(v. i.) To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
(v. t. & i.) To care for; to heed; to reck.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have compared the ability of drugs to induce chewing and retching or emesis in squirrel monkeys; such studies are not possible in rodents, which do not vomit.
(2) No dose produced retching, vomiting, diarrhea or other behavioral signs of toxicity.
(3) Nausea was assessed by a patient-completed visual analogue scale and episodes of retching recorded by the patient and an independent observer.
(4) Straining and retching behaviors exhibited by the nerves innervating other thoracic accessory inspiratory muscles (the intercartilagineus, rectus thoracis, scalenus) varied from dog to dog.
(5) In contrast, none of the inspiratory units from the external intercostal nerves exhibited such intense discharges with straining and retching.
(6) Incidence and severity of emesis (none, nausea, retching or vomiting) was assessed during the first 24 hours after operation.
(7) Vomiting, induced by stimulation of the lower thoracic vagi, consisted of a series of synchronous bursts of diaphragmatic and abdominal activity (retching) followed by a prolonged abdominal discharge after the cessation of diaphragmatic activity (expulsion).
(8) Fictive vomiting was defined as a series of large bursts of synchronous activity in the phrenic and abdominal (expiratory) nerves (retching) followed by a burst in which the abdominal activity was prolonged (expulsion).
(9) Nous sommes tous Français (We are all French).” By contrast, Hollande said that Trump’s excesses “make you want to retch” .
(10) Internal intercostal (expiratory) muscles contract out of phase with these muscles during retching and are inactive during expulsion.
(11) When James lay down to sleep, he retched from the smell then ran out the door with his pillow to throw it away, everyone laughing.
(12) 3 Doses of apomorphine that caused a decrease in blood pressure on intravenous injection, had no effect on blood pressure or caused retching accompanied by an increase in blood pressure on intravertebral or intracisternal administration.
(13) All patients were monitored for emetic episodes (vomiting or retching), adverse events, and laboratory safety parameters.
(14) These results suggest that 5-HT3 receptor antagonists are capable of ameliorating radiation-induced retching and vomiting and that, while an important site of their action could be the abdominal vagi, other areas are probably also involved.
(15) We determined (1) gastric emptying rates; (2) the presence and frequency of retching and vomiting; and (3) the effect of zacopride on the performance of a visual discrimination task in nonirradiated subjects.
(16) This was accompanied by a prolonged period of mydriasis and preceded by a short interval of restlessness, licking, retching and emesis.
(17) The discharge patterns during retching were classified into seven types in accordance with the discharge phase in the retching cycle and the discharge frequency.
(18) And if that means staying silent as your subject salivates his way through a truly disgusting account of a threesome, as the male crew laugh along, then you try to hide your desire to retch.
(19) • Pistorius' retching and crying was not feigned , Vorster said: he could not fake pallor .
(20) Therefore, the effects of bilateral abdominal vagotomy and antagonism of 5-HT3 receptors have been investigated on retching and vomiting induced by radiation.
Vetch
Definition:
(n.) Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa.
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that the structure of the acidic EPS does not control host-specific nodulation of white clover, hairy vetch, and beans for the strains of R. leguminosarum tested here.
(2) It hydrolyses native vetch legumin and vicilin up to peptides having on average 9 and 16 amino acid residues respectively.
(3) Transport in both vetch and barley usually declined before an elapsed time of 24 hr unlike corn, which maintained its steady state beyond 24 hr.
(4) That is, although NodH mutants lose the ability to elicit root hair curling (Hac-), infection threads (Inf-), and nodule meristem formation (Nod-) on the homologous host alfalfa, they gain the ability to be Hac+ Inf+ Nod+ on a nonhomologous host such as common vetch.
(5) The clinical findings, treatment and pathological changes are described in a case of suspected vetch (Vicia benghalensis L.) poisoning in a Friesland cow in the Clanwilliam district, Republic of South Africa.
(6) Antibody to purified trifoliin binds to the root hair region of 24-h-old clover seedlings, but does not bind to alfalfa, birdsfoot trefoil or joint vetch.
(7) Crown vetch, harvested 300 m from the nearest road, was fed as the control.
(8) is isolated from vetch seedlings and 1600-fold purified by means of chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, hdroxyapatite and gel filtration through Sephadex G-100.
(9) Hairy vetch poisoning (vetch-associated disease) of cattle is a generalized disease characterized pathologically by infiltration of skin and many internal organs by monocytes, lymphocytes, plasma cells, and often eosinophils and multinucleated giant cells and clinically by dermatitis, pruritus, often diarrhea, wasting, and high mortality.
(10) For example, R. meliloti elicits the formation of root nodules on alfalfa and not on vetch.
(11) Forty-four elements were determined in crown vetch sampled along a heavily travelled highway in Virginia.
(12) No free amino acids were found in hydrolysates of both vetch proteins.
(13) Root segments of vetch, barley, and pine were exposed to a nutrient solution containing (85)Sr and (45)Ca tracers.
(14) NodRm-1 elicits root hair deformation specifically on alfalfa at a concentration less than 10(-10) M but has no effect on vetch (a heterologous host plant).
(15) Translocation was measured from solutions containing stable ions at concentrations of 2.5 mm Ca, and at either 0.5 mm or 2.5 mm Sr. Polar transport was established between 12 and 18 hr in barley, and between 16 and 22 hr in vetch.
(16) A cheaper alternative is boiled rabbit stuffed with chestnuts, dates, black soybean, and milk vetch root, popular since the 1970s, partly due to the “Kid's Plan” , which spells out children's activities and responsibilities.
(17) In vetch, stable Ca transport was reduced to one-fifth when Sr concentration was increased from 0.5 mm to 2.5 mm.
(18) No nodulation of peas or vetch was observed with a double nodM glmS mutant, and this block occurred at a very early stage since no root-hair deformation or infection threads were seen.
(19) She developed dermatitis on the 11th day of vetch feeding, and despite withdrawal from the vetch diet on the 12th day, death occurred 24 days after first day of vetch feeding.
(20) Lymphocyte blastogenesis studies with vetch lectin were not interpretable.