(n.) That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.
(a.) Entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part.
Example Sentences:
(1) The reduction is believed due to the currently used pre-prepared disposable or reusable capsules containing the amalgam versus formerly mixing the ingredients manually.
(2) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
(3) A method of TLC densitometry was developed to determine the active ingredients (Wuweizisu A, B, C; Wuweizichun A, B; Wuweizi ester and schisanhenol) in Schisandra kernels.
(4) Experiments were conducted with young chicks to investigate the effect of various feed ingredients on manganese (Mn) bioavailability.
(5) A modified rapid presumptive test to detect salmonellae in food and food ingredients was described by Hoben et al.
(6) The microbiological quality of 4 feed ingredients and 29 hospital-prepared non-sterile enteral feeds were determined.
(7) Because responses of the five parasitoids to the different insecticides varied considerably, general conclusions about parasitoid susceptibility to active ingredients, insecticide class, or method of application were not possible.
(8) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
(9) They received an oral prophylaxis and were assigned to the use of either the dentifrice containing soluble pyrophosphate and the copolymer, or to the dentifrice containing soluble pyrophosphate but without the copolymer, or to a placebo dentifrice that did not contain an anticalculus ingredient.
(10) Alcohol use appeared to be a significant ingredient in the production of the assaultive behavior in the majority of the cases.
(11) This is not true for irritant dermatitis, or for possible (skin) irritant substances; moreover, cosmetics commonly do not contain acutely harmful ingredients.
(12) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
(13) A patient, empathetic, and available physician is one of the most important ingredients in the treatment regimen.
(14) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
(15) A study of the dietary ingredients indicated that there was an interaction between the mineral and nonmineral components which modulated the severity of the disease.
(16) This blank effect owes its regressive nature to the consumption of the active reagent ingredient by the protein reactive species, variably and sometimes, with certain reactants, nonlinearly in the presence of increasing protein concentrations.
(17) We report contact dermatitis due to Madecassol and a control study with its individual ingredients.
(18) He gave a recipe for a bomb he used to make as a kid, the ingredients of which could be smuggled in.
(19) Whilst we have yet to make a commercial discovery we remain encouraged that all of the ingredients for success are in evidence," Thomson said.
(20) An untreated group, a water group and a formulation ingredient group, at the concentration present in the 1.2% maneb group, ensured control in the study.
Staple
Definition:
(n.) A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.
(n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
(n.) The principal commodity of traffic in a market; a principal commodity or production of a country or district; as, wheat, maize, and cotton are great staples of the United States.
(n.) The principal constituent in anything; chief item.
(n.) Unmanufactured material; raw material.
(n.) The fiber of wool, cotton, flax, or the like; as, a coarse staple; a fine staple; a long or short staple.
(n.) A loop of iron, or a bar or wire, bent and formed with two points to be driven into wood, to hold a hook, pin, or the like.
(n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels.
(n.) A small pit.
(n.) A district granted to an abbey.
(a.) Pertaining to, or being market of staple for, commodities; as, a staple town.
(a.) Established in commerce; occupying the markets; settled; as, a staple trade.
(a.) Fit to be sold; marketable.
(a.) Regularly produced or manufactured in large quantities; belonging to wholesale traffic; principal; chief.
(v. t.) To sort according to its staple; as, to staple cotton.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten patients have undergone abdominal proctocolectomy with the formation of an ileal reservoir anastomosed onto the anal canal using a stapling device.
(2) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
(3) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(4) I’d expect further activity later in the year to centre on fresh, own label and even staples,” he said.
(5) We suggest that emergency staple transection is an effective salvage treatment for this high-risk group.
(6) Modern stapling began with Hültl in 1908 and Petz in 1924.
(7) The polyvalent and adaptable material which we have developed (sliding splint-staple) and which we also use in thoracic traumatology (thoracic flaps), has allowed us to perform audacious corrections for deformities or wide resections for tumours since 1980.
(8) There was a higher incidence of inflammation, discomfort on removal and spreading of the healing scar associated with staples.
(9) A technique for facilitating stapled anastomosis in end to end esophagojejunostomy is described.
(10) The trocar mounted on the main stem of the circular stapler allows the stem of the main device to be brought out through the distal staple line.
(11) The extraperitoneal site of the anastomosis after rectal anterior resection with stapled anastomosis and surgery for cancer showed a statistically significant predisposition to anastomotic dehiscence.
(12) Where the standard staple remover is not immediately available, an artery forceps, correctly applied, is just as quick.
(13) Postoperatively, the anastomosis performed by a stapling instrument that was larger and more elastic than the one sutured by hand.
(14) In 73 patients anastomosis was performed by double stapling; in 37 cases the EEA stapler was used.
(15) We report our 7-yr experience with staple transection of the esophagus in this patient group.
(16) We recommend the use of the stapling device in excision of Zenker's diverticulum.
(17) Patients were randomized to have their skin closed with either continuous subcuticular non-absorbable polypropylene 'prolene' suture (33 patients) or metal skin staples (Autosuture 'Premium' or Davis and Geck 'Oppose'; 33 patients).
(18) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(19) The warming is expected to continue without undue problems for 30 years but beyond 2050 the effects could be dramatic with staple crops hit.
(20) Macroscopic examination showed no major inflammatory adhesions around the staples.