(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.
Silesia
Definition:
(n.) A kind of linen cloth, originally made in Silesia, a province of Prussia.
(n.) A twilled cotton fabric, used for dress linings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The quantitative compositions and growth of keratinophilic fungi in fertile and polluted soils of home-attached gardens in Upper Silesia were reported.
(2) Investigations of the goiter prevalence in children, aged from 0 to 18 years of age living in Lower Silesia were performed.
(3) The authors suggest the possible role of coal fibres in the increased fibrogenic activity of the dusts in coal mines in Lower Silesia.
(4) The incidence of lymphomas (Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin lymphoma), chronic lymphatic leukaemia was compared in four provinces in Lower Silesia.
(5) The much higher incidence of these malignancies in Lower Silesia in relation to the whole country suggests that some factors there may increase the susceptibility to this disease.
(6) In the analysis three zones of Upper Silesia with varying concentrations of atmospheric pollution, where the patients lived, were considered, estimating the risk of this tumour in relation to pollution level, and standardizing the risk for tobacco smoking and considering data related to the exposure to harmful factors in occupational work.
(7) On the basis of data obtained from hospitals and outpatient clinics in Lower Silesia the incidence of haematological malignancies was analysed in the years 1972-1985.
(8) 19 000 Polish schoolgirls from the three largest cities of the Upper Silesia conurbation, menarcheal age was studied in relation to parental education (four levels) and father's occupation (12 groups).
(9) Twenty-one samples of house dust collected from dwellings situated in Upper Silesia (Poland) were subjected to bacteriological, mycological and acarological examination.
(10) In 21 samples of various kinds of waste water sediments derived from 10 waste water treatment plants of Upper Silesia, the occurrence of keratinophilic fungi was examined.
(11) Organic material from airborne particulate pollutants collected over a 7-month period at a highly industrialized region in Silesia (Poland) was tested for mutagenicity using the Ames test.
(12) Vinzenz Priessnitz, a small-scale farmer from Gräfenberg (Austrian Silesia), from the 1820's on aroused worldwide interest in hydrotherapy, on the basis of purely empirical observations on his regimen of compresses, head, eye and foot baths, hip baths and full baths, showers and cold-water cures.
(13) Measurements performed in three groups of inhabitants of Chorzów--the most polluted town in the Upper Silesia, revealed in approx.
(14) It decreased from East to West, where territories are under the strong pressure of the Upper Silesia and Olkusz industry.
(15) By the case-control method 367 patients with lung carcinoma coming from the autochthonous population of Upper Silesia and 253 similar patients from the population of immigrants from other areas were compared (620 cases, in all) treated in the Institute of Oncology in Gliwice in the years 1982-1989.
(16) A population-based case-control study of laryngeal cancer among people under 65 years of age was conducted in Lower Silesia, a province in Southwest Poland, from 1986 to 1987, with 249 newly-diagnosed cancer cases and 965 controls.
(17) Among the most prevalent carcinogenic and mutagenic air pollutants in Silesia are the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) which are largely produced by industrial and residential combustion of coal.
(18) The material analysed included 422 children from Lower Silesia aged 12 years.
(19) The authors think that the concentration and development of industry may be the cause of differences in the incidence of these diseases in various provinces of Lower Silesia.
(20) This paper is based on the examination of 2789 individuals of both sexes, aged 7-8, 10-11, 14-15, and 29-49 years, inhabiting the Suwałki region (S), Lublin Coal Basin (LCB), Bełchatów Industrial Center (BIC), Dabrowa Basin in Silesia region (DB) and the city of Lódź.