(n.) The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Khao Soi Khun Yai, Sri Poom Road, next to Wat Kuan Kama, Old City, North Moat; meal for two £1.60-£3 Warorot evening market Facebook Twitter Pinterest You could pick other food markets (Sompet, Thanin, Chiang Mai Gate, Chang Phuak Gate) and be as deliriously sated, but the night-time street food at Warorot remains special to me.
(2) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.34pm BST 58th over: England 124-6 (Ali 33, Prior 0) "From the middle of the bat to the edge is not a great distance", says Holding, who can make the Yellow Pages sound the Kama Sutra, only with one-liners.
(3) Instead, what we get is Cosmopolitan's recent Condom Kama Sutra, which attempts to "make condoms sexy" by suggesting a series of "moves" a woman could do, one of which involves applying one with your tits.
(4) 504 nests of 11 species of birds were examined in the Volga-Kama state reserve.
(5) Gamasid mites from voles and their nests were studied in the Volga-Kama state reserve.
(6) Information analysis was used to assess the influence of certain anthropogenic factors on the situation in water reservoirs of the Daugava, Dnieper, Don, Volga, Kama, Ob, Yenisei, Amu Darya and Zeya river basins with respect to diphyllobothriasis.
(7) He evidently knows little of Indian culture; hasn't he read the Kama Sutra or seen the sculptures at the Ellora and Ajanta caves?
(8) Both the ascitic preparations of the antibodies and the fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated reagents such as MAK-FITC, KAMA-FITC and OKA-FITC were characterized by high specificity and activity.
(9) Because of the wide range of interspecies reactions, KAMA-51 monoclonal antibody may be used for group detection of the tick-borne encephalitis complex viruses.
(10) The level of cat and fish invasion in the upper Kama was higher than on the Vyatka River, which might be accounted for by ethnic peculiarities of the population on the Kama River.
(11) Quite possibly this may be connected with the climatic-geographical and bio-geochemical traits of the Zarafshanskaya valley, which differs to a great extent from these indices of the territory between the Vyatka and Kama rivers where syringomyelia is frequently encountered.
(12) 524 nests of 12 species of birds were examined in the Volga-Kama state reserve.
(13) The material analysed is referred to 5 goiter endemic microfoci of one of the landscape-geographical zone of the Kama region with a relative iodine deficiency in the environment, caused by disbalance between iodine and other trace elements.
(14) KAMA-51 monoclonal antibodies to tick-borne encephalitis virus are produced by hybridoma obtained by fusion of splenocytes of mice immunized with this virus with myeloma X-653 cells.
(15) In 1951 to 1973 there were recorded cases of myiasis in four species of Amphibia (Pelobates fuscus, Bufo bufo, B. viridis, Rana arvalis) from the Volga-Kama state reserve (the Tatar ASSR).
(16) Many European writers have been fascinated by Sufism - Richard Burton, the translator of the Kama Sutra, was initiated as a dervish, and Doris Lessing and Ted Hughes shared his interest ('the Sufis are the most sensible collection of people on the planet', Hughes once said).
(17) Natasha Rattu, Kama Nirvana’s head of learning who trains police forces across England and Wales on how to spot the signs of forced marriage, said not all forces were well-equipped to tackle the problem.
(18) On top of that, if the user's home is wired up correctly, the app can control other the lights and music, as well as present a virtual Kama Sutra to anyone who needs inspiration.
(19) As Donna returned to sing Love To Love You, the couples assumed a variety of Kama Sutra positions.
(20) Literary data show that the situation with opisthorchiasis on the Kama River is mainly studied in Komi-Permiak Autonomous Okrug and is unclear in the upper Kama, in Kirovsk Province.
Kava
Definition:
(n.) A species of Macropiper (M. methysticum), the long pepper, from the root of which an intoxicating beverage is made by the Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) Kava resin also decreased apomorphine-induced hyperreactivity and partially reversed tetrabenazine-induced ptosis.
(2) Kava resin decreased spontaneous motility and caused a loss of muscle control.
(3) All seven major, and several minor, kava lactones were identified in human urine.
(4) As the first of a series of studies on the neuropharmacological interactions of kava with CNS receptors we tested purified pyrones and kava resin for activity on GABA and benzodiazepine binding sites in rat and mouse brain membranes.
(5) These observations indicate that further studies of the clinical effects and the human metabolism of high dosage kava are needed.
(6) A scaly rash suggestive of ichthyosis and eye irritation were present in some heavy kava drinkers.
(7) The same concerns apply to taking kava kava with alcohol, barbiturates, anti-epileptic drugs or muscle relaxants, and there are also signs that extracts may increase muscular weakness and twitching in people with Parkinson's disease.
(8) The effects of the kava extract and its constituents were compared with those produced by the typical anticonvulsant, memantine.
(9) In addition, kava-lactones bind to GABA-receptors in the brain - docking sites for the natural chemical GABA, responsible for feelings of wellbeing and euphoria.
(10) Bornyl cinnamate has been identified as a constituent of kava resin and of the steam distillate of Piper methysticum.
(11) If echinacea is the Lemsip of the herbal pharmacopia and St John's Wort the Prozac, kava kava is the valium.
(12) On the basis of these findings, there is a strong rationale for urgent social action to improve health in Aboriginal communities and, in particular, to reduce the consumption of kava and to improve the nutritional status of kava users.
(13) In this German study, symptoms were greatly reduced in those taking kava kava compared with the placebo group.
(14) Using the tail immersion test the time course of action of the extracts of the four effective pyrones of kava were studied.
(15) The compounds responsible for the herb's calming yet stimulating qualities are kava-lactones - also known as kava-pyrones - which comprise up to 70% of most commercially available extracts.
(16) Similar lack of activity was observed in in vivo binding studies; injection of kava resin failed to influence the CNS binding of the benzodiazepine-receptor ligand [3H]Ro15-1788 injected into mice prior to sacrifice.
(17) The results showed that kava kava could dangerously increase the effects of anaesthesia.
(18) The kava bowl, a traditional feature of Pacific Island societies, has been adopted and adapted by a number of Aboriginal (Yolngu) communities of northern Australia, where it was introduced in the hope that it would challenge alcohol.
(19) Neither D,L-kavain nor the kava extract changed the threshold of the EEG arousal reaction.
(20) The effect of kava extract was slight compared to that of the standard antipsychotic drugs chlorpromazine and haloperidol in our procedure.