(n.) A soft mineral of a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, usually occurring in foliated masses. It is hydrous silicate of magnesia. Steatite, or soapstone, is a compact granular variety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instillation of a talc suspension with thoracostomy drainage is also a safe and effective technique and should be employed when tetracycline fails or is contraindicated.
(2) It does, however, support other work, such as an analysis in 2003 combining data from 16 studies, which found a 30% increase in ovarian cancer among talc users .
(3) Microscopic examination showed talc granulomas and arteritis.
(4) Four distinct forms of pulmonary disease caused by talc have been defined.
(5) Cancer incidence and cause-specific mortality were studied in a male cohort of 94 talc miners and 295 talc millers, exposed to non-asbestiform talc with low quartz content.
(6) This prospective study was designed to determine the efficacy of iodized talc pleurodesis in patients with pleural effusions.
(7) Lateral thoracotomy with pleural abrasion and application of talc was performed on 8 adult beagle dogs.
(8) At 5 weeks, dynamic transpulmonary and transrespiratory compliance were less in the TALC lungs when compared with CONTROL lungs.
(9) We conclude that the decrease in bone formation constitutes an important aspect of the host acute-phase response in a rat model of talc granulomatosis.
(10) Better estimates of exposure-dose relationships in talc and granite workers as well as longer-term animal studies are required to evaluate the harmfulness of these work environments at present-day exposure levels.
(11) Bone loss in talc granulomatosis is paralleled by hyperplasia of bone marrow in the rat.
(12) Talc (magnesium silicate) is a widely used, generally considered benign substance.
(13) Silica is a component of talc (magnesium silicate) used as a drug filler.
(14) Talcs under the Food and Drug Administration are not regulated as to asbestos content; however, all talcs were well below the level mandated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for industrial talcs.
(15) The etiology and possible role of systemic talc granulomatosis in the development of immunosuppressive illness is reported herein.
(16) Binding to talc on the other hand showed no specificity, and the sensitivity was less.
(17) 2) If the board and adjacent ones are firmly fixed, dust talc or chalk through the cracks to stop them rubbing together.
(18) We have examined workers exposed to curing fumes, processing dusts, and industrial talc and have begun to evaluate exposures of these workers in detail.
(19) The authors review the literature concerned with the carcinogenic hazards of a long term exposure to talc.
(20) The radioisotopes 46Sc, 60Co, 59Fe and 51Cr in the activated talc served as tracers.
Talk
Definition:
(n.) To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
(n.) To confer; to reason; to consult.
(n.) To prate; to speak impertinently.
(v. t.) To speak freely; to use for conversing or communicating; as, to talk French.
(v. t.) To deliver in talking; to speak; to utter; to make a subject of conversation; as, to talk nonsense; to talk politics.
(v. t.) To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
(v. t.) To cause to be or become by talking.
(n.) The act of talking; especially, familiar converse; mutual discourse; that which is uttered, especially in familiar conversation, or the mutual converse of two or more.
(n.) Report; rumor; as, to hear talk of war.
(n.) Subject of discourse; as, his achievment is the talk of the town.
Example Sentences:
(1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
(2) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(3) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
(4) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(5) I remember talking to an investment banker about what it felt like in the City before the closure of Lehman Brothers.
(6) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(7) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
(8) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
(9) The surge the prime minister talks about can only be achieved by coordinating assets across 43 forces.
(10) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
(11) Nick Mabey, head of the E3G climate thinktank in London, said without US action there were risks talks would stall.
(12) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(13) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(14) Families believed that physicians would not listen (13% of sample), would not talk openly (32%), attempted to mislead them (48%), or did not warn about long-term neurodevelopmental problems (70%).
(15) It's the roughly $2bn in revenue grossed by his blockbuster movies, some of which he had to be talked into making.
(16) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
(17) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(18) He said: "I don't want to talk any more about politics for one reason because I'm not in the House[es] of Parliament, I'm not a political person, I will talk about only football."
(19) China's relations with the NTC were strained last week when it emerged Chinese arms firms had talked to Muammar Gaddafi's representatives about weapons sales .
(20) "I was in the car with Matthew and he held out his phone and said: 'We need to talk about this' with a very serious face, and my immediate thought was somebody had found where I lived and had made a direct threat.