(n.) A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed.
Example Sentences:
(1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
(2) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
(3) The accumulation of the mRNA corresponding to a rice high pI alpha-amylase gene, OSamy-c, was stimulated 20-fold by exogenous GA3 in half-seeds lacking embryos.
(4) Traditional dietary preparations for diarrhea such as carrot soup and products based on rice have essentially an absorbent power and do not diminish intestinal loss of water and electrolytes.
(5) Altogether, 17 species were recorded from the rice fields.
(6) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
(7) Channels containing a variety of viable cells permeated the rice bodies.
(8) The pattern of distribution of histone H3 mRNA during the development of the rice grain and its germination was monitored by in situ hybridization and confirmed by Northern blot analysis.
(9) The sera were used to type 137 isolates of B. cereus from 34 British and Australian incidents of food poisoning associated with the consumption of cooked rice.
(10) 3) In all age groups the foods most ingested were: steamed rice, wakame, tofu, bread, scallions, Japanese omelette, and tomatoes.
(11) Dogs fed on both gari diet and the rice + cyanide diet generated significant amounts of thiocyanate when compared with the controls, with the rice + cyanide group having higher plasma thiocyanate than the gari group (P less than 0.01).
(12) In the case of mutation assays, presoaked rice seeds were treated with 100, 200 or 300 ppm 2,4-D for 4 h and sown in the field.
(13) Cases tended to consume slightly more rice, but less protein-rich foods (i.e., bean curd, meat, eggs) and vegetables than did controls.
(14) The isolates were grown on rice and tested as a diet for toxicity to rats.
(15) Polished rice samples harvested in 1985 were collected from 25 prefectures throughout Japan.
(16) The rough spot where protesters say shots were fired from Rice recalled in a telephone interview that he “heard gunshots go off and felt a bullet whizz by my head,” prompting him to take cover from the direction of the shots by hiding behind a car, while facing the police line.
(17) Feasibility of home treatment of diarrhoea with packaged rice-based oral rehydration salts (R-ORS) was compared, in terms of cost, with that for glucose-based oral rehydration salts (G-ORS).
(18) For now, temporary carers receive rice, secondhand clothes for the children, toiletries and a small stipend, while regular financial help from the government and Unicef is being considered.
(19) The extrachromosomal DNA represents about 1% of total rice DNA and its level of amplification is not affected by the different phases of growth in culture.
(20) Northern blot analysis showed that the catalase intron was efficiently spliced in rice cells while transgenic tobacco plants contained both spliced and unspliced gusA transcripts in equal amounts.
Starch
Definition:
(a.) Stiff; precise; rigid.
(n.) A widely diffused vegetable substance found especially in seeds, bulbs, and tubers, and extracted (as from potatoes, corn, rice, etc.) as a white, glistening, granular or powdery substance, without taste or smell, and giving a very peculiar creaking sound when rubbed between the fingers. It is used as a food, in the production of commercial grape sugar, for stiffening linen in laundries, in making paste, etc.
(n.) Fig.: A stiff, formal manner; formality.
(v. t.) To stiffen with starch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
(2) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
(3) Tissue storage of hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a widely used artificial colloid, has been reported.
(4) Therefore, we changed from dextran 40 to hydroxyethyl starch in 1987 for the treatment of several otoneurological disorders.
(5) The present experiments examined flavor differences among starches.
(6) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
(7) Agarose gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the fast and slow components obtained on starch block electrophoresis corresponded to the pre-beta and late pre-beta band respectively.
(8) Dry matter and starch intakes were greater when corn was fed than when barley was fed.
(9) In a starch block, migration was toward the cathode at pH 8.0.
(10) Slowing starch digestion by inhibiting amylase activity in the intestinal lumen should improve postprandial carbohydrate tolerance in patients with diabetes mellitus.
(11) This study uses breath hydrogen analysis, a sensitive method for detecting the passage of starch into the colon, to determine if a potent amylase inhibitor is capable of producing carbohydrate malabsorption.
(12) Concentrates of amyloid substance derived from organs of 10 human patients representing a variety of clinical entities were characterized according to their amino acid compositions, their electrophoretic constituents mobile in urea-starch gel at pH 3 and their stability with respect to the binding of Congo red in the pH interval 9-12.5.
(13) The 13CO2 starch breath test is an attractive test for the study of factors affecting carbohydrate assimilation.
(14) Production of milk and milk fat was not affected, but yields of CP and SNF were decreased when additional starch was fed to cows.
(15) The effect of two doses (3 mg and 10 mg) of the inhibitor of pancreatic alpha-amylase trestatin on the metabolism of an oral load of 75 g of starch was observed in healthy human subjects.
(16) These were analyzed for: tannins, trypsin inhibitors, hemagglutinins (with cow, sheep, and human erythrocytes), damaged starch, available lysine, protein quality (by the NPR method), and true digestibility.
(17) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
(18) We have examined under a variety of conditions the ability of potato starch phosphorylase to cause exchange of the ester and phosphoryl oxygens of alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosphate (Glc-1-P).
(19) In contrast, foci formed by 3-4 dysplastic crypts were decreased by the starch diet (P less than 0.05).
(20) Several experiments examined the preference of adult female rats for starch and starch-derived polysaccnarides using short- and long-term two-choice tests.