(n.) A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.
(2) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(3) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(4) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
(5) It has been speculated that these cigarette smoke-induced alterations contribute to the depressed pulmonary defense mechanisms commonly demonstrated in smokers.
(6) Exposure to whole cigarette smoke from reference cigarettes results in the prompt (peak activity is 6 hrs), but fairly weak (similar to 2 fold), induction of murine pulmonary microsomal monooxygenase activity.
(7) Chemical data are presented from a comparison study of the smoke of cigarettes and little cigars.
(8) Further significantly positive associations to the incidence of myocardial infarction (MI) were found for the following parameters: Systolic and diastolic blood pressure, family history of premature MI, cigarette smoking, plasma levels of triglycerides, VLDL-cholesterol and blood glucose.
(9) In contrast to many other studies, cigarette smokers were at elevated risk (OR = 1.7, 95% CI = 0.9-3.0).
(10) CSCs from the 1R4F, ULT, and ULT-menthol cigarettes were cytotoxic in the CHO-HGPRT assay, both with and without metabolic activation, while TEST and TEST-menthol CSCs were not cytotoxic under either condition.
(11) We conclude that cigarette smoking does interfere with the treatment of hypertension in general, and especially with reduction of blood pressure by propranolol in black patients.
(12) After controlling for age and cigarette smoking status, BMI was significantly related to education, income, occupation, and marital status in both men and women.
(13) Previous studies in the rat, mouse and duck had suggested that agents present in cigarette smoke might induce a cytochrome P450-mediated detoxication pathway, leading to protection against aflatoxin-induced primary liver cancer.
(14) As was true of cigarette smoking, the eventual public health consequences of marihuana use may become apparent only after large numbers of individuals have smoked marihuana for two or three decades.
(15) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(16) Cigarette smokers did not differ significantly from users of smokeless tobacco regarding hypercholesterolemia.
(17) It was shown, that the rate of disaccustoming was higher for light smokers than for smokers with a high consumption of cigarettes.
(18) From these results, we conclude that Apo A-II may be effective as a biological marker for alcohol drinking independent of Apo A-I and HDLC, while cigarette smoking may affect Apo B through a certain direct mechanical effect.
(19) Mineral fibers represent the greatest cause--after cigarette smoke--of respiratory cancer due to air pollutants.
(20) The urinary HOP ratio immediately after abstinence from smoking was proportional to the mean daily number of cigarettes smoked in the past.
Roach
Definition:
(n.) A cockroach.
(n.) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.
(n.) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
(n.) The redfin, or shiner.
(n.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
(v. t.) To cause to arch.
(v. t.) To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
Example Sentences:
(1) Possible functional implications for color vision of neuropeptide-specific amacrine cells with uniform morphology in all three species and those with a more varied morphology in the tetrachromatic roach are discussed.
(2) The toxicities of Raid Max Roach Bait (sulfluramid) and COMBAT Roach Control System (hydramethylnon) to susceptible and field-collected German cockroaches were examined.
(3) If a phrase that expresses a comment about a noun can be omitted without substantially changing the meaning, and if it would be pronounced after a slight pause and with its own intonation contour, then be sure to set it off with commas (or dashes or parentheses): "The Cambridge restaurant, which had failed to clean its grease trap, was infested with roaches."
(4) All four curves show four sensitivity maxima at 361-398 nm, 421-448 nm, 501-544 nm and 634-666 nm which are related to the four known roach photopic visual pigments (Avery et al.
(5) The CPS, which has endured cuts of 27.5% in its budget under the coalition government, is already reviewing failed high-profile prosecutions such as those of the actors Michael Le Vell and Bill Roache as well as Evans.
(6) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any other creatures that we don’t routinely eat.
(7) It could not be established whether the aminergic nuclei described are the origin of the fluorescent fibers in the hypophysis of the roach.
(8) It is produced by virgin females in most roaches, and the chemical structures have been identified for the American, German and Japanese cockroaches.
(9) Mercury, cadmium and lead were measured in the liver and flesh of 885 eels and 338 roach collected from four sites on the Rivers Brett and Chelmer, eastern England, over the period November 1985 to November 1987.
(10) What it is really about is how we see ourselves and how we feel about ourselves as people, Roach said.
(11) 263, 3029-3034; Banerjee, A., Roach, M. C., Trcka, P., and Luduena, R. F. (1990) J. Biol.
(12) In the tetrachromatic roach retina, two somatostatin-positive amacrine cell types were found with very different patterns of ramification; furthermore, both of these types occurred in more than one sublayer.
(13) Inevitably, again, in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, attention has turned to the failed prosecutions of a series of celebrities including Coronation Street actors William Roache , Michael Le Vell and Andrew Lancel.
(14) Extracellular Cl- activity and intracellular Cl- activities of luminosity and biphasic-chromaticity type horizontal cells were measured in freshly isolated, non-superfused roach retinae using double-barrelled Cl- -sensitive micro-electrodes.
(15) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any creatures that we don’t routinely eat Representatives of many of these enterprises have made their way to Ede, carting along product samples or prototypes to display in a large foyer at the conference hotel.
(16) Morphological patterns of the retina, cone size and density, rod density, rod-cone ratio, ganglion cell density, convergence of receptor cells, resolving power (RP) and regionalization were examined throughout life history in roach and in adults of asp, bream, common carp, roach and sabre carp.
(17) Glycogen synthase, the rate-limiting enzyme in glycogen biosynthesis, has been postulated to exist as isozymes in rabbit liver and muscle (Camici, M., Ahmad, Z., DePaoli-Roach, A.
(18) In electrophysiological experiments involving intracellular recording from horizontal cells in the isolated retina of the roach, light adaptation of the retina has been shown to result in potentiation both of (1) the depolarizing component of biphasic chromaticity type S-potentials, and (2) the temporal frequency transfer functions of photopic luminosity type horizontal cells.
(19) No history of roach powder ingestion was available at autopsy.
(20) Two hundred roach (Rutilus rutilus) were examined over a twelve-month period to provide information concerning the occurrence of Sphaerostoma bramae.