(n.) An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
(n.) A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape.
(n.) The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork.
(v. t. & i.) To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
(2) No matter how much you enjoy cooking, you definitely won't need a mortar or a pestle.
(3) One product failed to release its chlorpheniramine even when ground in a mortar and pestle in HCl solution, but did release drug in H3PO4 solution.
(4) The Chelex resin beads were ground in a mortar-pestle to form ground Chelex resin beads.
(5) 2 Mash the preserved lemon – flesh and skin – in a pestle and mortar and place in a glass with the lime juice, syrup and mint.
(6) Patterns of prosthetic failure included fracture, fraying, and compressive deformation or rotary wear ("motar and pestle") of the silicone radial head; a prosthetic stem fracture was also present.
(7) This system allows the bone cartilage on the surface to receive an even impact on the whole section through the piston-like action of the pressure pestle, thus making it possible for the crushed cartilage to be evenly extended in all directions.
(8) The only way to prepare high molecular weight rapidly labelled RNA and polysomes was to grind freeze-dried cells together with kieselguhr with a mortar and pestle.
(9) Put all the ingredients for the sauce in a mortar, add a quarter-teaspoon of salt, and pound with a pestle to a rough paste.
(10) The data show that a rigorous washing routine must be followed to achieve a "clean" mortar and pestle.
(11) It was shown that encapsulated cells dried with acetone and ground to a fine powder with a mortar and pestle retain their capsules.
(12) The best type of seaweed to use is "aonori" flakes, but most dried seaweed can be ground in a pestle and mortar.
(13) Peel and mash the garlic with a pestle and mortar or in a blender with the egg yolk, olive oil, vinegar, mustard and harissa.
(14) Three different methods of tissue processing have been assessed: (i) freeze-clamping (-196 degrees C), using grooved, aluminium tongs which produce frozen cylinders of tissue (3 mm diameter) which fit directly into esr tubes; (ii) grinding of freeze-clamped tissue with a porcelain pestle and mortar; (iii) lyophilization of ground, freeze-clamped, tissue.
(15) The anvil has a rounded surface enclosed by cylindrical walls, while the pressure pestle functions as a piston within the cylindrical walls.
(16) The pestle, rubbing against the gutta-percha inside the amalgam capsule, generates enough frictional heat to blend the gutta-percha and the eucalyptol.
(17) 3 Put the cardamom pods in a pestle and mortar and bash until the pods split.
(18) With the microblending technique a mean of 9.4 green plants and 0.4 albino plants were regenerated per plated anther while a mean of only 2.8 green and 0.17 albino plants per anther were regenerated from microspores isolated after pestle maceration of the anthers.
(19) Roughly crush the peppercorns and fennel using a pestle and mortar.
(20) 2 In a pestle and mortar (or using a large knife) make the garlic into a paste by squashing it into a little salt.
Pig
Definition:
(n.) A piggin.
(n.) The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog.
(n.) Any wild species of the genus Sus and related genera.
(n.) An oblong mass of cast iron, lead, or other metal. See Mine pig, under Mine.
(n.) One who is hoggish; a greedy person.
(v. t. & i.) To bring forth (pigs); to bring forth in the manner of pigs; to farrow.
(v. t. & i.) To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combined immediate and delayed responses to fleas in the dog are as observed by other investigators in man and guinea pigs.
(2) The ability of azelastine to influence antigen-induced contractile responses (Schultz-Dale phenomenon) in isolated tracheal segments of the guinea-pig was investigated and compared with selected antiallergic drugs and inhibitors of arachidonic acid metabolism.
(3) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(4) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(5) Concentrations of several gastrointestinal hormonal peptides were measured in lymph from the cisterna chyli and in arterial plasma; in healthy, conscious pigs during ingestion of a meal.
(6) These experiments indicated that there were significant differences between the early classical C system of mice and those of human and guinea pig.
(7) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(8) An argon laser beam was used to irradiate the round window in 17 guinea pigs.
(9) The sequential histopathologic alterations in femorotibial joints of partial meniscectomized male and female guinea pigs were evaluated at 1, 2, 3, 6, and 12 weeks post-surgery.
(10) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
(11) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
(12) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(13) In guinea pig ventricular myocytes, the positive contractile staircase was associated with ascending staircases of both peak systolic and end diastolic [Ca2+]i because of a cumulative increase in diastolic [Ca2+]i.
(14) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
(15) Ernst Reissner studied the formation of the inner ear initially using the embryos of fowls, then the embryos of mammals, mainly cows and pigs, and to a less extent the embryos of man.
(16) of about 330 000 for the elementary peptide chains of pig and sheep thyroglobulin.
(17) It is probably that tolazoline also releases acetylcholine from the guinea pig atria.
(18) Cell recovery data for the hamster, rat, guinea pig, and rabbit were related to body size with the hamster having the lowest count and the rabbit the highest count.
(19) Clonidine has previously been shown to potentiate HIB in guinea pigs.
(20) Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against the soluble form (S-COMT) of catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT, EC 2.1.1.6) were produced using a purified preparation of the enzyme from pig liver as antigen.