(n.) Low land overflowed, or covered wholly or partially with water, but producing sedge, coarse grasses, or other aquatic plants; boggy land; moor; marsh.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stereoselective degradation of fenoprofen (FEN) glucuronides and irreversible binding of FEN enantiomers to human serum albumin via their glucuronides were studied.
(2) In contrast, the chronotropic actions of ISO and FEN on atria from septic rats were mediated by what appears to be beta-2 receptors and those of PREN by beta-1 receptors.
(3) Macroscopic treatment-related liver enlargement (hepatomegaly) was observed in male and female rats fed 3000 or 10,000 ppm DC-FEN.
(4) One of the hybrids secretes a monoclonal antibody of the IgG3 subtype designated FEN-1, which reacts with 100% of endometrioid ovarian cancer containing adenoacanthoma by indirect immunoperoxidase on paraffin-embedded tissue.
(5) This study, probably the first detailed screening of the drug for its genotoxicity, shows that Fen is moderately clastogenic and a DNA damaging agent in vivo.
(6) Excreta energy (FE + UE), excreta nitrogen (FN + UN), and excreta energy corrected to zero nitrogen balance (FEn + UEn) losses were measured at 24-hr intervals as were body weights (BW) and weight losses (delta BW).
(7) In contrast, phencyclidine produced predominantly (greater than 50%) saline-appropriate responding, indicating that the DS effect of phencyclidine was unlike either AMPH or FEN.
(8) Concentrations of SAL, FEN, and FOR equivalent to 100 KD of the respective dissociation constants stimulated beta 2-adrenoceptor-coupled adenylate cyclase with different intrinsic activities (%) incomparison to ISO (SAL, 61%; FEN, 63%; FOR, 89%) matching intrinsic activities for relaxation.
(9) Chicks exposed as embryos to FEN were hyperactive and aggressive.
(10) In 16 children with steroid-responsive nephrotic syndrome (with minimal changes in the glomeruli) the plasma renin activity and aldosterone level were determined during recurrence of the nephrotic syndrome at the stage of oedema increase (FEN alpha 0.25%) and in early period of remission.
(11) Articles drafted by industry with minimal involvement from guest authors have been published in leading journals on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), Vioxx (an anti-inflammatory drug that was withdrawn amid safety fears), Neurontin (used in pain relief), antidepressants, and the combination diet drug, Fen-phen (also withdrawn for safety reasons).
(12) The concentrations of isoprenaline (56 nM) and fenoterol (165 nM) required to inhibit EFS (5 Hz) by 50% (IC50) were significantly less than those required to inhibit closely matched ACh responses to a comparable degree (ISO = 117 and FEN = 304 nM), and the maximum inhibition of EFS was greater.
(13) d-Fen caused an increase in absolute spleen weight and a decrease in absolute splenic cellularity only in the old rats of both sexes.
(14) Trichosanthin, an abortifacient, immunosuppressive and anti-tumor protein purified from the traditional Chinese herb medicine Tian Hua Fen, is a potent inhibitor against HIV-1 replication.
(15) The results suggest that 5-HT has a selective stimulatory effect on young male and old female NK activity, and that old female rats are more sensitive to the immunological effects of d-Fen than old male rats.
(16) Dose-dependent decreases in food intake were observed with AMPH being four times as potent as FEN.
(17) The percentage of S-FEN protein adduct was greater than that of its R-enantiomer adduct.
(18) Plasma oestradiol levels fluctuated in parallel with neuroendocrine responses to d-FEN.
(19) The supersensitivity to the chronotropic actions of ISO and FEN was much greater than that which developed to PREN.
(20) In order to examine the effect that ovarian steroids have on this response nine, healthy women were tested twice at three time points in the menstrual cycle: early follicular, mid-cycle and late luteal phase with either d-FEN, a more specific 5-HT agent than the racemic mixture, or placebo.
Morass
Definition:
(n.) A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was a man who publicly stated: ‘No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical, or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep, burning hatred for the Tory party.’ In today’s political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear of alienating a part of the electorate; where under the excuse of trying to appear electable, all parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality; and the real deals, the real values we suspect, are kept behind closed doors – is it any wonder that people feel there is very little to choose between?
(2) But Osborne’s opponents are forced to deploy a morass of statistics to demonstrate how, in fact, despite the welcome increase in the minimum wage, the hammering of in-work benefits will drive millions of workers further into hardship.
(3) And into this glorious morass, a new contradiction has recently announced itself: the white people, the privileged Americans, the ones who had the least to fear from the powers that be, the ones with the surest paths to brighter futures, the ones who are by every metric one of the most fortunate groups in the history of the world, were starting to die off in shocking numbers.
(4) Certain that they cannot get out of this morass alone, the two sides look outside.
(5) As one woman with metastatic colon cancer said on a retreat I attended, ‘Maybe I haven’t laughed enough.’” Talking at someone with cancer about what they should do, rather than being with them in a morass with no easy answers, is not you helping them.
(6) I can only see independence as backwards-looking, leading to a needless morass of complications which will leave all parts of the UK diminished.
(7) He said: “In today’s political climate, where politicians are careful, tentative, scared of saying what they feel for fear ... all political parties drift into a morass of bland neutrality and the real values we suspect are kept behind closed doors.
(8) The new show will not be able to use the Top Gear name, which is owned by the BBC, and there is a morass of legal complications around which features from the BBC2 show they can take with them.
(9) A case is described in which a multitude of consultants presented the court with a morass of parent-oriented conflicting testimony.
(10) Recently, the DOJ has been embarrassed mightily by an acidly damning PBS Frontline special that criticized it – among others – for not finding anyone worthy of prosecution in the morass of casual fraud and wrongdoing that was the credit crisis.
(11) It has taken defense secretary Chuck Hagel four months to fill the envoy position, a tacit reflection of how even the most minor aspects of shuttering Guantánamo – a position that had broad bipartisan support before Obama – have proven to be a morass.
(12) No matter that the stadium deal in Flushing, once seen as a prerequisite for a franchise to be awarded, would soon stall in the morass of New York politics, a "Mission Accomplished" banner of sorts could now be hung above the New York project and the talk could again turn to expansion.
(13) The Times and Post also ran detailed stories looking at the inescapable morass into which this war will quickly turn, along with how “success” will likely be impossible given the myriad complexities at play – including the precarious Iraqi government coalition, our supposed enemy Bashir al-Assad in Syria and the double dealing and disinterest of many of the US’s so-called allies in the region.
(14) The Institute of Public Policy’s Condition of Britain report suggests replacing some ill-understood cash benefits with public services, particularly in childcare, where – it says – state nurseries would not only be more loved, but also more efficient than under today’s morass of subsidies.
(15) Yet, despite this, the likeliest outcome remains a much messier hung parliament than in 2010, and an easier path out of the morass for Labour than the Conservatives .
(16) In Eric Kennie’s case, there is no clear way out of the morass.
(17) Gastrointestinal hemorrhage of obscure origin remains a difficult clinical problem, but newer methods of study, particularly endoscopy and angiography, have made inroads into this morass of diagnostic dilemmas.
(18) The head of Bar UK, which represents more than 80 airlines including Virgin Atlantic and British Airways, said the airport security regime had become a morass of regulations.
(19) She played Sammy, the kind, religious single mother, orphaned as a child, trying to pull her younger brother out of his emotional morass.
(20) As they sink into this economic morass, Greeks are being advised to make sure New Democracy, which wants to renegotiate the loan terms, beats leftist Syriza, which intends to discard the austerity measures .