(v. t.) To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
(v. t.) To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
(v. i.) To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.
(n.) That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was a linear increase in the dimensions of these zones after the chewing.
(2) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(3) The model has been used to evaluate mineral changes from the use of fluoride dentifrices and rinses, chewing gum, and food sequencing.
(4) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
(5) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
(6) The wide variation in potency explains the variation found in absolute bioavailability, and the increase in release rate when the pellets are crushed explains the differences seen in peak plasma times, since the pellets will be chewed to varying degrees by the horse.
(7) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
(8) Pictures of the Social Network star emerged on Twitter and Instagram on Wednesday, showing Garfield in full costume for Punchdrunk's current show, The Drowned Man , chewing seductively on a stick of straw .
(9) Chew on this during the change: TBS notes that the Pirates are 69-17 when they score four or more runs....gulp.
(10) Relationships between chewing activities and rates of particle breakdown, passage, and digestion were also determined.
(11) During each test period one group chewed a combination of one piece sorbitol and one piece sucrose flavored gum five times per day, the second group correspondingly chewed xylitol and sucrose flavored gum, while the third group served as a no hygiene control group.
(12) Epidemiologists need to conduct studies to determine if there is an increased likelihood of developing cancer in betel chewing pregnant women and OC users due to increased sensitivity of their lymphocytes to genetic damage compared with nonchewing pregnant women and OC users.
(13) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(14) The relationship of nutritional status, self-perceived chewing ability, dental status, and social isolation was examined.
(15) A cooperative multicenter study was performed to evaluate two salivary secretion methods-the chewing gum test and the Saxon test by a crossover method.
(16) The buccal mucosa was the most common site of occurrence; 98.3% of these individuals had oral habits, with smoking alone or smoking in combination with "pan" or "supari" chewing accounting for 74.9% of the habit forms.
(17) We have compared the ability of drugs to induce chewing and retching or emesis in squirrel monkeys; such studies are not possible in rodents, which do not vomit.
(18) The ability to perceive thickness differences between the incisors was more accurate after 1 hour's chewing than normally.
(19) The results show a significant difference between the cranial values of the two chewing experiences.
(20) When increasing the length of the chewing object, secretion of fluid (P less than 0.013), but not enzymes, further increased.
Cud
Definition:
(n.) That portion of food which is brought up into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach, to be chewed a second time.
(n.) A portion of tobacco held in the mouth and chewed; a quid.
(n.) The first stomach of ruminating beasts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reasons for this are discussed in terms of a mechanism in which all electrons enter through cytochrome a, which, in turn, is in rapid equilibrium with a second site, identified with 'visible' copper (830 nm-absorbing) Cud (Beinert et al., 1971).
(2) Neither stimulus light intensity nor eccentricity affected the CUD in the normals, in 1 of the commissurotomized patients, and in the acallosal boy.
(3) The results showed the MDP- and DTPA-CUDs stored at -18 degrees C retained the properties which resulted in acceptable radiochemical purity and biodistribution in mice for as long as 30 days.
(4) The purpose of this study was to examine, by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), the nature of the protective effect of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) on hearts of copper-deficient (CuD) rats.
(5) After either one or two days of storage at -10 degrees C, four CUDs of each concentration were labeled with 0.2-0.3 mL of sodium pertechnetate Tc 99m (10-20 mCi).
(6) Cumulative [14C]cholesterol absorption and total lymphatic output of cholesterol were significantly decreased in CuD at 4 hr and thereafter, with no change in percentage distribution of free and esterified cholesterol.
(7) Purity was less than 80% for CUDs stored for more than two days.
(8) Male, weanling Sprague-Dawley rats were fed diets deficient (CuD, less than 0.5 ppm) or adequate (CuA, 5.0-5.5 ppm) in Cu for 4 weeks.
(9) They exhibit natural behaviours – they chew the cud, socialise, groom each other.” “It’s a perception that cows need to gambol in fields,” he said.
(10) Patients with parietal lesions had still longer CUDs, 37 msec on the average.
(11) The CUDs of 2 commissurotomized patients varied with stimulus eccentricity but not intensity.
(12) Over an 8-hr period, 7.3% of the dose was absorbed by CuD and 9.2% by CuA.
(13) The radiochemical purity of CUDs labeled with 2.0 mL of sodium pertechnetate Tc 99m was significantly greater than the purity of CUDs labeled with 0.2 mL for storage times exceeding two days.
(14) cytochrome a and Cud) were reduced simultaneously and the stoicheiometry of the initial reaction was closer to two molecules of cytochrome c2+ oxidized per molecule of cytochrome a reduced.
(15) Male, weanling Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either a purified diet which was deficient in copper (CuD) or the same diet made sufficient with 5 ppm of copper (CuS).
(16) Aminopeptidase N activity was 35% lower in CuD rats than controls, but activity was not affected by cis-Pt.
(17) In our patients the mean CUD, expressed as the difference between contralateral and ipsilateral responses, was 20 msec.
(18) Four leaders were arrested on 1 November and this was the first time Hailu Shawel, the CUD leader, had been able to speak publicly since his detention.
(19) The CUDs in these subjects are attributed to the transfer of nonsensory information via the corpus callosum, via ipsilateral corticospinal tracts, and via the anterior commissure or ipsilateral motor pathways, respectively.
(20) The CUDs of lower dilution (3 mL) appeared to be more stable than the CUDs of higher dilution (10 mL).