(n.) An implement for washing floors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
(n.) A fair where servants are hired.
(n.) The young of any animal; also, a young girl; a moppet.
(v. t.) To rub or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morphometry of photographed semithin sections was realized after whole body glutaraldehyde perfusion with semiautomatic MOP AM 02 and MOP Videoplan.
(2) The workload for two different methods of floor mopping in 11 healthy female cleaners was evaluated by rating the perceived exertion, by recording the ECG and EMG and by video analysis of postures and movements.
(3) These lesions appear to be more easily repaired than the cross-links induced by 8-MOP.
(4) The comparison of the efficiency of mutagenic effects of 8-MOP+light with mutagenic effects of other kinds of irradiations was carried out.
(5) When permeant anions in the bath (Cl-) were replaced with relatively impermeant anions (gluconate, MOPS, propionate, or Hepes), the Po vs. voltage relationship was shifted by approximately -35 mV.
(6) They want disinfectant and mops, they say, and they have only two delivery kits left.
(7) The combined action of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and light with lambda greater than 310 nm on bacteriophages and bacteria results in the formation of the following two types of photo-products in the DNA: monoadducts, in which 8-MOP is covalently bound to a pyrimidine base, and diadducts or cross links, in which the 8-MOP is covalently bound to two pyrimidines from complementary strands.
(8) Consistent with this, 8-MOP has been shown to act as an inhibitor of a component of repair of 254-nm ultraviolet light damage in WP2 but not in AB1157.
(9) Microcoulometric titrations of NADH:nitrate reductase at 25 degrees C in Mops buffer, pH 7.0, showed that the native enzyme, containing functional FAD, haem and Mo, required addition of five electrons for complete reduction.
(10) Two hours after oral administration of therapeutic doses of the drug enough 8-MOP was taken up in vivo by the circulating peripheral lymphocytes to cause significant inhibition of phytohaemagglutinin induced lymphocyte proliferation when the cells were exposed in vitro to UVA irradiation.
(11) Monoclonal antibodies specific for DNA damaged by 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) plus ultraviolet A (UVA) light were used to study adduct formation in human keratinocytes and mouse and rat skin in vivo.
(12) The use of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and UV-A irradiation to inactivate contaminating donor leukocytes in platelet concentrates and to prevent primary alloimmunization against donor class I major histocompatibility (MHC) antigens in mice was investigated.
(13) The sequence of markers in the corresponding segment (mel to purA; 91.5 to 93.5 min) of the E. coli linkage map was shown to be mel--aspA--mop(groE)--ampA--frdA--pur A.
(14) 8-Methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) (currently in vogue for the treatment of psoriasis) is a well-known photosensitizing agent.
(15) The psoralen analogs 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP), in combination with ultraviolet light (UVA, 320-400 nm), are potent modulators of epidermal cell growth and differentiation and are commonly used in photochemotherapy of psoriasis and vitiligo.
(16) This methodology was applied to 7 substances: 5 known photosensitizers (8-MOP, chlorpromazine, 5-fluorouracil, Vitamin A acid and benzoyl peroxide) and 2 products without any photoactive properties (aspirin and erythromycin).
(17) The pharmacokinetics of 8-MOP were studied in six dogs following intravenous administration of 2 mg kg-1.
(18) A new psoralen plus UVA therapy has been developed in which the 8-MOP-containing blood of cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL) patients is irradiated with UVA light extracorporeally (i.e., extracorporeal photopheresis).
(19) By using APAAP method with MoP in cytologic studies it was possible to diagnose T-lymphoblastic lymphoma in six children before the results of histopathologic examination of the lymph nodes.
(20) Mean residence time of theophylline increased from 10.7, 17.2, and 12.2 hr in the control period, to 20.3, 19.0, and 18.4 hr after 8-MOP.
Mouth
Definition:
(n.) The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.
(n.) An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;
(n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.
(n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.
(n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.
(n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.
(n.) The entrance into a harbor.
(n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
(n.) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
(n.) Cry; voice.
(n.) Speech; language; testimony.
(n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
(v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
(v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.
(v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.
(v. t.) To make mouths at.
(v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
(v. i.) To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.
(v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(2) Patients with cancer of floor of the mouth and oral tongue had higher odds ratios for alcohol drinking than subjects with cancers of other sites.
(3) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(4) Translation of foot-and-mouth disease virus RNA for extended periods in rabbit reticulocyte lysates results in the appearance of a previously undescribed protein.
(5) Measurements of mouth opening were made for up to 10 min after loss of the adductor pollicis twitch and cessation of muscle fasciculations.
(6) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(7) Patients with complaints of dry eyes and dry mouth but with no objective abnormalities served as control group.
(8) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
(9) Three hundred sixteen female patients with cancer of the larynx, pharynx, and mouth were examined and the following cancer sites were compared with respect to alcohol and tobacco consumption: oropharynx, hypopharynx, larynx, epilarynx, lip, and mouth.
(10) Unexpected displacement of the endotracheal tube during anesthesia caused by postural change of the neck or passive compression by the mouth gag was investigated under transluminal fiberoptic observation.
(11) Mouth-to-cecum transit, however, does not play a major role in carbohydrate or fat malabsorption in these patients.
(12) Although 41% of the participants complained of dry mouth, neither serious adverse effects nor evidence of medication abuse appeared.
(13) I opened my eyes and my mouth wide, which made everyone in the audience think I was amazed at what I was seeing.
(14) The jaw deviated to the right when he opened his mouth fully.
(15) The study supports the view that even a moderate reduction of mouth opening capacity may indicate mandibular dysfunction and we recommend that this variable be routinely recorded.
(16) Greatly admired Murdoch is certainly putting his money where his mouth is.
(17) The raw air curve is determined by sequentially counting radionuclide activity in respiratory gases sampled at the mouth.
(18) The gradient of increasing copper and zinc concentrations with increasing distance upstream from the mouth of the estuary reported in 1975 could not be statistically validated.
(19) A certain number of parameters involved in the manufacture, control and use of an efficacious vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease have been studied.
(20) Histopathological examination alone could not be relied upon to differentiate between well-established skin lesions caused by swine vesicular disease and foot and mouth disease.