(n.) A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.
(n.) A cultivated pelargonium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The possible role of prostaglandin endoperoxide synthase and lipoxygenase inhibition in the enhanced pest resistance of geraniums which produce the omega 5-AnAs is discussed.
(2) The effects of geraniin, a tannin, isolated from Geranium thunbergii Sieb.
(3) The protective effect of geraniin (tannin from Geranium thunbergii) against oxidative damage was examined in the mouse ocular lens.
(4) Three geranium oils were separated, identified and compared by high resolution cross-linked fused silica capillary GC and GC-MSD.
(5) Bud differentiation from haploid anther callus of geranium was achieved on Murashige and Skoog medium supplemented with 0.5 mg per 1 NAA and 2.5 mg per 1 kinetin.
(6) Very similar inhibition was seen with the crude exudate, rich in omega 5-anacardic acids, from glandular trichomes of an arthropod-resistant strain of geranium, Pelargonium xhortorum.
(7) Some geranium extracts caused a strong increase of the survival rate in an infection with K. pneumoniae in mice.
(8) WINNING TIP: Lela's Taverna, Kardamyli, Peloponnese Overlooking the old port in this pretty village, Lela's has a terraced dining area shaded by a vine-covered pergola, with planters tumbling bright red geraniums.
(9) As we drive through the autumnal Swiss lakeside landscape, past silver birches with golden leaves, wooden chalets with neat green shutters and cascading red geraniums, he describes the multiple difficulties he has had in finding a permanent place to carry out the suicides.
(10) But someone who lives or works here has put a couple of drooping geraniums on a first-floor windowsill, a touchingly modest, personal attempt at home-making, more human in scale than all the tulips, hyacinths and pansies planted in vast quantities in the gardens along the road, which have been landscaped into luxury-hotel-style anonymity.
(11) to Gad's Hill and settle down with another cigar and some punch in the conservatory you built, specially decked out with the scarlet geraniums you liked best.
(12) The geraniums in the hospital planter, beating the chill of winter?
(13) His wife, Susan Olley, who was buying begonias, geraniums and verbenas for her beds, feared the time may come for the watering can.
(14) Their appearances in print were usually restricted to cartoons in Punch, which whittled away their lives to a set of comic catchphrases, or novels in which they provided little more than splashes of local colour, such as Dombey and Son 's description of "the water-carts and the old-clothes men, and the people with geraniums, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the little bell of the Dutch clock as he went along".
(15) Three Bulgarian medicinal plants--Geranium macrorrhizum L. and G. sanguineum L. (Geraniaceae), and Epilobium hirsutum L. (Onagraceae) were analyzed phytochemically.
(16) The antiviral activity of a polyphenolic complex, isolated from a Bulgarian medicinal plant Geranium sanguineum L., on the reproduction of herpes simplex virus type 1 was studied.
(17) Blessed with an unusually good supply of water, its central regions are lush with geraniums and dog roses and the island is famous for the quality of its food.
(18) Major results of these studies are presented for the following plants: Garlic, Geranium; Hellebore; Mistletoe; Olive; Valerian; Hawthorn; Pseucedanum arenarium; Periwinkle; Fumitory.
(19) The dose of the magnesium amphibole (Na2Mg6Si8(OH)2) administered to the animals contained 240 x 10(6) respirable fibres; the corresponding value for the nickel amphibole (Na2Ni6Si8O22(OH)2) was 339 x 10(6), for the cobalt amphibole (Na2Co6Si8O22(OH)2)--1000 x 16(6) for the geranium amphibole (Na2Mg6Ge8(OH)2)--250 x 10(6), and of the natural crocidolite amphibole (Na2Fe2Fe3Si8O22(OH)2) x 380 x 10(6) respirable fibres.
(20) Treatment of peritoneal macrophages with geraniin, isolated from Geranium funbergii, markedly induced the phagocytosis of living yeasts.
Germanium
Definition:
(n.) A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, resembles tin, and is in general identical with the predicted ekasilicon. Symbol Ge. Atomic weight 72.3.
Example Sentences:
(1) Except for one control group, the other three groups were subdivided into six groups and administered three different kinds of germanium (inorganic germanium, organic germanium, and natural organic germanium) one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, respectively.
(2) Although the actual mechanism involved is not clear, the evidence of the inhibition of senile amyloidosis by organic germanium may give a light to elucidate the pathogenesis of amyloidosis.
(3) This review examines the toxicity and accumulation of germanium and silver in selected microbial species.
(4) However, if an electric field is applied across the membrane, germanium reflection elements would be preferred because of their low electric resistance (approximately 50 omega cm).
(5) In high concentrations, germanium was toxic to the limpets and killed them.
(6) The incidence of intestinal cancer in the control group (dimethylhydrazine only) was 91 percent; in groups provided with inorganic germanium one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, and during dimethylhydrazine treatment only, it was 91 and 78 percent; in groups provided with organic germanium one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment, and during dimethylhydrazine treatment only, it was 64 and 64 percent; in groups provided with natural organic germanium one month before and during dimethylhydrazine treatment and during dimethylhydrazine treatment only, it was 50 and 45 percent.
(7) It has turned out that good adhesion of uncharged and negatively charged model membranes to germanium plates is achieved when they are coated with a monomolecular layer of aminopropylsilane.
(8) After a brief recall of toxicological data about germanium compounds, the authors relate subacute and subchronic oral toxicities of beta bis carboxyethyl-germanium sesquioxide in rats.
(9) A germanium-gallium generator producing EDTA-free Ga-68 would permit the synthesis of a broad range of Ga-68 radiopharmaceuticals and thus facilitate the widespread application of positron tomography.
(10) Selenium(Se) has been determined in skin by neutron activation analysis applying selective irradiation and cooling time, followed by measurement of the activity on a high resolution germanium lithium (Ge(Li)) detector.
(11) Non-platinum-group metal antitumor agents are represented by inorganic and organometallic compounds which contain either main-group metals such as gallium, germanium, and tin, or transition metals such as titanium, vanadium, iron, copper, and gold.
(12) Germanium can substitute for boron in carrot cell cultures.
(13) In tumor imaging studies, breast tumor masses as small as 4 mm in diameter were clearly localized on a whole body scan using 131I-labeled BLMRL-HMFG-Mc5 antibodies with a High-Purity germanium gamma camera.
(14) A high-purity germanium spectroscopy system and a beam of 120 kV constant potential x-rays were used to determine the linear attenuation coefficient from 18 to 110 keV.
(15) A data-acquisition system designed for x-ray medical imaging utilizes a segmented high-purity germanium (HPGe) detector array with 2-mm wide and 6-mm thick elements.
(16) The spectra of diagnostic x-ray beams were measured with a germanium semiconductor dectector.
(17) Electronically collimated counts were acquired from the objects rotated to 20 or 40 angular positions in front of the germanium detector to simulate a cylindrical scanning system.
(18) Germanium oxide alone did not affect the frequency of sperm-head abnormalities.
(19) The results demonstrate that, within this class of compounds, (1) potent biological activity does not require the presence of germanium in the structure; (2) in vitro cytotoxic activity does not appear to be a direct result of the inhibition of macromolecular synthesis, and (3) macrophage function can be modulated in vitro at non-cytotoxic concentrations.
(20) The presence of aluminium, beryllium, lead, potassium in the examined air don't stand on the way of determining the concentration of germanium.