(n.) A plant of the genus Hedera (H. helix), common in Europe. Its leaves are evergreen, dark, smooth, shining, and mostly five-pointed; the flowers yellowish and small; the berries black or yellow. The stem clings to walls and trees by rootlike fibers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Poison oak, ivy, and sumac dermatitis is a T-cell-mediated reaction against urushiol, the oil found in the leaf of the plants.
(2) The results indicated that the induction phase as well as the maintenance phase did not induce a statistically significant hyposensitivity to urushiol, and we were thus unable to decrease sensitivity to poison ivy and poison oak in humans using orally ingested PDC-HDC diacetate.
(3) Ivy bleeding time showed a significant prolongation, the median increasing from 240 to 270 seconds.
(4) Previous studies in young normal rats have shown that intracerebral administration of the proteinase inhibitor, leupeptin, caused a rapid accumulation of lipofuscin-like pigment in lysosomes of brain cells (Ivy et al., 1984a).
(5) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(6) Oxbridge and the Ivy League universities remain the educations of choice for the Indian elite, but the political class now reflects a much more Indian reality.
(7) Moreover, compound 9 exhibited tolerogenic properties to sensitization by poison ivy allergens, i.e.
(8) Yet for all the colourful cushions, plants, rustic ivy-lined facade and local artworks, it’s the nouveau prices that most appeal.
(9) The methods developed were applied to the analysis of the urushiol fractions obtained from different plant parts of poison ivy.
(10) After a two-hour show featuring performances from artists including Taylor Swift, Usher and Nicky Minaj, Beyoncé was joined onstage by her beaming husband Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy.
(11) He just wasn’t acting right, he wasn’t being himself and Javier noticed it,” Ivy said.
(12) The incorporation of radioactivity from l-[U-(14)C]tyrosine, dl-[beta-(14)C]tyrosine and dl-[U-(14)C]phenylalanine into bean shoots (Phaseolus vulgaris) and dl-[beta-(14)C]tyrosine and l-[Me-(14)C]methionine into ivy leaves (Hedera helix) was also investigated.
(13) There were no differences in side effects, postoperative blood loss, plasma activated partial thromboplastin time, or Ivy bleeding time between the groups.
(14) The left ventricular function was before evaluated with invasive method and then the IVI% was allowed in every patient.
(15) We are sitting in his office on Dartmouth college campus, an Ivy League private university in rural New Hampshire.
(16) Further evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis (Ivy et al.
(17) The induction of allergic contact dermatitis to urushiols from poison ivy and related plants is generally believed to involve an initial oxidation event by which a protein-reactive quinone is formed.
(18) Eruptions caused by poison ivy and related plants are almost always a form of allergic contact dermatitis.
(19) Two months later, I am woken up by a nurse called Stefan in the recovery room at IVI Valencia.
(20) Bleeding time (modified Ivy's test) and reported side effects did not differ between the two groups.
Rose
Definition:
(imp.) of Rise
() imp. of Rise.
(n.) A flower and shrub of any species of the genus Rosa, of which there are many species, mostly found in the morthern hemispere
(n.) A knot of ribbon formed like a rose; a rose knot; a rosette, esp. one worn on a shoe.
(n.) A rose window. See Rose window, below.
(n.) A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.
(n.) The erysipelas.
(n.) The card of the mariner's compass; also, a circular card with radiating lines, used in other instruments.
(n.) The color of a rose; rose-red; pink.
(n.) A diamond. See Rose diamond, below.
(v. t.) To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush.
(v. t.) To perfume, as with roses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(3) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(4) With glucose and protein as intraduodenal stimulus (no pancreatin added), the plasma amino acids rose significantly less (by approximately 50% of the control experiment) and the increment in insulin (but not C-peptide) concentrations was significantly reduced by loxiglumide.
(5) LH and FSH levels in the group which were given low dose progesterone only, rose consistently after BSO and these patterns were similar to those seen in the control group.
(6) However, a recrudescence in both psychotic and depressive symptoms developed as plasma desipramine levels rose 4 times higher than anticipated from the oral doses prescribed.
(7) The overall incidence in patients over 50 years of age was 8.5%; it was more than twice as high in women (11.5%) as in men (4.5%) and rose sharply with age.
(8) The volume of distribution is about 600 l. In almost every subject the plasma levels rose again after this distribution phase.
(9) Circulating acute phase protein concentrations rose in all subjects during a thirty hour period following injury but none of the subjects showed a detectable rise in circulating concentrations of TNF.
(10) However, coinciding with the height of inflammation and clinical signs at 12 dpi, the GFAP mRNA content dropped to approximately 50% of the level at 11 dpi but rose again at 13 dpi.
(11) In the water-loaded state, MAP rose significantly at the lowest rate of infusion in both pregnant and non-pregnant ewes.
(12) Blood pressure rose and heart rate fell in proportion to the dose of noradrenaline infused.
(13) In normovolemia, the hepatic arterial flow (HAF) increased as the systemic arterial pressure (SAP) rose up to 140 mmHg, and then decreased as SAP rose further.
(14) Testosterone was low until 68 weeks after which concentrations rose slowly to 80 weeks and increased rapidly to a plateau at 92 weeks.
(15) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(16) The percentages of bacteria phagocytized and intracellularly killed by macrophages rose to 60-80% and 85-95% respectively when the doubling time was longer, showing that S. mutans is particularly sensitive to nonspecific immune defence mechanisms when cultured under conditions similar to those of its natural ecosystem.
(17) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(18) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.
(19) The concentration of androstenedione and testosterone rose rapidly; reaching a peak after 10 minutes and returning to near baseline level by 30 minutes.
(20) Last week the labor bureau reported that the US added just 69,000 jobs in May as the unemployment rate rose to 8.2%, the first rise in nine months.