(n.) Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cross the road and pick up some jam and biscuits in Le Comestible grocery and then waddle up to Kuzina fish restaurant for some oysters before settling down for a nightcap in Bar-Cave de la Monnaie on the next corner.
(2) Significant inhibition of both ComEst and MonEst was exerted by 1% sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and 1.0 mM diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC), but the patterns of inhibition for the two esterase species with the remaining compounds studied differed considerably; for example, 0.2 mM phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride (PMSF), 5.0 x 10(-3) M dichloroisocoumarin (DCIC) and 0.1 mM N-tosyl-L-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone (TPCK) all inhibited MonEst but not ComEst.
(3) Analysis of inhibition kinetics further showed that (a) the reversible inhibition of both ComEst and MonEst by sodium fluoride (NaF) was noncompetitive (with Ki values of 1.28 and 0.01 mM, respectively, indicating a marked difference in sensitivity); (b) the inhibition of MonEst by PMSF was of 'mixed' noncompetitive-competitive type; and (c) that DEPC exerted noncompetitive inhibition with similar Ki values (0.05 mM) for both esterase species.
(4) These observations unequivocably demonstrate that ComEst and MonEst are unrelated enzyme species, with a common ability to hydrolyse alpha NA, and that these esterase show marked differences with respect to their active sites as adjudged by inhibitor sensitivities.
(5) Capillary gas chromatography-thermal energy analysis was used for the study of volatile N-nitrosamines in comestibles.
(6) Mechanisms of inhibition were also examined and these studies established that SDS, PMSF, DCIC and TPCK irreversibly inactivated MonEst whilst the inhibition of ComEst by SDS was reversible.
(7) Comestibles with low mineral and phytate contents reduced lead uptake by intermediate amounts, possibly by stimulation of digestive secretions.
(8) The first of these (MonEst) is specifically associated with haemopoietic cells of monocytic lineage, whereas the other species (ComEst) is common to all myeloid cells (granulocytes and monocytes) irrespective of lineage affiliation.
Eaten
Definition:
(p. p.) of Eat
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
(2) We therefore surveyed patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) regarding early adult consumption of fruits and vegetables usually eaten raw, with seeds that are swallowed or scraped with the teeth.
(3) She wanted to cook the kind of food she had eaten and prepared while living in Italy – grilled meats, bread soups, pasta.
(4) Because the larvae of Anisakis can always be observed by endoscopy and removed with biopsy forceps, early performance of endoscopy is highly recommended for patients in whom acute gastric anisakiasis is suspected and for those who have eaten raw fish within 12 hours before onset of the gastric symptoms.
(5) Hot cross buns must be made and eaten on Good Friday before 11 o’clock, otherwise their meaning is lost.
(6) Energy density and unit size influenced the volume eaten and ease of transport, storage and also distribution to recipients.
(7) But identifying why I’m not sleeping well after I’ve eaten too much, drank something or not exercised enough, then it becomes useful to change habits and do something about the poor sleep.” Fitbit has one of the most advanced analysis platforms.
(8) Results showed no significant difference in scores owing to method used, except that 30 subjects above the median age of 76 scored higher on number of items recalled and amounts of food eaten when using the printed questionnaire.
(9) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(10) Under an abandoned flour mill and in a "howling, freezing" power station, he had "eaten sandwiches and coffee coated thick with dust".
(11) You can’t be preparing 7 million students for the future on one hand, while undermining every chance of a decent future Institutions that keep trying to make these moth-eaten arguments are sounding feebler by the day.
(12) In sensory-specific satiety, the pleasantness of the sight or taste of a food becomes less after it is eaten to satiety, whereas the pleasantness of the sight or taste of other foods which have not been eaten is much less changed; correspondingly, food intake is greater if foods which have not already been eaten to satiety are offered.
(13) We conclude that the observed change in circulating metabolite or hormone concentration is independent of the size of meal eaten, but the duration of the excursion depends on meal size.
(14) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
(15) State pathologist Gert Saayman told the court that food found in Steenkamp's stomach suggested she had eaten at about 1am – two hours before she died.
(16) The results suggest that the remobilization of diazepam from its storage site after food intake induces a late impairment of psychomotor skills, especially if the food is eaten within less than 5 h after the injection.
(17) Therefore more is eaten during a meal consisting of a variety of foods than during a meal with just one of the foods, even if that food is the favorite.
(18) We studied nutrient absorption across the brush-border membrane in jejunal tissues from active 13-lined ground squirrels and in hibernating squirrels that had not eaten for at least 6 wk.
(19) Binaural detection thresholds in quiet were measured with and without the protectors worn at the initial insertion and after a period of one to one and one-half hours during which lunch was eaten.
(20) P3 target stimulus amplitude was reduced significantly for the subjects who had not eaten relative to those who had eaten, whereas peak P3 latency was only moderately affected by the recency of food consumption over task conditions.