(n.) The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.
(n.) The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(2) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
(3) The effect of airborne pollution, especially nickel, from Kola has been studied in 10,612 persons who participated in a cardiovascular screening survey in Finnmark in 1974-75.
(4) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(5) N-heterocyclic aromatics are environmentally important carcinogenic pollutants produced by incomplete combustion of organic material.
(6) Among environmental pollutants, 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD; dioxin) is one of the most potent tumor promoters and teratogens known.
(7) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(8) Mineral fibers represent the greatest cause--after cigarette smoke--of respiratory cancer due to air pollutants.
(9) Recognition, evaluation and control of hazards were carried out in a typical case where chromium was the major pollutant.
(10) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
(11) Under the auspices of the US-USSR agreement for cooperative research in environmental health, Soviet methods for setting and enforcing standards for environmental pollutants were observed.
(12) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(13) Study of the environmental pollution (ambient air, drinking water, food and fodder) in southern Ukraine industrial region and study of congenital developmental defects were carried out.
(14) The metabolism of the environmental pollutant and suspected human carcinogen, cyclopenta[cd]pyrene (CPP), was investigated.
(15) A variety of ecological processes are affected and altered by air pollution.
(16) However, indoor air pollution is estimated to have caused or contributed to 99,000 deaths across Europe in 2012, the report states.
(17) Since some genotoxic metals are diffused in the environment and are often sequestered as insoluble precipitates in water sediments and sludges, the introduction of NTA is likely to increase the risk of environmental pollution because of its ability to solubilize and make those metals reactive.
(18) Because surface water pollution appears to be important it is proposed that headwalls and drainage aprons be built around unprotected sources.
(19) Several reports have suggested that staphylococci, and especially Staphylococcus aureus, are useful indicators of pollution of recreational waters.
(20) Reasonable short-term objectives include the reduction of tobacco use (and alcohol abuse), the control of exposure to carcinogens in the workplace, as well as the reduction of air pollution in the general environment.
Soilage
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings affirm that gloves can be regarded only as a means of reducing the risk of gross soilage from blood or body fluids.
(2) Pain, bleeding, protrusion, soilage, itching, and burning are anorectal complaints associated with hemorrhoidal disease.
(3) The primary cause was neovascularization (60%), although lens soilage, giant papillary conjunctivitis and ulceration were factors in several patients each.
(4) Diffuse retroperitoneal soilage following rectal laceration with a blunt object resulted in significant morbidity despite prompt recognition, parenteral antibiotic administration, and early surgical intervention.
(5) Breast blisters, feather soilage, broken bones, feed consumption, percentage abdominal fat, and mortality rate for each floor type were also evaluated.
(6) A modification of this technique also has proven effective in the treatment of symptomatic anal mucosal ectropion--a condition marked by pruritus and perianal soilage from mucosal weeping, usually associated with the Whitehead hemorrhoidectomy.
(7) Drainage from around gastrostomy tubes or ongoing perineal soilage after a pull-through procedure can lead to chemical irritation, cutaneous denudation, and chronic discomfort.
(8) Early surgical intervention is key, particularly elimination of ongoing mediastinal soilage.
(9) Current operative treatment for intra-abdominal sepsis secondary to internal gastrointestinal fistulas is aimed at wide drainage of septic foci and elimination of continued peritoneal soilage.
(10) All three had varying degrees of soilage necessitating permanent ileostomy in one.
(11) Treatment was started immediately or delayed for 48 hours after peritoneal soilage.
(12) Feather soilage was a problem only with the perforated wood and styrofoam floor systems.
(13) Between 1 and 2 weeks postoperatively, 2 of the 73 patients developed retrograde bile leak and peritoneal bile soilage, leading to open common bile duct exploration.
(14) The mode of injury, its severity and the ultimate favourable outcome are quite unique considering the gross faecal soilage of the peritoneal cavity and the inevitable time lapse before the institution of medical care.
(15) As the risk of uncontrolled sepsis increases, the surgeon should take more aggressive and definitive steps, up to and including esophagectomy in certain cases, to prevent further soilage.
(16) No serious complications of peritoneal or wound soilage occurred after transperitoneal drainage in 16 patients, yet the problems of inadequate drainage and heteroptic abscess were not eliminated.
(17) Two trials were conducted during consecutive summers to compare performance of lactating cows fed four varieties of tall fescue soilage.
(18) A barium examination later demonstrated aspiration of oral contents with pulmonary soilage.
(19) To prevent pleural soilage, early diagnosis and adequate treatment of amebic abscess of the liver are mandatory.
(20) A third of these fistulas may close spontaneously with proper urinary drainage and avoidance of fecal soilage.