(superl.) In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
(superl.) Unripe; not mature or perfect; immature.
(superl.) Not reduced to order or form; unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature.
(superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
(superl.) Having, or displaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profundity; as, a crude reasoner.
(superl.) Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(2) While the reduced form of the "derived" polyphenolic compounds, generated during tissue homogenization, appeared to enhance dye binding with bovine serum albumin, their influence on the protein assay directly in crude homogenates was extremely diverse.
(3) Slight cross-reactivity was apparent when crude preparations of cellular or culture filtrate antigens, used in this laboratory to detect antibodies to Candida albicans, Coccidioides immitis and Cryptococcus neoformans, were probed with hyperimmune rabbit antisera to A. fumigatus.
(4) The crude survival rate at 5 years was 83.3% (age-adjusted 96%), and at 10 years 53.8%).
(5) VS had a crude topography, and receptive fields of neurons in VS were relatively large.
(6) With [125I-Tyr11]SRIF as a radiolabeled ligand, the specific ligand binding to crude membrane increased transiently in the early phase of postnatal development and then decreased.
(7) Dialyzed crude enzyme extracts from yeast cells were found to destroy diacetyl in a manner quite similar to that of diacetyl reductase from Aerobacter aerogenes, and both the bacterial and the yeast extracts were stimulated significantly by the addition of reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH).
(8) A crude extract of Brucella melitensis was obtained by sonication, centrifugation and dialysis, and analyzed by quantitative immunoelectrophoresis.
(9) These results indicate that countercurrent distribution of crude extracts in aqueous two-phase systems is a useful method to study protein-protein interaction.
(10) Optimal myocyte cultures were obtained using serial 0.2% crude trypsin digestions of hearts from 1-2-day-old rats.
(11) Their defect in DNA degradation was shown not only after treatment by toluene but also in crude extracts after cell disintegration by ultrasonic and in untreated starved cultures.
(12) On subfractionation of this crude mitochondrial fraction with continuous sucrose density gradients, most of the activity of the three enzymes was found at a higher density than NAD+-isocitrate dehydrogenase and at about the same density as glutamate dehydrogenase, confirming earlier reported data for acetyl-CoA synthase.
(13) A crude membrane fraction derived from the mutant is unable to synthesize cardiolipin from phosphatidylglycerol in vitro.
(14) DNA membrane complexes from sucrose gradients, as well as the crude M-band preparation and a non-membrane-associated DNA fraction from nuclei can synthesize DNA in vitro without the addition of an external DNA template or DNA polymerase.
(15) Specificity of [125I]hCG binding to other tissues was determined by incubating crude membrane preparations of heart, skeletal muscle, liver, and kidney.
(16) Binding experiments of cyclic AMP on crude extract of dog thyroid lead to the conclusion that the maximal capacity of the specific binding site is close to the cyclic AMP content in resting thyroid cells.
(17) Interaction between these acceptor sites and crude or partially purified estradiol receptor shows a high association constant (over 10(9) M).
(18) The extent of sialomucin adjacent to a primary colorectal cancer does provide a crude assessment of tumour invasiveness and risk of local recurrence.
(19) Effects of 4-aminomethyl-1-benzylpyrrolidin-2-one-hemifumarate (WEB 1881 FU), a novel pyrrolidinone nootropic, on acetylcholine (ACh) receptors and adrenoceptors were investigated using crude membranes of the rat brain.
(20) By immunoaffinity chromatography using the immunoadsorbent, approximately 25% of crude enterotoxin applied was recovered in the eluate.
Indigested
Definition:
(a.) Not digested; undigested.
(a.) Not resolved; not regularly disposed and arranged; not methodical; crude; as, an indigested array of facts.
(a.) Not in a state suitable for healing; -- said of wounds.
(a.) Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its contents.
(a.) Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam.
Example Sentences:
(1) Duodenal DM flow was estimated with the indigestible markers, Cr-mordanted cell wall, Yb-soaked whole crop oat silage, and Co-EDTA.
(2) Our results demonstrate that in both diabetics and in controls the gastric emptying of digestible and indigestible solids occurs during the same phase of gastric motor activity, i.e.
(3) The symptoms of anaemia and indigestion appear to be paramount in making an early diagnosis, and negative barium meal studies should not be accepted when these two symptoms are present.
(4) Two dairy cows fitted with rumen cannulas and closed T-shaped duodenal cannulas were utilized to examine duodenal cannula function and indigestible marker performance.
(5) The parenchyma located close to the sclerenchyma became indigestible as the cell walls lignified progressively from the third stage.
(6) The objectives of the present study were to evaluate gastric and small bowel transit times of an indigestible solid matrix and to characterize the specific changes in intraluminal pH as a function of transit time through the gastrointestinal tract.
(7) Until recently these labels consisted of biologically indigestible carbohydrates attached to a radioactive reporter molecule.
(8) In 23 cows suffering from a secondary indigestion, in most cases with septicaemia, the syndrome of functional pyloric stenosis or vagal indigestion developed.
(9) Increased secretion of type 2 alveolocytes as well as participation of type 1 alveolocytes and macrophages in surfactant secretion were established in the course of intratracheal administration of indigestible mineral particles--natural zeolites to white male rats.
(10) The most common approach was an in-house medical kit with instructions emphasizing self treatment of the common ailments of travellers such as motion sickness, sleeplessness, diarrhoea, indigestion and headaches.
(11) Man, when acting in the role of the final host, often exhibits severe symptoms of indigestion.
(12) Electron-microscopic studies illustrate that the indigestible residue still has a preserved membrane structure.
(13) Dietary fiber is a highly interacting dietary component and is made up of a wide variety of enzyme-indigestible polymers: cellulose, pectins, gums, mucilages, lignin, and water-insoluble hemicelluloses.
(14) The effects of manipulation of the quantity and quality of protein, fat, and indigestible residues (fiber) of the diet will be described together with their possible implications for toxicity of ingested compounds.
(15) The Heidelberg capsule is an indigestible indicator of gastrointestinal pH, which was used to evaluate the relationship between gastric residence time (GRT) and variability in aspirin absorption from enteric-coated tablets.
(16) But when Ensler began passing blood five years ago, and her stomach distended, and she suffered terrible indigestion, and felt nauseous, she decided not to pay attention.
(17) This is a better survival rate than that reported for other causes of vagal indigestion.
(18) As compared with younger Rs, older respondents perceived intestinal flu to be relatively less serious-but earache, sprained toe, indigestion, having a tooth filled, stiff neck, and hangover to be relatively more serious.
(19) Surgery of the forestomach compartments is performed in bovine practices for the diagnosis and treatment of many diseases, including traumatic reticuloperitonitis, perireticular abscess, vagal indigestion, and grain overload.
(20) Spot samples of digesta were collected from duodenum and ileum during 96 h, and lanthanum was an indigestible marker to estimate flow and digestibility of nutrients.