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Putrefaction


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or the process of putrefying; the offensive decay of albuminous or other matter.
  • (n.) The condition of being putrefied; also, that which putrefied.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Based on these results, we concluded that the inhibition of putrefactive anaerobe 3679 by sorbate resulted from a stringent-type regulatory response induced by the protonophoric activity of sorbic acid.
  • (2) Furthermore, volatile sulfide and 2-ketobutyrate productions from methionine in a saliva putrefaction system were completely inhibited by the two-phase mouthwash; and consumption of methionine was decreased by 65 percent.
  • (3) Optimal pasteurization of these meats (for reduction of nonspore microflora without affecting indigenous putrefactive anaerobic spore levels) was 50 min at 60 C. C. botulinum spores were recovered with good precision from meat samples inoculated with mixtures of C. botulinum and Putrefactive Anaerobe 3679 at 1:1 and at 1:99 ratios.
  • (4) putrefaction we determined the AChE activity under different conditions.
  • (5) Pea extract contains a factor which improves recovery counts of heat-stressed putrefactive anaerobe spores in a complex medium up to threefold.
  • (6) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
  • (7) 1966.-A chemically defined medium was used to study the nutritional requirements for germination, outgrowth, and vegetative growth of putrefactive anaerobe 3679.
  • (8) Such formation has as its basis bacterial putrefaction, the degradation of proteins, and the resulting amino acids by microorganisms.
  • (9) In one case no blood was available because of putrefaction, and muscle was analysed for triazolam instead of blood.
  • (10) The effects of dietary fat and dietary fiber (DF) levels in diet on fecal flora, activities of three fecal enzymes, putrefactive metabolites, fecal mutagenicity and fecal properties were studied in eight healthy volunteers.
  • (11) sporogenes (putrefactive anaerobes), and 95 slurry samples were tested.
  • (12) In 70 cases H2, a clear marker of putrefaction, could be identified in the samples.
  • (13) The ancient Greeks extended the concept of putrefaction to involve not only the residues of food, but also those of bile, phlegm, and blood, incorporating it into their humoral theory of disease.
  • (14) They also make evident the decomposition grade that bone organic material undergoes during the postmortem putrefactive process.
  • (15) The authors have investigated ten kinds of putrefactive findings on 368 cadavers which were subjected to medico-legal autopsies in our laboratory and have come to the following conclusions.
  • (16) Since the pH on oral mucosal surfaces where odor formation occurs is largely determined by the fermentative and putrefactive activities of the adhering bacteria, these acid-base processes are necessarily of major regulatory importance.
  • (17) The flesh rolled away like blancmange, soft and gassy with putrefaction.
  • (18) Although this intravascular hemolysis resembled that which develops during putrefaction, in this case it was thought to be due to pooling and freezing of blood in subcutaneous vessels.
  • (19) The present work deals with the factors affecting ABO grouping of dry blood stains in Riyad, including exposure to extremes of temperature, from refrigeration at -4 degrees C up to heating at 150 degrees C, effect of time till 6 months, occurrence of the stains on different fabrics, and effect of putrefaction.
  • (20) Earlier we heard another example of pure party-political putrefaction.

Putrefy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
  • (v. t.) To corrupt; to make foul.
  • (v. t.) To make morbid, carious, or gangrenous; as, to putrefy an ulcer or wound.
  • (v. i.) To become putrid; to decay offensively; to rot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty-five blood samples with COHb concentrations of 40% and 70% were allowed to putrefy in order to measure the time-dependent changes in COHb values.
  • (2) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to perform because of the absence of blood and urine.
  • (3) To their left, the killers entered the room of the centre's director, who made it outside, where the pond of his blood putrefied on the cement.
  • (4) Mass graves commonly contain hundreds of putrefying bodies, which bear evidence of torture and extrajudicial execution.
  • (5) Bromazepam and levomepromazine were identified and assayed in the remains of cerebral tissue, in the clavicle of a putrefied cadaver, and in the fly larvae found on and in the corpse.
  • (6) For centuries, the Sioux and other tribes used it to treat venomous snake and insect bites, ulcers, sores and any disease (notably syphilis) involving foul-smelling discharges or putrefying flesh.
  • (7) Toxicological analyses on a putrefied cadaver are sometimes difficult to achieve because of the absence of blood and urine.
  • (8) When the blood was putrefied, two or three pieces of membranes filters were needed because of choking membrane pore.
  • (9) The evidentiary specimens chosen for DNA were classified according to substrate (scrapings, plastic bags, synthetics, denim, and carpet) and according to a subjective evaluation of the condition of the stain (soiled, damp, or putrefied) and to its size (small or large).
  • (10) This method was found to be useful even if applied to old or putrefied blood samples.
  • (11) The method used would seem to be very useful for determination of methamphetamine and amphetamine in marked putrefied biological materials.
  • (12) A forensic study was performed on the toxicological effects of triazolam using putrefied tissues.
  • (13) In case of putrefied liver lipid content is increased slightly but in all periods of putrefaction lipid content in the liver in case of fat dystrophy remains significantly higher than in controls.
  • (14) In this study, morphine and phenobarbital were simultaneously identified and assayed in several tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the fly larvae of Calliphoridae found on the corpse.
  • (15) Finding a putrefying corpse in a lock-up might not feature on most people’s list of job satisfaction criteria, but things are different in Happy Valley (Tuesday, 9pm, BBC1) .
  • (16) Five drugs (triazolam, oxazepam, phenobarbital, alimemazine, and clomipramine) were identified and assayed in some tissues of a putrefied cadaver and in the maggots found on and in the body.
  • (17) No RFLP profiles could be obtained from putrefied soft tissues.
  • (18) Samples of thoracic fluid were obtained at regular intervals from the putrefying bodies of dead dogs.
  • (19) And that's how I picture you when I read your comments – as a shovelful-of-putrefied-matter-to-be making the very least of its brief window of consciousness.
  • (20) A reliable and sensitive method has been developed to assess the concentrations of the hypnotic drug triazolam in human tissues, including putrefied tissues.