(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).
Cornu
Definition:
(n.) A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.
Example Sentences:
(1) Primitively, vibrations reached the stapes mainly via the anterior hyoid cornu, but in dicynodonts, therocephalians, and cynodants vibrations passed mainly or exclusively from mandible to quadrate to stapes and the reflected lamina was a component of the eardrum.
(2) In contrast, binding to the NMDA recognition site and its associated glycine modulatory site was elevated by 20 to 110% in the cornu ammonis (CA) 1 area and dentate gyrus of the hippocampus of the patients.
(3) In study 1, progesterone was greater (p less than or equal to 0.05) in the first venous branch draining the cranial portion of the uterine cornu adjacent to the vary with a corpus luteum than in jugular blood or in the same vein draining the opposite uterine cornu on day 11 postestrus.
(4) The attempt was made to apply the clip across the tube 2-3 cm lateral to the cornu.
(5) The injury involves the origin fibers of the middle pharyngeal constrictor muscle on the greater cornu of the hyoid bone.
(6) Acute haemorrhagic lesions were observed in the brain, involving symmetrically both amygdala and cornu Ammonis.
(7) After bilateral transfer of the identical pair (always one semiembryo into one uterine cornu) 79.7% of the heifers were impregnated.
(8) The lesion was excised and the uterine cornu was repaired.
(9) No such excess was apparent in the isthmus or cornu.
(10) Concentrations of progesterone were also greater (p less than or equal to 0.05) in the cranial than in the caudal half of the uterine cornu adjacent to the luteal-bearing ovary or in the cranial and caudal halves of the opposite uterine cornu.
(11) In these patients, the contralateral superior thyroid cornu was used to reconstruct the resulting defect.
(12) These fibers have large varicosities and are densely distributed in the infragranular layer of dentate gyrus, in the stratum lacunosum-moleculare of the cornu Ammonis and in the area fasciola cinerea (FC).
(13) The large pyramidal cells in the neocortex and cornu ammonis, and the granular cell layer of the gyrus dentatus, demonstrated strong enzyme activity both in AcP and SE preparations.
(14) A piece of the uterus 1 cm long was taken from each cornu.
(15) A v. uterina media, draining blood from the caudal third of the cornu uteri, was found in only five cases (16.7%).
(16) When a blastocyst entered the uterine cornu with an IUD, degenerative changes appeared leading to its death be fore the development of decidual transformations in the endometrial stroma.
(17) There was bleeding from a small lesion in the right uterine cornu.
(18) Cornu-isthmic, isthmo-isthmic and isthmo-ampullar anastomoses resulted in a high frequency of intrauterine pregnancies, which is hardly surprising since these are relatively simple operations leaving a large remaining tubal length.
(19) One hour after the injection, radioactivity was found to be selectively concentrated in specific neurons of the septum, the hippocampal complex (precommissural hippocampus, cornu Ammonis, gyrus dentatus, subiculum), the indusium griseum, the amygdala and in certain areas of the cortex.
(20) The difference between the mean weight of non-traumatized cornu of rats given 100 mcg, 284 plus or minus 36 and 232 plus or minus 12 mg respectively was significantly (P less than .05) greater than in controls, 159 plus or minus 5.8 mg.