(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.
Tice
Definition:
(v. t.) To entice.
(n.) A ball bowled to strike the ground about a bat's length in front of the wicket.
Example Sentences:
(1) The left kidney was then infused weekly for six weeks with two ampules of BCG (Tice strain) dissolved in 75 cc of saline.
(2) Tice was working for The Washington Post, McClatchy Newspapers and other media outlets when he was kidnapped.
(3) Russ Tice and Thomas Drake, two whistleblowers that used to work for the NSA, took to the stage after the credits rolled.
(4) The BCG Tice introduced aerogenically or subcutaniously into normal mice induced degrees of antituberculous resistance equivalent to those seen earlier in intravenously infected mice.
(5) Bacilli of the Connaught, Pasteur, Phipps, and Tice strains multiplied appreciably in the lungs and disseminated into the spleen In contrast, BCG Birkhaug and Glaxo strains did not replicate in the lungs or spread to the spleen.
(6) Intravesical instillations of Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin were given to 33 patients with biopsy proved carcinoma in situ.
(7) Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin (1 vial, 2 to 8 times 10(8) organisms in 60 cc saline) was instilled intravesically without cutaneous inoculation.
(8) "I figured it would probably be about 2015" before the NSA had "the computer capacity … to collect all digital communications word for word," Tice said.
(9) Intravenous administration of a lyphilized preparation of bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG-Tice) into mice significantly protected these animals from infection with Schistosoma mansoni.
(10) Growing colonies of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, Tice and Glaxo substrains, and freshly ball milled and freeze-dried Tice BCG vaccines were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and by light microscopy after cytochemical staining.
(11) We evaluated 139 patients with superficial bladder cancer (Stages Ta, Tl, and TIS) and treated them with either intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin, Tice strain (BCG), or doxorubicin hydrochloride (Adriamycin [ADR]) in a nonrandomized, multicenter study.
(12) BCG (Bacillus Calmette-Guerin) vaccine, Tice strain, caused a threefold increase in spleen weight of normal animals and a fourfold increase in spleen weight of sarcoma-bearing mice.
(13) American journalist Austin Tice went missing from Syria in August 2012 and is believed to be held by Isis rival al-Nusra Front, according to the Associated Press.
(14) An expansion of the principles established in Summers v. Tice and Ybarra v. Spangard provide a logical and rational means for the courts to address products liability issues in cases involving multiple and unnamed defendants.
(15) In 2 cases epididymo-orchitis, indistinguishable from a testicular tumor, developed as a late (15 and 34 months, respectively) complication following use of Tice strain bacillus Calmette-Guerin for treatment of superficial bladder carcinoma.
(16) Experimental vaccines from the Trudeau Mycobacterial Collection, stored as frozen liquid suspensions, showed a less marked variation in physical properties; here too, the Pasteur strain was superior to two other Trudeau preparations examined (Tice and Phipps).
(17) A substrain of Mycobacterium kansasii, designated the "high-binding strain," was found to bind FN more readily (P less than 0.05) in in vitro studies, when compared to commercially available substrains of BCG (Tice, Connaught, and Armand Frappier).
(18) The cytostatic activity of five Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) strains (Pasteur, Evans, Tice, RIVM and Connaught) on human transitional cell cancer T24 cells was examined.
(19) The palmitic acid methyl ester peak area determined by gas chromatography was directly proportional to the wet weight of freshly grown Tice-, Pasteur-, and Glaxo-substrain BCG, as well as the dry weight of the ampoule contents after removal of soluble material.
(20) All such therapy was discontinued in these survivors at 36 months after diagnosis and they were given monthly inoculations of BCG of the Tice strain by tine technique.