(n.) A variety of carnelian, of a rich reddish yellow or brownish red color. See the Note under Chalcedony.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is proposed that all SARDs act on some aspect of the central reaction in the ongoing immune response where antigen presentation to T helper cells results in interleukin 2 production and the generation of activated T cells.
(2) The effects produced by a single agent in vivo and in vitro are not always the same so a single mode of action, for example through possession of a thiol group, cannot explain the effects of all SARDs.
(3) Review of the known activity of SARDs on different cell types at various anatomical sites suggest that in fact different SARD drugs act in differing and sometimes conflicting ways.
(4) Whether these findings explain the low incidence of SARD with cuprammonium cellulose plate dialyzers that do not contain potting material is a matter for continued study and experimentation.
(5) Plasma, bronchoalveolar lavage fluids (BAL), and lung parenchyma were analyzed for vitamin E and polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) concentrations in three groups of patients routinely receiving oxygen therapy--two with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS and SARDS), a third with pneumonia (PNEU), as well as a fourth group of patients receiving little or no oxygen therapy (OTHER).
(6) However, none of the SARDs examined could scavenge O2- at concentrations reported in patients' plasma.
(7) This approach for combination therapy whereby a second SARD is given to patients already established on a single SARD, appears to minimise the toxicity which is a problem when 2 SARDs are started simultaneously.
(8) "These instruments were not invented by Greece, nor did investment banks discover them just for Greece," said Christophoros Sardelis, who was chief of Greece's debt management agency when the contracts were conducted with Goldman Sachs.Such contracts were also used by other European countries until Eurostat, the EU's statistic agency, stopped accepting them later in the decade.
(9) During the first year none of the reactions were serious although 9 of the 29 patients (31%) given D-penicillamine and 3 of the 9 patients receiving aurothiomalate developed side-effects requiring withdrawal of the second SARD.
(10) A gas chromatographic system with wide-bore capillary columns and synchronized accumulating radioisotope detector (SARD) was developed.
(11) The site of action of SARDs within the body--whether at the level of synovial inflammation or of the systemic immune response--is largely undetermined.
(12) Since many drugs, particularly the slow-acting anti-rheumatic drugs (SARDs) used in RA, may alter O2- metabolism, the effects of SARDs on SSA were also studied.
(13) The performance of wide-bore capillary columns was good and the correspondence of the resolution obtained with SARD and that with mass detection was excellent.
(14) This open study examined the safety of adding a second slow-acting anti-rheumatic drug (SARD) - D-penicillamine or sodium aurothiomalate - to the therapy of 38 rheumatoid patients already established on sulphasalazine.
(15) The slow acting anti-rheumatic drugs (SARDS) are a chemically heterogeneous group.
(16) The SSA of the plasma, PB-PMN, JF and JF-PMN were significantly higher in patients treated with SARDs than those without.
Sark
Definition:
(n.) A shirt.
(v. t.) To cover with sarking, or thin boards.
Example Sentences:
(1) The twins argue this investment is creating jobs and protecting Sark's future.
(2) Observers were graded on a scale of I to IV according to the Sarks classification, which correlates fundus appearance and visual acuity with the severity of postmortem histological changes in Bruch's membrane.
(3) It’s my home.” Another Sark resident, who has made complaints to the police but has asked not to be named, said: “The situation has become unbearable.
(4) The British sham directors, many originally from the Channel island of Sark, are based in remote places, including Nevis, Vanuatu, Mauritius, Cyprus and Dubai.
(5) He is one of the candidates on a list that the Barclays' island bulletin, Sark News, says would be a disaster for the island if elected.
(6) He sees his role as editor of the Sark Newspaper as being in the best traditions of pamphleteers of the 18th and 19th centuries.
(7) Mr Delaney has, additionally, been subjected to attacks on his property, the setting of explosive fireworks outside his home and office, abuse by mail and online graffiti and even the creation of a mock grave.” Dawes wrote: “Mr Delaney is the sole proprietor and editor of the Sark Newspaper.
(8) D. radiophilus yielded three size classes of plasmid while D. radiodurans Sark, D. proteolyticus and D. radiopugnans each yielded two.
(9) Only one listed address, a cottage on Sark, seems genuinely residential.
(10) He seeks to expose the feudal system and the fact that Sark is not a democracy.” The letter continued: “Mr Delaney points out that this is not mere parish politics.
(11) Last week Delaney said hotels and other businesses on Sark owned by Sark Island Hotels, a subsidiary of Sark Estate Management, would not open next year or “for any foreseeable period after that” – a blow for the island’s tourist industry.
(12) The sarcomeric unit ("sark") is an elastic structure (cf.
(13) Sark is a popular holiday island where cars are banned.
(14) As neighbours and friends working within the local offshore financial industry in Sark scattered across the globe, the couple moved to the Caribbean.
(15) We are subjected to a weekly onslaught of abuse and vitriol by the Sark Newsletter.
(16) John Parker, the owner of a British incorporation agency, explained in an email: "Sarah and Edward Petre-Mears have dual residence – Sark and Nevis … The reason for this is that the UK government is trying its hardest to stop the 'Sark Lark', as it is known, and they decided to do something about it before it was forced upon them."
(17) At 10am today Lieutenant Colonel Reg Guille opened the door of the island hall on Sark and quietly ushered in the end of more than 400 years of feudal rule.
(18) ), making models – including a replica of the Cutty Sark in a bottle – played to his strengths of exactitude and attention to detail.
(19) Sark is a remote self-governing tax haven in the Channel Islands , a nine-mile ferry-ride from Guernsey.
(20) Getting to Nevis from Sark requires a long, indirect and infrequent flight to the slightly bigger nearby island of St Kitts, followed by an hour's sea-voyage on the Mark Twain, an ageing boat.