(n.) An oil used for illuminating purposes, formerly obtained from the distillation of mineral wax, bituminous shale, etc., and hence called also coal oil. It is now produced in immense quantities, chiefly by the distillation and purification of petroleum. It consists chiefly of several hydrocarbons of the methane series.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results strongly suggest that secondary bacterial infection following kerosene-induced pneumonitis is rare.
(2) Results indicate that the primate brain is resistent to the direct toxic effects of kerosene.
(3) The most important causes of acute poisoning were kerosene (59%) and traditional medicines (15.8%).
(4) Baboons were utilized to investigate the clinicopathologic effects of kerosene, given via various routes, on the primate brain.
(5) Assimilation of kerosene and hexadecane was optimal at pH 2 and was stimulated by yeast extract.
(6) Guinea pigs were exposed to kerosene aerosol and compared to controls exposed to atmospheric air.
(7) Those using kerosene suffered more than those using gas (22.2% as compared to 9.2%) Lung functions (FVC, FEVI) were lowest in Parel for males and in Maravali for females.
(8) On the other hand, the bronchoconstrictive effect of kerosene in guinea pigs and rabbits was not modified by the previous treatment with mepyramine or triamcinolone respectively.
(9) Kerosene exposure induced cytologic and biochemical changes in the pulmonary washings of guinea pigs.
(10) The biochemical mechanisms involved in the bronchoconstriction and airway hyperresponsiveness induced by the acute inhalation of aerosol of kerosene in experimental animals and the inflammatory changes induced by subchronic inhalation of the aerosol or smoke of kerosene were investigated.
(11) Kerosene pressure stove accidents occurred commonly in the age group 16-35 years and were rare in other age groups.
(12) Must read If I'm on fire in a well full of kerosene, then the emergency ladder release instructions are a "must read".
(13) Investigations showed that the explosions occurred due to petrol contamination of the kerosene before delivery to the domestic users.
(14) Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian For the one in five of the world's population who live off the electricity grid, Eliasson hopes that it will change lives, allowing people to read, work and interact at a fraction of the cost, over time, of using kerosene lamps.
(15) The carboxyhaemoglobin concentrations were significantly higher in the women using the three types of fuel (mean (SEM) concentration 7.49% [corrected] (0.67%) for kerosene, 15.74% (0.83%) for biomass fuel, and 17.16% (0.62%) for liquified petroleum gas, compared with 3.52% (0.33%) in the control subjects.
(16) Repeated exposure to kerosene produced histologic changes in the foot pad skin and popliteal lymph nodes of mice and systemic toxic manifestations such as variation in hematologic profile, significant decreases in relative weight of thymus, spleen and abdominal lymph nodes and altered histology.
(17) Young healthy albino male mice were subjected to repeated exposure to kerosene by wrapping each of their hind feet with a muslin cloth (1 x 10 cm) wetted with kerosene (0.1 ml).
(18) It would still cost more than kerosene to buy, but that would be balanced by the expected financial value of the carbon saving it delivers.
(19) There’s a lot of them.” Other people on the waiting list for new homes – wooden bungalows or trailers – are what she calls “burn downs”, whose homes were destroyed by fire from candles, kerosene heaters or pot belly stoves.
(20) Seven components of gasoline (isopentane, n-pentane, 2-methylpentane, benzene, 2-methylhexane, 3-methylhexane and toluene) and five of kerosene (xylene, C9H20, mesitylene, pseudocumene and C11H24) were chosen as indicators with a coefficient of variation of 5-24%.
Paraffin
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Paraffine
Example Sentences:
(1) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(2) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(3) Using an antibody to the nerve growth factor receptor (NGFR), we examined dendritic reticulum cells (DRCs) immunohistochemically in 62 formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded lymph nodes from patients with reactive follicular hyperplasia or with various types of lymphoma.
(4) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
(5) Using a silver staining technique (AgNOR technique), we have investigated the nucleolar organizer-associated proteins (NORs) in formalin-fixed paraffin embedded conjunctival specimens of 15 intraepithelial squamous carcinomas, 10 hyperplastic-dysplastic samples and 10 control epithelial fragments; the mean number of intranuclear black dots was determined for each case.
(6) This study shows that the sensitivity and specificity of in situ hybridisation for the detection of EBV genomes in AIDS related lymphomas approaches that of Southern blotting, even when using routinely processed archival, paraffin wax embedded material.
(7) Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue was processed by the avidin-biotin complex method.
(8) This is the first report of anti-CD34 staining of acute leukemia in paraffin-embedded sections.
(9) The routine study of bone marrow trephine biopsies involves fixation, decalcification, paraffin-embedment, sectioning and staining.
(10) Paraffin sections (8 microns) containing the medial habenular nucleus were stained with cresyl violet and both left and right medial habenular nuclei were measured by planimetry.
(11) Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples of canine amelanotic melanomas and normal canine tissues were studied immunohistochemically for the presence of S100 protein.
(12) Histological sections of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue comprising 60 surgical specimens of human lung carcinoma were Feulgen stained.
(13) Urothelial cells were pepsin-extracted from paraffin-embedded specimens taken from human nontumorous bladder mucosa, dysplasia, and carcinoma in situ.
(14) Pieces of spleen of both groups were fixed in formalin and embedded in paraffin.
(15) Both methods, which are applicable to paraffin sections, were developed and validated in breast carcinomas with known ER content.
(16) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
(17) Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) can utilize paraffin wax as the sole carbon source in basal media.
(18) Following biotinylation, it was used to detect mannose-specific binding sites in fixed cells of seven human leukemia or lymphoma lines and in fixed, paraffin-embedded sections of human breast cancer.
(19) The parotid saliva of the caries-rampant group showed a significantly higher level of anodemigrating proteins, predominantly isoamylases, and a significantly lower level of cathode-migrating proteins than that of the caries-resistant group in both paraffin-stimulated and sour lemon-stimulated salivary flows.
(20) Ten tissue sections from 10 examples of Bowen's disease were excised from paraffin blocks, rehydrated, and incubated in 90% formic acid at 45 degrees C for 18 h. The epidermis was gently removed with the aid of a dissecting microscope, and the remaining dermis with attached basal lamina was processed for scanning electron microscopy.