(a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
(a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(2) The fundamental behavioural adaptations implicit in the 'Upper Palaeolithic Revolution' (possibly including language) are thought to have been responsible for this rapid dispersal of human populations over the ecologically demanding environments of last-glacial Europe.
(3) IXb, diacetate of IX, unpurified, was converted to IXf with chromium trioxide in glacial acetic acid.
(4) The same analogue also manifested a marked analgesic effect with the two tests used: hot plate test and the peritoneal test with glacial acetic acid.
(5) Fix for 4 days in 18 parts 80% ethanol, 1 part 10% formalin, and 1 part glacial acetic acid.
(6) Larvae for morphological study were collected by pepsin digestion, fixed in glacial acetic acid, and cleared in glycerin.
(7) We used a polyclonal antibody (West antibody) to measure ACTH-like immunoactivity in glacial acetic acid extracts of five tissues in adult male rats at increasing times (1, 7, 14, and 28 days) after hypophysectomy or adrenalectomy, and in normal control rats.
(8) This report presents a case of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy developing within 2 h after ingestion of 96% (glacial) acetic acid in an attempted suicide.
(9) It’s because we are right, and however glacially society evolves, it is evolving in the right direction.
(10) Thirty-nine patients with benign prostatic enlargement were treated by transperineal intrasprostatic injections composed of phenol 2%, glacial acetic acid 2%, and glycerine 4%, in distilled water.
(11) Guinness also wielded glacial fierceness and terror with unchallengeable authority.
(12) A variant Golgi technique was developed that consisted of substituting osmium tetroxide with formaldehyde as the initial fixative in intracardiac perfusion, along with the addition of glacial acetic acid to the chromating fluid.
(13) The series of pictures tell a story not only about the dramatic reductions in glacial ice in the Himalayas, but also the effects of climate change on the people who live there .
(14) The mobile phase was used in the form of a solvent system: n-heptan-glacial acetic acid (95:5).
(15) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
(16) The level of all three microbial parameters studied slowly increased as the river flowed from its glacial source out into the prairies.
(17) And there are signs from Europe, too, that attitudes are – albeit glacially – starting to shift: on Monday, Europe's food safety agency ruled against a temporary French ban on a strain of GM maize made by the US company Monsanto , saying there was "no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment" to justify it.
(18) But Big Content and Big Telecom, as we know, move glacially.
(19) The main product of the oxidation of catechol in glacial acid is N-(2-carbomethoxyethyl)-phenoxaz-2,3-dione.
(20) When Fritz Müller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.
Pleistocene
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man.
(n.) The Pleistocene epoch, or deposits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Amino acid analyses have been made of the insoluble protein, soluble peptide, and free amino acid fractions isolated from a series of fossil pecten shells of ages from the Pleistocene through the Jurassic.
(2) Genetic data on present human population relationships and data from the Pleistocene fossil hominid record are used to compare two contrasting models for the origin of modern humans.
(3) The present study on 47 naturally fractured enamel surfaces of premolar and molar teeth of Plio-Pleistocene East African hominids measured enamel thickness, slope of incremental lines (striae of Retzius), and the morphology of Hunter Schreger bands (HSBs).
(4) The subocclusal morphology of 168 permanent mandibular premolars (N = 77) and molars (N = 91) of Plio-Pleistocene hominids has been investigated.
(5) The morphological comparison shows strong affinities to comparative material from the Upper Pleistocene like Cro-Magnon.
(6) The cultural associations in the earlier late Pleistocene are with the Middle Stone Age.
(7) The latest fossil is the only intact skull ever found of a human ancestor that lived in the early Pleistocene, when our predecessors first walked out of Africa.
(8) The diets of these Plio-Pleistocene hominids appear to have been qualitatively dissimilar.
(9) The concentration of climate-warming carbon dioxide is now higher than at any time since the dawn of humans 2.6m years ago, an event itself marked by a new geological epoch called the Pleistocene.
(10) The morphology of the nasal bones and their articulations with the adjoining frontal and maxillary bones have recently been reported in Nature and elsewhere to be diagnostic of hominoid taxa, and cladistic analysis based on these features has been used to assign two immature Plio-Pleistocene hominoids (AL 333-105 and Taung) to different lineages (Paranthropus and Homo, respectively).
(11) Pilbeam and Gould have discussed African Plio-Pleistocene hominid evolution in the context of allometry (size-dependent morphological change).
(12) The antiquity of the lesion is demonstrated by its appearance among late Pleistocene human remains.
(13) glabrata (Say, 1818) from upper Pleistocene (or Holocene) based on paleontologic and stratigraphic data and in agreement with shell morphology.
(14) The dwarfing of large mammals on islands occurred repeatedly in the Pleistocene.
(15) The coefficient of variation of ECV that characterizes a group composed of all Plio-Pleistocene gracile hominids does not support a single polytypic species interpretation of this assemblage.
(16) Extinctions occurred throughout the European Pleistocene, but until the late Pleistocene most losses were replaced by the evolution or immigration of new species, and most of those lost without replacement were small mammals.
(17) Fragmented mandibles of two Pleistocene lions (Panthera leo atrox) recovered from Yukon Territory possessed acquired pathological changes and congenital abnormalities, judging from the anatomy of contemporary and modern lions.
(18) Associated fore- and hindlimb parts of five individuals are known from the hominid Plio-Pleistocene fossil collections in Africa.
(19) The ancient Pleistocene call of the moon, of salt in the blood, and genetic encoding buried deep in the chromosomes back there beneath the layers of culture – and counterculture – are making successful businesswomen, professionals and even the mothers of grown children stop and reconsider.” The metaphor of the biological clock sounded less florid than the metaphors that followed, but it evinced the same determinism.
(20) The former model infers multiple regional archaic-modern connections and the ancient establishment of regional characteristics, whereas the latter model implies only an African archaic-all modern relationship, with recent (late Pleistocene) development of regionality.