(1) In vitro studies carried out in this Department confirmed the high activity of mecillinam against Salmonella spp.
(2) Estimations of the degree of incorporation of 14C from the radioactive labeled carbohydrate into the glycerol and fatty acid moieties were carried out.
(3) However, direct measurements of mediator release should be carried out to reach a firm conclusion.
(4) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(5) A survey carried out two and three years after the launch of the official campaign also showed a reduction in the prevalence of rickets in children taking low dose supplements equivalent to about 2.5 micrograms (100 IU) vitamin D daily.
(6) The present study was therefore carried out to specify further which type of adrenoceptor is involved in lithium-induced hyperglycaemia and inhibition of insulin secretion.
(7) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
(8) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(9) Seven males have been observed carrying both inherited tritan and red-green defects.
(10) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(11) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
(12) The investigations carried out show that the two main serologic types of phage group II are biochemically different.
(13) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
(14) The polymerization of dATP, dCTP, and dGTP onto the defined length initiator, d(pA)10, has been carried out in four buffers.
(15) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
(16) Biosyntheses of TXA2 and PGI2 were carried out using arachidonic acid as a substrate and horse platelet and aorta microsomes as sources of TXA2 and PGI2 synthetases respectively.
(17) Based upon the analysis of 1015 case records of patients, aged 16-70, with different hip joint pathology types, carried out during 1985-1990, there were revealed mistakes and complications after reconstructive-restorative operations.
(18) A 2.7-kilobase DNA fragment carrying the entire exotoxin A (ETA) structural gene was divided into three nonoverlapping probes.
(19) In contrast, strains carrying the substitutions Ile-30----Phe, Gly-33----Leu, Gly-58----Leu, and Lys-34----Val and the Lys-34----Val, Glu-37----Gln double substitution were found to possess a coupled phenotype similar to that of the wild type.
(20) Five investigations into the force are being carried out by the IPCC.
Ecstasy
Definition:
(n.) The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.
(n.) Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.
(n.) Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.
(n.) A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.
(v. t.) To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.
Example Sentences:
(1) When it was grown, it would bring both ecstasy and catastrophe to women.
(2) The survey found that, among clubbers who reported having taken ecstasy within the past month, three quarters had also taken mephedrone – known in the media as "meow meow" – within the same period.
(3) West Ham, a surprising presence in the top four, were the better side and Carroll’s first goal since January was a moment of pure ecstasy for a player who has worked hard to return from the knee injury he suffered in February.
(4) She has also impressed the rank and file with her tough talking to the Police Federation, vowing to break its power and bringing to an end its closed-shop practices, sending many Tories of a certain age into ecstasies of Thatcherite nostalgia.
(5) What the last government has done, systematically, is pretend that there's a science that we need to be concerned about, with drugs like cannabis and ecstasy, which is the justification for doing what they did – making cannabis class B and keeping ecstasy class A.
(6) And ecstasy was a breakthrough, a gateway to a new way of living and being.
(7) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
(8) They also reported evidence from almost all regions of the world that tablets sold as ecstasy or methamphetamine contained not just the touted ingredients; they also increasingly comprised chemical cocktails that posed unforeseen public health challenges.
(9) Now we think that manufacturers have figured out a new way of making ecstasy without it.
(10) But Nutt admits that he still can't fully answer the question people really want to know, namely: "If you took a standard dose of alcohol, cocaine, heroin or ecstasy, which would be more harmful?"
(11) Celebrity use Celebrities who have admitted taking ecstasy include Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher, who claimed that taking drugs is 'like having a cup of tea', boyband star Brian Harvey and Blur's Damon Albarn.
(12) Within 12 months of his appointment he published a paper that found horse riding to be more dangerous than taking ecstasy – and probably, he suspects, triggered his dismissal nine months later.
(13) Alcohol came top, higher than heroin, crack and crystal meth, while ecstasy and LSD were ranked among the least damaging.
(14) The UK has followed US trends over cannabis, heroin and psychedelics, and led the world in the vilification of MDMA (ecstasy).
(15) She did ecstasy for the first time with, among others, psychedelic guru Timothy Leary.
(16) The primary reported effects of Ecstasy were a 'positive mood state' and feelings of intimacy and closeness to others.
(17) The result seemed assured but more drama was to come, Vaughan rifling an unstoppable shot into the top corner from the left edge of the penalty area to send Sunderland's fans and Di Canio into ecstasy.
(18) Alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis, according to a paper from a drugs expert.
(19) He was sacked as head of the Home Office’s advisory council on the misuse of drugs in 2009 when he pointed out that research showed taking ecstasy was less dangerous than horseriding.
(20) That miss allowed Kolarov to redeem himself by sending in the corner that Touré volleyed past Gomes at the near post, before Agüero sent the travelling fans into ecstasy, expertly heading in Bacary Sagna’s cross.