9.70 in material costs compared with the single-dose syringe pump system (based on 40 doses).
(2) Ultrathin (120-180 microns) gels were prepared with the flap technique and 500 microns gels with the cassette technique; 500 microns gels with immobilized pH gradients were cast using precision molds and a computer controlled mixing device of four burettes.
(3) When the cost of wasted drug was considered, the cost per day of the multiple-dose syringe pump system was substantially less (70%) than the cost per day of the bottle and burette system and approximately the same as the cost per day for the single-dose syringe pump system.
(4) To do this the lower end of the burette must be blocked and a method of doing this without the need to fuse on a glass tap is described.4.
(5) At a selected pO2, O2 supply is maintained by injecting appropriate amounts of O2-saturated aqueous medium into the reaction chamber by using a motor-driven burette.
(6) Implementation of a multiple-dose, multiple-flow-rate syringe pump system may result in cost savings over a traditional bottle and burette system and could complement an existing single-dose syringe infusion system.
(7) Assembled from readily available and economical instrumental components, the apparatus includes a pH meter, a thermoelectric heating and stirring device, a motor-driven burette, and an automatic recorder.
(8) Intravenous fluid containers, burettes, a syringe, infusion sets and end-line filters were evaluated.
(9) Up to 50% potency of chlormethiazole and nitroglycerin, 15-25% of isosorbide dinitrate, and 13-20% of diazepam was lost to PVC sets without burettes, and an additional 10-15% loss of each drug resulted when PVC sets with burettes were used.
(10) A new way of measuring the graduation error in the stem of the Lloyd-Haldane burette is described, in which a fixed mass of water is made to occupy different parts of the stem.
(11) One solution was prepared in a soft polyvinyl chloride minibag (Viaflex, Baxter-Travenol), the other in a semirigid plastic burette (Buretrol, Baxter-Travenol).
(12) administration sets with and without cellulose propionate burettes and to polybutadiene (PBD) sets with and without methacrylate butadiene styrene (MBS) burettes was studied.
(13) Infusion bags, burettes, a syringe, infusion tubings and end-line filters were tested in static and in dynamic experiments.
(14) All drugs (except chlormethiazole) were diluted with 0.9% sodium chloride injection (NS) in glass bottles or in the burette chambers.
(15) The strata in the minibag showed smaller variations in potassium concentration than did corresponding layers in the burette.
(16) Each patient received gentamicin therapy via intravenous piggyback (IVPB) and in-line burette (ILB) methods.
(17) Change of in-line burettes in patients in intensive care at 72-hour intervals is safe and should result in substantial cost savings to hospitals.
(18) At the time the new syringe pump system was implemented, the teaching hospital was using a gravity-dependent bottle and burette system and the community hospital was using a single-dose syringe pump system.
(19) The cumulative amount of paraldehyde delivered at the end of the administration set at six hours was 84% for 5% dextrose solutions in burettes, and 89% or 90% for all other solutions and i.v.
(20) The method involves dilution with an albumin solution, a 2-hr incubation with a commercially available substrate mixture, and manual titration with a burette.
Corn
Definition:
(n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
(n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
(n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
(n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.
(n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.
(v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.
(v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
(v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
(v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.
Example Sentences:
(1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
(2) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(3) Dry matter and starch intakes were greater when corn was fed than when barley was fed.
(4) Development of folate deficiency was evaluated in young chicks fed diets containing corn and soybean meal as major constituents.
(5) Changes in haemolymph juvenile hormone (JH) concentrations of larvae of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella, were used to estimate the activity of the corpora allata.
(6) In Experiment 1, chicks 24 days old were fed mixtures of untreated and inoculated corn containing citrinin to provide 0, 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 micrograms of the toxin per gram of blended corn.
(7) Mice administered chloroform in corn oil displayed a significant degree of diffuse parenchymal degeneration (5 of 10 males and 1 of 10 females) and mild to moderate early cirrhosis (5 of 10 males and 9 of 10 females); significant pathological lesions were not observed in the animals administered corn oil without chloroform nor in mice receiving chloroform in 2% Emulphor.
(8) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
(9) It was found that ammoniation inactivated the aflatoxins and reduced the carcinogenicity of the contaminated corn to a level that was not significantly different from that with the basal control diet.
(10) Ribosome-inactivating proteins were found in high amounts in one line of cells of Phytolacca americana (pokeweed) cultured in vitro and, in less quantity, in lines of Saponaria officinalis (soapwort) and of Zea mays (corn) cells.
(11) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
(12) Free fatty acids from both coconut and corn oils reduced diet palatability and intake; those from tallow and coconut oil markedly interfered (in vitro) with rennet clotting of milk replacers.
(13) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
(14) Rats fed tryptophan-poor corn diets have reduced levels of brain serotonin and show increased responsiveness to electric shock.
(15) Percent apparent digestibilities for DM, NDF, and N for corn and corn-sunflower were similar and greater than for sunflower: DM (69.6, 68.2, 57.4); NDF (68.1, 61.5, 51.6); and N (66.3, 66.5, 63.6).
(16) 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%.
(17) Corn oil feeding decreased the transcriptional rate.
(18) Rats whose diet was restricted in calories by 40% exhibited no mammary tumors (coconut oil as primary dietary fat) or 75% fewer tumors (corn oil as dietary fat) compared to ad libitum-fed controls; they also exhibited 47% fewer colonic tumors.
(19) Anthracene, chrysene, benzo(e)pyrene and perylene did not significantly suppress the antibody-forming cell response compared to the corn oil vehicle controls.
(20) Acarbose significantly reduced the satiety effect of corn starch in lean rats (p less than 0.001), and further attenuated satiety in obese rats (p less than 0.02).