(n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
(n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
(n.) Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
(v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
(v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have investigated a physiological role of endogenous insulin on exocrine pancreatic secretion stimulated by a liquid meal as well as exogenous secretin and cholecystokinin octapeptide (CCK-8) in conscious rats.
(2) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(3) In vivo studies were performed in five healthy subjects for at least 3 h after ingestion of radiolabeled meals.
(4) The company, part of the John Lewis Partnership, now sources all its beef from the UK, including in its ready meals, sandwiches and fresh mince.
(5) In the present study we examined cholecystokinin release and gallbladder contraction after oral administration of a commercial fatty meal (Sorbitract; Dagra, Diemen, The Netherlands) using ultrasonography in eight normal subjects and eight gallstone patients before and after 1 and 4 weeks of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid (10 mg kg-1.day-1).
(6) A 14-year-old case was reported with a primary postbulbar duodenal ulcer, which was confirmed by barium meal study and duodenoscopy.
(7) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(9) Retention of iron from an RKB test meal was increased from 69.6 to 73% when about 90% of the extractable tannins were removed, but the difference was not statistically significant.
(10) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
(11) Gastric emptying curves for all three meals in controls were best described using loge transformed counts.
(12) There was no significant difference between ratings after the high and low-fibre meals except for fullness, which was greater after the high-fibre breakfast.
(13) Special attention is given to the arrangement of meals inflight.
(14) Compared to the doses taken before and after the meal, the dose taken with the meal showed a significant delay in the time taken to reach therapeutic blood concentrations of the drug with no reduction in the period of time during which this concentration was maintained.
(15) We compared the effects of meals containing the same amounts of either isolated soy or beef protein on acid secretion and serum gastrin concentration in normal humans.
(16) Preprandial and postprandial blood glucose levels were measured for each meal and snack (18 measurements per day).
(17) There was less of an increase following a blood meal infected with the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei.
(18) In vivo hepatic rates of fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis determined in meal-fed normolipidemic rats were suppressed significantly by the oral administration of (--)-hydroxycitrate for 6 hr, when control animals exhibited maximal rates of lipid synthesis; serum triglyceride and cholesterol levels were significantly reduced by (--)-hydroxycitrate.
(19) On the other hand, esophageal emptying of solid isotopic meals may show the persistence of food in the diverticular sac long time after the meal.
(20) Our findings suggest that (a) the inclusion of a liquid meal provides a reproducible method of measuring orocaecal transit using the lactulose hydrogen breath test, (b) rapid small bowel transit in thyrotoxicosis may be one factor in the diarrhoea which is a feature of the disease and (c) if altered gut transit is the cause of sluggish bowel habit in hypothyroidism, delay in the colon, and not small bowel, is likely to be responsible.
Merl
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Merle
Example Sentences:
(1) The cases of ununited fracture of the femoral neck, treated by a technique described by Brackett (1927) and modified by Merle d'Aubigné (1968) are reported.
(2) The scores of clinical results according to the Merle d'Aubigené and Postel scale were as follows: pain 4.48, walk 3.99, movements 4.02.
(3) At an average follow-up of four years, assessment by the Merle d'Aubigńe score showed 83% excellent or good results.
(4) Rats moving freely in their cages were injected into substantia nigra with bidistilled water, with NaCl solutions of various concentrations or with a multionic Merle's solution.
(5) Fifteen patients with 17 hips have been operated and followed-up and by using the Merle d'Aubigné evaluation there was an improvement of some 3--4 points in pain, walking, and total motion.
(6) The modified Merle d'Aubigne and Postel score averaged 5.3 for pain, 3.7 for walking ability, and 4.0 for range of motion (ROM) in patients with healed infections.
(7) Between October and December 1987, a total of 232 of these patients were examined and the results rated according to Merl d'Aubigne's classification: 166 (71%) were classified as very good or good, 49 (21%) as satisfactory, and 17 (7%) as unsatisfactory.
(8) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
(9) In January 1960, he played the first of his celebrated prison shows at San Quentin, where one of the inmates yelling him on was Merle Haggard, locked up on a burglary charge.
(10) So-called physiological saline solution (0-9% NaCl) was found to be most toxic and the multionic Merle's solution most suitable among the control fluids tested.
(11) Based on the well known surgical techniques of Juvara, Merle d'Aubigné and J.Böhler, a precedure was presented which has been clinically tested for 6 years.
(12) Luckily for Cash, he had already met June Carter (Obituary May 17 2003), who had co-written Ring Of Fire with Merle Kilgore.
(13) Note from Dr. Merle A. Sande--We have recently come to appreciate the fact that successful chemotherapy of opportunistic infections in patients with AIDS is akin to treatment of certain malignancies: In both instances, induction, followed by maintenance, therapy is required.
(14) Ike had grown up in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, and was a gifted guitar-picker whose playing helped to shape the playing of such country greats as Merle Travis and Chet Atkins.
(15) Radiographic and clinical assessment before and after surgery according to Ficat, Arlet and Merle D'Aubigné.
(16) Of the 77 patients in whom follow-up was possible, 76 had results falling in the very good or good categories according to the Merle d'Aubigné scheme.
(17) In 44 dachshunds of both sexes, reared and held under identical conditions in order to investigate the effects of the merle gene, ophthalmologic examinations were performed.
(18) Of the 30 hips available for functional assessment using the Merle d'Aubigné scale, 16 were excellent, 10 good, 2 fair, 1 poor and 1 bad.
(19) Most of them improved one step higher in the evaluation scheme according to Merle d'Aubigne.
(20) The syndrome may have arisen in conjunction with instability of the merle locus.