(n.) A resident; a dweller; as, a liver in Brooklyn.
(n.) One whose course of life has some marked characteristic (expressed by an adjective); as, a free liver.
(n.) A very large glandular and vascular organ in the visceral cavity of all vertebrates.
(n.) The glossy ibis (Ibis falcinellus); -- said to have given its name to the city of Liverpool.
Example Sentences:
(1) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
(2) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(3) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
(4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(5) Serial sections of mouse foetal liver, during the 9th and 16th days of gestation, were studied.
(6) The data suggest that major differences may exist between ruminants and non-ruminants in the response of liver metabolism both to lactation per se and to the effects of growth hormone and insulin.
(7) The 14C-aminopyrine breath test was used to measure liver function in 14 normal subjects, 16 patients with alcoholic cirrhosis, 14 alcoholics without cirrhosis, and 29 patients taking a variety of drugs.
(8) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(9) Five of the nine normal livers had peribiliary glands that showed HLA-DR.
(10) The effect of 4,4'-methylene bis(2-chloroaniline) (MOCA), 4,4'-methylene dianiline (MDA) and 4,4'-sulphonyldianiline (Dapsone) in vivo on xenobiotic biotransformation in male rat liver was studied.
(11) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
(12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(13) Polyribosomes isolated from the livers of rats sacrificed 6 h after treatment with actinomycin D showed a 42% reduction in their capacity to bind anti-RSA Fab'.
(14) Their effects on various lipid fractions, viz., triglycerides (TG), phospholipids, free cholesterol, and esterified cholesterol, were studied in liver, plasma, gonads, and muscle.
(15) The DNA untwisting enzyme has been purified approximately 300-fold from rat liver nuclei.
(16) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
(17) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
(18) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(19) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(20) In all, 207 cases of liver cancer were seen during this period, giving an incidence of rupture of 14.5%.
Nutrient
Definition:
(a.) Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.
(n.) Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
(2) The most pronounced changes occurred during the initial hours of nutrient and energy deprivation.
(3) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
(4) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(5) Although it is known that the sphincter of Oddi exhibits a myoelectric response to intraluminal nutrients, the effect of specific dietary components has not been well characterized.
(6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
(7) Malnutrition results from deficiency in one or more of these basic nutrients.
(8) Therefore these suggested methods of choice may not in every instance be the most accurate of all indicators of nutritional status for a particular nutrient.
(9) The intake of most nutrients was significantly depressed by approximately 10% during febrile illnesses.
(10) Microbial fermentation and nutrient degradation in the rumen were reduced by saponins.
(11) If begun before the animal becomes nutrient depleted, enteral feeding may better support the animal and avoid serious complications.
(12) Differences in the nutrient data bases were primarily due to the timing of data base updates, as well as to the differential use of industry, private, and government food analysis sources, procedural differences in data base updating, and random data entry error.
(13) The elastic properties of preserved human aortic homografts after different storage times in antibiotic-nutrient medium solution have been measured.
(14) The inoculum level of infected spores in nutrient broth-yeast extract-glucose medium affected the transducing efficiency of SP-10 in lysates of these cultures.
(15) The results of these trials suggest that increasing level of dietary NaHCO3 greatly increases the proportion of time ruminal pH is above critical levels for ruminal protein and dry matter digestion, but does not affect total tract nutrient digestion when 50% concentrate diets are fed.
(16) The diets of the Inuit, as of all Indigenous People, are not comprised solely of the historically traditional foods; however these foods are still vitally important as a source of nutrients and cultural definition.
(17) Seventy-six students and staff at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology weighed their food for 1 week and the records were used to determine the frequency of consumption of foods and portion sizes, as well as nutrient intakes.
(18) A shortened nutrient data base can be a valid tool for estimating intakes of populations.
(19) Despite these diffuse nutrient abnormalities, only zinc and vitamin E concentrations correlated significantly with any index of visual function.
(20) Histologic examination of different levels of the nutrient arteries revealed many intraosseous pathologic vascular changes in apposition to the ischemic episode of the femoral head.