(n.) A Peruvian name for certain species of Oxalis (O. crenata, and O. tuberosa) which bear edible tubers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Estrogen component of OCA is represented by ethinyl estradiol or mestranol.
(2) There was a consistently higher degree of correlation between serum folate and folate intake among the control women than among the OCA users.
(3) An 8-hour urine collection after a 2-g tryptophan load showed at 6 times increased excretion of xanthurenic acid in those using OCAs as compared with nonusers.
(4) The reduction in the fractional loss of 45Ca, when going from normal Ringer's solution to an ONa--OCa medium, was 60%.
(5) Most cases of OCA are inherited on an autosomal recessive basis.
(6) Mechanism of action, indications, side effects and contraindications of oral contraceptive agents (OCA) are reviewed.
(7) This clinical and biochemical pattern has not been seen in any of the previously described types of OCA.
(8) The biochemical riboflavin status showed no relationship with the duration of OCA use.
(9) Minimal pigment, a new type of oculocutaneous albinism (OCA), is described.
(10) Finally, transient expression assay of mutant tyrosinase is invaluable to conclude that OCA phenotypes are associated with the mutant tyrosinase alleles.
(11) Several types of autosomal recessive oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) are associated with abnormal tyrosinase function and a generalized reduction in or absence of cutaneous and eye melanin.
(12) The preservation of drug sensitivity and resistance under the conditions of our organoid culture assay (OCA) was demonstrated by investigating 3 strains of a human hypopharynx carcinoma which differed by different sensitivity to cisplatin in in vivo conditions.
(13) No significant effect of OCA on serum zinc and on hair concentration of these trace elements was noted.
(14) Fractions OCA and OCD did not share common antigenic determinations as determined by immunodiffusion.
(15) Following SOC ablations, type 4 endings degenerated in the OCA ipsilateral to the lesion.
(16) Among these PASFs, PASFs from the cyst fluids of OCA in benign did not react with Arachis hypogaea anti-T lectin (PNA) and both of the anti-N lectins of Vicia graminea (VGA) and Vicia unijuga (VUA), and PASFs from OCA in borderline reacted with only PNA and PASFs from OCC in malignant reacted with the three lectins, PNA, VGA and VUA.
(17) OCA also occurs in a number of life-threatening conditions, including Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, Chediak-Higashi syndrome, and Griscelli-Prunieras syndrome.
(18) The OCA reaches cytological maturity at three weeks postnatally, after progression through four stages, defined on the basis of octopus cell cytology (including relative numbers of somatic and dendritic filopodia and spines) and the frequency, ultrastructure and location of previously defined synaptic terminals.
(19) Moreover, we are able to show the presence of additional DNA segments cross-hybridizable to exon 4 or exon 5 of the tyrosinase gene in the genome of three OCA patients and a healthy individual.
(20) Rhesus monkeys were given either high estrogen, low progesterone or low estrogen-high progesterone oral contraceptive agents (OCAs) and maintained on either a 16% protein diet or a 4% protein diet.
Orca
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Japan should undertake some DNA research in Japanese fish markets, where endangered whales - including orcas and humpbacks - are being sold as minke whales.
(2) Last month, toymaker Mattel announced that it would no longer produce a SeaWorld version of its Barbie doll, which came dressed as a SeaWorld orca trainer.
(3) Its breeding programme is probably doomed by a combination of regulation (Californian authorities last year refused redevelopment plans for its San Diego site unless it stopped breeding orcas) and the fact that its virile male, Tilikum, appears to be dying .
(4) Partly out of recognition of Tilikum's huge size – at 12 tonnes he is the largest orca in captivity – and partly out of knowledge of the past, the park's 28 trainers were never allowed to swim with him.
(5) Would people bring their children to SeaWorld if they knew the cruelty behind the orca whale circus show?
(6) SeaWorld has long known this but accepts that abnormal (even desperate) orca behavior ... is the price paid for this form of human entertainment and company profit,” the court documents say.
(7) It asks whether a large corporation that makes money from the orca whales in its amusement parks has covered up dangers to the trainers and to the whales.
(8) The documentary implies that the orcas are driven to psychosis – and attacking humans – by the cruelties and indignities of their imprisonment.
(9) It is the second time SeaWorld has been sued in less than three weeks, after a similar class action lawsuit was filed in California last month alleging the company is misleading the public by claiming its captive killer whales, or orcas, are happy and thriving.
(10) It had previously issued a steady stream of lower-key newspaper ads, trying to push back aggressively against the message presented by Blackfish and the pall that was cast over the company when, in late 2009 and early 2010, trainer Alexis Martineau was killed by a SeaWorld-owned orca on loan to a Spanish theme park, and another trainer, Dawn Brancheau, was killed by a giant male orca during a show at SeaWorld in Orlando.
(11) But none of the conditions that led to these tragedies have truly changed for him, for the trainers, or for other orcas.
(12) The completeness of the amino acids composition of Orca meat proteins enables it to utilize this raw material for obtaining valuable food products in the form of concentrates or hydrolysates.
(13) Its five-day Orcas and Northern Lights break, staying in Grundarfjordur , costs from £1,148pp, with flights and full-board.
(14) They are also beautiful, rugged and rainforested, with views to the Rockies, and bays where you can often see orcas and humpback whales.
(15) The story she unravelled about Tilikum, a male orca at SeaWorld that was involved in the deaths of three people, turned her into an inadvertent activist.
(16) • Park website , Sacajawea Interpretive Center San Juan Islands national monument Facebook Twitter Pinterest An orca in San Juan Islands.
(17) They include excoriating cinematic treatments of Indonesian death squads, evangelical homophobia in Uganda, the uprising in Tahrir Square and an attack on the incarceration of orca whales in marine parks.
(18) SeaWorld lawsuit alleges orcas are drugged and confined in 'chemical tubs' Read more The environmental advocacy and research group Earth Island Institute, based in Berkeley, California, is advising the legal team representing the plaintiffs.
(19) At multiple points, the trainers attest to the orcas’ advanced emotional and mental characteristics, yet see no problem with locking that intelligence up for mere circus spectacle.
(20) The proteins of the Orca meat contain all the amino acids, including essential ones.