(n.) The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study confirms earlier reports on the effectiveness of quassia tincture, which seems to be a useful alternative to clophenothane.
(2) As a result, we conclude that: a) The prophylactic and therapeutic action of the Quassia Amarga in the human pediculosis is confirmed.
(3) 454 patients were treated with quassia tincture for head lice.
(4) Crushed aqueous extracts of leaf, wood, bark and flowers of Quassia amara showed antilarval activity against C quinquefasciatus.
(5) Quassin, a mosquito larvicide isolated from Quassia amara, inhibits tyrosinase activity in the larvae of Culex quinquefasciatus.
(6) The object of this work was to find out the prophylactic action of the Quassia Amarga in the pediculosis of the human scalp.
Tropic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
(n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.
(n.) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.
(n.) The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.
Example Sentences:
(1) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
(2) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
(3) The experience of reflexotherapy of 86 patients showed its positive effect on the psychoemotional activities of patients with obesity, a rise of adaptation capabilities of the body under physical exercise, improved external respiration function, an increase in oxygen saturation of tissues, the stimulation of metabolism (by the basal metabolism findings) by way of increasing the secretion of hypophyseal tropic hormones, triiodothyronine and thyroxin, and potentiation of the time course of loss of body mass.
(4) In addition, youthful onset of tropical diabetic syndrome (J-type diabetes) is extremely rare.
(5) Fv-1-specific host-range pseudotypes of murine sarcoma virus (MuSV) were developed by rescue from nonproducer cells with N- or B-tropic leukemia viruses.
(6) Assessment of nutritional status of vitamin B components by plasma or blood levels indicated riboflavin deficiency and possibly thiamine deficiency in Nigerian patients who suffered from tropical ataxic neuropathy and neurologically normal Nigerians who subsisted on predominant cassava diet.
(7) 1816) for the term "loa," designating a species of filaria, pathogenic in humans, which is common tropical West Africa.
(8) In order to reduce the devasting effects of enteric diseases among children born to mothers in tropical countries of Africa and Asia, it is imperative that all health workers understand the cultural and social perceptions of their clients towards the disease in question.
(9) The spread of chloroquine resistant strains of P. falciparum requires new approaches to treatment especially in tropical Africa.
(10) Schistosoma mansoni is often perceived by governments and international aid agencies to present a major public health problem in the tropical and sub-tropical world.
(11) The subject of this study was to test whether in vivo thymocytes in the preleukemic and leukemic periods also bear receptors specific for N-tropic, recombinant MCF and SL AKR retroviruses.
(12) Spices are widely used for flavouring food and are mostly grown in the tropics.
(13) The aetiology of tropical sprue, which is common in Puerto Rico and absent from Jamaica remains to be explained although a hypothesis has been put forward.
(14) A series of studies were carried out to assess the usefulness and accuracy of measuring blood sugar levels in a tropical medical practice using an enzyme test strip ("Dextrostix").
(15) The relative resistance to different cattle ticks of Gudali and Wakwa cattle with different levels of Brahman breeding, grazed on natural pastures in the subhumid tropics of Wakwa, Cameroon, was assessed using pasture tick infestations.
(16) Ninety-five patients (88.8%) had the amblyopia syndrome mainly; twelve patients (11.2%) had amblyopia and other manifestations of the tropical ataxic neuropathy.
(17) The emissions reductions that could be expected through meeting these family planning needs would be roughly equivalent to the reductions that would come from ending all tropical deforestation.
(18) The rapid insensible loss of water in tropical areas was reflected in the rise in serum urea while homeostatic mechanisms maintained a slower fall in sodium and chloride by renal conservation.
(19) In the latter, only the commensal rodents constitute a major problem, whereas in rural tropical areas, native semidomestic species also serve as disease reservoirs and sources of infection to man.
(20) Maximum power output for the fast muscle fibres from the Antarctic species at -1 degree C is around 60% of that of the tropical fish at 20 degrees C. Evolutionary temperature compensation of muscle power output appears largely to involve differences in the ability of cross bridges to generate force.