(n.) A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.
(n.) A considerable number of animals closely clustered together; -- said of seals.
(v. i.) To swell; to fill; also, to produce pods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Middle component particles of bean pod mottle virus (BPMV) containing small protein subunits with a cleaved C terminus were used to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs).
(2) The length of small intestine, large intestine and caeca and the weight of gizzard expressed per kg of body weight increased with an increase in the level of carob pods meal, which is rich in fibre, in the diets.
(3) The other group of patients (n = 52) received CsA from the first POD, together with AZA and steroids.
(4) The anastomotic index was similar on postoperative day (POD) 1, 4, and 7; but on day 28 all handsewn anastomoses had larger diameters than the widest CEEA anastomosis.
(5) Sleep in the grand house (B&B doubles from £90) or in a yurt, eco-pod or your own tent.
(6) The trypsin inhibitor of Phaseolus vulgaris L. pods is thermosensitive but stable at low pH.
(7) The peroxidase-(POD)-thiocyanate-hydrogenperoxide-system is a well-known antibacterial system, which has been demonstrated to exist, for example, in milk and saliva.
(8) The other drowned patient (53 years) died on the 3rd postoperative day (POD) from ARDS.
(9) One farmer in Hebei province built seven buoyant steel-and-fibreglass "survival pods" in his garage.
(10) All control animals showed destructive grade 4 changes by POD 7.
(11) For the custard 4 egg yolks 400ml double cream 60g caster sugar 1 tbsp cornflour 1 tsp vanilla essence (or ½ vanilla pod, split) 1 Whisk the egg yolks for a minute in a largish heat-proof bowl (you need to be able to whisk the hot cream in later without worrying about it spilling over.)
(12) Long respiratory care was continued after tracheotomy, and finally he could wean from the mechanical respiratory care utilizing acetazolamide (carbonic anhydrase inhibitor) on 59 POD.
(13) Dimethylsulfoxide (15%) does not alter the LMG conversion rate of free POD, whilst a rate loss by 60% was observed for the immobilized enzyme.
(14) All patients with unfavourable neurological outcome were considered POD if absolute or relative contraindications to organ procurement were absent.
(15) We report here on a paternity analysis, using DNA fingerprinting, of mother-fetus pairs and males sampled from complete pods.
(16) I've just been in the pod listening to Sid Lowe talking about the possible Real Madrid players that Arsenal may be able to shake out of the Bernabéu in a Gareth Bale deal.
(17) In normal livers, only occasional sinusoid-lining cells were stained, whereas in SHN following POD or presumed viral hepatitis, hepatocytes of variable morphology showed significant immunoreactivity.
(18) Yang told the South China Morning Post that his biggest customers are businessmen from coal-rich Shanxi province; they have decided to remain anonymous for fear that panicked neighbors will try to steal their pods.
(19) At 53 days POD, lymphoblastic neoplastic cells in the dermis reacted with anti-T lymphocyte monoclonal antibody by the avidin biotin peroxidase complex method.
(20) The POD-like behavior of different DMEP esters indicates that specific attachment of the R group to the C-4 glucoside moiety is required for VM26-like activity.
Poo
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We may as well get some preschoolers to call each other poo-heads and be done with it."
(2) The results of the Stamey endoscopic cervicopexy modified procedure (Orozco-Pérez Poo) performed in 20 incontinent female patients are analyzed relative to urethrovesical prolapse, length of urethra, position and mobility of the vesical neck and base, diameter of the proximal urethra, and the configuration of the vesicoureteric junction, including the posterior angle.
(3) Photograph: Sanergy Uncertain about an organisation profiting from poo?
(4) My youngest texts me to tell me that I am "an ungrateful poo" and I can see why.
(5) "People want recognition that they have a perfect life or, if you're me, that you're not the only person who has to clean your children's poo off the floor."
(6) Inaperisone injection into the LCa or the PoO had no influence on reflex micturition.
(7) According to Sarah Rizk, co-founder of the technology, Vorpal , a cow’s poo can pasteurise 10 times the amount of milk it produces.
(8) When linked to a generator the poo can produce electricity.
(9) But there is arguably nothing on either list to rival the yuck factor of one of last year's crop – the Doggie Doo , a plastic dog that poos out plasticine.
(10) Though predictable, it made for entertainment infinitely more satisfying than “drinking the poo of many animals”.
(11) 2005 A student on the Seoul subway refuses to clean up after her dog and is vilified as ‘dog poo girl’ after a photo goes viral.
(12) I suspect you would have said that even it wasn’t a pile of poo,” Lidington observed disconsolately.
(13) A cousin's offering merits a five-second sniff, but should a stranger from outside the group poo here, a family member will linger over it for twice as long.
(14) Treatment of muscle cell cultures with neuraminidase changes the cell surface charge and has been reported to reverse the direction of electromigration for AChRs and concanavalin A binding sites (Orida and Poo, 1978).
(15) Secret Aid Worker: After years in the field, I've lost my compassion Read more But I feel like I don’t walk the talk and I’ll have a hard time doing so because it’s all about how I poo.
(16) Yes, why can’t female film-makers write some nice, believable stuff, like a movie about an astronaut who survives by planting potatoes in his own poo when abandoned on Mars, or about an alliance of superheroes who save the world from an interdimensional alien invasion?
(17) Poo aside, maybe there's light at the end of a long Swedish tunnel.
(18) So it's rather a shame that the media now prefers to refer to it as "whale vomit" or, for a bit of variation, "whale poo" – as if the world is a kindergarten.
(19) Here are tales of recovery and redemption; interspecies friendships forged during early morning stick-retrieval sessions, with love blooming over a Jumbone livener by the poo bin next to the pond.
(20) Stools made from stools Photograph: Terra There are seats made from urine and sand , so it’s almost inevitable that there would be furniture fashioned from poo, or to be more precise, a mixture of horse manure, straw and other agricultural waste.