(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).
Unadvisable
Definition:
(a.) Not advisable; inadvisable; inexpedient.
Example Sentences:
(1) Topical administration of Isoproterenol reduces the intraocular pressure in glaucomatous eyes, but produces systemic side-effects (tachycardia arterial hypotension) that make its clinical use unadvisable.
(2) For this reasons, it is unadvisable to carve even the carvable composits.
(3) Treatment is a problem because surgical resection of a precancerous lesion is considered by some to be unadvisable in patients with high surgical risk.
(4) Mechanical intravaginal contraception is obtained through a diaphragm or a cervical cap, both to be prescribed and fitted by a doctor, and both unadvisable in case of uterine prolapse.
(5) The use of ultrasonics to eliminate vegetative cells or to break aggregates in Bacillus spore suspensions to be used subsequently in heat resistance experiments appears to be unadvisable.
(6) Because of the risk of pseudomembranous colitis, prophylactic use of clindamycin to prevent postoperative infections following colorectal surgery seems unadvisable.
(7) The two-stage surgical approach is unnecessary and probably unadvisable for patients with coarctation of the aorta and associated intracardiac lesions.
(8) In this connection it is admitted unadvisable to enforce it into agricultural practice.
(9) Establishment of the lower tunnel however seems unadvisable because of the common damage to the nasopalatine nerve passing through the incisive foramen with occasional permanent sequelae.
(10) Abortion is legal within the first 3 months of pregnancy when requested directly by the woman, and when a doctor testifies, in writing, that the pregnancy could be dangerous to the woman's physical or mental health, or that it would be totally unadvisable for social or economic conditions, or that there is danger of congenital anomalies for the infant.
(11) While lowering the blood pressure during an acute stroke may be in principle unadvisable, it seems reasonable to prevent a new increase in blood pressure with adequate therapy.
(12) The first of our cases is associated with patent ductus arteriosus and pulmonary hypertension with severe pulmonary vascular bed changes; surgical closure was considered unadvisable.
(13) There are 4 types of metabolic responses to the injection of DHEA-S: 1) metabolic clearance of DHEA-S, which represents the proportion between production and plasma concentrations of DHEA-S; 2) metabolic clearance of DHEA-S into estradiol, which presupposes the utilization of radioactive materials and is, therefore, unadvisable; 3) metabolic conversion of DHEA-S into estrogens, which can be measured in the urine or in the blood plasma; and 4) increase in the plasma concentrations of DHEA-S and androstenedione, caused by the enzymatic process implied in the conversion of DHEA-S into estrogens.
(14) Recent experience with cerebral aneurysms suggests that it is unadvisable to abide by the principle that angiography should be delayed for 7-10 days and surgery still longer.
(15) In the diagnosis of polycytemia vera, estimation of erythrocyte volume (EV) from plasma volume (PV) and venous hematocrit (Hctv) is usually thought unadvisable, because the ratio of whole body hematocrit to venous hematocrit (f ratio) is higher in patients with splenomegaly than in normal subjects, and varies considerably between individuals.
(16) Anatomic and funtional evaluation is only possible by cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography, because pulmonary hypertension appears at a very early stage and once fixed makes surgical treatment unadvisable.