(n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.
(n.) The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
(2) To assess the hypoglycemic activity mechanism of some plants used empirically by the Mexican population as antidiabetics, traditional preparations of Cucurbita ficifolia, Guaiacum coulteri, Lepechinia caulescens, and Psacalium peltatum, water, tolbutamide, and Regular Insulin were administered to three groups of rabbits each: 1.
(3) Three tests for the presence of occult blood in the stools of children were examined; the orthotolidine test, the guaiacum resin test, and a modified reduced phenolphthalain test.
(4) The 1% orthotolidine test and the guaiacum resin test produced a high number of false positive results in healthy children eating a meat-containing diet.
(5) He referred largely to new diseases and medicines related to the Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries of his time, namely syphilis and drugs as guaiacum and Radix sinarum among others.
(6) The strongest effect was yielded by Guaiacum coulteri, followed by Marrubium vulgare, Crataegus pubescens, Cynodon dactylon, Calea zacatechichi, Buddleia americana, Bauhinia divaricata and Coix lachryma.
Resin
Definition:
(n.) Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin (see Rosin).
Example Sentences:
(1) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
(2) The teeth were embedded in phenolic rings with acrylic resin.
(3) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
(4) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
(5) We retrospectively studied the incidence and course of epoxy resin contact dermatitis in 2265 patients in whom contact dermatitis was confirmed by patch testing.
(6) Bio-Rex 70, a carboxylic acid cation exchanger, is studied as a biological ion-exchanger resin model for cellular cytoplasm.
(7) A reference glass, five ceramic materials, and one resin-based composite were tested.
(8) The bond strength of the resins did not change with the time spent immersed in water up to 6 months, but decreased with any further increase in time.
(9) Urine from patients receiving desipramine was collected and passed through a column of XAD-2 resin.
(10) Primary sternal closure was difficult and delayed closure was performed using splint with a resin plate.
(11) The tractional resistance carried out on the laminate fronts where a treatment of only silane and resin of connection was applied, was greater where the treatment of silane was employed.
(12) A free T4 index (FTI) can be calculated from the values for T4 and TBG index, because the TBG index is reciprocally related to the serum uptake test (T3-resin).
(13) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(14) The decreases were substantially greater than those achieved with either resin or resin plus niacin.
(15) [Tyr22] glucagon and [desHis1, Tyr22] glucagon were synthesized by an improved solid phase procedure on a Pam-resin.
(16) By embedding the biopsy in the acrylic resin LR White, unsupported sections of which are stable in the electron beam, light and electron microscopy and immunocytochemistry become feasible on sections from the same block.
(17) A technique is described which the glass coverslip of a culture, flat embedded in epoxy resins can be removed easily using hydrofluoric acid.
(18) In conclusion, no porosities are found on the surface of the various resins.
(19) It is also susceptible to thermal inactivation at 37 degrees , possibly through changes in the affinity of triiodothyronine to the nuclear binding protein(s), since the bound triiodothyronine becomes more readily dialyzable, is absorbed by an anion exchange resin, but retains its characteristic mobility on electrophoresis.
(20) A clinical study was carried out to determine the influence of finishing on the wear rate of a posterior composite resin.