(n.) One who prepares beef, fish, etc., for preservation by drying, salting, smoking, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper examines three different sets of restraints that have evolved in three different regions of Thailand to protect supernaturalist curers from excessive accusations that could lead to harassment.
(2) It is then possible to differentiate between the shaman as primarily the mediator between the supernatural powers and man, and the medicine-man as primarily the curer of diseases through traditional techniques.
(3) In the ensuing ethnic dialog, Meratus shamans are cast as perpetrators as well as curers of the kind of illness-causing sorcery that makes Banjar most vulnerable.
(4) There appears to be little or no direct communication between local competitors among Thailand's traditional curers.
(5) He spent some time in the house of Daryatmo, a local dukun (or curer of supernatural problems) who became the first guru in Suharto's life.
(6) Both types can be provided by native curers, whereas only the former is expected from urban based general practitioners; we show how Malay parents in fact partly relate to medical doctors as if they were traditional healers.
(7) Especially in urbanizing areas, Buddhist and Muslim Thais hold in the highest esteem traditional curers whose knowledge derives from patient experimentation and the study of ancient texts.
(8) Warao herbal curers make use of more than 100 plant species from which they prepare 259 remedies.
(9) This world view motivates two conflicting modalities of medical practice: one based on the magic powers of curers (dukun), the others on the religiously validated powers of Sufi saints.
(10) The paper concludes with a discussion of the competition found among a specific group of curer-magicians, namely, Thai-Buddhist monk-practitioners.
(11) Given the often grave nature of such accusations, how have supernaturalist curers been spared from persecution during times of adversity?
(12) Rivalry among neighboring curer-magicians is so pervasive that diagnostic decisions sometimes depend in part on the relative status of previous healers on a case.
(13) Southern Muslim curers are generally mystics or spirit-mediums whose direct channels of communication with the supernatural convey remedies for afflictions but also provide guidelines for maintaining sociocultural separatism.
(14) Most curers describe themselves as specialists in one or another of these modes, but at the same time, many also recognize multiple levels of causation and multi-modal treatment alternatives for any specific affliction.
(15) He spent some time in the house of Daryatmo, a local dukun (curer of supernatural problems), who became the first guru in his life.
(16) This premise blinds researchers to differences between the medical epistemologies of lay persons and curers.
(17) These difficulties can be avoided by considering medicine as a local cultural system of symbolic meanings anchored in institutions and interpersonal interactions, and by separating the medical beliefs and activities of laypersons from those of curers.
Food
Definition:
(n.) What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment.
(n.) Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes.
(v. t.) To supply with food.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(3) 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.
(4) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(5) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(6) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(7) Size of household was the most important predictor of both the total level of household food expenditures and the per person level.
(8) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(9) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
(10) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(11) A relative net reduction of 47% in lactose malabsorption was produced by adding food, and the peak-rise in breath H2 was delayed by 2 hours.
(12) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
(13) It was concluded that B. pertussis infection-induced hypoglycaemia was secondary to hyperinsulinaemia, possibly caused by an exaggerated insulin secretory response to food intake.
(14) ); and 3) those that multiply and produce large numbers of vegetative cells in the food, then release an active enterotoxin when they sporulate in the gut.
(15) (2) The treated animals ingested less liquid and solid food than controls.
(16) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
(17) Learning ability was assessed using a radial arm maze task, in which the rats had to visit each of eight arms for a food reward.
(18) The UNTR rats were subjected to a continuous food restriction to maintain body weights equal to those of the TR rats.
(19) Male Sprague Dawley rats either trained (T, N = 9) for 11 wk on a rodent treadmill, remained sedentary, and were fed ad libitum (S, N = 8) or remained sedentary and were food restricted (pair fed, PF, N = 8) so that final body weights were similar to T. After training, T had significantly higher red gastrocnemius muscle citrate synthase activity compared with S and PF.
(20) The alpha 2 agonist, clonidine, produced a larger dose-related increase in food intake in lean rats than in the fatty rats.