(n.) The act of consuming by fire or heat, or of subjecting to the effect of fire or heat; the state of being on fire or excessively heated.
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.
Extinguish
Definition:
(v. t.) To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
(v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse, as by superior splendor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(2) Perhaps strangely, it was the second remark that troubled me more than the possibility that humanity would be extinguished by my hand.
(3) A specific interaction of conformationally intact rhinovirus with peripheral blood mononuclear leukocytes was required for induction of the response, since the response was extinguished at reduced quantities of infectious rhinovirus, and acid inactivated rhinovirus did not augment cellular cytotoxicity.
(4) When tone presentations were continued, without further pairing with morphine, the hyperthermic response to the tone was gradually extinguished.
(5) Leukocyte suspensions from the infected agammaglobulinemic patient extinguished detectable infectious virus in vitro.
(6) Transcription of MyoD itself is extinguished in butyrate-treated myoblasts and myotubes, an effect that may be due to the inability of MyoD to autoactivate its own transcription.
(7) Fasting for 24 h extinguished the greatest part of this response.
(8) Abbado sees this as meaning that music is both destroyed and redeemed by its temporality: it exists and is extinguished in a moment, but has the endless possibility of being created anew in time.
(9) A case history is presented in which progressive muscle relaxation, diaphragmatic breathing, and flooding were used to extinguish and countercondition a writing phobia in a junior-year occupational therapy student.
(10) When, in stoppage time, the 33-year-old striker swept a first-time shot home any lingering Villa optimism was extinguished.
(11) Rats implanted with placebo pellets and given access to morphine reestablished lever pressing, while those given access to isotonic saline extinguished their lever pressing.
(12) A relationship seems to exist between the tumor load and the immune status, which reverts to a normal pattern when the former is extinguished.
(13) Furthermore, TSE1-repressed genes were hormone inducible, whereas fully extinguished genes were not.
(14) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(15) The fire extinguisher was thrown after protesters swarmed into Millbank Tower, the Westminster building that houses the Conservative party's headquarters.
(16) Functional smoke detectors and fire extinguishers were present in 75% and 27% of homes, respectively.
(17) This level of flash did not extinguish the response to the stimulus.
(18) In London a candlelit vigil – which the government hopes will be emulated in churches, by other faiths and by families across the land – will be held at Westminster Abbey, ending with the last candle being extinguished at 11pm, the moment war was declared.
(19) We review five specific techniques for the production of these antibodies (Abs): (a) So-called "shotgun," non-selective approach; (b) cascade procedure; (c) lymphocyte "panning"; (d) cyclophosphamide elimination of unwanted Ab producers; and finally (e) use of polyclonal antisera to extinguish unwanted antibody production.
(20) All peaks of the pyr-MEP were extinguished in the animals subjected to impact forces of 50 g-cm and above (n = 12).