(n.) A treelike perennial herb (Musa paradisiaca) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.
(n.) The fruit of this plant. It is long and somewhat cylindrical, slightly curved, and, when ripe, soft, fleshy, and covered with a thick but tender yellowish skin. The plantain is a staple article of food in most tropical countries, especially when cooked.
(n.) Any plant of the genus Plantago, but especially the P. major, a low herb with broad spreading radical leaves, and slender spikes of minute flowers. It is a native of Europe, but now found near the abode of civilized man in nearly all parts of the world.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the present study tend to confirm that plantain banana powder strengthens mucosal resistance and promotes the healing of ulcers.
(2) 35% by three pollens responsible for the so-called spring pollinosis, and 50% by weeds (plantain, nettle, mugwort) the cause of late summer pollinosis.
(3) At Melao Bakery, a classic Puerto Rican restaurant that serves quesitos, cream-filled doughnuts and a popular dish of fried green plantain called mofongo, several of the customers were also still wavering between the candidates.
(4) The third example concerns the use of laxatives of plant origin such as plantain seeds and the drugs Agiocur and Agiolax.
(5) 28% were skin test positive to plantain pollen extract.
(6) Of the 985 children examined, 38 per cent claimed to use a toothbrush, 31 per cent chewing sticks, 17 per cent plantain and 14 per cent the chewing sponge.
(7) An official preparation of plantain sap was shown to ward off this effect and to contribute to the normalising of certain parameters of epithelial cells.
(8) Plantain pollen sensitivity should therefore be considered during diagnosis of seasonal allergy.
(9) In each area, 95-97% of all atopic children were sensitized to one of the following seven allergens: house dust, Dermatophagoides farinae, D. pteronyssinus, cat dander, plantain, rye grass, and Alternaria tenuis.
(10) These included timothy, meadow, false oat, rye, giant and short ragweed, plantain, silver birch and ash.
(11) Weeds elicit two levels of allergenicity, a high level by the Ragweeds and other members of the Asteraceae, and a much lower level by members of the families Amaranthaceae (Pigweed, Western Water Hemp), Chenopodiaceae (Lamb's Quarters, Kochia, and Russian Thistle), and Plantaginaceae (Plantain) in the St. Louis, Missouri area.
(12) Dendrograms based on oligonucleotide fingerprint band sharing data proved to be consistent with most of the known features of the history of banana and plantain cultivation and evolution, respectively.
(13) Hippophae, Rosa and plantain oils have been shown to produce and essential therapeutic action on chemical burns of rabbit eye.
(14) As the family eventually gather, tables are scraped together and a medley of English breakfasts and St Lucian salt fish and plantains piled on to plates.
(15) The resulting data confirm an abundance of ragweed and nettle emanations but suggest that those of plantains, chenopods, and amaranths achieve modest levels, at best, despite their prominence in gravity slide recoveries.
(16) Evidence is cited to show the essential adequacy of protein in root crops, except plantain and cassava and for all humans except perhaps some infants.
(17) Other plants used are osha, chuchupate-lovage; ponso or tanse-tansy; poleo-spearmint or pennyroyal mint; amolillo-wild licorice; dormilon-tall cone flower; malva; and, lanten-plantain.
(18) A young man sells plantain chips in traffic jam at Marina Lagos.
(19) Characterisation by SDS-PAGE immunoblotting of plantain pollen extract showed that components of 16,000-20,000 M(r) were frequently reactive with IgE antibody in the sera of subjects with seasonal respiratory allergy.
(20) The results show that sorrel (Rumex) and plantain (Plantago) also belong to the most important pollens and should therefore be included in the test spectrum for allergological examinations.
Sessile
Definition:
(a.) Attached without any sensible projecting support.
(a.) Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.
(a.) Permanently attached; -- said of the gonophores of certain hydroids which never became detached.
Example Sentences:
(1) These 87 adenomas were mostly (79%) under 5 mm in diameter, sessile (89%) and histologically tubular with slight dysplasia (95%).
(2) We classify the hernias as pedunculated or sessile, with associated factors such as viability of herniated brain, infection, CSF leak, and neurologic complications.
(3) Two hundred and fifty colonoscopy procedures were reviewed, revealing 87 sessile colon polyps ranging from 0.5-6.0 cm.
(4) Traditional elastomeric impression materials, four recently developed "hydrophilic" silicones and a hydrocolloid have been tested for their accuracy of reproduction by use of indirect measurements via plaster dies and for their wettability by means of the sessile drop method.
(5) In flow-through microcosms RC-4(pSI30), undetectable as free-living cells, was found by enrichment as irreversibly bound sessile forms.
(6) Endoscopic resection of large sessile adenomas can be safe and effective.
(7) Pieces of Douglas fir and polyvinyl chloride were colonized in a recirculating system and the comparative efficacy of two biocides (Bronopol and Kathon) against the sessile and planktonic populations was examined.
(8) A 44-year-old woman was found to have a sessile lesion replacing most of her endometrium and endocervical mucosa, consisting of an intimate admixture of endometrial glands, endometrial stroma, and smooth muscle.
(9) Microscopically, they varied from complex papillary to sessile nodular growths.
(10) In the various tested situations in which the migration of cells to lymph nodes was inhibited, it seemed to be the relationship of the cell surfaces of the sessile and circulating cells which played an important role in the outcome of their interactions.
(11) This role includes many facets of immunity such as the effects of antigen specificity, immunologic memory, differential behavior of recirculating or sessile populations, and local and systemic contact between antigen and effector cells.
(12) The mineralization activity of sessile catheter-associated bacteria was unaffected by four hr.
(13) The expression of HLA-DR, HLA-DP and HLA-DQ antigens and of the associated invariant chain (Ii) was studied immunohistologically in sessile cells of normal ileum and ileum affected by Crohn's disease which was taken as a model for chronic inflammation.
(14) Large polyps are sessile or pedunculated lesions that are larger than or equal to 3 cm in size.
(15) Evidence is presented that upon stimulation with endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide, LPS), Kupffer cells, the body's largest pool of sessile macrophages, synthesize and liberate a factor whose immunological, cytotoxic and chemical properties are those described for tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha.
(16) We have devised a modification of the sessile drop method for making the required measurements.
(17) Depending on three related factors (increasing size, a sessile rather than pedunculated mode of growth, and a villous rather than tubular microscopic architecture), one may find minute (1 to 2-mm) or microcancer with increasing frequency in adenomas.
(18) and Dolichoderinae (Tapinoma sessile, Conomyrma insana, Conomyrma wheeleri).
(19) B lymphocyte development occurs in the intersinusoidal spaces of bone marrow in association with a sessile population of stromal cells.
(20) When the results for five strains were studied by analysis of variance at 6 and 24 h, the main variable was the antibiotic concentration, followed by the culture conditions, e.g., planktonic or sessile bacteria, the strain tested, and the time of contact.