(n.) A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.
(n.) A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper.
(n.) A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
(n.) the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers.
(v. t.) To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) This result was confirmed by atomic absorption spectroscopy, which indicated a stoicheiometry for copper and manganese of approx.
(2) Serum copper concentration also was measured in dams and kids in a control herd that had no history of ataxia.
(3) Copper therapy was applied to 7-day-old mutant mice.
(4) Several derivatives and analogs of the recently reported antiproliferative and antitumor agent trans-bis(salicylaldoximato)copper(II) (CuSAO2) have been prepared and tested for antiproliferative activity against L1210 leukemia cells in vitro.
(5) Accumulation of copper was not detected in the brain or small intestines of LEC rats until 13 mo.
(6) The potential use of ancrod, a purified isolate from the venom of the Malaysian pit viper, Agkistrodon rhodostoma, in decreasing the frequency of cyclic flow variations in severely stenosed canine coronary arteries and causing thrombolysis of an acute coronary thrombus induced by a copper coil was evaluated.
(7) The affinity of haFGF for copper was also confirmed to be higher than that of hbFGF using a copper affinity HPLC column.
(8) In the present study, maternal and fetal zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), and calcium (Ca) status has been studied in Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Wistar rats.
(9) This study provides evidence for a maternal yolk factor associated with increased tolerance and resistance of larvae to copper.
(10) With copper-ion catalysis, ligands inhibit competitively.
(11) No decisive numerical criterion was found that could be used to separate normal from abnormal copper concentrations because of this continuous array.
(12) No clear population trends were seen in dental disease incidence except for cemental caries which were found among Copper and Bronze Age remains.
(13) At 2 months of age there were no major differences in growth or health detected in infants fed the different copper intakes.
(14) In order to determine the specific action of cadmium on bone metabolism, the effect of cadmium on alkaline phosphatase activity, a marker enzyme of osteoblasts, was compared with that of other divalent heavy metal ions, i.e., zinc, manganese, lead, copper, nickel and mercury (10 microM each), using cloned osteoblast-like cells, MC3T3-E1.
(15) However, two observations suggested that surface epithelial loss alone was not sufficient to trigger the proliferative response to DOC: intracolonic instillation of DOC followed by removal of the DOC solution at 1 h, at which time surface epithelial loss was maximal, did not result in an increase in ornithine decarboxylase activity or [3H]dThd incorporation into DNA when these parameters were assessed at 4 h or 12 to 48 h, respectively; phenidone, an antioxidant and radical scavenger, and bis[(3,5-diisopropyl-salicylato) (O,O) copper(II), a lipophilic agent with superoxide dismutase activity, abolished the DOC mediated proliferative response but did not prevent the early loss of surface cells.
(16) Retinal changes should be reversible by short term systemic copper administration.
(17) Wilson disease is due to a genetically determined impairment of copper excretion from liver into bile resulting in copper overload of the organism.
(18) Arachidonic acid was also increased in plasma and liver phospholipids in low copper rats.
(19) These results suggest that HVE cells are more susceptible to concentration-dependent copper cytotoxicity than HAIN-55 cells are, and that copper could induce vascular endothelial injury, which may be involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease.
(20) Cadmium and copper content was determined by atomic absorption spectrophotometry from four tissue types; young blade, old blade, young stipe and old stipe.
Manilla
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city.
(n.) A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa.
(n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa.
(a.) Same as Manila.
Example Sentences:
(1) The component resin of the surgical adhesive implicated (Alphacopal) is a Manilla resin, produced by a variety of Agathis dammara (Lamb.)
(2) Manilla had 7.7 million people in 1987, with 2 hospitals, and a health care systems based on the European model.
(3) Spray flies from the head of Joe Frazier as heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali connects during the Thrilla in Manilla.
(4) But the will must be stronger than the skill.” I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and got into bed before the room was dark.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Like interviewing a martian: Michael Parkinson remembers Muhammad Ali The Thrilla in Manilla, 1975 I saw your wife.
(5) The resins of the Araucariaceae are special products that may be called Manilla resin and kauri resin, which are relatively different from each other.
(6) Photograph: AP But he ploughed on, to a desperately gruelling decider with Frazier in Manilla which he won after Frazier’s trainer Eddie Futch pulled his man out before the 15th round.
(7) The Manilla Health Department was reorganized into 4 major services.
(8) The red clover was stored in manilla bags in a silo among the ordinary silge fodder, use being of the "green solution method" (Farmos Oy).
(9) New initiatives to bring primary health care to the poor barangays (villages) of Manilla, the capital of the Philippines are described.
(10) Confronting Frazier at a press conference he announced: "It will be a killa, a chilla and a thrilla when I get the gorilla in Manilla."
(11) To study the Trichomonas vaginalis infection rate in the Philippines, 280 women were examined, by either wet mount or stained smear methods, in the greater Manilla area.
(12) Frazier, who took on Ali in three momentous fights in the 1970s, including the epic 'Thrilla in Manilla', had been under home hospice care after being diagnosed with the cancer just weeks ago, according to aa family friend.