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Canister


Definition:

  • (n.) A small basket of rushes, reeds, or willow twigs, etc.
  • (n.) A small box or case for holding tea, coffee, etc.
  • (n.) A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called also canister shot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
  • (2) The other method uses a thermoluminescence dosemeter placed in the charcoal canister, giving an integrated value of the radon concentration.
  • (3) Most hospital programs use semicontinuous flow centrifugation or canister technology for the intraoperative salvage and reinfusion of shed blood.
  • (4) The liquid oxygen system was preferred because the oxygen lasted longer, filling was easier, and the canister was easier to carry.
  • (5) Temperature rise in the canister was found closely related to CO2 output, which was calculated, after a period of stabilization, with the help of a nomogram.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A picture that has been circulating showing a man on the ground; he appears to have canisters strapped to his body.
  • (7) The masses attending the president’s election rallies booed the family of 14-year-old Berkin Elvan , who died after he was hit by a gas canister.
  • (8) But bewilderment quickly turned to horror after the gunman tossed two gas canisters into the room and began firing, spraying the audience with bullets.
  • (9) Stephen Salter, the innovative Edinburgh University engineer, (known best for his invention of Salter's duck - the 300-tonne floating canister designed to drive a generator from the motion of bobbing up and down on waves) thinks he has the key.
  • (10) The consequences of this divide-and-rule strategy are evident in Okmeydani, a neighbourhood in Istanbul's central Beyoglu district, that recently made headlines following the deaths of Berkin Elvan, a teenager who died after being hit in the head by a teargas canister during last summer's protests, and of Burakcan Karamanoglu, a 22-year-old who was shot in the head during clashes between opposing groups in the neighbourhood.
  • (11) The pressurized canisters may be useful in standardizing irrigation in wound management research.
  • (12) "I hid behind a tree, and all I saw were Morsi supporters throwing stones, or fireworks, or throwing teargas canisters."
  • (13) It’s a concern that it’s going up, the numbers of people using are quite stunning, but it’s not the most dangerous thing by a mile.” This is a position supported by DrugScience (formerly the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs) which, while pointing out the dangers surrounding frostbite from the cold temperature of canisters and potential vitamin B12 deficiency from heavy use, describes nitrous oxide as “ one of the least risky drugs ”.
  • (14) Satisfactory or good compliance was achieved by 52% of these subjects as measured by the chronolog compared with 85% as assessed by canister weighing.
  • (15) Brian Maddison from the group told ITV's Daybreak that one garage in Kent reported already selling out of fuel canisters: "That's the sort of bizarre behaviour that Francis Maude and the rest of the cabinet seem to have encouraged.
  • (16) Clashes had continued into the early hours even though the pro-Mubarak supporters had been pushed back to the edge of the square and explosions – possibly from gas canisters – echoed around the area.
  • (17) Some have been carrying grenade launchers,apparently for shooting gas canisters.
  • (18) The Venturi entrains exhaled gas from the patient through a soda-lime canister, and carries it to the patient together with fresh gas.
  • (19) A journalist was blown up by a police officer who fired a teargas canister in his stomach at close range for allegedly "asking the police too many questions" at a rally by an opposition political party.
  • (20) Ventilation was not influenced by the canisters until 80% of VO2max at which time the mean oxygen ventilatory equivalent became significantly lower.

Container


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, contains.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence contained both amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences.
  • (2) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
  • (3) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (4) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
  • (5) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
  • (6) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
  • (7) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (8) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
  • (9) These studies, in addition to demonstrating that the placenta contains TRH deamidase activity, suggest that losses of fetal TRH through the placenta are not large.
  • (10) Rapid overgrowth of all cultures with the E. coli necessitated the use of selective media containing antimicrobial agents to which the E. coli was sensitive.
  • (11) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
  • (12) Gel filtration of the 40,000 rpm supernatant fraction of a homogenate of rat cerebral cortex on a Sepharose 6B column yielded two fractions: fraction II with the "Ca(2+) plus Mg(2+)-dependent" phosphodiesterase activity and fraction III containing its modulator.
  • (13) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (14) It includes preincubation of diluted plasma with ellagic acid and phospholipids and a starting reagent that contains calcium and a chromogenic peptide substrate for thrombin, Tos-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA.
  • (15) The p60v-src protein encoded by Prague Rous sarcoma virus was found to contain two sites of tyrosine phosphorylation.
  • (16) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
  • (17) The deduced amino acid sequence contained no consensus sequence indicative of N-glycosylation.
  • (18) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
  • (19) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
  • (20) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.