(n.) A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.
Example Sentences:
(1) India is presently facing the problem of increased trafficking in drugs; heroin and hashish are supplied to the west through the subcontinent.
(2) No differences in incidence of abnormal EEG records were found between long-term heavy hashish users and controls.
(3) The highest numbers of other drug admissions were 98,549 for heroin,84,707 for cocaine, and 63,740 for marijuana!hashish.
(4) Like many in the town who voted FN, he complains about the lack of opportunities, the "little incivilities" he has encountered in the town centre – people throwing rubbish and youths smoking hashish.
(5) Twenty-three (23) of 23 (100 percent) patients who smoked hashish plus cigarettes had one or more histopathologic abnormalities of basal cell hyperplasia, atypical cells, or squamous cell metaplasia.
(6) It compares alcohol drinking frequencies (alcohol drunk on a single occasion) and amounts of these four youth populations, as well as cigarette smoking, and hashish use.
(7) In a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded guilty to murder by an inherently dangerous act, possessing a finger bone from his victim, and smoking hashish.
(8) The killings came to light in May after the army began investigating a brutal assault on a soldier who told superiors that members of his unit were smoking hashish.
(9) Hashish was the most frequently used drug, having been used by 54% of the students who have used narcotics.
(10) Marihuana and hashish were by far the most commonly used drugs (9.6%), the use of these drugs being much less common than at other European universities.
(11) 3) Heroin is the most widely used product (80.5%), often in combination with other drugs like hashish or cocaine.
(12) Subject expectancy on cannabis effects was assessed in a balanced-placebo study in experienced consumers who smoked cigarettes containing hashish (200 mg hashish with 11.5% THC per 1 g tobacco cigarette) (n = 24) or placebo (n = 24).
(13) Hashish smoke can maintain drug responding among THC-trained rats.
(14) Adult male rats were exposed to Hashish smoke for 15 min.
(15) Similarly only few students are narcotic addicts, most frequently occasional hashish smoking or drug taking were reported.
(16) Liquid hashish, in contrast, entered Canada primarily by air, and only 9 per cent by land and 1 per cent by sea.
(17) Watch here Fiona Apple was subject to actions she believes were "inappropriate" and "probably illegal" after being arrested for possession of hashish and marijuana in the Texas border town of Sierra Blanca.
(18) He was a member, along with other influential Parisian authors Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac , of Club des Hachichins (Hashish-Eaters’ Club), which met regularly between 1844 and 1849.
(19) Components in extracts of marihuana and hashish have been identified by a chromatographic technique in which centrifugal force is used to accelerate the migration of samples through columns of densely packed microparticulate gel.
(20) A hashish extract containing 38.6-39.4% delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta 9-THC), 11.6-12.0% cannabinol and 47.7-48.5% cannabidiol was administered orally in all experiments.
Mince
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
(v. t.) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of.
(v. t.) To affect; to make a parade of.
(v. i.) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
(v. i.) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
(n.) A short, precise step; an affected manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) Other Christmas favourites, including stollen, organic mince pies and Schweppes tonic will also be included among 100 seasonal products on the list of 1,000 items which shoppers can choose from over the next few months.
(3) The heterotransplantation of minced human fetal pituitaries into adult thymus-aplastic nude mice is described.
(4) Morphine addition to the PGE1-stimulated minces did not prevent or reverse stimulation of [3H]cAMP accumulation in any of the three experimental groups.
(5) Minced and triturated fragments from the spinal cord of normal rat fetuses (15-18 days gestation) labeled with the fluorescent dye fast blue (FB) were successfully transplanted into juvenile myelin-deficient rat spinal cord under direct observation.
(6) CO2 production from and uptake of alpha-glyceryl mono (palmitate-1-14C) were studied in an in vitro system using minced rat lung.
(7) The zonae pellucidae were isolated from ovarian tissue following described mincing techniques.
(8) Saturable binding of 125I-hCG to testicular homogenates was demonstrated, and physiologic concentrations of hCG were able to stimulate testosterone formation in testicular minces without the addition of exogenous precursors.
(9) A procedure for ethylenediaminetetraacetate extraction of minced Wilm's tumor was assessed as a method for isolating Wilm's tumor antigens.
(10) Minced tissues taken from such animals and infected with NDV in vitro produced similar relative amounts of IFN.
(11) Punch biopsy specimens of skin, obtained from the scalp and back of adult men, were minced and incubated with [3H]testosterone.
(12) Minced von Ebner's glands of rat tongue were incubated in vitro with histamine and histamine receptor antagonists.
(13) In adult guinea-pigs, a portion of the wall of the vas deferens was removed, minced and replaced.
(14) PAGE revealed that the pattern of radioactive proteins in the luminal fluid was markedly different from the well-characterized pattern of secretory proteins obtained by in vitro incubation of epididymal minces with labeled methionine.
(15) The confluent cells were then cultured together with minced rat tail tendon collagen in alpha-MEM lacking proline, lysine, glycine and fetal calf serum for up to 7 days, after which they were processed for electron microscopy.
(16) Each collaborator first examined 2 practice blocks containing 20% mince, and then examined 6 blind duplicate samples of 5 lb cod blocks from each of 3 test lots containing, respectively, 26.25, 18.75, and 12.5% mince.
(17) Lula responded by insisting that his government would not stray from its quest to protect the Amazon and appointed another high-profile environmentalist, Green party founder Carlos Minc, as his new minister.
(18) Minced neonatal pancreatic tissue from 3-6 canine littermates was placed in the peritoneal cavity of five alloxan diabetic dogs without separation of endocrine and exocrine tissue.
(19) The tumor specimens were minced into fragments approximately 1 mm in diameter and cultured in plastic culture flasks in RPMI 1640 medium supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated fetal calf serum (FCS) and 50% patients serum.
(20) The authors conclude that minced tissue and omental pouch technique are preferable for autologous splenic implantation.