(n.) The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.
(n.) Hence, a line of junction; a joint; a suture, as on a ship, a floor, or other structure; the line of union, or joint, of two boards, planks, metal plates, etc.
(n.) A thin layer or stratum; a narrow vein between two thicker strata; as, a seam of coal.
(n.) A line or depression left by a cut or wound; a scar; a cicatrix.
(v. t.) To form a seam upon or of; to join by sewing together; to unite.
(v. t.) To mark with something resembling a seam; to line; to scar.
(v. t.) To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting.
(v. i.) To become ridgy; to crack open.
(n.) A denomination of weight or measure.
(n.) The quantity of eight bushels of grain.
(n.) The quantity of 120 pounds of glass.
Example Sentences:
(1) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(2) Osteomalacia is characterized by large osteoid seams and a preserved volume of bone trabeculae.
(3) A sclerotic border and osteoid seams were noted, two features that seem not to have been previously reported in early lesions.
(4) Given the Panahi situation, it seems almost appropriate that this year's festival has been quite downbeat with films mining the darker seams of the human condition.
(5) While the functional significance of the seams remains unknown and their specific composition clearly requires further study, it is likely that they represent important functional (e.g., viscoelastic) or biological (e.g., nutritional) subdivisions of ligament substance.
(6) 1.59pm BST 32nd over: Sri Lanka 89-2 (Jayawardene 11, Sangakkara 22) A jaffa from Plunkett from round the wicket beats Sangakkara all ends up – it was angled in on middle stump, then seamed away to beat the outside edge.
(7) But then a mismanaged clean-up in an underground garbage dump ignited a seam of anthracite eight miles long that proved impossible to extinguish.
(8) Carefully pull the frayed seam over the original seam line and pin in place.
(9) The histological study of the tibiae showed decreased mineralization with narrower trabeculae and enlarged osteoid seams; bone resorption at the inner surface was also significantly decreased.
(10) The amount of osteoid and the length of the osteoid seams were normal, whereas the mean width of the osteoid seams was decreased.
(11) A double white line parallel to the lateral ribs produced by the double seam of the bag distinguishes this artifact from a true pneumothorax.
(12) Calcification rate in the cortical bone of the tibia was reduced with a parallel reduction in endosteal osteoid seam width.
(13) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
(14) In infants, human femoral arteries display seam-like internal elastic lamina (IEL) covered with endothelium on the luminal side and with smooth muscle cells (SMC) on the medial side.
(15) The second minor discontinuity to appear is planar (seam), shown here in a dryolestid eupantothere.
(16) (5) The transfer function at the bone seams and thinner areas of the bones was insufficient for modal analysis of the facial region and total cranial bone of the human dry skull.
(17) The seams are filled with subunits that appear to bind the flaps together.
(18) Crystallization of bone salt is severely impaired and an osteomalacia-like picture may be produced with decreased osteoblastic activity, widened growth plates, excessive osteoid seams and short, thickened bones.
(19) The complication rate of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the hand of a well trained surgeon seams to be comparable or even smaller than in conventional procedure.
(20) Couple or individual reaction after genetic counselling in case of Recklinghausen disease seams us to be very different according to the patients and for a patient according to the moment of counseling.
Tallow
Definition:
(n.) The suet or fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds, separated from membranous and fibrous matter by melting.
(n.) The fat of some other animals, or the fat obtained from certain plants, or from other sources, resembling the fat of animals of the sheep and ox kinds.
(v. t.) To grease or smear with tallow.
(v. t.) To cause to have a large quantity of tallow; to fatten; as, tallow sheep.
Example Sentences:
(1) The present study demonstrated that delayed administration of a marine lipid diet, 25% menhaden oil (MO) by weight, until after the onset of overt renal disease, also resulted in significant improvement in rates of mortality, proteinuria, and histologic evidence of glomerular injury, compared with control animals fed a diet that contained mostly saturated fatty acids, 25% beef tallow.
(2) 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].
(3) Free fatty acids from both coconut and corn oils reduced diet palatability and intake; those from tallow and coconut oil markedly interfered (in vitro) with rennet clotting of milk replacers.
(4) In one experiment, finisher diets containing 2.5, 5.0, or 10.0% of added corn oil (CO), poultry oil (PO), tallow (T), or a commercial hydrolyzed animal-vegetable fat blend (HB) were fed.
(5) Treatments were 0, 2, 4, or 6% (DM basis) bleachable fancy tallow (BT) fed with 0 or 7.5% (DM basis) forage.
(6) Five crossbred beef steers (329 kg) were used in a 5 x 5 Latin square experiment with 14-d periods to determine the effects of supplementation with high-nitrogen (N) feeds alone or mixed with tallow on sites of digestion with a basal diet of bermudagrass hay.
(7) The solutions included those containing Dymed (polyaminopropyl biguanide, 0.00005%), chlorhexidine (0.005%), Polyquad (0.001%), chlorhexidine (0.005%) and thimerosal (BP, 0.001%), thimerosal (BP, 0.002%) and Tris(2-hydroxyethyl) tallow ammonium chloride (0.013%), and a solution preserved with 115 ppm benzalkonium chloride (BAK).
(8) In Experiment 1, a wheat-soy diet supplemented with sunflower oil was found to improve significantly (P less than .05) performance characteristics and reduce the mortality attributed to SDS as compared with the same diet supplemented with tallow.
(9) Thus, dietary beef and soy protein isolate had similar effects on cholesterol concentrations in plasma, LDL, HDL and organs, whether pigs consumed soybean oil or beef tallow as a major fat source.
(10) Each group of rats were pair-fed a nutritional adequate liquid diet containing either corn oil (CF) or tallow (TF) as fat as well as protein and carbohydrate.
(11) The dietary fats employed in these studies included corn oil, Tower rapeseed oil (RSO), partially hydrogenated soybean oil (SBO), and tallow.
(12) Growing rats were fed a nonfat dry milk supplemented with two levels of soy-bean oil (SBO) and tallow (T) such that either 30% or 50% of total dietary calories came from fat.
(13) Furthermore, the lung hydroxyproline content in bleomycin-treated animals was less with the beef tallow diet compared with standard lab feed (p less than 0.05).
(14) Dietary cholesterol supplementation elevated the cholesterol concentration in liver in the order: linseed oil greater than beef tallow greater than fish oil (8.6-, 5.5-, 2.6-fold, respectively).
(15) Small White turkeys were fed 10% dietary rapeseed oil or animal tallow to 6, 12 or 18 weeks of age.
(16) The response to excess dietary vit A was not influenced by the type of dietary lipid (corn oil, tallow, or poultry oil).
(17) Rats were fed three different concentrations of dietary linoleate as beef tallow, hydrogenated vegetable fat, or corn oil.
(18) Feeding tallow or the SBSS:tallow blend improved (P less than .05) feed efficiency and estimated dietary NE compared to control.
(19) The increased intake of fat due to feeding tallow caused both increased fat metabolism and fat excretion as based on chromic oxide estimates of digestibility.
(20) At all levels of fat supplementation, the high linoleate safflower oil consistently resulted in a 50% lower rate of fatty acid biosynthesis than did comparable levels of tallow or palmitate.