(n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
(n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
(n.) Cloth made of cotton.
(v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
(v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.
(v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
(v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
Example Sentences:
(1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(2) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(3) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(4) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(5) Infection of cotton rats with the recombinant virus induced NS1 antibodies in 1 of 11 animals.
(6) Effects of both tricyclic and non-tricyclic drugs on the extrinsic Cotton effects of dicumarol bound to human alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) have been investigated.
(7) Analytical recovery from cotton gloves, solutions of foliar dislodgeable residues, and air-sampling filters was essentially complete.
(8) That is happening not only in Brazil, but also in poorer cotton-producing countries such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Benin and Chad.
(9) Each of the Lea gene families probably contains two active homeologous genes (alloalleles), one in each of cotton's two subgenomes.
(10) The interaction with these lipids, the rotational conformations of the 17-acetyl group, and invertible conformations of the cyclohexenone of PROG were discussed on the basis of the elliptical strength of the Cotton effect and energy estimation of the preferred conformers.
(11) This complex is characterized by an increased absorption at 430 nm together with a positive Cotton effect, as also observed in the case of the complex with the competitive inhibitor maleate indicating protonation of the internal aldimine.
(12) The cotton root bark, when used as an abortifacient, exhibits the lowest toxicity.
(13) It obviously helps to have a waterfront, red bricks and cotton mills,” said Professor Karel Williams at Manchester Business School.
(14) Neither acetylcholine nor leukotriene D4 altered tone of arterial rings after the endothelium had been intentionally disrupted by rubbing with a cotton-tipped applicator.
(15) Ammoniacal extracts of bloodstains and dried bloodstains on cotton substrata behaved comparably with respect to the parameters studied.
(16) In 2004, the dispute settlement body , the "judicial branch" of the WTO, ruled that the US had to reform its cotton subsidies or face "retaliation" from Brazil.
(17) A prospective randomized study was undertaken to compare compliance efficacy and cost of the elastic nylon pressure garment (Jobst Institute, Inc., Toledo, Ohio) with the cotton elastic pressure garment (Tubigrip, SePro Healthcare Inc., Montgomeryville, Penn.).
(18) Cotton rats that possessed prechallenge rotavirus antibodies that may have been acquired either passively or actively developed neutralizing antibodies against the OSU strain following intranasal administration of the live Ad5-OSU VP4 recombinant.
(19) The Canadians had earlier developed a water-filled suit, which the RAF adopted, but comparative trials in 1944 by the Royal Air Force concluded that: "There is no doubt the Cotton Suit gives the best protection."
(20) The effect of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection on the electrophysiologic properties of the airway epithelium was studied in tracheas obtained from cotton rats, after in vivo exposure to the virus.
Tampon
Definition:
(n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine.
(v. t.) To plug with a tampon.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the interview, he also pledged to scrap the 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products, known as the “tampon tax”.
(2) These symptoms were: dyspareunia, apareunia, haemorrhage at the first act of intercourse and more recently signs connected with the increasing use of tampons for the periods.
(3) Not only menstruating girls using tampons, but also quite young children can acquire this disease.
(4) Three groups of 20 women each used the regular, super, and super-plus sizes of a digitally inserted rayon and cotton tampon; two additional groups of 20 each used external sanitary protection or an applicator-inserted rayon polyacrylate tampon.
(5) Industrially manufactured cotton wool tampons have been used for 5 years on approx.
(6) Female volunteers received RU 486 vaginally in polyethylene glycol (PEG) suppositories, in tampons and in oil solution.
(7) All the heifers with retained tampons were inseminated.
(8) To prevent from the recurrence of the disease it is sufficient to process the hydatid cyst fibrosal tunic with a tampon moistened with 5% formaline or 1% tripaflavine solution.
(9) Two years later the strong connection between this disease and the colonization of vaginal tampons with certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus was noted.
(10) The effect of tampon usage on the vaginal microflora of 35 healthy women was determined following their random allocation to either tampon or napkin use for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(11) On the other hand, it seems very probable that the much less common use of tampons, especially the highly absorbent variety, could be responsible.
(12) The heifers were inseminated on the second to fifth day after the removal of the tampons.
(13) Since many of the fibers previously used in tampons combine with Mg++, an explanation for the pathogenesis of menstrually related toxic shock syndrome presents itself.
(14) The shape of the mitral valve ring, the position of its chordae and of its leaflets were studied in 34 normal hearts fixed through intra-ventricular injection of tamponate formalin.
(15) The authors have examined the pH, the pCO2, the pO2, and the oxygen saturation of the blood of patients upon whom endonasal surgery followed by tamponing of the nose had been performed.
(16) When the irradiation was completed and the tampons were taken out, the ewes (three to four years old lambing ewes, yearling ewes) were stimulated to superovulations by an administration of 1500 IU serum gonadotropin (SG) or 450 IU follicle stimulating hormone (FSH).
(17) In menstrual hygiene, vaginal tampons are preferred.
(18) He applied his own moral stamp, with VAT reductions on nicotine gum and other stop-smoking products, along with contraceptives, tampons and children's car seats.
(19) In cases of relapse, when the posterior tampon is removed after 48 hours, systematic ligature of the sphenopalatine artery is carried out on arteriosclerosis patients aged about fifty who have high blood pressure.
(20) I doubt the men in that room have ever so much as held a tampon.