(n.) A tall rushlike plant (Cyperus Papyrus) of the Sedge family, formerly growing in Egypt, and now found in Abyssinia, Syria, Sicily, etc. The stem is triangular and about an inch thick.
(n.) The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.
(n.) A manuscript written on papyrus; esp., pl., written scrolls made of papyrus; as, the papyri of Egypt or Herculaneum.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the question of what writers owe their families is as old as the squiggles on papyrus in Tutankhamun’s tomb.
(2) When linked to a word processor, Papyrus can automatically read the manuscript, create a bibliography and produce a new copy of the manuscript in which the citations have been appropriately edited, and the references can be printed in any desired format.
(3) But some 2,000-year-old treacle brown remains made up of recycled scraps of Egyptian papyrus , torn up to encase the reptile, hide hard evidence of a substantial historical cover-up.
(4) Especially these days, with the internet and the wireless and papyrus and everything.
(5) Because Papyrus has tackled a complex task, mastery of the intricacies of the program may present a substantial challenge to novice computer users.
(6) Reports of hard and soft tissue injuries of the head in ancient Egypt were first published in the surgical "Book of Wounds" of E. Smith's Papyrus, which dates back to the 16th century B.C., and is assumed (Pahl, 1986) to be a collection of experiences gained over a thousand years.
(7) These lesions, seldom recognized in modern clinical practice, are first described in the oldest scientific and surgical treatise known, the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, over 5000 years ago.
(8) This paper describes a recent multidisciplinary study conducted by two library faculty members and one allied health faculty member to test a bibliometric method that used the MEDLINE and CINAHL databases on CD-ROM and the Papyrus database management program to produce a new collection development methodology.
(9) Surgical Papyrus known as "The Edwin Smith Papyrus" was published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted in 1930.
(10) Individual authors, as well as larger research groups, should be prepared for this type of commitment before acquiring the Papyrus system.
(11) We report an assessment of a dedicated modem line to DIMDI of Cologne (an institute offering a variety of biomedical, psychological and other literature databases), Medline on Silverplatter, Current Contents on disk and the Papyrus bibliography system.
(12) Interest in the papyrus lies in its being indisputably the most ancient document on gynaecology known.
(13) The first and longest period (covering roughly 3,000 years from 1500 BC to 1500 AD) begins with references to incisions into the "wind pipe" in the Ebers Papyrus and the Rig Veda.
(14) : the Kahun Medical Papyrus, the Ramesseum IV and Ramesseum V Papyri, the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, The Ebers Medical Papyrus and the Hearst Medical Papyrus.
(15) We find her name again and again in Jewish, Christian and pagan papyrus texts.
(16) Misinformed opponents of birth control who argue among other things that family planning is a US plot ignore the fact that the desire to avoid pregnancy dates from the remote past, as attested by evidence from early Egyptian papyruses.
(17) The examination of the nose has been known to the ancient Egyptian medical doctors (Papyrus Ebers), and is exactly described by Hippocrates (460-377 B. C.).
(18) The Papyrus was acquired by Edwin Smith in Luxor, 1862.
(19) This article presents a new translation of the papyrus Kahun.
(20) Papyrus is an inexpensive bibliographic database which provides some features not found in other similar packages.
Tablet
Definition:
(n.) A small table or flat surface.
(n.) A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, draw, or engrave; also, such a piece containing an inscription or a picture.
(n.) Hence, a small picture; a miniature.
(n.) A kind of pocket memorandum book.
(n.) A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague.
(n.) A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.
Example Sentences:
(1) HDL cholesterol and apolipoprotein A-1 decreased 17.6% and 27.9%, respectively, in the 1-tablet group compared with 28.0% and 38.3%, respectively, in the 4-tablet group (p = 0.07 and p = 0.06).
(2) Blood pressure profile was significantly reduced by verapamil up to 20 hours after tablet administration, while from 21 to 24 hours after drug intake BP values were similar to placebo.
(3) After stabilization of glycemic control on gliclazide, they took a 40 mg tablet of gliclazide either 30 minutes before, immediately before, or immediately after breakfast on 3 consecutive days.
(4) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
(5) Side effects were eliminated within 14 days of administration of 2 tablets daily of KN-10055 in 15 cases, which was thought to be a very good result; within 28 days in 13 cases, a good result; and in more than 28 days in 3 cases.
(6) Patients with moderate or severe rheumatoid disease of the hands often could not extract tablets from blister packs.
(7) Two commercial slow-release potassium chloride tablets, Slow-K and Addi-K have the characteristics of slow-release in the different dissolution conditions.
(8) This is the first reported case, to the best of my knowledge, of disk neovascularization occurring after intravenously injected, crushed, unfiltered, methylphenidate HCl tablets.
(9) An epidemic of abuse with "T's and blues" began in the late 1970's in which pentazocine-Talwin tablets ("T")--and the antihistamine tripelennamine (known as blues) were crushed, dissolved together, filtered, and injected intravenously.
(10) The procainamide plasma concentration was followed during maintenance therapy with a new procainamide retard tablet preparation in 23 hospitalized patients suffering from acute or chronic coronary heart disease with complicating ventricular arrhythmias.
(11) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(12) As soon as the component with the lower mechanical stability is percolating the powder system, tablet hardness is controlled entirely by this component.
(13) Dopamine agonist Bromocriptin tablet has been used in 102 cases, partly for the inhibition of puerperal lactation, partly for the treatment of infertility accompanied by hyperprolactinaemia.
(14) Following oral administration of 200 mg of E in capsules, tablets, or a solution dosage form to dogs, etintidine was rapidly and nearly completely absorbed with no significant first-pass elimination.
(15) The potassium concentrations in erythrocytes, serum and urine were continously determined in 3 patients who had taken acetyldigoxin (45 to 100 tablets Novodigal à 0,2 mg) in order to commit suicide.
(16) A further increase in silicon dioxide concentration produced tablets with relatively larger pore sizes.
(17) The rate of release of the drug from the compressed tablet containing the complex was significantly retarded in solutions at low pH and increased with increase in pH, and this was reflected in the blood levels in the dog after the oral administration.
(18) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
(19) Administration of a tablet in a tablespoon of yoghurt is a good alternative, even though the bioavailability of certain preparations may be reduced.
(20) Lethargy and somnolence were reported on both capsule and tablet by several subjects at a time which corresponded with the maximum concentration of drug in plasma.