(1) When highly purified preparations of the anticoagulant activity from the Tike-Uba tree were examined in specific blood coagulation enzyme assays utilizing chromogenic substrates, the highest inhibitory potency was found versus thrombin, followed by factor Xa.
(2) The arrow poison was prepared from the bark of a tree, known locally as Tike-Uba.
(3) Tracing the story of Tike and Ella May Hamlin, "hardscrabble farmers" in Texas, it is a "searing portrait of the Panhandle and its marginalised Great Depression residents".
Tyke
Definition:
(n.) See 2d Tike.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zaillian (Schindler's List) will be responsible for translating Peace's own distinctive brand of Tyke noir into an American setting.
(2) It was just one of the guerrilla tactics deployed by the typically tenacious tykes.
(3) As a young tyke at Tony Blair's Number 10 Policy Unit, Andrew Adonis was the architect of the academies programme.