(n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
(n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
(n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
(n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
(n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
(v. i.) To get or become tanned.
Example Sentences:
(1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
(2) In t(7;9)(q34;q34.3) translocations from three cases of T-ALL, the breakpoints occur within 100 bp of an intron in TAN-1, resulting in truncation of TAN-1 transcripts.
(3) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
(4) Both internalized and cellularly enveloped hexamethylenediisocyanate-tanned dermal sheep collagen degraded by the detachment of fibrils.
(5) This demonstrates that a UVA tan provides photoprotection against acute UVA exposure.
(6) In this study the efficacy of preserving microvascular heterografts with glutaraldehyde tanning was investigated.
(7) A comparative study of tanned cell hemagglutination (TCH) and counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE), two easy and reliable methodes for the routine detection of antibodies against nuclear antigens was performed.
(8) Mackay confirmed following Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Newcastle United that a resolution had been reached over the issue but Cardiff's players are reportedly no longer happy for Tan to be in the dressing room on match days.
(9) Reversible binding of BAN and TAN had Ki values of 1 x 10(-9) and 1 x 10(-10) M, respectively as determined by log probit plots.
(10) These findings are relevant to the risk-benefit analysis of sunscreen preparations, especially in skin type II, as they provide evidence that a 5-methoxypsoralen-induced tan is protective against the DNA-damaging effects of solar UV radiation, and thus has the potential to reduce the carcinogenic risk of exposure to such radiation.
(11) Modified human umbilical vein allografts tanned with glutaraldehyde and encased in a polyester mesh were used as arterial substitutes in 13 femoropopliteal reconstructive procedures.
(12) Patients with polymorphic light eruption who intend to obtain a tan by sunbathing should not, therefore, be treated with sunscreens which may worsen their rash, but should be advised to sunbathe without sunscreens for a shorter time.
(13) At higher concentrations, O2 and TAN sensitize the fast-stage damage by a fixation reaction that competes with its repair; in contrast, misonidazole appears mainly to operate by reaction with an earlier, ever shorter form of oxygen-dependent damage.
(14) I asked if they had a black baby face, and my mother even asked if they had a “tan” baby (since my husband is white and our child will be biracial), but the sales woman told me that their babies only came in black and white.
(15) The potency and selectivity of D,L-4-(3,4-dichloro-benzoyl-amino)-5-(dipentyl-amino)-5-oxo-pen tan oic acid (CR 1409) as a cholecystokinin (CCK) antagonist was investigated on motor responses of the longitudinal and circular muscles of the guinea-pig isolated ileum.
(16) This article examines the indoor tanning industry, the effects of ultraviolet-A radiation, and public education.
(17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
(18) The carcinogenic effect of 3 commercially available ultraviolet A (UVA) tanning sources was studied in lightly pigmented hairless mice.
(19) All tumors occurred as solitary, soft to firm, solid, tan, and ulcerated masses in the digits of dogs aged 11 to 15 years.
(20) Anti-hTG titers far below those detected by the tanned-red cell hemagglutination test had very large effects, to the point where measurements of hTG could not be made, when a cross-reactive precipitating antiserum was used.
Tannery
Definition:
(n.) A place where the work of tanning is carried on.
(n.) The art or process of tanning.
Example Sentences:
(1) The development of spraying of sludges and composts will increase the quantity and efficiency of chromium in vegetals, because of various factors: the wastes of many industries: chromium plating plants, tanneries, painting and dyeing industries throw out hexavalent chromium; if the sewage sludges are purified by an irradiation treatment, it will tend to oxidize the whole chromium in hexavalent forms; at last, the presence of sewage sludges in the arable soil favours the assimilation of chromium by inhibiting that of iron (Figure 1).
(2) Industrial sources for offensive odours, such as meat, fish and other food processing plants, leather tanneries, sewage and domestic refuse processing plants, oil refineries, paper pulp, paint and plastic manufacturers, are outlined.
(3) The mortality of 2926 male workers at the tanneries in the "leather area" of Tuscany was examined from 1950 to 1983 comparing it with the national mortality.
(4) Four hundred and ninety-seven tannery workers and 80 employees not engaged in leather work, from 20 tanneries, were interviewed and underwent physical examination.
(5) A Cr(VI)-resistant yeast, designated strain DBVPG 6502, was isolated from a sewage treatment plant receiving wastes from tannery industries in Italy.
(6) A cluster of 7 lung cancer deaths among workers of a small tannery in Biella is reported.
(7) After completing 200 miles of road north from Khartoum to Adbara, and another 100 miles on towards Port Sudan, the government reneged on Bin Laden's £20m fee, instead giving him a majority share in a tannery, worth £5m.
(8) Even in view of critical questions about validity it seems likely that this excess might be related to exposure to chemicals in tannery work.
(9) Unfortunately that has meant that whereas we used to have tanneries more local to us, they’ve all gone offshore as well.
(10) The spores besides to cause infections of the workmen employed in the hide manufacture (industrial anthrax) through the effluents and solid refuses from the tanneries, are dispended upon the tiled ground and determine outbreak the haematic anthrax in the animals and agricultural coutaneus anthrax in the men.
(11) A significant excess of deaths was observed, however, due to accidental causes in one tannery and cirrhosis of the liver, suicide, and alcoholism in the other.
(12) The mortality of 833 male tannery workers known to have been employed in the industry in 1939 and who were followed up to the end of 1982 was studied.
(13) Regular meetings with tannery owners, the training of tannery workers in first aid, and support for the installation of safety and health councils in tanneries are the main programme activities.
(14) Serum and urinary Cr levels of a selected group of men exposed to CrIII in four Southern Ontario tanneries were compared with those of men not exposed to Cr.
(15) Tolerance level to trivalent chromium-Cr(salen)(H2O)2+ and hexavalent chromium-K2Cr2O7 was assessed in P. aeruginosa isolated from tannery effluent soil.
(16) Another interesting result is the excess of lung cancer among tannery workers.
(17) Hair samples were collected from 71 male tannery workers from four southern Ontario tanneries and from 53 male controls not exposed to Cr in the workplace.
(18) The findings of this study are consistent with those of the only other mortality investigation of leather tannery employees.
(19) Metal-, construction- and tannery workers were more frequently involved.
(20) Workers were studied at a tannery that operated from 1873 to 1960, once one of the biggest in Scandinavia.