(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.
Monograph
Definition:
(n.) A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.
Example Sentences:
(1) To lay the groundwork for subsequent chapters in this monograph of multiple primary cancers in Connecticut and Denmark, we present a description of the historical significance of previous studies, focusing on key surveys that have enhanced our understanding of the origins of multiple cancers.
(2) The interpretation of the term was a major issue in Konorski's monograph of 1948, and a main point of difference between his views and those of Pavlov.
(3) The monograph summarizes the most important data and experience based on the clinicopathological analysis, histological and histoenzymatic examinations of more than 1000 primary tumours and 400 tumour-like lesions of bones.
(4) Medicines which do not represent a direct or indirect risk for health can be exempted from the need of an individual marketing authorization by monographs of standardized marketing authorizations.
(5) The responses of experimental animals to known and suspected human carcinogens, as evaluated in the IARC Monographs series, were analysed as an indication of the sensitivity of animal tests for predicting human carcinogens.
(6) To determine whether genotoxic and non-genotoxic carcinogens contribute similarly to the cancer burden in humans, an analysis was performed on agents that were evaluated in Supplements 6 and 7 to the IARC Monographs for their carcinogenic effects in humans and animals and for the activity in short-term genotoxicity tests.
(7) She was there in 1929 when her English translation of her husband's 1914 monograph advancing the chromosome theory of cancer was published.
(8) The system was limited by specific constraints to control of the monograph collection.
(9) He published eight monographs, five of which were of eminent importance and at least two exerted considerable influence on European psychiatry for several decades, namely Der sensitive Beziehungswahn (1918) and Körperbau und Charakter (1921).
(10) The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) monographic resources in the medical behavioral sciences (MBS) were examined to assess NLM's ability to support the needs of researchers writing in this area.
(11) T. Yanagita, Studies on Cathinones, NIDA Research Monograph 27, Proceedings of 41st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Committee on Problems of Drug Dependence, 1979, pp.
(12) Seven monographs of tablets admitted to USP(XXII), Ch P (1985, 1990) and JP(XI) were taken as cases in point and the systematic errors of two of them, i.e.
(13) In general, the procedures described in a national or European Pharmacopoeia must be applied if a monograph is available.
(14) His scientific achievements based on higher mathematics included 20 important reports on astronomy and several monographs on mathematics.
(15) If a applicant refers to such a monograph he does not have to present any documentation.
(16) The last of these three monographs was written in 1971; its title is "Polarizing Microscopy in Dental Tissues"; it deals with the ultrastructure of teeth, a subject which never ceased to attract his attention during the more than 50 years of his career as a scientist.
(17) In 1971 the International Agency for Research on Cancer initiated a program on the evaluation of the carcinogenic risk of chemicals to humans, which concentrated on the production of monographs on individual chemicals.
(18) In comparison to the monograph of Hueper from 1963 it is concluded, that until now no critical increase of carcinogenic substances at the workplace has occurred.
(19) All the data contained in the monographs along with the references and the synonyms are stored in a database application computer program.
(20) The fourth premise is expressed succinctly in the 11 principles outlined in the 1983 AAMC monograph "Preserving America's Preeminence in Medical Research," which places important responsibilities for the collective success of the U.S. research program on all of the various components of society.