(1) Daily subcutaneous injection of L-dopa for 4 weeks into 2-year-old low egg production hens resulted in a lightening of feather color to snow white and increased oviduct and ovary weights and the development of well developed follicles.
(2) I ask if he ever wishes the critics would lighten up around him.
(3) This unexpected non-linear trend may reflect a progressive tendency toward 'lightening' of sleep with increasing age.
(4) Clinical trials on 28 patients with port-wine stains of the face and neck using this laser demonstrated a 75% response rate with greater than 50% lightening of the lesions.
(5) Their carefully judged mischief lightened the whole mixture like stiffly beaten egg-whites.
(6) But it's also undeniable that Indians who grew up in the 80s and 90s have been in many ways morally and imaginatively conservative: they are the context, for instance, in which wish-fulfilling skin lighteners like Fair & Lovely have flourished.
(7) As previously shown with colchicine, preincubation of frog skin with vinblastine, vincristine, or colcemid produced an increase in darkening induced by MSH, as compared to control skins, and a dosage-dependent inhibition of subsequent lightening.
(8) Skin-lightening creams are widely used in Taiwan, but their content is poorly controlled.
(9) Patients aged between 3 months and 6 years (44 patients) had a better response after the first treatment (55% lightening) than did patients aged between 7 and 14 years (29 patients with a 48% lightening; p = 0.027).
(10) By sharing the load, we lighten the load – and together we can chip away at the debt and deficits that are currently costing Australians $1bn every single month in interest, in dead money,” Abbott said in a YouTube video released on Monday.
(11) This difference in density is not related to increased sensitivity to ionizing radiation but the degree of post-irradiation change in density (lightening) is proportional to the initial density, i.e.
(12) Following a complete repair, the anesthesia of the mothers was allowed to lighten.
(13) Forty-one over-the-counter skin lightening creams were analysed for hydroquinone content, and the accuracy of tables of contents supplied with these products was assessed.
(14) Advocates of open adoption believe that it lightens and in some cases alleviates the grieving process after relinquishment.
(15) In his speech, Hunt also called for the regulatory burden to be lightened for broadcasters to allow them to be more flexible and said Ofcom would be slimmed down under a Tory government.
(16) The court said his sentence was lightened because he was an accessory to the murder, not the instigator, and because he had confessed and shown remorse.
(17) Over a couple of pints, we cover all the big stuff: Victoria Beckham, rivers of blood, what it'll be like being deputy PM to Boris ("Boris needs me; he needs lightening up"), and the attempt to ban menthol cigarettes .
(18) This article describes a simple way to circumvent major internal alteration to the Blue Ray copier to permit an easy and effective lightening process.
(19) A properly functioning general-practitioner hospital with good facilities including visiting consultants can greatly lighten the work load of the district general hospital.
(20) Substantial lightening or total clearing occurred in 18 (78%) of 23 amateur tattoos and 3 (23%) of 13 professional tattoos in which the protocol was completed.
Whitening
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whiten
(n.) The act or process of making or becoming white.
(n.) That which is used to render white; whiting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The full chemical names of the fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs) investigated in this study are listed below.
(2) These results would suggest that speech intelligibility is reduced by whitening and peak clipping when more than one talker is present.
(3) In a letter to the Glasgow Herald , Kearney said: "In much the same way as America's black citizens in an earlier era were urged to straighten their hair and whiten their complexions to minimise differences with the white majority, many will surely urge Scottish Catholics to stop sending their children to Catholic schools or making public or overt declarations of faith."
(4) V-K-H syndrome is a chronic bilateral exudative uveitis associated with whitening of the hair and eyelashes and varying signs of meningeal irritation.
(5) In contrast, the continuous-wave laser was observed videographically to produce prominent tissue whitening and puckering, seen histologically as convolution of the epithelium and coagulation of stroma, which was called a shrinkage-like lesion.
(6) The coating on the shell responsible for whitening was deposited during the hour prior to oviposition.
(7) Should such removal provide the additional effect of "whitening" the tooth surface, an additional cosmetic benefit would be provided.
(8) Whenever there's an alternative popular movement that grips the national imagination, left-ish commentators and journalists fight whitened tooth and manicured nail for public alliance to this season's worthy cause of resistance.
(9) We found that hydrogen peroxide bleached more quickly than carbamide although, after a period of six weeks, the results were the same as far as whitening was concerned.
(10) The performances of some leading commercial whiteners are compared and their interactions with dyes, fillers and stabilizers are discussed.
(11) The presence of clinically detectable areas of decalcification (observable as whitened areas) following the removal of orthodontic appliances is well recognized.
(12) The major factor responsible for whitening is confirmed as a high water temperature irrespective of the presence of the denture cleaning agent.
(13) In hand washing tests with detergents containing fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs), the amounts of whitener left on both hands were determined by TLC spectrophotometry: they varied from 0.06 mg to 0.17 mg. Whiteners of different chemical constitutions behaved in a very similar manner.
(14) A cotton-substantive, anionic, fluorescent whitening agent manufactured by several suppliers under various trade names e.g.
(15) The ophthalmoscopic changes consisted of initial whitening and subsequent but persistent depigmentation of the foveola.
(16) Consonant-nucleus-consonant monosyllabic words were filltered such that each spectral component had equal energy (i.e., "whitened") and peak clipped in one of four ways: minimal, 20, 30, and 40 dB of clipping.
(17) Experimental details and examples of a "chromatographic program" for testing the major fluorescent whitening agent (FWA) types and material samples containing FWAs are described.
(18) Isolates are employed as whipping agents and coffee whiteners.
(19) At higher concentrations, clinical and histologic changes were seen in proportion to the concentration and included focal whitening, edema, vitreous haze, vascular abnormalities, and retinal necrosis at the highest doses.
(20) In fact, under some conditions whitening and peak clipping may slightly enhance intelligibility.