(n.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.
Example Sentences:
(1) Samples were taken on 2 rainless mornings at the peak mugwort flowering time.
(2) The sera that did not detect the 15 kD bands in celery failed to react with both the 15 kD mugwort component and the 14 and 16 kD birch components.
(3) RAST investigations on the sera of 27 patients suffering from celery allergy showed specific IgE to mugwort and birch in 15 cases; sensitization to mugwort or birch alone only occurred in 5 and 7 cases, respectively.
(4) Thus 98% of atopic patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis were detected by an allergen panel consisting of timothy, birch and mugwort.
(5) The degree of skin sensitivity to five common allergens (grass, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, mugwort, birch, and Parietaria) was determined by the threshold dilution technique in all the skin test reactors of a random sample of 295 schoolchildren (142 male and 153 female subjects, age range 11 to 14 years), and the frequency distribution of responders at each concentration was analyzed by probit analysis.
(6) The QSPT performed on the same 29 allergic patients established that 17.4 micrograms lyophilised reference mugwort pollen extract per ml had a biological potency of 1 HEP (histamine equivalent by prick test).
(7) Specific serum IgE to spices (determined in 41 patients with positive RAST to celery) up to class 3 were seen especially in patients with celery-mugwort or celery-birch-mugwort association, and concerned various botanical families.
(8) 35% by three pollens responsible for the so-called spring pollinosis, and 50% by weeds (plantain, nettle, mugwort) the cause of late summer pollinosis.
(9) A crude and a partly purified extract of mugwort pollen were characterized with particular emphasis on the glycoprotein allergen Ag7.
(10) In most sera IgE against various spices was present; all 12 sera contained IgE against mugwort-pollen extract.
(11) The patient suffers from hay fever and bronchial asthma caused by a variety of pollens (grass, olive, and mugwort).
(12) It is concluded that direct RAST titration allergen assay is not adequate for all kinds of allergen preparations and that the Phadebas RAST for mugwort is less sensitive than the RAST for other allergens.
(13) An associated allergy to several spices is quite common, and therefore the term "celery-mugwort-spice-syndrome" has been proposed.
(14) The allergenic potency of different birch, Timothy and mugwort pollen extracts was determined by means of a direct RAST titration allergen assay.
(15) It could be identified 43 antigens of mugwort pollen (Artemisia vulgaris), 31 migrating anodically and 12 cathodically, by means of crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE).
(16) Simultaneous conjunctival and nasal provcation tests, a total of 174 test pairs, were carried out in fifty patients with allergic rhinitis, using serially diluted antigen solutions of birch, Timothy grass and mugwort pollen, as well as cat and dog dander.
(17) By contrast, in the celery-mugwort sensitive patients (n = 6) the celery RASTs with heated celery extracts remained clearly positive and high RAST values to stick celery could be found.
(18) The analysis of allergens and RAST inhibition tests showed us a close relationship of allergens of Chrysanthemum pollens and pollens of mugwort.
(19) In RAST-inhibition experiments with three different sera, a cross-reactivity between mugwort pollen and coriander could be demonstrated.
(20) Measurement of radioactivities in airborne particles, rain water, drinking water, milk, and mugwort are carried out by gamma-ray spectrometry (pure Ge detector; ORTEC GMX-23195).
Wormwood
Definition:
(n.) A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
(n.) Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.
Example Sentences:
(1) UK prison population is biggest in western Europe Read more The final version of the inspection report remains highly critical of conditions in Wormwood Scrubs, where outcomes for the 1,258 men held there are still “unacceptably poor”.
(2) He was killed as armed police swooped and foiled an attempt to free Izzet Eren as he was being transported from Wormwood Scrubs prison to Wood Green crown court on 11 December.
(3) More than 50 staff at Wormwood Scrubs prison have walked out, saying they do not feel safe there.
(4) Staff are human, they are under extreme pressure, the service is under extreme pressure, and sometimes there are tragic consequences.” In the 20-month period, the figures show that Woodhill, Wormwood Scrubs and Hewell prisons had the highest number of self-inflicted deaths, with five each.
(5) Question Time will be recorded at about 8.30pm next Thursday and then broadcast at 10.35pm on BBC1 from Wormwood Scrubs, a category B prison in west London that accepts inmates who are over 21 who and do not require maximum security.
(6) A few days later, he was judged well enough to return to Wormwood Scrubs, where it appeared that the jail was not prepared for him.
(7) He said that he had dumped one of the devices in a park in Wormwood Scrubs, west London, and later handed himself into police saying that he had backed out of the plot, which he believed was real, at the last minute.
(8) I want to see prisoners motivated to engage in their own learning and governors with the right tools to be more demanding and creative about the education provided in the prisons they run.” Coates recently carried out a review of teaching standards for the Department for Education and her recommended diet of punctuality, respect and constant exams has been credited with turning around Burlington Danes academy in White City in west London, which lies in the shadow of Wormwood Scrubs prison.
(9) In August last year, Daniel Roque Hall was rushed from Wormwood Scrubs prison, London to University College Hospital and placed in intensive care.
(10) It is not the first time Wormwood Scrubs has been used as a broadcasting venue.
(11) I have taught around 40 inmates in Wormwood Scrubs and 10 in Brixton alongside three other mentors.
(12) In February this year, he was released by the court of appeal after his lawyers argued Wormwood Scrubs could not meet his complex medical needs.
(13) The activities of six other species of Tanacetum, as well as of Artemisia absinthium (wormwood) and Zingiber officinale (ginger), and two commercial drugs for migraine prophylaxis, verapamil hydrochloride and propranolol hydrochloride, were also assessed.
(14) Allergenic active fractions of ragweed, wormwood, goosefoot and sunflower pollen with a molecular weight of 37 000, 19 000, 35 000 and 14 000, respectively, were isolated by chromatography on Sephadex.
(15) Anne says the judge looked shocked after Wormwood Scrubs insisted it was perfectly capable of looking after her son.
(16) They also heard from Zoe Kealey who talked frankly about the painful events that led up to her brother Darwin hanging himself in Wormwood Scrubs prison.
(17) Security on BBC1's Question Time will be tighter than ever for Thursday night's edition being broadcast from Wormwood Scrubs and featuring under-fire justice secretary Ken Clarke.
(18) The earlier version also reported that one in 10 prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs said they had been physically assaulted and that “too many prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm were held in the segregation unit without any explanation of the exceptional reasons required to justify it”.
(19) Jennifer Edward-Price, deputy education manager at Wormwood Scrubs, has seen at first hand inmates’ transformation.
(20) Cell Mates, the story of the relationship between the Russian spy George Blake and Sean Bourke, the Irishman who helped him escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and defect to Moscow, looked like a surefire success.