(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.
Tall
Definition:
(superl.) High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(3) Treatment of tall peas with the growth retardant AMO-1618 reduces growth and oxidase activity.
(4) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(5) The stratum superficiale consists during this phase of tall columnar cells.
(6) Further analysis revealed Senebkay was tall for his time at 1.78m (5ft 10in), and died at some point in his late 40s.
(7) Two additional studies were conducted to determine the effects of lysocellin and monensin on macromineral apparent absorption and retention in steers fed tall fescue greenchop.
(8) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(9) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
(10) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(11) In fact, Wilson is 6ft 4ins tall, about an inch taller than Brown.
(12) We call for a more structured policy for tall buildings, with transparency for the public and clarity for developers.
(13) In those with tall R wave by ECG at baseline, who survived the 5-year follow-up, incidence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) by ECG criteria was 4.1% in the stepped care group and 8.6% in the referred care group (p less than 0.01).
(14) [In 2014 I saw two Oscars … one was this super-Olympian, very successful, who seemed totally in control and even physically tall with his prostheses.
(15) We have studied the effect of somatostatin analogue (SMS 201-995) given as a subcutaneous injection on the growth and growth hormone secretion in seven tall children (two male; five female).
(16) Maybe it will do him good to go away with England.” Such is the cyclical life of goalscorers, there are times when those fractions that can be the difference between a ball ending up nestled in the net, or agonisingly wide, or foiled by a goalkeeper that probably seems 10 feet tall, loom large.
(17) Preliminary reports indicate efficacy of Sandostatin in psoriasis, autonomic neuropathy (postprandial and orthostatic hypotension) and its ability to reduce height velocity in tall adolescents.
(18) In some areas farmers are not allowed grow tall maize – a potential source of cover for militants.
(19) In conclusion, high doses testosterone-treatment in excessively tall boys needs the additional care of dermatologist when mostly after a 7 months period acne begins to develop under this treatment.
(20) At more than 1.83m (6ft) tall and weighing more than 125kg (20 stone), Qatada is a conspicuous figure, but it still took 11 months to track him down.