(n.) An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
(n.) A plant of the genus Heliotropium; -- called also turnsole and girasole. H. Peruvianum is the commonly cultivated species with fragrant flowers.
(n.) An instrument for making signals to an observer at a distance, by means of the sun's rays thrown from a mirror.
(n.) See Bloodstone (a).
Example Sentences:
(1) On admission, there were diffuse edema of upper eyelids with heliotrope rash.
(2) By the end of the second year 12% (14 of 120) of the sheep had died; after 4 years the loss attributable to heliotrope was between 18% and 35%.
(3) Juvenile dermatomyositis is a chronic disease of childhood that is manifested by severe symmetrical progressive muscle weakness, a characteristic heliotrope colored skin rash which involves the face, and by elevated serum enzymes related to muscle damage.
(4) Feeding heliotrope alone induced the histological changes of pyrrolizidine alkaloid toxicity in the liver, but this was not associated with an excessive accumulation of copper or the development of clinical illness.
(5) The relatively low mortality from primary heliotrope poisoning and the low concentration of copper in the liver of sheep grazing the plant are discussed in relation to the contrasting situation that prevails in the Riverina area of New South Wales.
(6) A 57-year-old man developed polyarthralgia, muscle weakness, heliotrope rash and Gottron's sign.
(7) The 10 sheep fed heliotrope alone did not show signs of clinical illness but one died and was found to have severe liver damage.
(8) The effects of interrupting the enterohepatic circulation (EHC) of bile salts for seven hours and of feeding copper and heliotrope alone and combined for 13 weeks, on bile flow and excretion of copper, zinc, iron and alpha-mannosidase were studied in sheep.
(9) Two middle-aged women showed typical erythematous heliotrope eruption and Gottron's sign without any symptom of myositis.
(10) This paper contributes one case of paraneoplastic dermatomyositis associated to infiltrant vesical tumour, presenting erythematous damage in face, nape of the neck and upper thorax, as well as periorbital heliotrope erythema and fingernails base and sides telangiectasia, all of which are typical signs of dermatomyositis.
(11) In a field experiment in the Mallee district of Victoria, Merlno xBorder Leicester ewes and wethers grazed Heliotropium europaeum (heliotrope) over periods of 3 to 4 months in 4 successive years.
(12) Biliary concentration of copper correlated with alpha-mannosidase's activity in control sheep and those given copper or heliotrope, supporting the hypothesis that lysosomes are involved in biliary secretion of copper in sheep.
(13) Wodehouse's correspondence is often clad in the epistolary equivalent of Bertie's heliotrope pyjamas, carefully buttoned up to disguise true feeling.
(14) The importance of local environmental factors in the management of heliotrope grazing by sheep is emphasised, particularly in relation to the number of seasons in which the plant may be a major component of the diet.
(15) The concentrations of copper in the livers of control and heliotrope-treated sheep, were comparable.
(16) Physical examination showed Gottron's papules on her fingers and a faint heliotrope rash.
(17) In one experiment copper and heliotrope were given concurrently, in a second experiment heliotrope was fed for 12 weeks and copper administration commenced 8 weeks later.
(18) Copper output was lower when heliotrope was fed alone.
(20) Paramount to the diagnosis are cutaneous dermatoses that include a heliotrope rash and Gottron's papules.
Sunlight
Definition:
(n.) The light of the sun.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lighting regimen was 14 h light: 10 h dark, supplied by natural diffused sunlight and incandescent bulbs.
(2) The results suggest that chronic sunlight exposure may be associated with an impediment to normal maturation of human dermal collagen resulting in tenuous amount of HHL.
(3) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(4) Physicians need to prescribe the lowest possible dose of hormones in these women and counsel them to shield their face from sunlight.
(5) The result, you would have to say, is pretty much exactly that: bordered on one side by the library and town hall, and on the other by the tourist office, the 600 sq ms of Rjukan's market square, to be comprehensively remodelled next year in celebration, now bathes in a focused beam of bright sunlight fully 80-90% as intense as the original.
(6) Certain ultraviolet wavelengths (UVB, 290-320 nm) are thought to be responsible for most of the immediate and long-term pathological consequences of excessive exposure to sunlight.
(7) No association was observed between history of sunlight exposure and senile cataract.
(8) Admittedly, minutes earlier Steven Fletcher’s header from a Lens cross had flown only marginally off target but it represented a rare shaft of sunlight.
(9) On the inner surface of what would be rotating habitats, strips of land would alternate with windows to let in sunlight.
(10) People living in the Far East are exposed to bright sunlight all year round so photoageing of exposed skin is inevitable.
(11) I postulate that people near the equator are exposed to more sunlight and that the ultraviolet light from the sunlight aids in the induction of suppressor cells specific for melanocyte associated antigens.
(12) Data for the incidence of basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) of the skin, registered for six regions of Norway during 10 years (1976-1985), were used to evaluate the biological amplification factor Ab for induction of these cancers by sunlight.
(13) In an overpopulated future Los Angeles that never sees the sunlight, Deckard is tasked with taking out a gang of replicants (android outlaws) who have escaped to Earth from an off-world colony.
(14) Our field tests had supported the utility of this dosimeter as a reproducible and reliable sunlight dosimeter.
(15) The possibility of insufficient exposure to sunlight could not be determined.
(16) Other triggers included hunger and prolonged exposure to excessive heat or sunlight.
(17) The lips are composed of striated muscle and connective tissue and are anatomically positioned to be maximally exposed to sunlight, environment, food, and tobacco.
(18) Tian Tian, the female, whose name means sweetie, and Yang Guang, meaning sunlight, travelled from China on board a Boeing 777F flight dubbed the FedEx Panda Express, with a vet and two animal handlers.
(19) The disorder first set on after an episode of intensive exposure to sunlight and persisted for 6 years.
(20) When exposed to sunlight creatine kinase was unstable in all the investigated control and patient sera.