(n.) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.
(n.) A form of the escutcheon used by women instead of the shield which is used by men.
(n.) A figure with four equal sides, having two acute and two obtuse angles; a rhomb.
(n.) Anything in the form of lozenge.
(n.) A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few minutes after sucking a lozenge for a sore throat a 68-year-old man developed an anaphylactic shock.
(2) When sucking sugarless lozenges the recorded pH values were between 5.8 and 7.0.
(3) Lozenges containing either 23 mg of elemental zinc or placebo were taken every 2 h. Eleven URI symptoms were rated daily on a scale of 0 (not present) to 3 (severe).
(4) Fentanyl was first developed in the 1960s as a general anesthetic, and it is still regularly administered by doctors, usually in the form of lozenges and patches, frequently for cancer patients.
(5) Within a couple of months I had gone up to 11 lozenges a day, and by the end of that year it became 30.
(6) For final analysis, 61 patients in the zinc lozenge group and 69 patients in the placebo lozenge group were evaluated.
(7) Only a lozenge formulation containing noscapine base fulfilled the requirements of taste acceptability and adequate release properties.
(8) It is concluded that the lozenges containing noscapine base may be a valuable alternative to the conventional noscapine hydrochloride mixture.
(9) The F content of the control slabs was significantly less than that of lozenge-treated and lozenge-treated-ART slabs throughout the depth of the lesion.
(10) The bioavailability of noscapine base administered in lozenges in a dose of 100 mg to twelve healthy volunteers, in a study using an open balanced cross-over design, was compared with that of 100 mg of noscapine hydrochloride given perorally as a mixture.
(11) Lined up alongside green, paper-skinned pistachios or buttery pecans, almonds – anaemic, lozenge-shaped, creamily bland – can seem rather dull.
(12) The enhancer seems to suppress the lozenge phenotype with regard to the length of the antenna but otherwise there is no effect of the modifiers with regard to antennae, tarsal claws, spermathecae or female reproductive capacity (the number of eggs oviposited or the number of adult progeny ensuring from females tested).
(13) The most prominent pH drop was found with a lozenge containing Purity Gum 40-sucrose-glucose, while tablets with gum arabic-maltitol and pectin-gelatine-Lycasin somewhat increased the pH values.
(14) After sucking a lozenge the opiate took 15 minutes to enter my bloodstream.
(15) Until 1971, the consumption was very moderate and less than one per cent of the children between 0 and 12 years of age used fluoride tablets or lozenges.
(16) This could account for the negative results of several clinical studies of this lozenge and similar formulations as treatment for the common cold.
(17) Moreover, electron microscopic findings revealed square, rectangular or lozenge-shaped small cystine crystal profiles in osmophilic dense bodies of the histiocytic cells and in the cytoplasm of the foam cells.
(18) With the lozenges, flow rate fell towards the unstimulated rate when the lozenges had dissolved.
(19) In study II a pH recovery of plaque and saliva after the sucrose rinse was recorded for both types of lozenge, but it was most pronounced for the active, buffering lozenge.
(20) hammered the Socialist François Hollande , his voice hoarse from a bruising schedule of campaign rallies fuelled by honey throat-lozenges.
Mobile
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
(a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
(a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
(a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
(a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
(a.) The mob; the populace.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(3) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(4) Their particular electrophoretic mobility was retained.
(5) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
(6) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
(7) The following model is suggested: exogenous ATP interacts with a membrane receptor in the presence of Ca2+, a cascade of events occurs which mobilizes intracellular calcium, thereby increasing the cytosolic free Ca2+ concentration which consequently opens the calcium-activated K+ channels, which then leads to a change in membrane potential.
(8) Sequence specific binding of protein extracts from 13 different yeast species to three oligonucleotide probes and two points mutants derived from Saccharomyces cerevisiae DNA binding proteins were tested using mobility shift assays.
(9) The molecule may already in its native form have an extended conformation containing either free sulfhydryl groups or small S-S loops not affecting mobility in SDS-PAGE.
(10) Furthermore, carcinoembryonic antigen from the carcinoma tissue was found to have the same electrophoretical mobility as the UEA-I binding glycoproteins.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) The last stems from trends such as declining birth rate, an increasingly mobile society, diminished importance of the nuclear family, and the diminishing attractiveness of professions involved with providing maintenance care.
(13) In order to obtain the most suitable mobile phase, we studied the influence of pH and acetonitrile content on the capacity factor (k').
(14) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
(15) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(16) The toxins preferentially attenuate a slow phase of KCl-evoked glutamate release which may be associated with synaptic vesicle mobilization.
(17) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
(18) The transference by conjugation of protease genetic information between Proteus mirabilis strains only occurs upon mobilization by a conjugative plasmid such as RP4 (Inc P group).
(19) Lady Gaga is not the first big music star to make a new album available early to mobile customers.
(20) Moreover, it is the recombinant p70 polypeptides of slowest mobility that coelute with S6 kinase activity on anion-exchange chromatography.