(n.) A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.
Example Sentences:
(1) the EcoR1 fragment of 8.6 kbp length which contains the oriC region (Marsh and Worcel, 1977; v. Meyenburg et al., 1977; Yasuda and Hirota, 1977) is missing.
(2) The Fellowship combines the academic rigour of an MBA with the reflective and ideological framework of a wellness retreat in Bali; without the sun and spa treatments, but with the added element of the formidable Dame Mary Marsh, a great example of a woman leading as a former headteacher, charity chief executive, NED and leadership development campaigner.
(3) In a salt marsh in the Westerschelde, samples were taken from soil and vegetation during 15 months.
(4) We compared the abilities of pupfish, mosquitofish and guppies to control mosquitoes in wastewater marshes.
(5) The structure determined here for Amb a V is topologically similar to the structure determined previously for the homologous allergenic protein Amb t V [Metzler, W. J., Valentine, K., Roebber, M., Friedrichs, M. S., Marsh, D., & Mueller, L. (1992) Biochemistry 31, 5117-5127]; however, significant differences exist in the packing of side chains in the hydrophobic core of the molecules.
(6) These hosts were examined from twelve different salt marshes and estuaries around the coasts of France (seven on the Channel, three on the Atlantic Ocean and two on the Mediterranean sea).
(7) A website has been set up by Shepway council giving information on the proposal for a Romney Marshes Nuclear Research and Disposal Facility.
(8) The repellent deet (N,N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide) was tested against the mosquito Aedes dorsalis in a coastal salt marsh in California.
(9) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
(10) The most famous is Borough Market (the pioneer but has the tendency to bankrupt) but Maltby Street (weekends only) in Bermondsey and Lower Marsh Street (weekdays) in Waterloo are worth a detour.
(11) Billie had just come out of Doctor Who so it was a weird time – the paparazzi were hounding her and I think Marsh even became our getaway driver a few times, the poor man.
(12) Asked how long Cameron should have to make changes, Marsh said: "I think he has had long enough."
(13) At Pelican Island, a 2.5 mile strip in the Barataria Bay, crews used 2.5m cubic yards of sand and silt mined from the Gulf of Mexico to build dunes and marshes, and rolled out protective fences around newly planted grasses.
(14) More than a half million pounds of DDT were applied to control mosquitoes in salt marsh estuaries of Cape May County, New Jersey, from 1946 to 1966.
(15) Willcox and Marsh [1978] have proposed a hypothesis relating IgE production and liability to become allergic.
(16) They come to us alive with intentionality, describing themselves in movement, waltzing through the ballroom, trudging through the marsh after wildfowl, racing horses, cutting hay.
(17) 150 soil samples were collected, 90 from Nile Valley and Delta, 36 from desert and 24 from salt marshes.
(18) Scotland’s powerful salmon fishery and farming lobbies have repeatedly resisted or criticised beaver reintroductions, including blocking a plan for a second official release scheme at Insh Marshes national nature reserve near Kingussie in the Cairngorms – only 35 miles north of Loch Rannoch.
(19) Plasma melatonin was measured at the summer and winter solstices and the autumn and spring equinoxes in Romney Marsh sheep held under natural conditions in South Australia (35 degrees S).
(20) Three simulated marsh systems were constructed, containing sediment, marsh plants, oysters, blue crabs, fiddler crabs, and two species of top minnows.
Paludal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to marshes or fens; marshy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.
(2) Most affections on returning to the industrialised world concern paludism of the Plasmodium falciparum type, leading to a still high mortality rate of 400 per year in Europe, while the preventive and curative means available are sufficient.
(3) Sub-Saharan Africa is involved in 95% of cases, mainly West Africa (70% of cases), unlike the situation in 1987, and the first cases of paludism despite mefloquine chemoprophylaxis appeared during the second semester from the seasonal mid-summer recrudescence onwards, in travellers returning from this region.
(4) Sera from patients with other parasitoses (schistosomiasis, strongyloidosis or paludism) were also tested.
(5) The onset of paludal attacks can be serious for both the mother and the child.
(6) The pathology of parasitic diseases is essentially tropical with a strong predominance of paludism, at times fatal, and intestinal nematodes; however we rarely find amibiasis or human hydatid disease.
(7) As for paludism, the cases detected in this country have belonged to two small outbreaks: one with four cases in Madrid with "Plasmodium vivax" and the other with three cases in Tortosa (Tarragona) with "P. falciparum".
(8) Rarely detected in people consulting for fever, shivering and headache were the two symptoms directly related to paludism.
(9) Two villages are located in the lowlands where malaria from Plasmodium falciparum was endemic until the eradication of paludism.
(10) In order to evaluate the predictivity of neurological signs and symptoms in african patients, in Bangui's National Hospital Center (Central African Republic), 79 inpatients (aged 15-65 years) presenting with neurological manifestations (vascular attack, proved metabolic coma, or neuro-paludism excluded), and 64 age and sex matched controls in the same ward, without neurological or AIDS-related symptoms, were tested for the presence of HIV1-antibodies.
(11) Paludism can occur quite easily in pregnant women in endemic zones, above all those who are primiparous or in their 2nd or 3rd terms.
(12) From the practical point of view, the present use of antipaludial medication in pregnancy should take into account the surrounding risk, namely that of paludism and of treatments.