(n.) A tree unusually hard, strong, or heavy wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lowest readings Friday morning were in the Upper Peninsula, including zero degrees in Ironwood and 1 degree (-17C) in Iron Mountain.
Olea
Definition:
(n.) A genus of trees including the olive.
Example Sentences:
(1) We determined olive pollen-specific IgG4 levels in 100 patients, 39 of whom had been subjected to no immunotherapy (IT) for Olea (31 allergic and 8 nonallergic individuals) and 61 of whom had been administered IT as extracts, including Olea pollen (29 extracts in BUs, 24 allergenic extracts polymerized with glutaraldehyde:Allergoid and 8 extracts standardized in PNUs).
(2) In 58.6% of patients we found positive reaction to dermatophagoides Farinae, in 51.5% to house dust, in 47.6% to dermatophagoides Pteronyssinus, in 34.3% to Gramineae, in 28.9% to parietaria and in 14.8% to olea.
(3) Candida olea 148 secreted a single acid protease when cultured at acidic pH.
(4) Allergens employed were Gramineae, Parietaria, Olea, dermatophagoides Farinae, dermatophagoides Pteronyssinus, house dust, cat and dog skin scales.
(5) We were able to show that the toxicity of the most active isolate is likely to be specific for D. oleae.
(6) In a clinical investigation, 103 Michigan residents with symptoms suggestive of allergic rhinitis or asthma were skin tested with olive (Olea europaea) pollen extract.
(7) Olea europaea, the olive tree with cultivation widespread in the whole Mediterranean basin, is responsible for frequently severe pollinosis, particularly in some regions of the southern Italy.
(8) We studied the importance of the smooth vascular muscle endothelium in the vasodilator action of the decoction of olive (Olea europaea) leaf.
(9) In an attempt to evaluate the degree of allergic sensitization to Olea pollen and the concordance of various tests, we studied 24 asthmatic patients with skin positivity to only this pollen using commercially available allergen extracts and reagents.
(10) In our pollinosis patients we observed frequency of sensitization of 13.05% to Olea pollen.
(11) Three natural populations of Dacus oleae have been sampled for six electrophoretically detected polymorphic genes.
(12) It was followed by Gramineae (32.12%), Olea (23.11%), and Artemisia vulgaris (17.08%).
(13) The results obtained with the sera of patients allergic to Lolium perenne grass pollen, the tree pollens of Betula alba and Olea europea, the epithelia of cat and dog, the mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, or to the foodstuffs cow's milk, chicken eggwhite or peanut were compared with the analytical data from the ratio allergosorbent test (RAST).
(14) These results may be interpreted considering the low degree of purification of Olea pollen extracts available commercially.
(15) We have also applied the method to temporal variation within a population for data on Dacus oleae and have found no significant evidence of selection.
(17) The present study constitutes the first attempt to construct a photographic map of the polytene chromosomes of Dacus oleae, a pest of the olive tree that causes serious financial damage in all olive oil producing countries.
(18) The egg of the olive fly, Dacus oleae (Diptera, Tephritidae), is laid inside olives and the larva eventually destroys the fruit.
(19) Dacus oleae has shown that both hydrophilic (dimethoate, formathion, phosphamidon) and lypophilic (fenthion, medathion, prolate) substances tested leave more or less appreciable residues in the oil, either in a short time or in more than one month from the treatment.
(20) In the Oleaceae family, the most allergenic pollen is produced by Olea europaea, the olive tree, which in the Mediterranean area has a pollination period lasting from May to the end of June and sometimes causes severe symptoms of pollinosis.