(v. t.) To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
(v. t.) To injure by fire or heat; to change destructively some property or properties of, by undue exposure to fire or heat; to scorch; to scald; to blister; to singe; to char; to sear; as, to burn steel in forging; to burn one's face in the sun; the sun burns the grass.
(v. t.) To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some property or properties of, by exposure to fire or heat in due degree for obtaining a desired residuum, product, or effect; to bake; as, to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.
(v. t.) To make or produce, as an effect or result, by the application of fire or heat; as, to burn a hole; to burn charcoal; to burn letters into a block.
(v. t.) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does; as, to burn the mouth with pepper.
(v. t.) To apply a cautery to; to cauterize.
(v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen.
(v. i.) To be of fire; to flame.
(v. i.) To suffer from, or be scorched by, an excess of heat.
(v. i.) To have a condition, quality, appearance, sensation, or emotion, as if on fire or excessively heated; to act or rage with destructive violence; to be in a state of lively emotion or strong desire; as, the face burns; to burn with fever.
(v. i.) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat; as, copper burns in chlorine.
(v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
(n.) A hurt, injury, or effect caused by fire or excessive or intense heat.
(n.) The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn.
(n.) A disease in vegetables. See Brand, n., 6.
(n.) A small stream.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(2) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(3) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(4) The patient later died from complications of burns.
(5) In clinical situations on donor sites and grafted full-thickness burn wounds, the PEU film indeed prevented fluid accumulation and induced the formation of a "red" coagulum underneath.
(6) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(7) For the purpose of studying the role of elastase and protease of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in bacterial infection in burns, the effects of the vaccines made from each enzyme, their toxoids and OEP on protection against infection in burned mice were studied.
(8) The authors report on their experience in the use of cultured keratinocytes in severely burned children, observed in the Surgical Emergency and Pediatric Surgery Department at the Gaslini Institute of Genova.
(9) Frequency of symptoms like dizziness, headache, lachrymation, burning sensation in eyes, nausea and anorexia, etc, were much more in the exposed workers.
(10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(11) It is often difficult if not impossible to include a pediatric patient in the planning of burn reconstruction.
(12) The fact that it is still used is regrettable yet unavoidable at present, but the average quantity is three times less than the mercury released into the atmosphere by burning the extra coal need to power equivalent incandescent bulbs.
(13) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
(14) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(15) A 26-year-old man with 40% full-thickness burns was treated by excision and split-skin grafting on the 7th post-burn day.
(16) We conclude that a burn involving the chest wall results in cardiopulmonary abnormalities, not seen after a body burn of a comparable size, which appear to be due to hyperthermia and an increased release of prostacyclin and O2 radicals.
(17) During treatment, the mother underwent an abortion and burned her face with kitchen chemicals.
(18) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(19) Significant enhancement of IL-2 production by indomethacin was seen in the burned group (mean, 95%), but not in controls (mean, 23.8%) or normal mice (mean, 17.2%), and similar effects were seen with flurbiprofen.
(20) Twenty-one days of treatment of one group of burned rats with the selective beta 2-adrenergic agonist, clenbuterol, increased resting energy expenditure and normalized body weight gain, muscle mass, and muscle protein content.
Tend
Definition:
(v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
(v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
(v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
(v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To await; to expect.
(a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
(a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
(4) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
(5) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(6) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
(7) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
(8) Fibrinolysis tended to be depressed in resting ANO patients.
(9) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
(10) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
(11) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
(12) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
(13) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
(14) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
(15) Urinary Hg excretion was variable during the first 24 h after HgCl2 injection and tended to be higher with higher dosage unless the animals became anuric early on.
(16) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
(17) The more the OKT8+ and B1+ lymphocytes infiltrated, the longer the survival (rate obtained) whereas, the infiltration of some kinds of plasma cells tended to have a negative correlation with the prognosis of the case.
(18) This fact is due to the characteristic of IgE which tends to fix itself to basophil membrane.
(19) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
(20) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.