(v. t.) To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
(v. i.) To waste away slowly.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was established that nonsurgical methods of transplantation with laboratory animals were less time-consuming and were more readily applicable.
(2) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
(3) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(4) Therefore, we examined the relationship between the usual number of drinks consumed per occasion and the incidence of fatal injuries in a cohort of US adults.
(5) The patients had a high AP, consumed more alcohol, were more well-fed, older and consumed more refined carbohydrates per 1 kg bw and less cholesterol and vegetable protein.
(6) Alterations in DNA synthesis induced by a single dose of cyclophosphamide in normal and tumorous tissues in vivo paralleled in many respects the changes seen when the more time-consuming techniques of the LI or granulocyte colony formation were employed.
(7) Diarrhea and excretion of vibrios lasted longer in animals consuming less protein.
(8) The quantitative method used for determination of HBDH is reliable, accurate, simple and rapid and therefore has better value in a clinical setting than electrophoresis and adsorption techniques which are laborious and time consuming.
(9) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(10) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(11) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(12) Personalised health tests that screen thousands of genes for versions that influence disease are inaccurate and offer little, if any, benefit to consumers, scientists claimed on Monday.
(13) The image of any radiology facility is a direct result of perceptions gathered by the consumer of their services.
(14) Horses in heavy training may require more energy than they can consume on a conventional diet.
(15) Fred Goodwin was an accountant and no one ever accused the former chief executive of RBS of consuming mind-alterating substances – unless you count over-inhaling his own ego.
(16) The results suggest that, in PMA-stimulated neutrophils, cytosolic activation factors may be consumed or exhausted with an increasing period of time after the stimulation of neutrophils, and that the affinity of PMA-stimulated neutrophil NADPH oxidase to NADPH may almost be the same as that of control neutrophil oxidase.
(17) Since enrichment is the most time consuming step in conventional methods a PCR procedure which allows the direct detection of L. monocytogenes in milk was developed.
(18) This early hyperphagy had later consequences for the feeding behaviour of adult males, which looked for food and consumed it more intensively in a new environment and also hoarded it.
(19) The majority of subjects consuming supplements of vitamin E, vitamin B-6, and folate near the US RDA maintained normal vitamin status.
(20) The rpST-treated pigs consumed 13% less feed (P less than .01) than the control pigs in both environments, and pigs in H consumed 19% less feed (P less than .01) than pigs in TN.
Corpulence
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Corpulency
Example Sentences:
(1) Glucagon concentrations are higher in corpulent rats than lean rats at 3 months of age and decrease progressively with age.
(2) The traditionally larger meals of the day (lunch and dinner) represented higher proportions of daily intake in fat and obese children; the energy value of breakfast and afternoon snack was inversely related to corpulence.
(3) IBAT weights, IBAT:BW ratios, and IBAT cell number of corpulent greater than lean, and were greater than with SU than CS diet in both phenotypes.
(4) In the corpulent rat, both lipase- and chymotrypsinogen-specific activities and both the specific activities and the content of amylase or trypsinogen were lower than those of lean littermates.
(5) About one-third of our postmastectomy patients are corpulent, middle-aged women with "Mediterranean" body structures.
(6) The present studies were designed to estimate fetal weight on the basis of the thesis that the factors which determine body weight include the fetal bone and the amount of fetal soft tissue, i.e., fetal corpulence.
(7) Phenotype effects (corpulent greater than lean) were present for fat pad weight, adipocyte number, and adipocyte lipid content in the dorsal (DOR) and retroperitoneal (RP) WAT depots.
(8) Final body weights of corpulent rats were 2-3 times those of their lean littermates, and were greater with SU than MS diet in both phenotypes.
(9) Corpulent rats as compared to their lean littermates are obese, hyperlipidemic, and severely hyperinsulinemic, and show an age-dependent loss of glucose tolerance.
(10) This congenic strain of the Lister and Albany rat is normotensive, corpulent, and hyperlipidemic when homozygous for the corpulent (cp) gene derived from the Koletsky strain.
(11) Exercise caused a modest but significant increase in both total and high density lipoprotein cholesterol in both corpulent and lean rats.
(12) Restricting caloric intake significantly reduced the body weight gain of the obese rats but had little effect on the extent of their corpulence.
(13) There was a statistically significant association of carbohydrate metabolism disturbance with increasing age and corpulence and, in women, with hyperuricaemia and morphological alterations of the liver.
(14) The corpulence categories (non-obese, mildly obese and massively obese) were defined on the basis of NHANES II.
(15) Sedentary corpulent rats showed a rapid rise in systolic pressure from 107 mmHg at 7 weeks to 128 mmHg at 11 weeks.
(16) There were more D cells per islet in corpulent than in lean rats up to 9 mo.
(17) The effects of D-fenfluramine were studied in the JCR:LA-corpulent rat that is grossly obese, hyperphagic, hyperlipidaemic, hyperinsulinaemic and atherosclerosis-prone.
(18) Ethanol consumption was associated with elevated fasting glucose concentrations in both lean and corpulent rats and a strong decrease in fasting insulin levels and pancreatic B-cell volume density in the hyperinsulinemic corpulent rats.
(19) The activity in the heart increased with age and was higher in the corpulent rats than in the lean at all ages.
(20) Acute cold exposure (5 degrees C) resulted in decreases in rectal but not colonic temperature in lean rats fed both diets, but resulted in lower temperatures at both sites in corpulent rats, with the greatest decreases being observed in the starch fed corpulent rats.