(superl) Possessed of original life and vigor; new and strong; unimpaired; sound.
(superl) New; original; additional.
(superl) Lately produced, gathered, or prepared for market; not stale; not dried or preserved; not wilted, faded, or tainted; in good condition; as, fresh vegetables, flowers, eggs, meat, fruit, etc.; recently made or obtained; occurring again; repeated; as, a fresh supply of goods; fresh tea, raisins, etc.; lately come or made public; as, fresh news; recently taken from a well or spring; as, fresh water.
(superl) Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs.
(superl) In a raw, green, or untried state; uncultivated; uncultured; unpracticed; as, a fresh hand on a ship.
(superl) Renewed in vigor, alacrity, or readiness for action; as, fresh for a combat; hence, tending to renew in vigor; rather strong; cool or brisk; as, a fresh wind.
(superl) Not salt; as, fresh water, in distinction from that which is from the sea, or brackish; fresh meat, in distinction from that which is pickled or salted.
(n.) A stream or spring of fresh water.
(n.) A flood; a freshet.
(n.) The mingling of fresh water with salt in rivers or bays, as by means of a flood of fresh water flowing toward or into the sea.
(v. t.) To refresh; to freshen.
Example Sentences:
(1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
(2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
(4) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
(5) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(6) Freshly isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles contain 0.05 mol of tightly bound ADP and 0.03 mol of tightly bound ATP per mol of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3).
(7) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(8) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(9) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
(10) In attempts to correlate GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 expression to beta-cell function glucose uptake and glucose-stimulated insulin release in fresh and cultured islets were measured.
(11) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
(12) Larvae from fresh water eggs, cultured in fresh water and 'normal' laboratory cultures reached 50% infectivity in 3-5 days, losing potential infectivity in 11-15 days post-hatching.
(13) Many of observed functional changes in freshly reimplanted lungs are temporally related to changes in extravascular water.
(14) Three of the preparations were highly cytotoxic against autologous fresh melanoma tumor cells, but not against autologous fresh normal cells or allogeneic fresh tumor targets.
(15) The effects of ATP on choline oxidase were studied further, and a 29.4% decrease was observed in mitochondrial ATP levels from freshly isolated mitochondria from the ethanol-treated rats.
(16) Results were compared with those obtained with Ki-67 on fresh tissues.
(17) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
(18) Thirty six fresh surgical specimens were collected from patients undergoing radical retropubic prostatectomy for carcinoma of the prostate.
(19) This paper examines fresh the evidence for an inverse relationship between smoking behaviour and Parkinson's disease.
(20) In this study 470 bitches were inseminated; 405 with fresh semen into the cranial vagina and 65 with frozen semen transcervically into the uterus.
Vernal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom.
(a.) Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, the activities were lower in the affected eyes of patients with herpetic keratitis and vernal conjunctivitis than in the fellow normal eyes.
(2) 55 of the 76 patients had corneal involvement in the form of vernal keratitis or vernal ulcer.
(3) Both patients with vernal conjunctivitis and control subjects reacted to histamine with a dose-dependent conjunctival redness 2 to 5 minutes after ocular challenge.
(4) In the present study, we have used this brush for conjunctival scraping in 18 patients with vernal and allergic conjunctivitis, and 10 patients serving as controls.
(5) They emphasize: 1. the special frequency with the young person (between 20 and 30 years for allergic conjunctivitis, generally before 7 years for vernal conjunctivitis); 2. the importance of atopic ground; 3. the weak incidence of business; 4. the difficulty of diagnosis, because the monosensibilisations are uncommon; 5. the favourable result of treatment.
(6) The authors determined tryptase levels in unstimulated tears collected from the following groups of patients: (1) normal control, (2) nonallergic ocular inflammation, (3) asymptomatic seasonal allergic conjunctivitis, (4) symptomatic seasonal allergic conjunctivitis, (5) vernal conjunctivitis, and (6) contact lens-associated giant papillary conjunctivitis.
(7) Topical cyclosporine may, therefore, be considered an effective substitute for corticosteroids, with an excellent anti-inflammatory activity in patients with both corticosteroid-dependent and corticosteroid-resistant vernal keratoconjunctivitis.
(8) Cromolyn sodium was found to be significantly more effective than placebo in treating the signs and symptoms of vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC).
(9) When topically applied to the eye before allergen exposure, ocular sodium cromoglycate prevents many of the signs and symptoms associated with type I allergic reactions (which includes hayfever, acute allergic and chronic allergic conjunctivitis, and vernal keratoconjunctivitis) and giant papillary conjunctivitis.
(10) This 9-year-old boy had a three-year history of vernal keratoconjunctivitis.
(11) It is also of proven efficacy in the treatment of allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis and vernal keratoconjunctivitis.
(12) Female Suffolk sheep were pinealectomized around the vernal equinox to eliminate the major environmental input to the reproductive system (photoperiod) and then either isolated from, or maintained with, pineal-intact gonad-intact sheep.
(13) Seven out of 14 acrophases of cyclic indices occurred just before autumnal equinox and three before vernal equinox.
(14) The IgG was significantly lower in patients with vernal catarrh.
(15) At higher latitudes, where changes in daylength are pronounced, a steep increase in human conceptions coincides with the vernal equinox.
(16) With less than a week to go until the Sun crosses northwards over the equator at the vernal equinox, it is showing real signs of rebirth in another respect.
(17) Limbal and palpebral vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) are usually considered to be different expressions of the same disease.
(18) A case of limbal vernal keratoconjunctivitis associated with a hypertrophic mass lesion measuring 8 X 5 X 3 mm is reported.
(19) It is concluded that testosterone and prolactin are the most important hormones involved in the control of vernal premigratory fattening.
(20) Moreover, ICT results are influenced by conjunctival diseases: compared to age-matched controls, there were more abnormal cytologies among patients with trachomatous inflammation (p = 0.025), conjunctivitis (p = 0.024) or Limbal Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis (p = 0.015).