What's the difference between coom and coomb?

Coom


Definition:

  • (n.) Soot; coal dust; refuse matter, as the dirty grease which comes from axle boxes, or the refuse at the mouth of an oven.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast the toxicities and mutagenic potentials of Group B compounds (COOMe, NMe2, and two other bulky amine derivatives) were reduced by at least an order of magnitude, with uvrB and recA deletions showing lesser influence.
  • (2) The event starts at 5pm and my cab had me and my companion – LA actor and comic Sarah Coomes – there at about 3.15pm, in broad daylight and thin drizzle.
  • (3) CGase also transferred the oligosaccharide from GM1 to CF3CO-NH(CH2)5CH2OH, (CH3)3CO-CO-NH(CH2)5CH2OH, (HOCH2)3C-NHCO-(CH2)4-COOMe, CH2 = CH-(CH2)7CH2OH and 1,2:3,4-di-O-isopropylidene-D-galactopyranose.
  • (4) OCH(CF3)COOMe (R = Me, Et, Pr, Pri, Bu, Bui, Am, Hex) (I-VIII) with human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase, horse serum butyrylcholinesterase, pig liver carboxylesterase was studied and acute toxicity in mice was estimated.
  • (5) In general, the only aberrant effects of cefamandole were the appearance of eosinophilia in 28% of patients and a positive indirect Cooms' test without hemolysis in one patient.
  • (6) Several of the highly cytotoxic 4-substituted nitracrine derivatives showed HFs similar to that of the parent, but the less potent 4-dialkylamino and 4-COOMe derivatives showed much lower HFs for UV-4, suggesting that different mechanisms of cytotoxicity contribute.
  • (7) The tetrapeptides CHO-Met-Leu-Phe-CO-NH-(CH2)n-COOMe (n = 1-5) have been synthesized.
  • (8) Two friends in Portland – where Smith lived until he moved to Brooklyn two years ago – are Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss.
  • (9) Coomes was in Heatmiser, a grungy Portland band Smith formed after he was a fireman; Weiss plays drums in Sleater-Kinney.
  • (10) Corticosteroids enable the treatment of acute rejection crises in transplantation, they have a symptomatic effect on type I and IV Gel and Cooms hypersensitivity reaction, their activity is less regular in the other phenomena of hypersensitivity.
  • (11) The binding site contains two pockets, one for the imidazole group, and another for the -COOMe group.
  • (12) We found that an increase in phosphorylation of numatrin was associated with stimulation of the cells with insulin for 4 h and that the level of phosphorylation remained elevated after 8 h. By this time there was no increase in numatrin abundance as shown by Coom-massie blue stain and Western blot analysis.
  • (13) It was also a competitive inhibitor with respect to the alternate acceptor beta DGal(1----3)beta DGlcNAcO(CH2)8-COOMe.
  • (14) The replacement of one of the phenolic hydroxyl groups of this THC derivative with an electron-withdrawing group (COMe, COOMe, CONH2, CN, or NO2) yields unsymmetrical THCs with binding affinities 15-40% that of estradiol (E2).
  • (15) The COOMe derivative was the only compound showing greater effects at the hisC3076 locus than the hisD3052 or hisG46 loci.

Coomb


Definition:

  • (n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter.
  • (n.) Alt. of Coombe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Coombs's theory of data (1952, 1964) and his unfolding theory of preferential choice (1950, 1964) provided the conceptualization of metacognition in this psychophysical task context.
  • (2) Compared to our subjects, Coombs found spouses were either housewives or held lower level jobs rather than demanding careers, and consequently our subjects experienced greater difficulty meeting demands of everyday life (cooking, cleaning, child care).
  • (3) Thymopoietin injections, from 4 wk of age, reduced the titer of Coombs' antibodies and thymocytotoxic antibodies in NZB mice and caused an increase in Thy 1+ spleen cells in these animals.
  • (4) With the awareness of quality of life as a primary goal in terminal cancer patients, widespread attention has been drawn to the direct delivery of long-term intraspinal analgesics to cancer patients for who all medical pain control regimens have failed (Coombs & Saunders, 1974).
  • (5) Amniocentesis is indicated in only a few circumstances: previous child with erythroblastosis fetalis, significant increase in maternal Coombs titer, presence of Kell antigen in the father, and after comparison of the relative risks of hemolytic disease and amniocentesis in each patient.
  • (6) PRP, administered intraperitoneally into NZB mice, twice a week, at doses 0.01-1 microgram per mouse, significantly lowered the incidence of positive Coombs' reaction and prolonged the mean age of the mice.
  • (7) The erythrocyte direct Coombs' test remained positive for 3-45 days, and histological examination of splenic material showed no erythrophagocytosis.
  • (8) Of certain interest are 1) the tendency of modern diuretics (thiazides) to cause a moderate and reversible thrombocytopenia and 2) the positive antiglobulin reaction (Coomb's test) sometimes seen after alpha-methyldopa therapy and in a few cases causing autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
  • (9) The results obtained with the Rose Bengal test correlated very well with those of the standard tube agglutination test, whereas results with the rapid plate agglutination test and the Coombs (antiglobulin) test were inferior.
  • (10) A previously apparently healthy male patient developed Coombs-positive haemolytic anaemia and thrombocytopenia during phenoxymethylpenicilline intake.
  • (11) This youth presented with Coombs positive autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
  • (12) "He's got another seven years before his first look," Coombs said.
  • (13) Furthermore, Ts-enriched populations when depleted of G-8-binding cells lose their ability to suppress in vitro anti-MRBC responses of spleen cells from Coombs-negative NZB mice depleted of CD8+ cells, as well as those of unfractionated spleen cells from Coombs-positive NZB mice.
  • (14) In both cases the anaemia improved and the Coombs test became negative spontaneously in the 4th and 5th months of life, respectively.
  • (15) "The stress that [she] was under was mostly to give context to what was going on at the time," Manning's lawyer, David Coombs, told NBC's Today show on Thursday.
  • (16) The two disorders can be differentiated with the indirect Coombs test.
  • (17) Updated at 4.15pm BST 4.13pm BST Defense attorney David Coombs' planned news conference this afternoon is unusual because Coombs doesn't like the media much, Paul Lewis writes: He's rarely if ever spoken to reporters during the trial.
  • (18) Positive control red cells were required to standardise canine Coombs' reagents for the laboratory diagnosis of AIHA.
  • (19) We have further investigated the phenomenon of spontaneous anti-(Coombs) antiidiotypic antibodies in the F1 hybrids of New Zealand black (NZB) and CBA mice.
  • (20) Blakelock died from his injuries while Coombes was so severely wounded he never resumed active duty.

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