(n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.
(n.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.
(n.) A salve or confection of thick consistency.
(n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.
(n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock.
(n.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.
Example Sentences:
(1) No salmonellae could be detected on shells or in the magma of all eggs examined.
(2) "As Mars became a planet and its magma ocean solidified, catastrophic outgassing occurred while volatiles were delivered by impact of comets and other smaller bodies," said Dr Webster.
(3) The scavenging effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by two natural health products, antioxidant analogs (AOA), and green magma (GM), and 16 medical Chinese herbs were investigated in two in vitro ROS-generating systems, activated neutrophils and xanthine-xanthine oxidase.
(4) In order to function without exploding, to keep the Bake Off running and the trains delayed, to keep the populace tutting and sighing and drinking, experiencing a constant level of personal dissatisfaction with something and everything that never quite boils over into scenery-smashing, Hulk-like rage – to stop us from killing each other, in other words – British society seems to require a regularly-updated register of sanctioned hate figures, about whom it's OK to say more or less anything; people who form a vital pressure valve for this terrifying pent-up societal wrath, lurking beneath the surface like magma under Yellowstone.
(5) A pocket of magma lies 80kks (50 miles) below the surface.
(6) There is no interference from other ingredients of the lotion (bentonite magma, calamine, and zinc oxide) or solution (acetone and boric acid).
(7) What changed was something, in Iglesias’s words, “that functions in the magma and suddenly makes many people in this country see a guy with a ponytail on television and listen to him”.
(8) Volcanoes erupt magma (molten rock containing variable amounts of solid crystals, dissolved volatiles, and gas bubbles) along with pulverized pre-existing rock (ripped from the walls of the vent and conduit).
(9) Carbon dioxide from that magma slowly percolates through Earth’s crust with the groundwater and accumulates in the bottom of the lake.
(10) Variability in the properties of magma, and in the relative roles of magmatic volatiles and groundwater in driving an eruption, determine to a great extent the type of an eruption; variability in the type of an eruption in turn influences the physical characteristics and distribution of the eruption products.
(11) Across the world, as sea levels climb remorselessly, the load-related bending of the crust around the margins of the ocean basins might – in time – act to sufficiently "unclamp" coastal faults such as California's San Andreas, allowing them to move more easily; at the same time acting to squeeze magma out of susceptible volcanoes that are primed and ready to blow.
Mamma
Definition:
(n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.
(n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 20.2% of the cases with carcinoma the tumor cells showed peculiar intracytoplasmic inclusions, whereas in only 0.43% of the biopsies of the mamma without carcinoma such inclusions were to be found.
(2) It is considered that foetal maturity is the pre-requisite before a decision to induce should be made in practice, and 3 criteria are essential: 1) a gestational length of greater than 320 days, 2) substantial mammary development, 3) the presence of colostrum in the mammae.
(3) EPM-1 was detectable on the cell surface of cultured human cell lines of the pancreas, liver, colon, and mamma.
(4) Lactose biosynthesis and relevant enzymatic activity in rabbit mamma ry tissue during various stages of pregnancy and lactation are investigated by using a tissue-slice incubation method in order to understand the temporal relationships.
(5) In 352 patients affected with chronic lymphatic leukemia (CLL) the authors simultaneously detected a solid second tumour 22 times (= 6.22%) (6 cancers of the prostrate, 5 cancers of the skin, 4 cancers of the uterus, 2 cancers of the stomach, 2 cancers of the lung, one case of rectal and mamma cancer each and one case of eye sarcoma).
(6) 4, inguinal) growth was assessed by analysis of mammae wet weight, dry fat free weight, DNA content and mammae whole mount evaluation.
(7) Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders performed a parody of the smash hit Mamma Mia!
(8) Thus, altogether 5089 mammae could be cytologically explored.
(9) Duplicate examinations were carried out on 122 patients in order to compare the results of mammography using a grid technique (Diagnost U. Müller) with a film-screen systemadn also a conventional set without screens (Mamma-Diagnost, Müller).
(10) Histamine (HA) level and its metabolism in adenocarcinoma mammae, spontaneously growing cancer in C3H mice, were examined in relation to the type of tumor, intensity of tumor vascularization and the presence or absence of a secretory function.
(11) Cooperation with a mamma centre is discussed in case extended diagnosis of breast findings is required, or in case it becomes necessary to mark any non-palpable changes.
(12) Basic examination (palpation and mammography) as well as triple diagnosis (sonography, aspiration cytology, pneumocystography) are employed in the diagnosis and therapy of mamma cysts.
(13) The pregnant queens were spayed and their mammae returned to normal; in the other cats the affected mammary glands were removed surgically.
(14) The brand’s most famous material is black lace, inspired by Sicilian widow’s weeds, but the Dolce & Gabbana woman is both a mamma and a vamp.
(15) Immunomorphologic study of 29 breast cancer cases using monoclonal antibodies to proteins of intermediate filaments shown to differentiate the lining epithelium from myoepithelium in the non-proliferating epithelial structures of the mamma, has shown the cells in the majority of tumours (according to the International WHO Classification defined as infiltrating ductal, lobular, and tubular cancer forms) to contain prekeratin (PK) C12, specific for normal lining epithelium, but not for the myoepithelium.
(16) Absolute contraindications of OCs include thromboembolytic diseases, severe cardiovascular system diseases, liver disorders, cirrhosis, cerebral vascular diseases, grave diabetes, jaundice, and malignant tumors of the mammae and sexual organs.
(17) In this article a case of a female patient is described who developed not only a radiation-induced osteosarcoma but also a thyroid gland carcinoma after a previous postsurgical mamma carcinoma whereby the irradiation dose of the radiation sarcoma is about 64 Gy and for the thyroid gland carcinoma about 12 Gy.
(18) Friend erythroleukemia cells (ED50: 0.7 microM), human mamma carcinoma cells (ED50: 0.3 microM) and human colon carcinoma cells (ED50: 3.0 microM) in vitro.
(19) The critical attitude towards the additional chemotherapy of the mamma carcinoma is justified by the results of 453 patients submitted to post-operative irradiations.
(20) Some medical centres treat carcinoma of the mamma successfully with progestins.