(n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
(n.) Anything light and filled with air.
(n.) A puffball.
(n.) a kind of light pastry.
(n.) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
(n.) An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
(n.) To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
(n.) To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
(n.) To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
(n.) To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
(n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
(v. t.) To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
(v. t.) To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
(v. t.) To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air.
(v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
(a.) Puffed up; vain.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 68C intermolt puff of Drosophila melanogaster contains a cluster of three glue protein genes, Sgs-3, Sgs-7, and Sgs-8.
(2) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
(3) Neurons in deprived puffs and interpuffs were generally similar in size to those in nondeprived regions, although CO-reactive cells were significantly smaller in the deprived puffs of monkeys enucleated for 28.5 or 60 wks.
(4) In regions without temperature-induced puffs RNA synthesis and its transport are apparently delayed under influence of heat shock.
(5) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(6) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(7) These two puffs are located at the end of the E12 inversion.
(8) The results that while in the control T3L and T2L nuclei (22 degrees C), the 93D puff shows a higher level of transcriptional activity than in the Oregon R+ or compound stocks used as controls, in T3L and T2L nuclei from heat-shocked sets (37 degrees C), 93D does not show further induction compared with heat-shocked controls, and the 87C puff is 2.8 times more active than the 87A puff.
(9) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
(10) Similar to area 17, more GABA- and glycine-labeled neurons were observed within the puff regions than in nonpuff regions.
(11) He added: "Why on earth is this useless Goverment pandering to Puffs?
(12) Male volunteers for mass radiography examination, aged 40 or more, were questioned about their sputum production, smoking habits, and, when applicable, their method of smoking cigarettes.Of 5,438 cigarette smokers 460 (8.4%) smoked their cigarettes without removing the cigarette from the mouth between puffs ("drooping" cigarette smokers) whereas the rest smoked in the normal manner.Persons who admitted to producing sputum from their chests on most days of the year or on most days for at least three months of the year for a minimum of two years were classified as chronic bronchitics in the absence of other causative disease.The rate of chronic bronchitis among the "drooping" cigarette smokers (41.5%) was considerably greater than that among those smoking cigarettes in the normal manner (33.6%).
(13) In experiment 3, average puff volumes and CO boosts were examined during smoking periods with short (3, 10, and 30 minutes) deprivation intervals.
(14) The home side lost Raheem Sterling, who injured a groin in a challenge with Juan Mata, and even when they pinned back their opponents for periods of the second half it was a lot of huff and puff without too much guile.
(15) These data support previous suggestions indicating a substantial contribution of transcriptional products from small puffs and interbands to the whole transcriptional system of polytene chromosomes.
(16) The number of NPY-containing neurons in the puffs is substantially less than that expected in an equal volume of the interpuffs (X2 = 13.86; df = 1; P less than 0.001).
(17) The rearing of insects at a temperature of 29 degrees resulted in puff changes: the activity of some puffs increased or depressed, some puffs were inhibited, other puffs were induced newly.
(18) The CO yields were found to increase with puff volume and tobacco moisture, decrease with increased paper porosity, but remain essentially constant with puff duration.
(19) T he Japanese have a saying”, said Willi Hartenstein, pausing for a reflective puff on a cheroot.
(20) Dosage for an acute attack in children is 1 puff (200 micrograms), repeated within 5 minutes if necessary; in adults 1-3 puffs can be given.
Swelling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Swell
(n.) The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; the swelling of the breast with pride.
(n.) A protuberance; a prominence
(n.) an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(4) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
(5) Psychiatric morbidity is further increased when adjuvant chemotherapy is used and when treatment results in persistent arm pain and swelling.
(6) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
(7) At 7 days axonal swellings were infrequently observed and the main structural feature was a reduction in myelin thickness in affected nerve fibers.
(8) In the companion paper, we quantitatively account for the observation that the ability of a solute to promote fusion depends on its permeability properties and the method of swelling.
(9) Admission venom levels also correlated with the extent of local swelling and the occurrence of tissue necrosis at the site of the bite.
(10) After 40 minutes of coronary occlusion and 20 minutes of reflow, significant cardiac weight gain occurred in association with characteristic alterations in the ischemic region, including widespread interstitial edema and focal vascular congestion and hemorrhage and swelling of cardiac muscle cells.
(11) The intensity of involvement varies in different arteries, localized swelling is of particular importance as a measure of atherosclerotic involvement.
(12) The DTH responses were induced by subcutaneous injection of allogeneic epidermal cells (ECs) and were assayed by footpad swelling.
(13) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(14) (1970) Endocrinology 87, 993--999), in stimulating both mitochondrial protein synthesis and swelling.
(15) Rapid swelling of the knee following a blow or twisting injury is considered a significant injury.
(16) Attachment appeared to involve a very close physical proximity of treponemes to the cultured cells; at the site of attachment, no changes such as swelling or indentation of the cultured cell surface were observed.
(17) The method is based upon osmotic swelling, sonication and centrifugation in sucrose.
(18) By contrast, all the semen samples that fertilized oocytes showed a 60% or higher reaction in the hypoosmotic swelling test, whereas the majority of the "infertile" semen samples showed less than 60% swelling.
(19) The changes included swelling, blunting, and flattening of epithelial foot processes, were accompanied by decreased stainability of glomerular anionic sites, and were largely reversed by subsequent perfusion with the polyanion heparin.
(20) After 3-5 days of side-arm traction, swelling had usually diminished sufficiently to allow the elbow to be safely hyperflexed to stabilize the fracture after elective closed reduction.