(n.) A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.
Example Sentences:
(1) And so the three of us drove, regretfully, away from Imlil – Caroline in the back and me in the front with Moha, who regaled us with stories and history and answers to the endless questions we fired at him as the mountains rolled by.
(2) Moha, a new recruit from Barcelona, has the potential to be a very exciting, young, pacy winger.
(3) He was even happier to confirm the signing of the winger Moha El Ouriachi from Barcelona after the 19-year-old turned down a contract to stay at the Camp Nou.
(4) m-Hydroxyamphetamine (mOHA) was found as a metabolite of amphetamine in rat urine, liver perfusate and bile.
(5) But the road was calling again, Moha told us; the Tizi n'Test had to be driven in daylight – and not just to make the best of the views.
(6) The amount of mOHA was low, about 10% of the ring hydroxylation could be accounted for as metahydroxylation.
(7) A trend that was started when Marc Muniesa – the defender who represented Spain at all age-group levels – arrived in 2013 on a free transfer has now seen Bojan Krkic, the highly rated teenage Morocco winger Moha El Ouriachi and Afellay join Mark Hughes’ increasingly cosmopolitan band.
Moxa
Definition:
(n.) A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.
(n.) A plant from which this substance is obtained, esp. Artemisia Chinensis, and A. moxa.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings suggest that the effect of musk-moxa-string therapy is caused by the enhancement of immunological capacity of the patients.
(2) Findings revealed that the total effect in 121 cases (88.4%) occurred in the group treated with acupuncture and moxibustion with warming needle; while the total effect in 221 cases (90.9%) was in the group treated with moxibustion with ignited moxa cone.
(3) Moxa is used in popular family medicine, for ritual purification, as a technique to cure disease or as part of a holistic approach to healing; its symbolic meaning changes according to its usage and it serves to unite disparate medical beliefs.
(4) The increase in platelet aggregation and ATP-release after a single moxibustion was dependent on moxa weight and the kind of platelet stimulus.
(5) Removal of C37H76 from the original moxa seems to decelerate the burning of moxa.
(6) In contrast, B lymphocytes, monocytes, DR+ cells and blastogenic response to concanavalin A and pokeweed mitogen were not influenced by musk-moxa-string therapy.
(7) The MoxA, K and L proteins may be involved in maintaining a high Ca2+ concentration in the periplasm.
(8) MDH isolated from the methanol oxidation mutants MoxA-, K- and L- contained no Ca2+.
(9) Moxa was soaked in a mixed solvent of chloroform, methanol and water (5:5:1) at room temperature for 7 days, and the supernatant solution was separated into two layers by the addition of water.
(10) Each ratio of C37H76 in several kinds of moxas to the total weight of the moxa was similar in both high-class and low-class moxas, but that of the tannins was much less in the former than the latter.
(11) The effects of musk-moxa-string therapy on the immune system in man were investigated in 39 patients with scrofula.
(12) Comparing the burning-temperature curve to the time between the moxa after the extraction and before, the time for the rise of the burning-temperature from 25 degrees C to the highest temperature was longer in the treated moxa.
(13) Immunological function and lymphocytic subsets of peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBWC) from 39 patients with scrofula were investigated before and after treatment with musk-moxa-string therapy.