(1) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(2) There was a clear relationship between the receptor responses and odour concentration.
(3) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
(4) This may be managed in future by an odour-reducing minimal APS-addition under a 2%-application.
(5) • Rules requiring local authorities to investigate and abate noise, dust and odour nuisances will be liberalised or improved.
(6) Distinction was made between different types of odours (rotten, wood).
(7) These laboratory bioassay findings agree with field observations on tsetse responses to certain chemical odours.
(8) A substantial improvement in the rate of detection of organic lesions affecting the olfactory pathway can be achieved by substituting odours such as musk ketone, exaltolide, linalyl acetate and coumarin for those in current use.
(9) One month later the subjects underwent a second recognition test, at the end of which they were required to give an evaluation of the pleasantness of each odour on a nine-point scale.
(10) Diluted DOMESTOS proved to be a cleaning agent and germicide, but was, however, blamed for chlorine odour, especially when diluted with warm water.
(11) The patient developed a characteristic fish odour of his sweat, urine and to his breath after the consumption of choline-rich foods.
(12) Only ACB produced classical musk-like UAO (UAO + ve) in an in vitro odour-producing system with 29% being UAO -ve.
(13) Effective stimuli were the odours of cattle and sheep and high concentrations of carbon dioxide from dry ice.
(14) A fast method for such comparisons, based on volume matching followed by the estimation of comparable surface dots, is presented and applied on a few selected sandalwood odour molecules.
(15) The plug is made of a soft, pliable plastic material with open cells, containing a carbon filter which allows flatus to pass odour-free.
(16) This study examines the effect of synthetic cattle-derived odours, presented with Communicable Diseases Centre (CDC) miniature light traps for mosquitoes and also with sticky traps for sandflies, in Sri Lanka.
(17) A statistical significant training effect could be shown with the qualitative test for training of the odour memory as well as the articulation in describing of smell impressions.
(18) The results were analysed from two viewpoints: the role of odour as a warning against chemical hazard, a possibility of using the shift of sensation threshold of appropriately selected reference standards as a measure of discomfort created by odours in working environment.
(19) The activities of 45 RRUs were analyzed during sniffing in response to an odour stimulus.
(20) The maturation of the granule cells of the ferret olfactory bulb around the time of odour imprinting has been examined.
Snuff
Definition:
(v. t.) The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.
(v. t.) To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
(v. i.) To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
(v. i.) To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
(v. i.) To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
(v. i.) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
(n.) The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
(n.) Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
(n.) Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relatively high levels of potentially carcinogenic TSNA in the saliva, together with the current popularity of snuff usage by teenagers, is of particular concern.
(2) Individual effects of tobacco on, a.o., the blood vessel supply of the oral mucosa were, thus, documented photographically every five minutes after cigarette smoking and snuff-dipping respectively in three healthy volunteers, aged 45, 35 and 30 years.
(3) The use of smokeless forms of tobacco, such as snuff and chewing tobacco, is growing at alarming rates.
(4) The dose-response relationship between pancreatic bicarbonate production and varying doses of synthetic secretin administered intravenously and in the form of snuff, was good.
(5) Twenty-nine subjects, 3 showing Degree 2 lesions, 21 Degree 3 lesions and 5 Degree 4 lesions, all of them loose snuff users were identified.
(6) These data confirm that a water-soluble extract of snuff has anti-cytolytic and anti-proliferative effects on peripheral blood lymphocytes.
(7) During the last ten years, over 900 samples of foods, snuff and other products on the Swedish market were analysed for N-nitrosamines.
(8) 184 using exclusively loose and 68 portion-bag snuff.
(9) Most of the snuff brands were rich in nitrate (greater than or equal to 1.5%), total polyphenols (greater than 2%), and in nicotine (greater than or equal to 1.5%), which is the habituating factor in tobacco use.
(10) Based on 133 cases diagnosed between 1976-1982 and 948 controls, there were significant excesses associated with use of the drug chloramphenicol (odds ratio (OR) = 5.4, 95% confidence interval (Cl) 1.2-23.9) and chewing tobacco or snuff (OR = 1.8, 95% Cl 1.1-2.9).
(11) Smokeless tobacco (chewing tobacco and snuff) contains known carcinogens shown to increase the risk for oral cancer.
(12) However, the formation of N-nitrosoproline in cigarette smokers and snuff dippers proves that smoke and snuff have a measurable potential for the endogenous formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines.
(13) It was found that 50 (81%) of the 62 questioned patients used snuff in the form of saffa.
(14) Various Indian tobacco products--cigarette, bidi, chutta and their smoke, chewing tobacco and snuff (used for inhalation as well as a dentifrice) were analysed for their content of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (N'-nitrosonornicotine, 4-(N-nitrosomethylamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone and N'-nitrosoanatabine) by means of a gas chromatograph interfaced with a thermal energy analyser.
(15) After 3000 chewing strokes on each plate, the wear of the plate used while chewing snuff was significantly less compared to the plate used while chewing with nothing in the mouth.
(16) To estimate the risk of myocardial infarction in snuff users, cigarette smokers, and non-tobacco users in northern Sweden, where using snuff is traditional.
(17) Loose snuff users showed predominantly histologic Type 1 changes while portion-bag users showed more histologic Type 2 or only very discrete changes.
(18) The response of the human pancreas to varying doses of pure synthetic secretin administered intravenously and, for comparison, 8 days later in the form of snuff was examined, intraindividually, in 10 healthy test subjects.
(19) The suppression of ulcers was most evident for those groups smoking pipe or cigarettes without filter and only moderate for those using snuff.
(20) Why, it's Sepp Maier demonstrating how to use a snuff feather, of course.