(n.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
(n.) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.
(n.) The refined spirit; the quintessence.
(n.) Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet it can never hope to match yes campaigners’ vision, their powerful elixir of hope for a better future, which can spark feelings that are almost religious in their fervour, like the rapture of old Christian belief.
(2) Two of the solid composites were prepared from commerical tablets of different dosage and one from commercial timed-release capsules; the fourth sample was an elixir.
(3) In a statement to the Guardian this week, Exxon spokesman Richard Keil reiterated: “ExxonMobil does not fund climate denial.” Alec, an ultra-conservative lobby group, has hosted seminars promoting the long-discredited idea that rising carbon dioxide emissions are the “elixir of life”, and was behind legislation banning state planners in North Carolina from considering future sea-level rise.
(4) The Nobel Laureate and ex-director of Fermilab, Leon Lederman, described superconductivity as "the elixir to rejuvenate accelerators and open new vistas to the future".
(5) Disposition of paracetamol oral elixir was determined in two male patients after administration via feeding jejunostomy and compared with four male controls who received the same dose by mouth.
(6) Elixir of this medication should probably be used whenever available.
(7) For a good long while, Johnny Depp had a firm grasp on the strange elixir that is Hollywood mojo.
(8) Temazepam 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 mg kg-1 in an elixir formulation (Euhypnos Elixir), was compared with trimeprazine tartrate 3 mg kg-1 in a syrup (Vallergan Forte Syrup), as premedication in 220 children (ASA grade I) undergoing tonsillectomy and associated procedures.
(9) Mean percentage absorption was estimated to be 63 per cent from tablets and 75 per cent from elixir, but considerable between-subject variation was noted.
(10) There was less interindividual variation in bioavailability with the complex than with the elixir.
(11) Radioisotopic studies in 9 volunteers demonstrated a three-fold higher absorption of GDS iron compared with ferrous sulphate elixir.
(12) The method has been validated for use with elixirs containing 120 mg of acetaminophen, 12 mg of codeine phosphate and 7.5 mg sodium benzoate preservative per 5 ml.
(13) of potassium chloride 10 percent elixir daily for successful treatment of thiazide-induced hypokalemia.
(14) Perhaps we should bottle it as some sort of pro-phylactic elixir.
(15) It’s the broadest list I have seen of one company funding so many nodes in the denial machine.” Among Peabody’s beneficiaries, the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change has insisted – wrongly – that carbon emissions are not a threat but “the elixir of life” while the American Legislative Exchange Council is trying to overturn Environmental Protection Agency rules cutting emissions from power plants.
(16) Amoxicillin-clavulante, cefuroxime axetil (no elixir form available) or cefixime may then be tried keeping in mind relative costs, side effects, dosing frequency and drug formulation.
(17) (Brief highlights reel: writing his own computer games aged eight; reaching chess master status at 13; creating Theme Park , one of the first video games to incorporate AI, at 17; taking a double first in computer science from Cambridge at 20; founding his own groundbreaking video-games company, Elixir, soon after; and doing pioneering academic work on the hippocampus and episodic memory as “the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle”, before founding DeepMind in 2011.)
(18) Everyone is hunting the magic elixir to revive rapid growth.
(19) out-patient department and the drugs were prescribed as clemastine elixir (0.5 mg.
(20) The bioavailability of papaverine, administered as sustained release capsules, an elixir, and soft gelatin capsules, was studied with volunteers.
Solution
Definition:
(n.) The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach.
(n.) The act of solving, or the state of being solved; the disentanglement of any intricate problem or difficult question; explanation; clearing up; -- used especially in mathematics, either of the process of solving an equation or problem, or the result of the process.
(n.) The state of being dissolved or disintegrated; resolution; disintegration.
(n.) The act or process by which a body (whether solid, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.
(n.) release; deliverance; discharge.
(n.) The termination of a disease; resolution.
(n.) A crisis.
(n.) A liquid medicine or preparation (usually aqueous) in which the solid ingredients are wholly soluble.
Example Sentences:
(1) F(420) is photolabile aerobically in neutral and basic solutions, whereas the acid-stable chromophore is not photolabile under these conditions.
(2) The authors have presented in two previous articles the graphic solutions resembling Tscherning ellipses, for spherical as well as for aspherical ophthalmic lenses free of astigmatism or power error.
(3) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(4) It has recently been suggested that procaine penicillin existed in solution in vitro and in vivo as a "procaine - penicillin" complex rather than as dissociated ions.
(5) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(6) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(7) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
(8) In Ca free-solution phenylephrine inhibited the response to CaCl2.
(9) These were an isotonic solution of sodium chloride (900 micrograms NaCl in 0.1 ml), histamine (100 mu g in 0.1 mu l), phytohaemagglutinin (200 mu g in 0.1 ml), and a staphylococcus lysate (STAVA).
(10) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(11) Caries-related bacteriological and biochemical factors were studied in 12 persons with low and 11 persons with normal salivary-secretion rates before and after a four-week period of frequent mouthrinses with 10% sorbitol solution (adaptation period).
(12) The pH of ST solutions varied with the mode of oxygenation as follows: 7.9-8.2 in Groups I and IV; 8.7-8.9 in Groups II and V; 7.1-7.4 in Groups III and VI.
(13) Regulators concerned about physician behavior and confronted by demands of nonphysicians to prescribe controlled substances may find EDT a good solution.
(14) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
(15) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
(16) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(17) Poly (8NH2G) does not interact with poly(C) in neutral solution because of the high stability of the hemiprotonated G-G self-structure.
(18) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
(19) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(20) Thus Sephadex chromatography of the solution obtained by dissolving the antigen-antibody precipitate in these media repeatedly gave two peaks corresponding to anti-ovalbumin and ovalbumin.