(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).
Scissors
Definition:
(n. pl.) A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of scissors.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinephric rabbit fat was divided into small particles with scissors and razor blades and then injected subcutaneously into the donor rabbit.
(2) Yoon ring tubal segment excision was performed with CO2 laser and coelioscopic scissors, after mesosalpinx haemostasis by ornithine--vasopressin infiltration.
(3) Informed understanding of the likely progressive development of index-middle finger scissoring, pronation of the index ray with spontaneous broadening of the pulp, and the deteriorating use of an existing hypoplastic thumb may make the decision for ablation easier for parents.
(4) If you've somehow missed the multi-million-selling series turned mini-series turned musical by the Scissor Sisters let me tell you how very jealous of you I am.
(5) The curator Clare Browne has a certain sympathy for Bock – “he was a serious collector, and he saved many pieces which would otherwise certainly have been destroyed” – but even she is startled that he ran his scissors straight through the figure of Christ, sparing only the face, which ended up in the V&A’s half.
(6) Jake Shears – who as the Scissor Sisters' frontman has helped keep disco alive this past decade – acknowledges the near-shock value of all this live performing in the dance realm: "It sounds incredible, like a giant fresh glass of water that so many people have been thirsty for for so long," he says.
(7) He attempts a scissor kick but miskicks the ball wide.
(8) When front scissors were performed in an aggressive manner, the initial loading spikes averaged 1.0 BW in magnitude (maximum 1.8 BW) with an average rise time of 8.2 ms; calculated localized loading rates averaged 129 BW s-1 (maximum 219 BW s-1).
(9) For resection of scar tissue, a special scissors devised by us was used.
(10) The following conclusions were drawn: Up to about 30 degrees C the lipid A assemblies were supposed to adopt virtually bilayered, true lamellar arrangements, as revealed by the analysis of greater than CH2 scissoring vibrations and X-ray diffraction pattern.
(11) Moreover, the site in human renin that corresponds to the proteolytic cleavage site in mouse renin also appears to be exposed on the surface so as to be easily scissored during the maturation process.
(12) To get around this handicap, the character employs a recording of scissor-snip noises and barber’s small-talk to convince his client he’s actually doing the job he was hired for.
(13) With the tip of the hemostat or scissors the incision is opened longitudinally, and the lower legs of the incision are opened and freed up from the bulbocavernosus muscles.
(14) This method avoids the disadvantages inevitable in discision with a knife or scissors.
(15) It also is so constructed that a scissors-like effect is avoided and satisfactory noncrushing occlusion is obtained.
(16) This result is consistent with the Y-shaped scissor grip-leucine zipper model recently proposed for a class of DNA binding proteins important in the regulation of gene expression.
(17) But my mother had, like a true self-censor, carefully cut out all the explicit words with scissors.
(18) I'm reminded of a great West Wing episode where the First Lady, played by Stockard Channing, took scissors to her husband's tie just moments before a debate.
(19) The other costumes on the top rail are a pink cowgirl outfit, a pink waitress costume, a pink and purple superhero costume and a "hair stylist" tabard, in pink with purple trim, complete with plastic comb, mirror, scissors and hairdryer.
(20) The remaining 27 were defibulated with the use of various instruments such as knives, razor blades, and scissors.