(v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.
(n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.
(n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sequential birth control pills are less common than monophasic pills, partly because the "first generation" sequential pills, which used estrogen only during the 1st part of the cycle, were more dangerous than the monophasic pills.
(2) Despite this, the public is more suspicious than ever of the danger of pills.
(3) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(4) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
(5) This study compared one particular interview question to a pill-count measure by studying 98 patients who visited their family physician, received medication instructions, and were interviewed in their homes ten days later.
(6) 40 women aged 18-36 used the Postinor brand, levonorgestrel-containing, pill from the Gedeon-Richter firm for 240 menstrual cycles.
(7) This makes The Red Pill a continuous, multi-voiced, up-to-the-minute male complaint nestled at the heart of the so-called manosphere – a network of websites preoccupied with both the men’s rights movement and how to pick up women.
(8) Patients may have difficulty in the transition from one packet of pills to the next, and missed pills that extend the hormone-free interval may contribute to the failure rate.
(9) Among women using the pill for 8 years, the relative risk was 2.6 (p0.0001).
(10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
(11) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
(12) The amino acid pool in leukocytes was found to be smaller in those patients taking the "pill".
(13) Only 2% of the subjects refused to take any pills, and, among pill takers, over 95% were reported to be taking most of their pills at the end of the study.
(14) 88% of the women in the recent study had used the pill at some point and 45% had used an IUD--methods that were not available to women in the 1940s.
(15) The pill group gave birth on an average of 5.79 days after the date forecast by Naegele's rule and .15 days before the date calculated from the ultrasound examination.
(16) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(17) The estrogen potencies of 9 oral contraceptive pills, Enovid-E, Enovid-5, Ovulen, Demulen, Norinyl+80, Norinyl+50, Ovral, Norlestrin 1 mg. and Norlestrin 2.5 mg., were determined by bioassay.
(18) Motor behavior of substitutes was assessed following dry swallows and following several stimuli: intraluminar injection of 30 ml of water or 0.1N hydrochloric acid and swallowing pills.
(19) Presumably the competitive binding of iron by ascorbic acid in the vitamin pill allowed uninhibited absorption of the iron.
(20) Ten women were taking an oral contraceptive containing 50 mug oestrogen and progestogen ("combined pill"), one patient took a progestogen-only contraceptive and 14 served as controls.
Pilulous
Definition:
(a.) Like a pill; small; insignificant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since the bioavailability of the suspension and the tablet of DDB given orally is only 20-30%, we have prepared four kinds of DDB solid dispersion preparations (DDB pilule I with polyethylene glycol 6000 as the vehicle, DDB pilule II with polyethylene glycol 6000 and absorption accelerator as the vehicle, capsule of DDB-urea fusing mixture and DDB-polyvinyl pyrrolidone coprecipitate), and the bioavailability of these preparations were studied in rabbits, rats and human volunteers by HPLC method.
(2) Indomethacin (IDM)-PEG 6000 pilules were prepared using PEG 6000 as the carrier.
(3) Therefore, there are good reasons to use DDB pilule II instead of the tablets of suspension in the clinic.
(4) The dissolution rate of DDB-PEG 6000 pilule and two kinds of DDB tablets were determined.
(5) When the effective dose of IDM-PEG 6000 was only half that of IDM tablet, the irritation of IDM-PEG 6000 pilule on rat stomach was reduced significantly but it still manifested the action of inhibiting the secretion of basal gastric acid.
(6) This paper reports a method for determining tetramethyl pyrazine in pilules, injections and extracts of Ligusticum chuanxiong by high performance liquid chromatography.
(7) The solubility of IDM in IDM-PEG 6000 pilules was about twice as much as pure IDM.
(8) The protective action of pilule II against CCl4 hepatotoxicity was about six times stronger than that of the suspensions.
(9) All four preparations showed better absorption than the DDB tablet, and the area under serum DDB concentration-time curve of pilule II was 19 fold that of the tablet in rabbits, meaning that the absorption of pilule II is the best of the four preparations.
(10) The dissolution rate of DDB-PEG 6000 pilule was found to be faster.