(n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.
(n.) The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study a representative sample of the workers involved in this trade, where flax is processed in small workshops or homes, was examined, and their dust exposure was evaluated.
(2) Some physicochemical properties of the mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNA) from plants of flax, broad bean and mung bean, and from tissue culture cells of jimson weed, soybean, petunia and tobacco were determined.
(3) Analysis of available potency estimates for 35 pairs of enantiomeric arylcarboxylic acids with auxin activity (flax-root-growth inhibition test) revealed extensive correlations between the activity of the more potent and less potent isomers, as well as between the log of the ratio of potencies and the log potency of the more active isomer when structurally similar analogs are compared.
(4) A total of 224 workers and employees engaged at the Smolensk flax spinning plant, suffering from acute respiratory diseases, were examined on an outpatient basis.
(5) In all, 20% of the flax scutchers were found, on the basis of the questionnaire, to suffer from persistent cough and 25% from chronic phlegm production.
(6) The level of IgG, IgA, IgM, alpha1-antitrypsin and alpha2-macroglobulin was determined by radial immunodiffusion in 27 workmen in the flax processing industry, exposed to the risk of byssinosis and 33 retired workmen with a diagnosis of byssinosis.
(7) Transmural NMR data were acquired in five voxels spanning the wall of the left ventricle using the FLAX-ISIS technique.
(8) The highest prevalence of chronic respiratory symptoms and diseases and greatest changes in ventilatory capacity were due to exposure to hemp and flax aerosols.
(9) A homogeneous batch of dew retted hackled flax was divided into two portions.
(10) There was a statistically significant difference between this result and the bronchoconstriction that had occurred after flax dust inhalation in the same subjects.
(11) The mode of action of flax-seed hydroperoxide isomerase was studied in vitro by using as substrates linoleic acid hydroperoxides formed by soya-bean lipoxygenase.
(12) The initial flax ubq sequences were isolated from a flax genomic library in lambda EMBL4 using a heterologous Arabidopsis thaliana ubq probe.
(13) Lung function in ex-flax workers was slightly lower than in control subjects never exposed to flax dust, but the presence of a positive interaction with age meant that differences were apparent only in the younger subjects.
(14) Flax dust-affected histamine reactions were not so distinct: lymphocyte and neutrophil reactivity in byssinosis patients did not exceed the standards.
(15) Both syndromes were higher among seasonal workers than what would be predicted if they were pemanently exposed to flax dust.
(16) Heritable changes in plant weight and nuclear DNA content may be induced in certain varieties of flax by different fertilizer environments.
(17) The remaining groups are significantly different from the previously described flax 5S DNA and are in low representation in comparison to group-1 and group-2 5S DNA.
(18) The validity of the FLAX-ISIS approach in acquiring localized spectra for transmural studies and in providing quantitative information from the localized spectra was examined rigorously by studies involving phantoms, intact rats, and the canine myocardium in vivo.
(19) In all cases it was found that the nonequivalence of reciprocal crosses manifested itself beginning with the F1 generation, with the exception of some flax crosses in which reciprocals differed beginning with the F2 generation.
(20) We have isolated a genomic clone containing Arabidopsis thaliana 5S ribosomal RNA (rRNA)-encoding genes (rDNA) by screening an A. thaliana library with a 5S rDNA probe from flax.
Harl
Definition:
(n.) A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.
(n.) A barb, or barbs, of a fine large feather, as of a peacock or ostrich, -- used in dressing artificial flies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Jonathan Harle, senior programme manager, Inasp , Oxford, UK Kenya's shuttling lecturers: university shortages are taking a toll Read more Invest in quality: More and more students are gaining access but how useful is it to scale up inefficiencies?
(2) The dye-binding values and the HARL values were reduced similarly by heat treatment.
(3) "Everyone who hated [George W] Bush's 'war on terror' – seeing it either as inadvertently pouring oil on the flames, or as an aberrant throwback to the logic of imperialism – is now happily singing from that very hymn sheet because it saves them having to think about the real challenges the region poses," argued Peter Harling of the International Crisis Group.
(4) Jonathan Harle Convince governments that universities are the route to development: We need to persuade African governments that investing in higher education can help their countries reach middle-income status faster, an aspiration for many.
(5) The visor osteotomy as described by HARLE gives a considerable increase of the absolute height of the atrophic mandible, between the mental foramina.
(6) "Is it pronounced 'Van Gal' or 'Van Garl' or 'Van Hal' or 'Van Harl' or something else?
(7) Jonathan Harle Make academia relevant: It is critical for African researchers to focus on the pressing challenges facing the continent, from climate change to human rights to transformations in science and technology.
(8) For materials in which protein and glucose had reacted under mild conditions (37 degrees), the dye-binding capacity with Acid Orange 12 was unchanged even though the HARL value of these materials was considerably reduced.
(9) And they were faintly ashamed of the local blackhouses, preferring instead to be pictured against the newfangled harling.