(n.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
(n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
(2) Female undergraduates (N = 50 and N = 46 in the two studies) were given cards containing the names of randomly-selected generic foods (e.g., cakes, melons) and were asked to "group the foods according to how you think about them when it comes to eating them".
(3) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
(4) The staples of the poor consisted of one or two bulky carbohydrate meals (derivatives of different species of cocoyam, cassava, yam and maize) eaten with vegetable soup in palm oil, melon seeds, snail, occasional meat and fish.
(5) Under scanning electron microscopy, O. viverrini eggs looked like musk-melon skin; they had prominent shoulders and long knobs.
(6) The distinctive medium chain neutral lipids in the jaw and melon fats of this whale may be related to the postulated acoustical role of these tissues in echolocation.
(7) Alternatively, the Rudd government's radical, sudden, forced resettlement of vulnerable people has made me so angry I shall additionally preference the Australian Magical Moonbeam party, The Coalition for People Who Look Like Cats or the Australians For Putting Melons in Their Pants party – if their refugee policies are at all critical of Labor's own.
(8) While the chicken is roasting, halve the charentais melon and discard the seeds, then remove the flesh from the skin with a sharp knife and slice into thick, juicy pieces, putting them and any juice into a large mixing bowl.
(9) The heterologous in vivo translation system of Xenopus laevis oocytes was used to translate messenger RNA isolated from water-melon cotyledons.
(10) Two levels (50 and 200 kcal) of three preloads (tomato soup, melon, cheese on crackers) were given just before two different second courses (macaroni and beef casserole, grilled cheese sandwiches), allowing us to examine the effects of caloric level, energy density, and sensory-specific satiety on food intake in normal weight, non-dieting males.
(11) The fermented product (ogiri) was prepared with Aspergillus flavus-contaminated melon seeds.
(12) When the Guardian visited the melon fields, she waited elsewhere in case she was seen by company guards.
(13) Warm roast chicken salad with melon Warm roast chicken salad with melon.
(14) A proteinase from the sarcocarp of melon (Cucumis Melo L. var.
(15) Under Pinter's direction, Bates brilliantly brought out Butley's blend of rancorous wit and emotional immaturity; and it was to be the start of a long and fruitful assocation with Gray that included the lead roles in Otherwise Engaged (1975), for which Bates won an Evening Standard Best Actor award, Stage Struck (1979) and Melon (1987).
(16) In every grocery store, Kumamon smiles from every punnet of strawberries and honeydew melon wrapper.
(17) The fruit and seeds of the bitter melon (Momordica charantia) have been reported to have anti-leukemic and antiviral activities.
(18) "Royal Gala remains our most popular variety, and that's a very sweet one, but there are lots of new varieties that are becoming more and more popular: Jazz, which has a peardroppy flavour, and Rubens which has tones of melon, and Zari, which is a sweet, juicy apple."
(19) Melon condiment was the least preferred among the four products.
(20) Concentration of melon volatiles by steam distillation yielded a product identical to that obtained by hydrolysis of profenofos, identified as 4-bromo-2-chlorophenol.
Meson
Definition:
(n.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of 70 MeV pi mesons was studied to determine the effectivness of such beams aginst normal tissues in vivo.
(2) Negative pi-meson (pion) therapy employing dynamic scanning with a focused spot of convergent beams has been in use since 1981 at SIN.
(3) These studies will be extended to include negative pi mesons and heavy particles.
(4) The results indicate that pi mesons are not signifacantly more effective for these end-points than more conventional radiation sources such as 60Co gama rays, 220 kVp X rays, and 14 MeV X rays and electrons.
(5) From these data, the relative biologic effectiveness (RBE) of negative pi-mesons with respect to x-rays was determined for each fractionation schedule.
(6) Cultured human kidney T-1 cells were irradiated in flasks or on coverslips at different depths in a water phantom using the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility Biomedical negative pion beam.
(7) The depth dose profiles of unstable chromosome aberrations were determined by irradiating blood samples at various depths in a plastic phantom exposed to a beam of negative pi mesons (pions).
(8) Negative Pi-mesons (pions) are applied at the Paul Scherrer Institute in the radiotherapy of highly malignant gliomas using a dose escalation program.
(9) The number of heavy tracks (category 4) shows an increased incidence in the region of the stopping pi- mesons (14-5 cm in perspex) while the number of single grains (category 1) decreases with depth.
(10) The possibility exists that high LET (linear energy transfer) radiation such as neutron or pi meson beams may provide better local control than conventional radiation.
(11) Preliminary biological experiments with pions produced at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility studied cell survival at various radiation depths and cell cycle sensitivity.
(12) This paper describes the results obtained from in vivo studies of the pion beam at the TRI University Meson Facility (TRIUMF).
(13) Two hundred twenty-eight patients were treated at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility (LAMPF) with negative pi-mesons (pions) between 1974 and 1981.
(14) Progress in the future will center around five primary areas: 1) greater understanding and utilization of radiation sensitizing agents such as hyperbaric oxygen, metronidazol, and other electroaffinic agents, purine and pyrimadine analogs, and antibiotics such as Actinomycin D and Adriamycin; 2) introduction into clinical use of high LET particle beams, such as fast neutrons, pi mesons, low atomic number nuclei, and heavy accelerated nuclei; 3) combined modality therapy utilizing radiation and chemotherapy or radiation and immunotherapy for management of subclinical disease; 4) radiobiologic and clinical advances in the utilization of radiation and hyperthermia; and 5) improved understanding of the pathophysiology and natural history of the gynecologic malignancies with increasing use of staging laparotomies, lymphangiography and peritoneoscopy.
(15) The bean roots have also been irradiated at various points along the depth-dose curve of negative pi-mesons, including the gegion where the pions annihilate on coming to rest.
(16) The multi-disciplinary role of intermediate energy proton accelerators in pure and applied nuclear physics is discussed with particular reference to the experimental programmes at LAMPF (Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility) and SIN (Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research, Zurich).
(17) The macroscopic reaction of the mouse skin was used to derive RBE values for negative pi-Mesons.
(18) The physical characteristics of pi-meson beams are especially favorable.
(19) Pions (negative pi mesons) can be directed to and stopped in a specific area, where they are captured by the nuclei of atoms, rendering the nuclei unstable.
(20) Eighty patients have been treated with Pi-mesons (pions) at TRIUMF between 1979-1984.