(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.
Myelon
Definition:
(n.) The spinal cord. (Sometimes abbrev. to myel.)
Example Sentences:
(1) CT showed a compact bullet exactly intraspinal, with a syringiform cyst projecting into the myelon.
(2) In every case the fields are arranged in such a way that the myelon is not exposed to radiation.
(3) Myelogram, computer-assisted tomography and nuclear magnetic resonance tomography showed a large space-occupying mass from D8 to L1 epidural and dorsal of the myelon.
(4) The results explain the role the cerebellum plays in the modulation of the micturition reflex and confirm the importance of bilateral encephalic damage in causing vesico-sphincteral malfunctioning and the important role of the lateral myelon cords in transporting bladder proprioceptive sensitivity.
(5) The resulting immobilisation of myelon and nerve roots involves in the case of trauma a direct mechanical lesion and secondary vascular complications via Arteria vertebralis, spinalis anterior and radicularis, namely in patients with degenerative alterations of the cervical spine, these including a further narrowing behind the constitutional anomaly.
(6) Additional information is also obtained by means of GD-DTPA in extradural tumors: better delineation from the myelon, better possibilities to differentiate between meningiomas, neurinomas and scar and tumor.
(7) The axis lays within the myelon itself, and the central rays show an excentric deviation of 3 to 4 degrees.
(8) The advantages of the hyperfractionated radiation modality therefore are on one hand a higher regression-rate of subjective complaints, with equal good recovery of clinical and radiological findings and lack of side-effects especially those of the myelon, and on the other hand are resulting in a shortening of hospitalisation.
(9) One application of this radiation technique is the myelon-sparing treatment of the neck, another one the percutaneous completion of an intracavitary pre-radiation in the case of a gynecologic cancer.
(10) Clinical picture was characterized by a maculopathy, followed two years after by behavioural disturbances, psychomotor impairment, pyramidal signs and left-side myelonic jerks synchronously with the typical periodic R-complex in the EEG.
(11) In 7 cases with symptoms of severe compression of the myelon, decompressive laminectomy was performed, followed by radiotherapy.
(12) Compression of the myelon due to the applied bone wax was relieved directly after CT scan diagnosis.
(13) Myelography of high cervical region shows an enlarged epidural space and atrophy of the myelon.
(14) An abnormally cranial ending myelon surrounded by a widened spinal channel.
(15) Surgical treatment of vertebral tumors aims at eliminating the compression, thus relieving the myelon and the roots as well as the reestablishment of the supporting function of the involved segments.
(16) The excentric rotation technique presented guarantees that the exposition of the myelon doses not exceed 50% of the maximum dose.
(17) Especially MRI provides insights into the structure of the myelon; abnormal image signals may possibly correlate with cervical myelopathy based on disorders of microcirculation.
(18) 82 of these were located in the extradural compartment, 14 were found in the intradural-extramedullary space and 23 were situated inside the myelon.
(19) Cervical dislocations and instabilities are of special clinical relevance, jeopardizing the patient by a life threatening compression of the myelon in advanced cases.
(20) These results show the usefulness of transcranial magnetic brain stimulation as an additional noninvasive investigation for detecting compression of the cervical myelon.