(n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.
(n.) An alcoholic cordial, distilled from aromatic herbs; -- made at La Grande Chartreuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The locality, which is situated at the foot of the Chartreuse massif, receives its water solely from springs but there is a holiday camp for the staff of an international airline situated above the main water catchment.
(2) Another fantastic place is the Vintage Cocktail Club (15 Crown Alley) where High Tea means a concoction involving marmalade vodka and green chartreuse.
Citrine
Definition:
(a.) Like a citron or lemon; of a lemon color; greenish yellow.
(n.) A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.
Example Sentences:
(1) In other regions of the face and neck other manifestations of chronic actinic skin lesions with characteristics of "citrine skin", cutis rhomboidalis nuchae and elastoma Dubreuilh are present as wall.
(2) Scintigraphy of the bone marrow with 111In-citrin was performed in 32 patients with polycythemia vera and 8 controls.
(3) The surgical specimen was constituted by a cystic mass containing citrine liquid.
(4) A study of 111In-citrin distribution and kinetics in the body of patients without hemopoietic disorder showed the accumulation (up to 20%) of the injected drug in the bone marrow.
(5) A degree of a decrease in the blood radioactivity within 24 h after i. v. administration of 111In-citrin reflected the summary erythropoietic activity of the bone marrow and could serve as a differential diagnostic criterion in determining a stage of polycythemia vera.
(6) Bone marrow scintigraphy with 111In-citrin was used to investigate 55 patients with varying hemoblastoses.
(7) 111In-citrin has been shown to accumulate in the red marrow, parenchymal organs and to be excreted from animal organism by urinary system predominately.
(8) 111In-citrin is supposed to be an adequate radiopharmaceutical preparation for visualization of the red marrow.
(9) The data of bone marrow scintigraphy with 111In-citrin can be useful in determination of the disease stage, optimum scheme of its treatment, the therapeutic effectiveness control and prognosis of hemoblastoses.
(10) Diagnostic potentialities of the use of a new radiopharmaceutical 111In-citrin were studied to assess the hemopoietic status on the basis of examination of 47 cancer patients after chemotherapy.
(11) 111In-citrin has advantages in defining the nuclide concentrations in marrow blood and serum as compared with colloid preparations and 111In-chloride.
(12) Organ fixation, elimination and other pharmacokinetic indices confirming 111In-citrin functional applicability for investigation of the red bone marrow were determined shortly after intravenous injection and in 24 h using a total body meter.
(13) Soviet radiopharmaceutical 111In-citrin has been studied to define its possible application for marrow visualization.
(14) The results obtained showed that 111In-citrin accumulation in the bone marrow of the long tubular bones indicating its functional rearrangement and the normal level of the indicator accumulation in the main zones of bone marrow hemopoiesis in cancer patients could serve as a favorable prognostic sign for the assessment of hemopoiesis in subsequent courses of cytostatic therapy.