(n.) The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the UK, Coca-Cola owns Innocent smoothies while PepsiCo has Tropicana.
(2) The low pH carbonated drink, coca-cola, and a blackcurrent cordial produced no effects.
(3) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
(4) In the nineteenth century, some natives of Peru noticed circumoral numbness, euphoria and analgesia after chewing the leaves of the Erythroxylen coca bush.
(5) The beverages tested were a cola beverage ("Coca-Cola"), a carbonated orange drink ("Jaffa") and single strength orange juice.
(6) Nestlé and the other water giants, Coca-Cola and Pepsi, have often cut deals with relatively isolated, impoverished rural communities whereby they take a percentage of the local water supply, paying enough to keep municipal rates low for local residents.
(7) Cocaine base or white coca paste was smoked heavily by 188 patients who came to four hospitals of Lima, Peru.
(8) Red Bull is now the UK's third bestselling soft drink, after Pepsi and Coca-Cola.
(9) Coca leaf, from which cocaine and extracts for some commercial carbonated soft drinks are obtained, remains relatively unknown by the medical and allied professions elsewhere.
(10) In our study of patients with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) we found a highly significant association of COCA with ALCAPA (85%), although no patient with ALCAPA in this study had evidence of tracheal stenosis documented in the hospital chart.
(11) Good to see that Coca-Cola are paying homage to the Sheffield derby match with those stripes on the pitch."
(12) Meanwhile, the government has suspended its aerial coca crop spraying program and is setting out its new social investment packages.
(13) Daily chewing of coca leaves was reported by 70 (65%) respondents.
(14) At the very least, it would seem to be tinkering with the formula of the biggest spiritual brand in the world, analogous to Coca-Cola changing its famous recipe in 1985 .
(15) Its partners are the Coca-Cola Foundation and the Beverage Institute.
(16) The fumigations ruined our food crops but the coca would just grow back stronger.” As the herbicide rained down on their farms, NGO’s with Plan Colombia cash offered coca growers were offered incentives to substitute coca for legal crops.
(17) Lord Coe has staunchly defended the sponsorship of the London Olympics by fast food and soft drinks companies, arguing that the investment by brands such as Coca-Cola and McDonald's is essential to making the event a success.
(18) The group Georgia Prospers, of which Moore is a member, includes a range of businesses – from Fortune 500 companies like Delta, Coca-Cola, and Home Depot to smaller ones across the state – in support of “treating all Georgians and visitors fairly”.
(19) He began in the cocaine business smuggling small quantities of coca paste from Peru to Colombia.
(20) Instead, the least attractive aspects of London 2012, the ZiL lanes and the Visa-only policy and McDonald's and Coca-Cola as purveyors of sustenance to a sporting nation, were smothered not only by the competition but by the ocean of good humour fostered by the joviality of the volunteers, the inspirational architecture and the attention given to the natural landscape (with apologies to those who had to move to make room for it all).
Oca
Definition:
(n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Estrogen component of OCA is represented by ethinyl estradiol or mestranol.
(2) There was a consistently higher degree of correlation between serum folate and folate intake among the control women than among the OCA users.
(3) An 8-hour urine collection after a 2-g tryptophan load showed at 6 times increased excretion of xanthurenic acid in those using OCAs as compared with nonusers.
(4) The reduction in the fractional loss of 45Ca, when going from normal Ringer's solution to an ONa--OCa medium, was 60%.
(5) Most cases of OCA are inherited on an autosomal recessive basis.
(6) Mechanism of action, indications, side effects and contraindications of oral contraceptive agents (OCA) are reviewed.
(7) This clinical and biochemical pattern has not been seen in any of the previously described types of OCA.
(8) The biochemical riboflavin status showed no relationship with the duration of OCA use.
(9) Minimal pigment, a new type of oculocutaneous albinism (OCA), is described.
(10) Finally, transient expression assay of mutant tyrosinase is invaluable to conclude that OCA phenotypes are associated with the mutant tyrosinase alleles.
(11) Several types of autosomal recessive oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) are associated with abnormal tyrosinase function and a generalized reduction in or absence of cutaneous and eye melanin.
(12) The preservation of drug sensitivity and resistance under the conditions of our organoid culture assay (OCA) was demonstrated by investigating 3 strains of a human hypopharynx carcinoma which differed by different sensitivity to cisplatin in in vivo conditions.
(13) No significant effect of OCA on serum zinc and on hair concentration of these trace elements was noted.
(14) Fractions OCA and OCD did not share common antigenic determinations as determined by immunodiffusion.
(15) Following SOC ablations, type 4 endings degenerated in the OCA ipsilateral to the lesion.
(16) Among these PASFs, PASFs from the cyst fluids of OCA in benign did not react with Arachis hypogaea anti-T lectin (PNA) and both of the anti-N lectins of Vicia graminea (VGA) and Vicia unijuga (VUA), and PASFs from OCA in borderline reacted with only PNA and PASFs from OCC in malignant reacted with the three lectins, PNA, VGA and VUA.
(17) OCA also occurs in a number of life-threatening conditions, including Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, and Griscelli-Prunieras syndrome.
(18) The OCA reaches cytological maturity at three weeks postnatally, after progression through four stages, defined on the basis of octopus cell cytology (including relative numbers of somatic and dendritic filopodia and spines) and the frequency, ultrastructure and location of previously defined synaptic terminals.
(19) Moreover, we are able to show the presence of additional DNA segments cross-hybridizable to exon 4 or exon 5 of the tyrosinase gene in the genome of three OCA patients and a healthy individual.
(20) Rhesus monkeys were given either high estrogen, low progesterone or low estrogen-high progesterone oral contraceptive agents (OCAs) and maintained on either a 16% protein diet or a 4% protein diet.