What's the difference between liquor and liquorice?

Liquor


Definition:

  • (n.) Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like.
  • (n.) Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc.
  • (n.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua.
  • (v. t.) To supply with liquor.
  • (v. t.) To grease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fall of the cell number in the liquor cerebrospinalis was more rapidly in the GAGPS treatment.
  • (2) VP levels were measured by radioimmunoassay in liquor withdrawn from the cisterna magna.
  • (3) There were 16% where liquor was not obtained at the first attempt, and a further 7% where cell growth or biochemical testing was unsatisfactory.
  • (4) A rowdy fringe took to raiding liquor stores, spraying graffiti and flaunting marijuana.
  • (5) The reported method is an alternative procedure when the usual type of liquor drainage is impossible.
  • (6) 'If you meet, you drink …' Thus introduced to intoxicating liquors under auspices both secular and sacred, the offering of alms for oblivion I took to be the custom of the country in which I had been born.
  • (7) The number of molecules per unit cell is four and was deduced from the density of the crystals (1.10 g cm-3) and the mother liquor (1.01 g cm-3) and the specific volume of the protein calculated from molecular dimensions obtained from electron microscopy studies.
  • (8) These included changes in total protein content, slight increases in cell counts and the occurrence of monocytic forms of stimulus, but rarely changes in the pattern produced by electrophoresis of the liquor.
  • (9) Three morphologically distinct types of GABA-immunoreactive (GABA-ir) cell bodies were observed, multipolar neurons in the lateral grey cell column, apparently bipolar cells in the ventral aspect of the dorsal horn, and small liquor-contacting cells surrounding the central canal.
  • (10) As a consequence, artificial pulmonary ventilation (APV) at the hyperventilation regime was administered to a part of the patients to correct acidosis of the liquor.
  • (11) Chronic pachymeningitis of the hind brain, resulting from the administration of kaolin leads to the disorders of liquor circulation on the level of outlet of the fourth ventricle this being a start mechanism for the cavity formation in the spinal cord.
  • (12) Strain Aureobasidium pullulans capable of utilizing hemicelluloses and xylan was cultivated on processed waste dialysis liquor from the production of viscose fibres, containing about 1.5% hemocelluloses.
  • (13) It was shown spectrophotometrically that a single administration of SB increased its concentration in the liquor and brain tissues by 366.7 and 500 per cent respectively as compared to the control values.
  • (14) One strain produced 25 mug of chlorflavonin per ml per 4 to 5 days in a pilot scale fermentor with stirring, using a medium containing corn steep liquor and glucose.
  • (15) The large liquor-contacting area in the pineal recess region, as well as the peculiar organization of its surface, suggest a complex interrelationship between the liquor and the pineal gland of the opossum.
  • (16) Smoking western cigarettes and drinking strong liquors were not significantly related for either sex.
  • (17) The death occurred suddenly from the disturbances of liquor and blood circulation in the presence of an asymptomatic course of disease.
  • (18) The simple sum of these 11 risk factors was significantly associated with prevalence of use for cigarettes, beer and wine, hard liquor, marijuana, and other drugs.
  • (19) Liquor examination showed albumino-cytological dissociation with an increase in liquor IgG; encephalic CT and encephalo-medullary NMR were normal; a neurophysiological study (EMG, PEV, BAER) was indicative of the PNS problems.
  • (20) A total of 99 patients with pre-eclampsia and proteinuria were managed conservatively between 30 and 37 weeks of gestation, based on serial urinary estriol, liquor amnii, and renal function studies.

Liquorice


Definition:

  • (n.) See Licorice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have evaluated the effect of the synthetic liquorice derivative, carbenoxolone, on this enzyme complex.
  • (2) After a wide survey of the literature, the clinical and biological picture in four patients with chronic Liquorice ingestion and Pseudoaldosteronism syndrome is described.
  • (3) The town is also home to Svaneke Bolcher, where you can watch traditional Danish sweets being made, and Johan Bülow ’s inventive liquorice, which is now sold in shops such as Harvey Nichols and Fortnum & Mason.
  • (4) These results show that potentially serious metabolic effects may occur in some people who eat modest amounts of liquorice daily for less than a week.
  • (5) Both tragant sulfate, a pepsin inhibitor, and deglycyrrhizinized liquorice extract proved to be without prophylactic effect.
  • (6) We have previously demonstrated, in adrenalectomized male rats, that the liquorice derivative carbenoxolone (CS) can confer mineralocorticoid (MC)-like activity upon the glucocorticoid corticosterone (B) and amplify the Na(+)-retaining actions of aldosterone (Aldo) and deoxycorticosterone (DOC).
  • (7) A case of pseudo-hyperaldosteronism secondary to prolonged daily ingestion of liquorice is reported.
  • (8) They ate liquorice in daily doses of 100 g or 200 g (equivalent to 0-7-1-4 g glycyrrhizinic acid) for one to four weeks.
  • (9) The binding of agonists (liquorice derivatives) and antagonists (spironolactones and cyproheptadine) to Type I aldosterone binding sites was evaluated in human mononuclear leucocytes and compared with data previously obtained using kidney cytosol or kidney slices from adrenalectomized rats.
  • (10) A double-blind trial of deglycyrrhizinated liquorice was performed in 47 patients with active duodenal ulcer.
  • (11) Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts were created by accident in 1899, when salesman Charlie Thompson tripped up, mixing up all the different sweets he was carrying.
  • (12) Six geographically diverse samples of liquorice root contained similar (22.2-32.3 mg g-1) glycyrrhizin contents.
  • (13) These findings seem to explain why sodium retention, hypokalaemia, and hypertension develop in subjects with congenital deficiency of 11 beta-OHSD and those in whom the enzyme has been inhibited by liquorice.
  • (14) The first example is liquorice root, its active principle carbenoxolone, and the drugs Biogastrone and Caved-S for the treatment of gastic, peptic and duodenal ulcers; the second example is the fruits of the milk thistle, its active principles silymarin and silybinin as well as the drug Legalon for the treatment of liver diseases.
  • (15) after liquorice ingestion) results in cortisol acting as a potent mineralocorticoid.
  • (16) No side effects of treatment were observed.Our study was not able to demonstrate any healing effect of the liquorice extract (Caved-S) on gastric ulcer.
  • (17) The patients were treated during two consecutive periods of four weeks each with either liquorice extract during the first period and placebo during the second or placebo during the first period and liquorice during the second.
  • (18) Her diva demands do not extend beyond the stage-door staff voluntarily leaving a hand-picked packet of her favourite black liquorice allsorts in her pigeonhole.
  • (19) When the activity of the enzyme is impaired (syndrome of apparent MC excess, liquorice or carbenoxolone administration), F acts as a MC and MC-hypertension with hypokalemia occurs.
  • (20) The dosage of the liquorice extract was 760 mg three times daily.