(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.
Strick
Definition:
(n.) A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.
Example Sentences:
(1) "There would not have been too much negotiating to be done, even, in 2001 or 2002, because the Taliban's senior leadership made their approaches in a conciliatory manner, acknowledging the new order in the country," said Alex Strick von Linschoten, author of An Enemy We Created.
(2) Alex Strick van Linschoten, a leading analyst of the Taliban, said an announcement was unlikely in the near future.
(3) Using cDNA 48-1 in a simplified version of the protocol with which we had previously characterized the LR gene as a member of a retrogene family in mammals, we show in the present paper that the gene of this new transcript exhibits phylogenic, expression and amplification features that strickingly recall those of the LR gene.
(4) by falling sick of an uncomplicated irritation erythema, strickly localized.
(5) The most stricking finding of this study was the high percentage of additional psychopathological syndromes associated to alcoholism.
(6) Strick protein-sparing modified fasting is not without risk of sudden death even with close medical supervision.
(7) In this paper, it is demonstrated that superficial d. c. potentials detected on the skin of an amphibian are strickly correlated to the well-known skin ionic active transport mechanism and are quite independent of deep innervation.
(8) By strick adherence to indication, adequate preoperative preparations and very careful performance of the procedure, the complications of TBLB could be reduced to minimum.
(9) Taliban leaders have already rethought many of their notorious policies of the 1990s, Strick van Linschoten said.
(10) "In addition to this, their rethink of the official relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaida has been among the more significant developments," Strick van Linschoten said.
(11) Alone or with visceral involvement, cutaneous lesions frequently simulate periarteritis nodosa: circumscribed to abdomen, thighs, legs, dorsum of the feet, the livedo reticularis is the most stricking feature associated or not with cutaneous nodes, purple toes, ulcers and gangrene.
(12) This effect is strickly caused by diet used during pregnancy and is quickly reversible from one pregnancy to the following one in the same females.
(13) The histological examination of the lymph nodes shows a stricking relation between the T. and the N. This confirms the clinical conclusions.
(14) A stricking diminution of nocturnal desaturation and of the disorganisation of sleep was seen in responders to UPPP.
(15) Stricking differences were observed in the mechanism of interaction between staphylococcal serine proteinase and surface of human granulocytes or lymphocytes despite the fact that incubation of this enzyme with both types of cells leads to analogical decrease of proteinase activity.
(16) At present the tuberculosis sanatoria for children are not considered any more to be strickly uniprofile.
(17) Thus, our observations support the concept proposed by Schell and Strick (J. Neurosci.
(18) This protection was found to be strickly confined to the homologous sequences potentially implicated in recombination.
(19) Whereas the motor cortex is the primary target of cerebellar output (Asanuma et al., '83b), and the premotor cortex is the target of pallidal output (Schell and Strick, '84), the SN output appears to be directed more anteriorally--to the prefrontal cortex.
(20) Alex Strick van Linschoten, a Dutch academic who lives in Kandahar, said turnout in the city had been "extremely low".