(n.) The name of several evergreen trees. The wood is remarkable for its durability and fragrant odor.
(a.) Of or pertaining to cedar.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have developed a reverse-type sandwich ELISA for measurement of IgG (+IgA) antibody to a major allergen of Sugi (Japanese cedar) pollens.
(2) The study population was made up of 53 catheterized patients, 29 from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (CSMC) and 24 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSMC), and eight UTSMC patients with a less than 5% pre-test likelihood of coronary artery disease.
(3) The forecast of daily Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) pollen counts was performed in Sendai in 1987, 1988 and 1989.
(4) We conclude that plicatic acid-specific IgE and nonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness are associated in western red-cedar workers and that this association may reflect a causal connection.
(5) Asthma due to inhalation of dusts of western red cedar, isocyanates, detergent enzymes and textiles is considered in detail.
(6) With this antiserum in inhibition experiments, cross-reactivity between western red cedar and eastern white cedar, both belonging to the family of arborvitae, was found.
(7) Specific antibody of IgG1 subclass to Japanese cedar increased with age, whereas IgG4 antibody increased slightly without statistically significant difference.
(8) The differences in mercury were far greater at Bird Island than at Cedar Beach.
(9) Intradermal skin tests were performed using six allergens: house dust (HD), ragweed, Japanese cedar, orchard grass, candida and broncasma berna.
(10) The effect of air pollution caused by oil-fired electricity-generating stations on the annual ring growth of the Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica, D. Don) and prevalence of respiratory symptoms in schoolchildren were investigated.
(11) Edge of the Cedars state park Ruins of an Anasazi pueblo Cedars state park, Utah Photograph: Alamy Utah has a long, colourful history of human habitation, as evidenced by ruins, petroglyphs and relics left behind by the Ancestral Puebloan, Hopi, Ute and Navajo people.
(12) Fluticasone propionate was compared with beclomethasone dipropionate for the treatment of allergic rhinitis in a multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study during the mountain cedar (Juniperus ashei) pollination season in central Texas.
(13) These results suggest that PAF could play some important role in cedar pollinosis and that the clinical effect of anti-allergic drug could be partially due to the anti-PAF action.
(14) We compared several clinical and functional parameters among three groups of subjects with occupational asthma caused by Western red cedar (group 1, n = 433), isocyanates (group 2, n = 107), and high molecular weight agents acting through an IgE-mediated mechanism (group 3, n = 121).
(15) A decrease in the amount of exposure to cedar dust does not prevent deterioration of asthma.
(16) When he speaks in Cedar Rapids it won't be an obscure dinner function.
(17) The concept of on-line computer analysis of fetal monitoring records has met with clinical acceptance and is utilized for all patients in labor at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
(18) On fourteen volunteers with Japanese cedar pollinosis, nasal lavage and the determination of nasal airway resistance (NAR) were carried out periodically for twelve hours after an antigen challenge using antigen disk.
(19) The Cedar River Clinics in Washington state is one of the few abortion providers that has managed to forge a different path.
(20) One hundred and twenty-six allergic subjects were divided into three groups based on the RAST results for Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (D.p) and Japanese cedar (J.C.).
Cypress
Definition:
(n.) A coniferous tree of the genus Cupressus. The species are mostly evergreen, and have wood remarkable for its durability.
Example Sentences:
(1) We evaluated five enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays from Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital, Cambridge Bioscience (Worcester, Mass), Hillcrest Biologicals (Cypress, Calif), Sigma Diagnostics (St Louis, Mo), and Zeus-Wampole Scientific Inc (Raritan, NJ) and two fluorescent antibody tests (3M [Diagnostic Systems Inc, Santa Clara, Calif] and FIAX [Whittaker M.A.
(2) Flow cytometric analysis revealed that the intensity of fluorescence of the pollen samples treated with the antibody was greater than that of non-treated reference pollen or the antibody treated Hinoki-cypress pollen.
(3) A gun-metal grey speedboat powers across the still Ionian Sea until the cypress trees of the largest private estate in Corfu heave into view and the pilot kills the engine.
(4) The survival of virus present in secondary effluents discharged into a cypress dome was studied.
(5) Minarets stretched alongside cypresses to touch the sky.
(6) The sources of the kits were Hillcrest Biologicals, Cypress, Calif.; Whittaker Bioproducts, Walkersville, Md.
(7) From 1984 to 1986 110 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) from Big Cypress National Preserve in southern Florida were examined for intestinal coccidial infections.
(8) Infections were restricted to alpine and montane regions in southwestern Alberta (97%) as well as boreal uplands of the Cypress Hills in southeastern Alberta (3%).
(9) Weaving through a forest of cork oaks and pines, the path sometimes disappears into the water, where bald cypress trees poke up like wooden meerkats, a Louisiana mangrove on the west coast of France.
(10) Doddering up to speed, the boat dragged through the oil until the bow suddenly rose up on what, a thousand-year-old cypress stump or one of a million abandoned pipelines?
(11) With this trek you can explore Montalcino and San Gimignano from a decidedly different angle, trotting through terraced vineyards, cypress avenues and extensive woodland.
(12) Who speaks up for the cypress, the fir, the conifer?
(13) A fountain thickly covered in fern and moss drips quietly at the centre, lemons and cypresses scent the air.
(14) A form of pollen allergy, which is uncommon in most parts of the world and in other Mediterranean countries where cypresses are abundant (Italy, Spain, Greece), with the exception of Israel, has become a problem since 1975 in our area.
(15) Simultaneously, the numbers of airborne pollens of Japanese cedar and cypress were counted, and the relation to the SP and VIP concentrations in nasal secretions from the patients with nasal allergy to Japanese cedar pollen was studied.
(16) Adult Dicrocoelium dendriticum were collected from liver of two wapiti, one mule deer, and one white-tailed deer from the Cypress Hills.
(17) When applied to growth data for cypress tree seedlings and two species of waterfowl exposed chronically to low levels of a variety of stressors, these analyses revealed that curve shape was more likely to change in response to stress than were either asymptotic size or growth rate.
(18) All three non-Caucasian groups appear to be more sensitive than the matched Caucasians to cedar, cypress, and juniper.
(19) Infectious puma lentivirus (PLV) was isolated from several Florida panthers, a severely endangered relict puma subspecies inhabiting the Big Cypress Swamp and Everglades ecosystems in southern Florida.
(20) Immunologic and cross-reactivity studies of Cupressaceae antigens in the rabbit, and skin test results from suspected Junifer Cypress pollinosis patients, indicate that a large number of species of the Cupressaceae family are of possible allergenic importance in our mobile population in many areas of the United States and the world.