(imp. & p. p.) of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
(imp. & p. p.) of Dry
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
(2) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
(3) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
(4) It was shown that gradual recovery of spike wave patterns occurred from initial water swallowing to successive dry swalllowing.
(5) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
(6) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
(7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(8) In Humbo in Ethiopia , FMNR has re-greened 2,800 hectares: springs, dry for 30 years, are flowing again.
(9) 54% of patients in the rainy season were ELISA positive for RSV compared to 8.8% during the dry season.
(10) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
(11) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(12) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(13) The dried-specimen-teasing method appears useful, because of the ease of preparation of the specimens, its reproducibility, and the degree of visibility and preservation of cell surface structures and intraclonal relationships.
(14) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(15) The concentration of prey and the ciliate mean cell volume, dry weight, and number per milliliter were determined at known growth rates.
(16) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(17) Percentage of dry tissue and protein concentration increased in parallel during the whole period.
(18) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
(19) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
(20) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
Opium
Definition:
(n.) The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only entirely original stage work from this period was the spectacular one-man show Needles And Opium in 1991, which intermingled stories of love and addiction from the lives of Jean Cocteau and Miles Davis with an account of the meltdown of one of Lepage's own long-term relationships.
(2) Social changes going on in the society were reflected in choice of substance forms by younger people as compared to their elders (e.g., cigarettes vs pipes or cigars, heroin vs opium, manufactured vs village-produced alcohol).
(3) American frustrations burst into the open in October 2009 when serving and retired officials told the New York Times Karzai was a key player in Afghanistan's illegal opium trade, which helps fund the Taliban insurgency, while on the CIA payroll.
(4) A transformation of the corrupt economy could take up to two decades, and opium production is likely to climb beyond 2013's worrying levels before it falls again, said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, outgoing head of the UN office on drugs and crime in Afghanistan .
(5) Athletic elitism, the glorification of the human body, has succeeded religion as Marx's opium of the people.
(6) Cannabis and opium use has been in Nepal for centuries and in the past they did not pose much of a problem.
(7) In Henley, he encountered with interest the bookshop-owning lesbians who had taken opium with Cocteau, and a prim, elderly lady who had, in her youth, urinated regularly upon pioneering sexologist Havelock Ellis.
(8) But the ACMD research clearly found that the majority of people were not “parked” on opium substitution treatment for long periods of time, with only 10-15% receiving treatment for more than five years.
(9) With lots of water and fertile land, Sangin is perfect for growing the poppies currently being harvested for their opium sap.
(10) Subjects with a positive family history of opium use had an earlier age of onset than the subjects without a family history of opium use.
(11) Two ethnic groups in Laos were compared: the Hmong (or Meo), a tribal group with access to opium in their homes; and the Lao, a peasant people with more limited access, usually in opium dens.
(12) The time-course of changes in vegetative tests was studied in 47 men suffering from stage II opium dependence.
(13) Fifty-six addicted "world travelers" were studied at a treatment facility for opium addicts in Laos.
(14) Cash crops have diversified and replaced the former opium fields; the economy is moving away from a subsistence and cash economy to a mostly cash economy.
(15) They may well also be driving the Taliban effort in Helmand, since control of the opium-rich province would hand a major political advantage to whichever leader achieved it.
(16) Naltrexone blocked opioid-induced euphoria and decreased the craving for opium, but it did not inhibit drug usage.
(17) These studies contribute to the evidence that different cytochrome P-450-dependent mono-oxygenase systems are involved in the O- and N-dealkylation of opium alkaloids.
(18) Opium poppy latex contains a group of laticifer-specific, low-molecular-weight polypeptides called major latex proteins (MLPs).
(19) Communities raising opium poppy as a cash crop had highest crude rates of addiction (7.0-9.8 addicts per 100 people).
(20) The British prosecuted two opium wars in the cause of freedom to export and sell the produce of the East India Company's Bengal factories.