What's the difference between coon and corn?

Coon


Definition:

  • (n.) A raccoon. See Raccoon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pecularities attending the fixation of antibodies from the sera of patients with arterial hypertension, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, hepato-cerebral disease, and myoclonus-epilepsy were studied by the indirect Coons' method.
  • (2) The principles of immunocytochemistry were outlined in 1942 by Coons et al.
  • (3) Murine squamous carcinoma cells (KLN205) grown in a medium supplemented with the retinoid, 13-cis retinoic acid (RA), had dose-dependent, selective increases in the expression of certain lectin receptors, which correlated with a dramatic decrease in the ability to form pulmonary colonies (P = .0003) (Couch MJ, Pauli BU, Weinstein RS, Coon JS: JNCI, 78:971-977, 1987).
  • (4) As expected, when added to cells maintained in Coon's modified Ham's F-12 medium containing 0.1% BSA, but devoid of insulin, transferrin, TSH, or calf serum, normal serum produced a dose-dependent stimulation of [3H]thymidine incorporation into DNA.
  • (5) It featured an editorial about these youth convulsions and along with Oz editor Richard Neville, John Peel, Arthur Brown and Caroline Coon, founder of Release.
  • (6) This year we set the tone for what Iran expects of our behavior and we need to demonstrate that we are watching them like a hawk and that when they take steps that violate our sense of priorities and values in the region that we will take action against them,” Senator Christopher Coons, a Delaware Democrat, said Tuesday.
  • (7) Immunological studies on clinical cases of uveitis and later experimental uveitis in rabbits using the fluorescent antibody technique of COONS are shortly discussed.
  • (8) Fluorescence staining of cryostat sections from stellate sturgeon with the use of At5 (indirect Coons' method) has revealed a positive reaction with notochord cells and sheath and with the spinal cord.
  • (9) So you will forgive me if I refer to niggers, wogs and coons.
  • (10) Use was made of the indirect variant of Coons' method involving application of antisera to the mouse fibrinogen and to serum protein of rats.
  • (11) Primary cultures of bovine parathyroid cells were developed using Coon's modified Ham's F-12 medium containing low (0.3 mM) concentrations of calcium and supplements of bovine hypothalamic extract, bovine pituitary extract, epidermal growth factor, insulin, transferrin, selenous acid, hydrocortisone, triiodothyronine, retinoic acid, and galactose.
  • (12) Carr and Coons (1982a, 1982b) found that lateral hypothalamic (LH) stimulation ameliorates the aversiveness of stimulation of pain-implicated nucleus gigantocellularis (NGC), but this finding disagrees with other findings.
  • (13) The plasmids are coding for the hybrid protein which consists of the immunoglobulin binding A-protein domain at its NH2-terminus and the catalytically active fragment of exotoxin-A at its COON-terminus.
  • (14) With the indirect immunofluorescence technique of Coons and collaborators the occurrence of substance P (SP)-like immunoreactivity was studied in spinal ganglia (L6-S1), the spinal cord (L6-S1) and the pad skin of the hind paw of the cat.
  • (15) The human osteosarcoma cell line (OST-1-PF) can grow in protein-free Coon's modified Ham's F12 medium.
  • (16) Eighty-seven patients with malignant obstruction of the biliary tract from three centres and deemed unsuitable for surgery underwent insertion of the 'Carey-Coons' transhepatic endoprosthesis.
  • (17) By using the Coons indirect immunofluorescence technique, enkephalin-like immunoreactivity with a granular localization was observed in human adrenal medullary gland cells and pheochromocytomas.
  • (18) At least one – Delaware senator Chris Coons – has already said he is in favour of the deal but also wants to see a formal vote on it rather than have it be killed by these procedural means.
  • (19) The localization of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) in the colon tumours was studied with the indirect Coons test.
  • (20) The immunomorphological analysis by the non-direct Coons test and the PAP-test permits to identify cells with the positive reaction as granular cells.

Corn


Definition:

  • (n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome.
  • (n.) A single seed of certain plants, as wheat, rye, barley, and maize; a grain.
  • (n.) The various farinaceous grains of the cereal grasses used for food, as wheat, rye, barley, maize, oats.
  • (n.) The plants which produce corn, when growing in the field; the stalks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing.
  • (n.) A small, hard particle; a grain.
  • (v. t.) To preserve and season with salt in grains; to sprinkle with salt; to cure by salting; now, specifically, to salt slightly in brine or otherwise; as, to corn beef; to corn a tongue.
  • (v. t.) To form into small grains; to granulate; as, to corn gunpowder.
  • (v. t.) To feed with corn or (in Sctland) oats; as, to corn horses.
  • (v. t.) To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
  • (2) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (3) Dry matter and starch intakes were greater when corn was fed than when barley was fed.
  • (4) Development of folate deficiency was evaluated in young chicks fed diets containing corn and soybean meal as major constituents.
  • (5) Changes in haemolymph juvenile hormone (JH) concentrations of larvae of the southwestern corn borer, Diatraea grandiosella, were used to estimate the activity of the corpora allata.
  • (6) In Experiment 1, chicks 24 days old were fed mixtures of untreated and inoculated corn containing citrinin to provide 0, 50, 100, 150, 200, and 250 micrograms of the toxin per gram of blended corn.
  • (7) Mice administered chloroform in corn oil displayed a significant degree of diffuse parenchymal degeneration (5 of 10 males and 1 of 10 females) and mild to moderate early cirrhosis (5 of 10 males and 9 of 10 females); significant pathological lesions were not observed in the animals administered corn oil without chloroform nor in mice receiving chloroform in 2% Emulphor.
  • (8) Ammoniation of corn, peanuts, cottonseed, and meals to alter the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aflatoxin contamination has been the subject of intense research effort by scientists in various government agencies and universities, both in the United States and abroad.
  • (9) It was found that ammoniation inactivated the aflatoxins and reduced the carcinogenicity of the contaminated corn to a level that was not significantly different from that with the basal control diet.
  • (10) Ribosome-inactivating proteins were found in high amounts in one line of cells of Phytolacca americana (pokeweed) cultured in vitro and, in less quantity, in lines of Saponaria officinalis (soapwort) and of Zea mays (corn) cells.
  • (11) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
  • (12) Free fatty acids from both coconut and corn oils reduced diet palatability and intake; those from tallow and coconut oil markedly interfered (in vitro) with rennet clotting of milk replacers.
  • (13) They dealt in dozens of different commodities – from major grains such as wheat and sorghum to specialised food aid products such as corn-soy blend.
  • (14) Rats fed tryptophan-poor corn diets have reduced levels of brain serotonin and show increased responsiveness to electric shock.
  • (15) Percent apparent digestibilities for DM, NDF, and N for corn and corn-sunflower were similar and greater than for sunflower: DM (69.6, 68.2, 57.4); NDF (68.1, 61.5, 51.6); and N (66.3, 66.5, 63.6).
  • (16) Compared to fiber-free, feeding corn bran increased binding in the duodenum 30% and ileum 50% but decreased binding in the jejunum 44%, and feeding guar gum increased binding in the colon 73% but decreased binding in the jejunum 40%.
  • (17) Corn oil feeding decreased the transcriptional rate.
  • (18) Rats whose diet was restricted in calories by 40% exhibited no mammary tumors (coconut oil as primary dietary fat) or 75% fewer tumors (corn oil as dietary fat) compared to ad libitum-fed controls; they also exhibited 47% fewer colonic tumors.
  • (19) Anthracene, chrysene, benzo(e)pyrene and perylene did not significantly suppress the antibody-forming cell response compared to the corn oil vehicle controls.
  • (20) Acarbose significantly reduced the satiety effect of corn starch in lean rats (p less than 0.001), and further attenuated satiety in obese rats (p less than 0.02).

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