(n.) A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained from petroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is used in making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. See Carburetor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
(2) Therefore a series of gavage screening studies using male F-344 rats was conducted on components of gasoline to more clearly identify the major contributors to this nephrotoxicity.
(3) The target concentrations for the butane:pentane mixtures were 4500 and 1000 parts per million (ppm), while 5200 and 1200 ppm were set for the gasoline distillation fraction.
(4) Antipyrine clearance was 18% higher during exposure to gasoline than after 2-4 weeks of vacation (P less than 0.01), while antipyrine clearance was unchanged in the office workers.
(5) The results demonstrated that the acute toxicity, in terms of LC50, of the gasoline-fuelled engine was significantly higher than that of the ethanol-fuelled engine.
(6) A summary of trace elemental constituents in over 50 gasoline samples and 18 commercially marketed consumer purchased gasoline additives is presented.
(7) The exposure of drivers of gasoline delivery tankers ranged from 0.08 to 2.37 ppm for personal TWA exposure over the whole workshift.
(8) US accuses Russia of 'throwing gasoline on fire' of Syrian civil war Read more The Republican frontrunner’s comment to an audience of thousands stood in bold contrast to remarks made by the former Florida governor Jeb Bush at a much smaller event held simultaneously an hour away in Bedford.
(9) Estradiol treatment during recovery from gasoline also appeared to increase the removal of accumulated hyaline droplets from the renal cortex.
(10) Erythrocytic ALAD activity was used as a screening test for the detection of tetraethyl lead (TEL) poisoning in a group of 43 children who were presumed gasoline sniffers.
(11) "We've got to see whether they're serious about putting the matches and the gasoline aside when it comes to default.
(12) This methodology was first used to determine the mutagenic activity of gasoline, revealing mutagenic activity of base-pair substitution without any need for metabolic activation, indicating the presence of direct-action mutagens.
(13) We are raising the question as to whether inhalation of gasoline during pregnancy may be teratogenic in humans.
(14) They are integral components of gasoline, distillate fuels and other petroleum products and are economically important in the chemical, petroleum, pharmaceutical, polymer, paint and dye industries.
(15) So that approach is tantamount … to pouring gasoline on the fire.” Carter stopped short of demanding an end to the airstrikes, suggesting it was not too late for Russia to change its position.
(16) A peer-reviewed study performed at the Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory in 2012 found that biofuels made with corn residue were 95% better than gasoline in greenhouse gas emissions.
(17) The emissions from a fleet of late-model cars fueled with commercial, high-aromatic, unleaded gasoline caused nearly twice as much atmospheric light extinction as those from a matched fleet fueled with commercial, low-aromatic, leaded gasoline, when both were driven according to a consumer operating cycle in an idle traffic tunnel.
(18) Cutaneous injury caused by exposure to gasoline and other hydrocarbons is a clinical entity with potentially life-threatening effects.
(19) Common denaturants used are methyl alcohol, gasoline, benzene, chloroform, pyridine, and naphthalene, in combination or individually.
(20) Concentrations of VOC from gasoline were determined to be elevated above the ambient background levels in all microenvironments while VOC without a gasoline source were not.
Juice
Definition:
(n.) The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking.
(v. t.) To moisten; to wet.
Example Sentences:
(1) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
(2) The cryptoxanthin esters varied from 5 to 10% of the total carotenoids in Valencia orange juice concentrates and from 10 to 15% of the total carotenoids in Navel orange juice concentrates.
(3) The treatment group received 75 mg of roxatidine acetate hydrochloride at 9 PM and 12 to 13 hours later gastric juice secretion was measured with gastric x-ray films in both groups.
(4) Using an anti-serum directed against the COOH-terminal region of neurotensin and an anti-serum raised xenopsin in radioimmunoassays, the presence of neurotensin- and xenopsin-like immunoreactivity in Sep-pak extracts of human gastric juice was demonstrated.
(5) This study shows that the presence of pancreatic juice in the duodenal lumen enhances the fat-stimulated release of enteric hormones that have a stimulatory action on the enteroacinar and enteroinsular axis as well as an inhibitory action (enterogastrone-like activity) on the postprandial regulation of gastric function.
(6) One hundred and two rats were subjected to one of following three surgical procedures: Antiperistaltic duodenogastric reflux (ADGR) was made for duodenal juice to reflux through the pylorus into the stomach.
(7) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
(8) The digestive juice showed no action on acetyl-L-tyrosine and benzoyl-L-arginine ethyl esters.
(9) Gastric juice was examined in terms not only of conventional indices, observed volume, titratable acidity and acid output, but also Vg, the volume corrected for pyloric loss and duodenal reflux.
(10) Asparagine, arginine, isoleucine and phenylalanine administered under the stimulation of secretin-pancreozymin significantly inhibited the secretion of pancreatic juice by 23%, 15%, 13% and 13%, and the output of amylase by 53%, 37%, 27% and 18%, respectively.
(11) The results are consistent with an action of banana tree juice on the molecule responsible for excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle, resulting in a labilization of intracellular Ca2+.
(12) [Na+],[Cl-)and[alkali]were determined in the alkaline gastric juice samples (pH greater than 7.0).
(13) In accordance with the admixture theory of the exocrine pancreatic secretion a linear relation between concentrations of bicarbonate and protein in the pancreatic juice is to be expected.2.
(14) Thus it can be tentatively suggested that it is prokallikrein A which is secreted into the pancreatic juice and represents the physiologically important zymogen.
(15) Total bacterial counts, nitrate-reducing bacteria and nitrite concentration were determined in fasting gastric juice before and after 4 weeks of treatment with a strong or with a mild antacid drug, a placebo preparation and the spasmolytic agent papaverine which is known to inhibit gastric evacuation.
(16) The microbial overgrowth syndrome of the small bowel (MOS) is characterized by clinically found symptoms of increased metabolic activities of microorganisms existing in a great number in the intestinal juice of these patients.
(17) Using this system, it was possible to separate and quantify each of the nine major proteins present in a small sample of pancreatic juice in 40 min.
(18) This appears to be caused by persistent reflux of gastric juice across a mechanically defective lower esophageal sphincter.
(19) At the same time, biochemical modifications of the pancreatic juice were described in alcoholics; later on, a new family of pancreatic secretory protein, the so-called "Pancreatic Stone Protein" was discovered.
(20) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.