(n.) The complete system of vegetable species growing without cultivation in a given locality, region, or period; a list or description of, or treatise on, such plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
(2) Concentrations of the drugs in feces increased with increasing dosage, resulting in greater changes of the intestinal bacterial flora.
(3) In this study, bacterial flora, especially the occurrence of A. actinomycetemcomitans, in the periodontal pockets of one juvenile with gingivitis (G), one JP patients, five rapidly progressive periodontitis (RP) patients and one adult periodontitis(AP) patient, and one adult with healthy periodontium was investigated using a blood agar medium and a selective medium for A. actinomycetemcomitans.
(4) Morphologic and microbiologic study of the operation and biopsy specimens, obtained from 73 patients with odontogenic inflammatory processes has shown that in 38% of cases the inflammation was induced by mixed fungal and bacterial flora.
(5) Clinical response was associated with eradication of the abnormal anaerobic flora, despite persistence of G vaginalis in nine (26%).
(6) After 1 month, scaling and root planing had effected significant clinical improvement and significant shifts in the subgingival flora to a pattern more consistent with periodontal health; these changes were still evident at 3 months.
(7) To be used as a model in dental and medical research, an animal must fulfil experimental needs and information on the composition and variation of its oral flora must be available.
(8) During this period, the microbial flora of the isolator was unchanged, and the time required to clean the cages was reduced by 50%.
(9) The superficial bacterial flora were sampled by velvet pad imprints, and the deep flora were determined from whole skin biopsies.
(10) alpha-HCH was also, but more slowly as with gamma-HCH, degraded by the anaerobic mixed flora.
(11) Experimental data on protective function of Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis and Bacteroides distasonis comprising intestinal flora against oral infection of Shigella flexneri which causes localized infection are presented.
(12) Senior figures in the Lockerbie case – including Jim Swire, whose daughter Flora was killed in the attack, and Professor Robert Black, a lawyer and architect of the trial of two Libyans accused of the atrocity – have said they believe Koussa might have significant information about Libya's role.
(13) The fixed prosthodontic procedures alone altered the subgingival and marginal microbiota toward a more health-associated flora.
(14) Previously, only incomplete information was available regarding the indigenous bacterial flora of the lower intestinal tracts of these coprophagic animals.
(15) Aerobic microorganisms are constantly entering the digestive tract with food, but colonization is resisted by autochthonous anaerobic flora (microbial colonization resistance) and by host-related factors (physiologic colonization resistance).
(16) The need to reappraise methods of reducing transient skin flora in 'hygienic' hand cleansing and the tests used for this purpose are discussed.
(17) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
(18) This mixed bacterial population exhibits many similarities to the native rat flora, and the diversity of bacterial species and the activity of a number of hydrolytic and reductive enzymes (e.g.
(19) All animals were capable of adapting to 20% dietary xylitol and an accompanying enhancement of the ability of caecal and faecal flora to utilize xylitol was observed.
(20) The behaviour of the aerobic skin flora of the flexor sides of the forearms, under a three-week restriction of washing, was investigated in twenty-four patients for its quantitative and qualitative aspects.
Florist
Definition:
(n.) A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.
(n.) One who writes a flora, or an account of plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The governor said he was doing it on behalf of bakers and florists so they wouldn’t have to take part in same sex marriages.
(2) However, with common allergens whose density increases with occupation, such as house dust and house dust mites for domestic employees, pollens for florists and animal epithelia for breeders, then ITS is effective.
(3) A building containing a florist was set on fire, as was the Prince of Wales pub.
(4) At school we had careers talks about being florists or air hostesses – or if we were really lucky, getting to Lucie Clayton [finishing school].
(5) Examples of incidents that have signaled a problem and resulting research projects are: 1) anaphylactic cardiovascular response to red imported fire ant venom (statewide morbidity survey); (2) unexplained contact dermatitis in tomato harvesters and floral designers (immunodermatologic study and statewide survey of florists); (3) concerns over two unexplained cancer deaths at an experimental agricultural research station (farmer's mortality study); (4) a household outbreak of organophosphate poisoning (statewide hospital morbidity survey); and (5) a woman in early pregnancy exposed to misapplication of chlordane in her house (literature review and update on trends in U.S. birth defects).
(6) In order to provide a new reference point in the dermatological literature from which the naming of florists' chrysanthemums may be regularised and standardised, the case is presented for the use of the generic name Dendranthema together with a cultivar name in place of a specific epithet.
(7) We examined 20 quarantine workers in Miami and 12 commercial florists exposed to contaminated flowers.
(8) There are two bakers, two butchers, two wet fish shops, three greengrocers, two general food stores, two florists, two bookshops, three newsagents, and an ironmonger's which sells an astonishing range of goods, including four sorts of mole trap.
(9) We are rapidly getting to the place in the United States of America where we are criminalizing Christian faith,” he said, pointing to recent lawsuits against florists and bakers who refused to carry out work for same-sex weddings.
(10) Actinic Reticuloid in a Florist A 63 year old florist developed after primary sensibilisation against Chrysanthemum and other flowers and plants the typical clinical and histological features of an actinic reticuloid with considerably augmented sensitivity to UV A and UV B.
(11) The incidental pleasures in Fading Gigolo start with its sweet and slightly risible premise: John Turturro – a florist named Fioravante – has the sexual magic touch for the lonely, libidinous matrons of the One Percent.
(12) A 35-year old woman developed allergic contact dermatitis after she had been sensitized to Alstromeria while working as a florist.
(13) Following reports of ten cases of possible organophosphate pesticide poisoning in florists exposed to pesticide residues on cut flowers, we conducted a prospective random-sample survey to determine residual pesticide levels on flowers imported into the United States via Miami, Florida.
(14) But to the super-rich such sums are – as a brief glance at the CLEWI will show – significantly less than the florists' bill at any one of their many properties.
(15) The Texas senator felt that the Odegaards should have been free to refuse to host the gay couple’s wedding and said he also believed that a gay florist would have the right to refuse to provide flowers to an evangelical wedding.
(16) A female florist, who ran a flowershop from 1954 to 1966 had to quit her job because of her known contact allergy due to chrysanthemums and primrose.
(17) We isolated M. szulfai from granulomatous tissue removed at surgery from a young florist with the carpal tunnel syndrome.
(18) Colin Aris opened his doors, in a former florist’s shop, in March 2010.
(19) At Beryl's Florists, Julie Vaughan, said the whole village was in shock.
(20) Continuous contact with the leatherleaf fern induced an allergic contact dermatitis of the palms and fingers in a female florist.