(n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
(n.) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
(n.) A falsehood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The success of conservative treatment has been higher in patients younger than 8 years of age, and in strictures due to caustics other than lye involving upper third portion and less than five cm of an esophageal segment.
(2) They may be used to irrigate oropharyngeal burns, but are contraindicated in the face of respiratory compromise, shock, liquid lye ingestion, and perforation of the esophagus or stomach.
(3) In the small number of patients with a nodular lye than in the other two histiocytic type, associated with diffuse areas, the prognosis is less favorable than in the other two histologic groups.
(4) In view of these findings, it can be postulated that LSD may be diagnosed and prognosed through LYE changes in the serum.
(5) Hypopharyngeal strictures, either isolated or in conjunction with laryngeal and esophageal strictures, can occur following lye ingestion.
(6) Mechanical homogenization of sputa before making the smear, carried out by shaking the sputum with glass beads, had a significant effect on the number of detected mycobacteria while homogenization using soda lye did not influence the positivity in any direction.
(7) It is well known, that in the group of high- supralevator deformities, the lower rectum, anal canal and internal sphincter are absent, and the terminal pouch lyes above the puborectalis sling.
(8) In a 16-year-old female, complete stenosis of the larynx and hypopharynx developed as a consequence of the ingestion of lye cristals.
(9) Clinical findings and lysosomal enzymes (LYE) in eight lumpy skin diseases (LSD) cows and same number of healthy ones were reported in Tal-El Baker village and Tal Alkabir centre, Ismailia province, Egypt.
(10) Forty-eight had gastroesophageal reflux disease and 2 had chronic lye strictures.
(11) Upon ingestion of lye and its compounds severe corrosive lesions may develop not only in the oesophagus but also of the stomach.
(12) The 5-year survival rate was 34% for the patients with a local tumour at operation and 44% for those in whom the carcinoma developed at the site of a previous lye stricture.
(13) Paediatric microstomia may occur congenitally in the whistling face syndrome but is more often acquired after accidental thermal injuries such as biting an electrical extension cord or ingesting household lye.
(14) Ten patients had ingested lye and one had an esophageal atresia.
(15) The inferiorly based platysma myocutaneous flap was used in two of our patients with lye burns, and bilateral superiorly based flaps were used in one.
(16) Treatment of lye ingestions by antidotes recommended on product labels includes the use of acid neutralizers.
(17) The most common indications for operation were esophageal strictures that developed after lye ingestion and reflux strictures not responding to other treatment.
(18) Herein, we report our experience with sucralfate in the treatment of a case of lye-induced esophagitis.
(19) Among 77 dogs surviving standardized transmural esophageal lye injury for at least 2 weeks and as long as 12 weeks, 24 were untreated, 26 received corticosteroids and bougienage (S&B), and 27 received only the lathyrogen beta-aminoproprionitrile (BAPN).
(20) Lyes claimed that 10 minutes after she returned to her seat a steward told her to surrender the flag and that, when she refused, she was told to leave the stadium.
Pye
Definition:
(n.) See 2d Pie (b).
Example Sentences:
(1) Closed circular pYe(ARG4)411 DNA was detected in transformant DNA preparations by hybridization to pBR322 DNA and by transformation of E. coli to ampicillin resistance.
(2) The substrates have been used in a spectrophotometric assay of PyEs and in a staining method to locate PyEs on polyacrylamide electrophoresis.
(3) "The bass really vibrates along the floorboards at Pye and one night we were in the middle of a take and it was really moving, going home.
(4) Deputy clerk of the Senate, Richard Pye, has kindly given a translation.
(5) Poets laureate were given sherry until Henry Pye, in 1790, relinquished his butt in exchange for a £27 yearly fee.
(6) Senior G4S personnel, including McCaffrey and centre manager Kevin Pye, who were present on both nights of violence, repeatedly denied that G4S had handed over management of the centre on the evening of 17 February, an allegation reported by ABC TV , based on a guard’s accounts.
(7) A hybrid ColE1 plasmid [pYe(trp5)1], containing a yeast DNA segment that complements auxotrophic point mutations and deletions in the Escherichia coli tryptophan synthetase gene (trpAB), has been isolated.
(8) Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida maltosa and Pichia guilliermondii have been transformed by the plasmid pYe(ARG4)411, which contains the S. cerevisiae ARG4 gene inserted into pBR322.
(9) Southern blotting assay of transformant chromosomal DNA indicates that reconstitution of ade2 defective gene is related with its "correction", owing to integration of pYE(ADE2)2 sequence in the vicinity of the mutant locus.
(10) A PYE UNICAM spectrophotometer was used, with KBr pellet technique.
(11) Extracts were evaporated to dryness, whereupon the residues were dissolved in 5 ml of acetone or petroleum ether, and were analysed by gas chromotography (series 104 Pye Unicam gas chromotograph fitted with ECD and TID detectors).
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(13) In 1954 he married a teacher, Margaret Pye, from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and moved with her to London.
(14) In particular the experimental work which has been modelled is that of Lanyon, Goodship, Pye and McFie.
(15) The red adenine-dependent mutants ade1 of the yeast Pichia pinus blocked in the VI step of adenine biosynthesis (lack of AIR-carboxylase) and ade2 mutants blocked in the VII step of adenine biosynthesis (lack of SAIKAR-synthase) were transformed with the plasmid pYE(ADE2)2 containing ADE2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae encoding AIR-carboxylase.
(16) Red adenine-dependent mutants of Hansenula polymorpha, Pichia guilliermondii, Williopsis saturnus yeasts have been transformed by the plasmid pYE (ADE2) 2 DNA containing ADE2 gene from Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
(17) But the commission was careful to include a wide range of views, including Pye Jakobsson , who has worked in the Swedish sex industry for several years and has actively campaigned against the criminalisation of punters, and other pro-prostitution activists.
(18) The ionic concentrations were determined using a Pye Unicam SP atomic absorption spectrophotometer.
(19) Since yeast cells transformed by this plasmid poorly secreted RNase into the medium, the plasmid pYE RNAP-Rh was constructed, in which the signal sequence of RNase Rh was replaced by the prepro-sequence of aspartic proteinase-I, one of the extracellular enzymes secreted by R. niveus.
(20) Prepared standards of halothane in oxygen were analysed using a Pye Series 104 gas chromatograph equipped with a heated head flame ionization detector and gas sampling valve.