(n.) A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by a word prefixed; as, ship chandler, corn chandler.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lysability was determined of thrombi formed in Chandler tubes before and after infusion of 500 ml dextran 70 to patients undergoing cholecystectomy.
(2) The manor house in The Private Patient has been sold by its ancestral owners to cover their debts and bought by self-made plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell.
(3) "It was sort of like pushing a tape recorder," said Chandler, "[but after a short while] he just cut it off and said we need to get beyond this."
(4) Chandler Parsons scored on a reverse layup with 0.9 seconds left to give Houston the lead but there was just enough time for Lillard to hit a 3 that will go down in Blazers folklore.
(5) Hazel Chandler's organisation has turned its music and art studios into a temporary shelter for the street youth it normally trains.
(6) Thrombi produced by the Chandler loop method were exposed to low-energy ultrasound (5,000-6,000 Pa) in an ultrasound bath (48 kHz) for 60 seconds.
(7) However, if you do persevere with Law & Order, stage two in enquiries is a run-in with detective inspector Natalie Chandler.
(8) Lawrie accused Giles, who has been on leave, of hiding while the furore played out, and asked whether he knew of the potential conflict of interest before a government reshuffle on 12 December when he handed the police and emergency services portfolio to Peter Chandler.
(9) Altidore takes a quick cross field free kick to Chandler but Azerbaijan regroup before USA can overload down the left.
(10) Someone once said that the best Raymond Chandler novel is the first one you read, because between the debut of Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1939) and his last significant appearance in The Long Good-bye (1953), the books are pretty even in quality and there's nothing quite like the initial impact of Chandler's style, Marlowe's company and their colourful southern California locale.
(11) The Laidlaw trilogy is one of the finest things in modern fiction, in the Chandler and Simenon class."
(12) They added to a growing list of big names already sidelined this season by one ailment or another, a scroll that includes Deron Williams, Stephen Curry, Steve Nash and Tyson Chandler.
(13) Schneider and Chandler's hypothesis whereby calcium release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum is regulated by voltage-sensitive "gating molecules" in the tubule membrane is still unproven, but remains attractive and plausible.
(14) At the time it was not known which state police force the officers would be drawn from, and Giles said the government would “seek to identify which Australian police force has the capacity to be able to assist us.” On Sunday the NT News reported the AFP would take control of the investigation, despite reportedly denying it earlier in the week after police minister Peter Chandler revealed a decision had been made.
(15) Heparinized human blood containing platelets labelled with 14C-serotonin and 51Cr was exposed to a polyethylene surface by rotation in Chandler loops.
(16) Peter Chandler, the immediate former deputy is to hold on to his portfolios, including that of police and emergency services, which was handed to him shortly before Christmas by Giles.
(17) PBT, 20 mg given three times a day, significantly prolonged template bleeding time and ex vivo thrombus formation time in a modified Chandler's loop.
(18) L, sigmodontis Chandler, 1931 from Sigmodon hispidus and L. scotti Forrester et Kinsella.
(19) The classification of this disease complex as given by Chandler helps in planning the treatment.
(20) In Game 6, the Rockets were on the cusp of elimination when Chandler Parsons hit a late basket which gave them a 98-96 lead with seconds to spare.
Scorpion
Definition:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of pulmonate arachnids of the order Scorpiones, having a suctorial mouth, large claw-bearing palpi, and a caudal sting.
(n.) The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus).
(n.) The scorpene.
(n.) A painful scourge.
(n.) A sign and constellation. See Scorpio.
(n.) An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Veratridine and the sea anemone toxin on one hand as well as veratridine and the scorpion toxin on the other hand are synergistic in their action to stabilize an open and highly permeable form of the sodium channel.
(2) We have previously shown that the [3H]saxitoxin binding site of the sodium channel is expressed independently of the [125I]scorpion toxin binding site in chick muscle cultures and in rat brain.
(3) The labelled peptide is bound to mouse diaphragm from where it can be displaced by ATX II and, even better, by scorpion neurotoxin but not by other basic peptides, e.g., histone or aprotinin.
(4) A graded depolarization accompanied by nerve impulses can be recorded from the scorpion lateral and median eyes in response to light.
(5) We found that HIV Nef shares sequence and structural features with scorpion peptides known to interact with K+ channels.
(6) Although the insect-directed toxin has one atypical disulfide bridge, the general structural features of the scorpion toxin family, including the presence of a "conserved-hydrophobic" surface, seem to be well-conserved.
(7) To study the site of interaction, the effects of lidocaine, carbamazepine and another anticonvulsant drug, phenytoin on scorpion venom-enhanced specific binding of [3H]batrachotoxinin A 20-alpha-benzoate to the sodium channel gating complex were examined in vitro in a rat brain hippocampus preparation.
(8) The complete amino acid sequence (64 residues) of the AaH IV toxin from the scorpion Androctonus australis Hector was determined by automated Edman degradation and was compared with the sequences of other Androctonus toxins.
(9) 62 patients who had been stung by a red scorpion were admitted from January to December 1990: 18 with hypertension, 15 with supraventricular tachycardia, 11 with pulmonary oedema, and 18 with local pain at the site of sting but no systemic involvement.
(10) We claim that periodic waves mark the activity of a suboesophageal pace-maker and we propose a system of two pace-makers to explain the visual and locomotor circadian rhythms of scorpions.
(11) Three epitopes have been localized by immunoelectron microscopy on subunit Aa6 of the 4 x 6-meric hemocyanin of the scorpion Androctonus australis.
(12) Charybdotoxin isolated from the Israeli scorpion venom (Leiurus quinquestriatus hebraeus), also displaced [125I]-DpI binding, with a Ki of approximately 3 x 10(-9) M, although the displacement curve was shallower than with native DpI.
(13) We conclude that myocardial toxicity is a common and serious complication of scorpion stings in children.
(14) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
(15) We note the absence both of microtubules in the sperm of Centruroides and also of the centriole adjunct, which is present in other scorpion spermatids.
(16) The complete amino acid sequence of toxin XI of the North African scorpion Buthus occitanus tunetanus has been elucidated by automatic sequencing of the reduced and alkylated toxin and of the peptides obtained after tryptic cleavage restricted to arginyl bonds.
(17) 22Na+ uptake through voltage-dependent Na+ channels is induced by veratridine and scorpion venom, and is inhibited 50% by 5 X 10(-7) M-tetrodotoxin and greater than 98% by 5 X 10(-6) M-tetrodotoxin.
(18) A seven-year-old girl, stung by a scorpion, was hospitalized in a confused state with signs of myocarditis and pulmonary edema.
(19) The observation that two classes of neuronal depolarizing agents (veratrine and scorpion venom) cause TTX-sensitive inhibition of basal ion transport establishes that NaCl absorption in flounder intestine is subject to regulation by enteric nerves located in the submucosa.
(20) The effects of the major neurotoxic fraction isolated from scorpion venom of Tityus serrulatus, TiTx gamma, on peripheral nerve membrane of Xenopus laevis were studied under current- and voltage-clamp conditions.