(n.) A genus of trees of Southern India and Northern Africa. One species (Moringa pterygosperma) is the horse-radish tree, and its seeds, as well as those of M. aptera, are known in commerce as ben or ben nuts, and yield the oil called oil of ben.
Example Sentences:
(1) The effect of an aqueous extract of Moringa oleifera roots was studied histologically on the genital tract of ovariectomized rats in the presence and absence of estradiol dipropionate and progesterone.
(2) The effect of aqueous extract of Moringa oleifera Lam.
(3) A number of biosynthetically and chemically related compounds were isolated from the roasted seeds of Moringa oleifera.
(4) An aqueous extract of Moringa oleifera roots was investigated for its estrogenic, anti-estrogenic, progestational and antiprogestational activities.
(5) A mutagenic compound was isolated from roasted seeds of Moringa oleifera Lam.
(6) The antimicrobial activities of Moringa oleifera leaves, roots, bark and seeds were investigated in vitro against bacteria, yeast, dermatophytes and helminths pathogenic to man.
(7) Hot water infusions of flowers, leaves, roots, seeds and stalks or bark of Moringa oleifera were screened to detect three pharmacologic activities in experimental models in rats.
(8) Water treatment was performed at 30 degrees C with Moringa oleifera seed material as a coagulant, and the technique employed corresponded closely to that used to clarify turbid water in Sudanese villages.
(9) Major results concern: (1) high risk species (Caranx bartholomaei, C. lugubris, Lutjanus apodus, L. jocu, Gymnothorax funebris, G. moringa, Mycteroperca venenosa, M. tigris, Epinephelus morio, Sphyraena barracuda); (2) intermediate species (Caranx latus, C. ruber, Lutjanus buccanella); (3) low risk species (Balistes vetula, Haemulon album, Priacantus arenatus, Alphestes afer).
(10) Observations of intoxications give the following results: High risk species: Caranx bartholomaei, C. lugubris, Seriola dumerili, Lutjanus apodus, L. jocu, Pristipomoides macrophtalmus, Gymnothorax funebris, G. moringa, Scomberomorus cavalla, S. regalis, Mycteroperca venenosa, M. tigris, Epinephelus morio, Sphyraena barracuda.
Subtropical
Definition:
(a.) Nearly tropical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Records of birth weight (BW), weaning weight (WW) and condition score (CS) from 1,467 Brahman and Brahman X Angus crossbred calves from Brahman and crossbred Brahman sires and Brahman, crossbred Brahman and Angus dams were collected at the Subtropical Agricultural Research Station, Brooksville, Florida, from 1971 to 1982.
(2) Maduromycosis can occur in the chest wall and should be suspected in the immigrant population from tropical and subtropical areas.
(3) A steady decline in the incidence with an increase in the preponderance of male cases was observed toward the west, reaching the lowest figures (male: 17.2 cases per 100,000 population; female: 5.5 per 100,000) in the Caspian rain belt, with its heavily leached soils and somewhat subtropical characteristcs.
(4) Such lesions are quite common in subtropical and tropical climates, and a review of the literature indicates that the incidence of this formerly rare entity is increasing in temperate climates.
(5) This was found to be the method of choice in coccidiosis control in replacement pullets in the semi-arid subtropical climate of Rhodesia.
(6) The Mexican leaf frog, Pachymedusa dacnicolor, an inhabitant of the semiarid, subtropical Mexican lowlands, displays a well-defined seasonal testicular cycle.
(7) Dr Umair A Shah, executive director of the Harris County department of public health, said, “It’s probably not a case of if we get Zika in our native mosquitoes, it’s probably a case of when we get Zika in our native mosquitoes.” Zika is a subtropical virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, part of a group of diseases known as arboviruses, short for arthropod-borne viruses.
(8) In the subtropical finch, spotted munia (Lonchura punctulata), circanual rhythms (of gonads, fattening, feeding) have been demonstrated in an information-free environment of continuous illumination (LL), rendering it an ideal model for research on the physiology of the circannual clock.
(9) Attention has been focused on the suitability of PEG ointment bases in tropical and subtropical regions.
(10) Arid subtropical climate zones are expanding poleward.
(11) The population density is such that an epidemic can occur even in the hot subtropical summer.
(12) This fungus is endemic to the tropical and subtropical regions; our case suggests that it may be endemic to the southern part of the United States as well.
(13) Cycad nuts, widely used as human food in tropical and subtropical areas, contain a potent carcinogen, methyl azoxymethanol, which is more or less removed prior to use by leaching in water.
(14) Experience in Cuba during the past 21 years, in Brazil during the past 5 years, and in the Dominican Republic during the past 2 years has shown that the strategy of annual short-term vaccination of all children in the most susceptible age groups can rapidly eliminate the disease from tropical and subtropical countries.
(15) Trypanosoma vivax is also present in the Caribbean and in South America, posing a threat to the livestock industries of the tropical and subtropical world.
(16) This article discusses epidemiology and control of equine parasites in the southern United States, where climates vary from warm temperate to subtropical and from humid in the southeast to arid in the southwest.
(17) The patients lived in a subtropical region, latitude about 27 degrees S, but the disease described is the same as that which occurs in the tropics and which goes by the name of "tropical myositis".
(18) However, our 47 ostomates were operated on 14 institutions in five countries and live in a subtropical climate-factors that may negatively affect the outcome.
(19) Pseudomonas pseudomallei, a gram negative organism causing melioidosis, is found in tropical and subtropical regions.
(20) There is a dearth of literature on tropical ulcers in the rural areas in the tropics and subtropics.