(n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
Example Sentences:
(1) Branched-chain keto acid decarboxylase activity in skin fibroblasts from control subjects and from patients with classical and variant forms of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) was measured with leucine and alpha-ketoisocaproic acid.
(2) During dietary treatment of a case of maple syrup urine disease, it was found that abnormal EEGs were observed when serum levels of leucine were abnormally high while those of valine and isoleucine were normal, and also when serum levels of valine and isoleucine were abnormally high while serum leucine levels were normal.
(3) Intermittend maple-syrup-urine disease was excluded by oral loading tests with the branched-chain amino acids and with an isocaloric, high-protein diet.
(4) Screening for tyrosinaemia, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, maple syrup urine disease and histidinaemia has been discontinued.
(5) As he was detained, the gunman, wearing a balaclava and a bathrobe, allegedly repeated twice in French with an English accent: "The Anglophones are waking up," an apparent reference to the "maple spring" of student protests against the government that contributed to the snap election being called.
(6) The progress of nine maple syrup urine disease patients (eight classical, one possible variant) was reviewed to look for similarities in developmental patterns.
(7) He now sells over 2,000 litres of milk each week on doorsteps, in restaurants and it’s sold at the local shops for £1.20 a litre under the label Maple Field Milk .
(8) • carteblanchefoodcart.com Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Miss Kate's Southern Kitchen Photograph: Marina O'Loughlin for the Guardian This folksy cart dishes out Southern comfort food: freshly made mac 'n' cheese, pumpkin-spiced waffles with maple butter, meatloaf and succotash .
(9) The Nature's Calendar project invites people across the country to log their first sightings of autumnal tints on ash, beech, field maple, horse chestnut, oak, rowan, silver birch and sycamore trees.
(10) Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) results from an inborn metabolic error caused by a deficiency of the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex (BCKDC).
(11) Branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKDH) deficiency results in maple syrup urine disease (MSUD).
(12) Cultured cells of normal individuals and nine patients with different clinical pictures of maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) are studied with both alpha-ketoisocaproic acid (2-oxo-4-methylpentanoic acid (KIC)) and alpha-ketoisovaleric acid (2-oxo-3-methylbutanoic acid (KIVA)) as substrates.
(13) The activity of the branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase complex is deficient in patients with the inherited maple syrup urine disease (MSUD).
(14) A case of hypersensitivity pneumonitis is presented which was associated with exposure to Cryptostroma corticale from non-maple bark chips used to grow orchids.
(15) The rats produced IgE antibodies to each of the allergens used (maple, willow, poplar, ash, oak, sycamore, hickory, walnut, birch, and elm), yet the allergens had extremely limited cross-reactivity.
(16) CAVH allowed good compensation of azotemia in critically ill children with acute renal failure, rapid correction of severe hypervolemia, interstitial pulmonary edema, electrolyte disorders, and metabolic crisis in maple syrup urine disease.
(17) Branched chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase (BCKAD) deficiency, or maple syrup urine disease (MSUD), can be categorized as classical, intermediate, intermittent or thiamine responsive, based on generally concordant in vitro BCKAD activity and severity of phenotype.
(18) On what was to become a hot and nearly cloudless day Canadians trudged towards the site, most wearing the national colours, many carrying maple leaf flags in their hair or on their baseball caps or T-shirts.
(19) The molecular basis of one maple syrup urine disease family has been determined for the first time.
(20) Deciduous trees growing in a natural forest on the hillsides downslope from the site were sampled for the presence of tritiated water in sap of maple trees and in leaf water extracted from oak and hickory trees.
Samara
Definition:
(n.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The Samaras government has proved to be dangerous; it cannot continue handling the country's fate."
(2) Samaras said: A "Grexit", as it is called, would be devastating for Greece and detrimental to Europe.
(3) The conservative opposition leader Antonis Samaras has ruled out participating in a transition government if Papandreou is in it.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras.
(5) The eurogroup source said that Samaras was expected to show up in Luxembourg on Thursday for the meeting of eurozone finance ministers which will grapple with Spain and how to respond to the Greek election results.
(6) That would provide the 'breath of air' which prime minister Antonis Samaras has asked for.
(7) Papoulias also underlined the urgency for a government to be formed as he handed Samaras the formal mandate, saying: "The country cannot remain ungoverned for even an hour."
(8) Samaras is also expected to stress the importance of Greece clinching a primary surplus this year, as appears likely, as this will allow the government to offer some relief to lower-income Greeks.
(9) Prime minister Antonis Samaras' two junior lefitist partners say it is very important that Greeks are not stripped of their "democratic right" to demonstrate against measures that they deem to be unfair.
(10) The conservative New Democracy party – the dominant force in a coalition lead by the outgoing prime minister Antonis Samaras – suffered ignominious defeat, collapsing to 76 seats in the 300-seat parliament.
(11) Stournaras wants decisions to be made at the next meeting of euro group finance minister, on 8 October, and approved at the next EU summit (the first attended by Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras), on 18 October.
(12) Independent MPs, whom Samaras had hoped to sway in this, the final round of a three-stage vote, followed suit.
(13) Earlier this month, secretly filmed footage released by the neo-fascists showed the prime minister Antonis Samaras' chief of staff telling Golden Dawn's spokesman that a criminal investigation had been ordered against it out of a fear the party was stealing votes from the ruling conservatives.
(14) €1 is worth $1.23 and £1 is almost worth $1.57 It is a quieter day today, as we wind down for the weekend, but we will be keeping a close eye on the following: Italy is issuing €8.5bn of six-month short-term bonds Germany's latest Consumer Price Index is published The US reveals its latest GDP figures, expected to be down slightly [UPDATE: European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is NOT holding further meetings with Greek PM Antonis Samaras, as we earlier said.
(15) Emerging from talks with prime minister Antonis Samaras, Stournaras told journalists that "there is absolutely no reason to worry," about the upcoming euro group meeting of finance ministers on Monday.
(16) In his ultra-modern office, seated behind an array of photographs autographed by the likes of Ted Kennedy and George Bush Snr, Antonis Samaras does not come across as a particularly anti-establishment figure.
(17) With the winds of popular support behind it, Syriza reacted to the concessions saying Samaras had only made them because he knew he would not be able to win the presidential election.
(18) More than three years after Europe's ongoing debt crisis erupted in the shadow of the Acropolis, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaras, also wanted to make clear that the country, for so long at the centre of that drama, may not have survived had it not been for Paris.
(19) The [relief] measures will not affect anyone earning above €1,000 a month.” Patronage politics and vested interests had made it impossible for Greek governments, including prime minister Antonis Samaras’s fragile, two-party alliance, to step back and reform.
(20) Many analysts believe the election, which outgoing prime minister Antonis Samaras of the centre-right party New Democracy has described as a referendum on Europe, could drag the eurozone back into a crisis.