(n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
(n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(n.) A high, tapering silk hat.
(n.) A worthless horse.
(n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
(v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Example Sentences:
(1) Results obtained from cumulative labeling and pulse-labeling and chase experiments with cells from late gastrulae, yolk plug-stage embryos, and neurulae showed that the 30S RNA is an intermediate in rRNA processing and is derived from 40S pre-rRNA and processed to 28S rRNA.
(2) Six of the obstructed livers developed biliary cast formation so extensive that the smaller intrhepatic ducts became plugged to an extent that they could no longer have been treated by surgical mena.
(3) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
(4) This report describes two patients with long-term catheter use who developed increasing respiratory failure and cor pulmonale, at least in part, due to a large tracheal mucus plug.
(5) Certain of the schistosomes were covered with a dense mass of interconnected blood platelets resembling a temporary haemostatic plug but not a blood clot.
(6) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
(7) The device was composed of a standard biopsy brush, protected by a single catheter and occluded with an agar plug.
(8) The main histological features of the tumour were enormous, but relatively regular, acanthosis of rete pegs revealing no similarity to the squamous-cell carcinoma, and an exclusively parakeratottic eleidine-containing central plug.
(9) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
(10) Parties are a tedious chore, while sponsorships are pretty tiresome too: can you remember the key messaging about that motor oil you agreed to plug to the nearest reporter?
(11) Aqueous plugs are introduced on both sides of the plasma sample before it enters the precolumn.
(12) It’s as if they were a team away from the team, and they’re not shy of plugging into it.
(13) So the kids then went and pulled out the computer, plugged in the modem and they found it on YouTube.
(14) Three times a week, he rolled his wheelchair up to a computer monitor and allowed scientists from Battelle , a nonprofit research organisation that invented the technology they hoped would let him move his hand with his thoughts again, to plug into his brain.
(15) After standardized observation of mating behavior culminating in ejaculation and a sperm plug, females were allowed to produce litters in undisturbed conditions.
(16) Histological studies showed a prolonged healing process in both eyes, with a persistent epithelial plug.
(17) The consequence of these derangements is often widespread plugging of small bronchi and bronchioles.
(18) Posterior fossa decompression with obex plugging (the Gardner operation) was the procedure of choice for SM-ACM and for idiopathic holocord syringomyelia.
(19) Commerzbank, 25% owned by the German government, is trying to raise €5.3bn to plug a capital gap identified by the European Banking Authority.
(20) Tube dysfunction, defined as peritube leakage, plugging, fracture, or migration, occurred in 36% of patients over a mean follow-up period of 275 days and was significantly more common and likely to necessitate tube replacement in PEJ patients.
Suppository
Definition:
(n.) A pill or bolus for introduction into the rectum; esp., a cylinder or cone of medicated cacao butter.
Example Sentences:
(1) Diclofenac sodium suppositories 150-200 mg day-1 were compared with placebo in a double-blind study during the first 3 days after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty in 40 patients with habitual snoring or obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.
(2) The in vitro and in vivo results show that the release of indomethacin from fatty-base suppositories stored at a high temperature is less than the release from those stored at a low temperature.
(3) After liberation of 5-ASA in the terminal ileum (only slow release oral preparations of 5-ASA) and colon (5-ASA suppositories and enemas), 5-ASA is only partly absorbed.
(4) Rectal suppository is a well-known form of medication and its use is increasing.
(5) The administration of PGE2 vaginal suppositories offers an effective and safe technique for the induction of labor in patients with IUFD.
(6) The absorption times of the two drugs from suppositories with cocoa butter and Witepsol H 15 were relatively short.
(7) In vitro release of benzocaine from some commercially available suppositories was compared with experimental preparations.
(8) The adsorption in humans of nitrofurantoin from seven suppository bases was studied using urinary excretion measurements.
(9) The results show that both hydrocortisone (H) and prednisolone-21-hexanoate (P) are rapidly (tmax = 2-3 h) and significantly (H: 60-78%, P: 47-58%) absorbed from suppositories and thus can also cause systemic effects.
(10) Three cases of adenocarcinoma of the lower esophagus and cardia which is considered to be difficult to control by radiotherapy alone, were given radical irradiation combined with FT-207 suppository.
(11) In volunteers the activity of various doses of a nasal spray and of a suppository of salmon calcitonin was compared to a placebo and to the parenteral route of administration.
(12) When vomiting occurs early in the attack, treatment is best given by suppository, inhalation or intramuscular injection.
(13) Primary eye irritation of MCG suppository of CMZ was studied in rabbits.
(14) Treatment consisted of daily intravaginal application of one of the following regimens: 80-mg terconazole suppositories for 3 days, miconazole nitrate suppositories for 7 days or placebo suppositories for 7 days.
(15) Further studies in pregnant women showed that PGE2 administered in special vaginal suppositories resulted in: 1) 1 case at the 23rd week of pregnancy, the expulsion of the dead fetus by inserting 2 suppositories (4 mg PGE2 each) with the induction delivery time of 2 hours 20 minutes, and 2) one case in which the expulsion occurred after 1 suppository with an induction delivery time of 4 hours 30 minutes.
(16) We were enlightened by this therapeutic experience, so we attempted combination therapy using pepleomycin suppositories to supplement intra-cavitary irradiation, for the 11 selected patients who were suffering from uterine fluor.
(17) Oral administration gave higher values for mean residence time (MRT) and absolute bioavailability (F) compared to suppository dosage forms.
(18) 1 group (non-diaphragm) had a 20 mg. suppository inserted every 4 hours high in the vaginal fornix.
(19) Patients were divided into three treatment groups: one group received the drug intravenously, another as suppositories and the third one by both routes.
(20) The women were all 9 weeks pregnant, and received 600 mg RU-38486 orally at 10.30 hr, followed 48 hours later by a vaginal suppository containing 1 mg 16,16- dimethyl-trans-2-PGE1 (Gemeprost, May and Baker).