(n.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.
Example Sentences:
(1) Naturally-occurring agonists at this receptor may include members of the cathartic class of drugs such as colocynth, chrysarobin, etc.
(2) We report three examples of toxic acute colitis which occurred after ingestion of colocynth (Citrullus colocynthis) for ritual purposes.
(3) It is suggested that the colitis was caused by the ingestion of colocynth.
(4) A causal relationship between colonic injury and the intake of colocynth was supported by the following features: (1) the pharmacology of the colocynth extract ingested; (2) the temporal relationship between colocynth intake and clinical onset (eight to 12 h); (3) the rapid recovery within three to six days, with normal endoscopy at day 14; (4) the absence of other possible causes for the observed patterns, except in one case, in which a concomitant intestinal infection with Clostridium perfringens Type A was discovered; (5) the specific pathological features.
(5) Colonic biopsies taken 27, 44, and 72 h after colocynth intake showed: erosions with fibrino-purulent exudate, early fibrosis of the lamina propria, hyaline thickening of the superficial epithelial basal membrane.
(6) A 61-year-old woman presented with an acute condition involving confusion, abdominal cramps and bloody diarrhea six hours after accidental ingestion of colocynth mistaken for zucchini.
Viny
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to vines; producing, or abounding in, vines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pichia kudriavzevii and P. terricola were found to be heterothallic, but not interfertile with one another; nor did they mate with P. membranaefaciens, P. scutulata, Candida lambica, C. diversa, C. ingens, C. silvae, C. valida, C. vini, C. norvegensis, or Torulopsis inconspicua.
(2) A stable process of the development of the yeast Mycoderma vini is possible during continuous cultivation on the nutrient medium containing 3% ethanol as the only carbon and energy source.
(3) A highly active preparation of diacetyl(acetoin) reductase was isolated from cell-free extracts of the yeast Saccharomyces vini.
(4) From the ethanolic extract of the viny stem of this plant five components were isolated, a new compound and four known compounds.
(5) This analysis, in which the new monoclonal antibodies VINIS-56 and VIN-2PB-22 were included, also revealed expression of gangliosides GD3 and GD2 in all differentiated cultures, albeit at much lower levels following HMBA exposure than following retinoic acid or BUdR-exposure.
(6) A non-acetaldehyde-producing yeast, Candida vini, grew in sulfited (500 micrograms SO2 ml-1) lab lemco broth containing glucose or lactate buffered at pH 6 or 7 but not at pH 4 or 5.
(7) Therfore, P. delftensis, P. zaruensis and P. etchellsii are considered to be the synonyms of Pichia fluxuum, Pichia dispora and P. vini respectively, although P. toletanan and P. bovis are independent species.
(8) In Japan and China various viny plants have been identified as Fang-chi (Boi in Japanese) since antiquity.
(9) The mode of inhibition of NADP-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase by adenylic nucleoside phosphates (ATP, ADP, AMP) was studied with Saccharomyces vini.
(10) The antimicrobial activity of 25 volatile oils from aerial parts and seeds of dill (Anethum graveolens L.) of different geographical origin towards yeast Saccharomyces vini and lactic acid bacteria Lactobacterium buchneri was measured by serial dilutions.
(11) Lytic enzymes from the edible snail--Helix pomatia--were used to obtain protoplasts of yeast Saccharomyces vini K-42.
(12) In analysing the mechanics of twining, we hypothesize that contact forces are important in maintaining the twining habit of viny stems.
(13) The action of colchicine solutions on a diploid Saccharomyces vini culture used in viniculture yielded three polyploid strains.
(14) Finally, Pichia etchellsii possessed thermostable antigens 1,2,3,4,9 and 14, and was closely related to Pichia vini.