(v. t.) Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.
(v. t.) Finely prepared charcoal in small sticks, used as a drawing implement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Charcoal particles coated with the lipid extract were prepared and the suspension inoculated intravenously into mice.
(2) This phenomenon may be overcome by utilizing more dextran-coated charcoal in the extraction.
(3) After treatment of the old rats blood serum with activated charcoal the steroid-binding transcortin capacity and its affinity to hormone was increased and the negative cooperativity was not observed.
(4) Adriamycin (ADM) was absorbed onto fine particles of activated charcoal.
(5) Hemoperfusion with coated activated charcoal (CAC) produces low removal rates due to the strong binding of bilirubin to albumin.
(6) The secretagogue activity was not extracted by charcoal, was sensitive to protease digestion and was present in a portion of nRTF with a molecular weight of greater than 10,000.
(7) Charcoal was added to the homogenization buffer in these experiments to prevent the artifactual activation of PKA by cAMP analogs trapped in the extracellular space.
(8) The quantitative and brain regional distribution of residual dexamethasone binding in cytosols pre-treated with dextran-coated charcoal (DCC) and 300 mM KCl was indistinguishable from that for tritiated aldosterone-Type I receptor complexes under the same conditions.
(9) An inexpensive, easy-to-use detector for measuring airborne 222Rn based on 222Rn diffusion and absorption in activated charcoal is presented.
(10) Polymethacrylate coated charcoal was inserted in the dialysis circuit before the dialyzer.
(11) The cytotoxicity of MS smoke was decreased with increasing smoke age (up to 8.7 s), smoke dilution, and the quantity of activated charcoal in filters.
(12) Early charcoal administration may be of value therefore in reducing the toxicity of mefenamic acid after deliberate or accidental overdosage.
(13) Also, cleanup by column chromatography on mixed adsorbents containing charcoal results in better recoveries than can be obtained on Florisil alone.
(14) OR counts in paraffin sections were compared with those of frozen sections and with cytosolic values determined by a dextran-coated charcoal method.
(15) We produce lung lacerations in 18 dogs ventilated with air containing charcoal powder.
(16) The other method uses a thermoluminescence dosemeter placed in the charcoal canister, giving an integrated value of the radon concentration.
(17) Because these contaminants have long column retention times in GLC, it may not be apparent that these contaminants are present and consequently are likely to have modified the sorbent characteristics of the activated charcoal.
(18) No changes in T3-charcoal uptake or serum T3 concentration occurred at any dose.
(19) Before and after treatment the following were recorded: subjective and objective nasal MCT time, using an original composition of vegetable charcoal powder and saccharin powder at 3%; nasal obstruction.
(20) Four methods for the detection of Trichomonas vaginalis in vaginal secretions from 88 symptomatic patients were compared: wet-mount examination, Kupferberg liquid medium, Hirsch charcoal agar, and the Papanicolaou smear.
Mesquite
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Mesquit
Example Sentences:
(1) McLelland was due to be remembered in a public memorial in Mesquite, Texas on Thursday.
(2) Primary gastric impaction developed in a pony as a result of the ingestion of persimmon seeds and mesquite beans.
(3) eagle carpaccio, mesquite-grilled mahi-mahi, endive with chèvre and chocolate-covered almonds, this weird kind of gazpacho with raw chicken in it, dry beer".
(4) Police chief David Brown said on Monday that bomb technicians had been alarmed by the scale of Johnson’s collection of explosives at the house in the suburb of Mesquite that he shared with his mother, Delphene.
(5) Among the facultative bacteria capable of growth on mesquite wood which were isolated from the asceptically dissected hind-gut of the termite Reticulitermes hesperus were two strains of Bacillus cereus, one strain each of Arthrobacter, Alcaligenes and Serratia, and a very small Gram-negative fermentative rod.
(6) His herd is having to feed primarily on the pods that hang from mesquite trees .
(7) Bacillus cereus RW1 and Serratia marcescens RW3, isolated from the hind-gut of the termite Reticulitermes hesperus, both grew well on mesquite wood and produced moderate amounts of carboxymethylcellulase.
(8) Mesquite pollen is a potent allergen capable of evoking immediate hypersensitivity reactions in a susceptible population remote from the plant source.
(9) For a long while I worked a pool by the side of an enormous mesquite bush, until finally I heard just the faintest noise, as of movement there.
(10) Walking through the yucca strands and mesquite branches, in the rust-and-gold shadow of the vortex site known as Cathedral Rock; listening to the sound of another traveller’s panpipes on the top of Airport Mesa; sneaking away from a tour to close my eyes and feel the scorching sun on my skin, sitting alone with a book and (mercifully strong) coffee at the Oak Creek Brewery and Grill hearing the creek murmur in the distance – all these provoke a sensation as close to mindfulness as any I’d experienced.
(11) The road was blocked off at both ends by police and a crowd of neighbours, and media, gathered in a field opposite the home, a large two-storey structure on a well-kept street in the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, a half-hour drive east of the shooting scene in downtown Dallas.
(12) Which is precisely what I did: I crouched in the depths of a mesquite bush till the offending car was out of sight.
(13) Mesquite wood charcoal has been widely promoted for the unique taste it imparts to broiled food.
(14) The desert itself is counter-intuitively productive: home to more than 500 food plants – from wild oregano and mesquite pods to all manner of edible cacti.
(15) They leave a trail of backpacks and water bottles by the mesquite tree on his land, three miles from the Mexican border.
(16) Above it, steep, arid hillsides are dotted with mesquite bushes and 100-year-old organ-pipe cactuses – many bizarrely charred after a deep freeze two years ago.
(17) The survey demonstrated statistically significant (P less than or equal to .05) respiratory irritation in the mesquite broiler group compared with the gas-flame broiler group in one of four symptom categories.
(18) Mesquite surveys and climatologic data suggested a route and method of transport.
(19) Radioallergosorbent test (RAST) studies confirmed that the skin tests represented specific IgE antibodies to the mesquite pollen.
(20) The most informative allergenic extracts for the detection of patients who exhibited a positive reaction to any extract were from red fescue-grass pollens, mesquite, short ragweed, red clover, and timothy-grass pollens.