(n.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9.
(v. t.) To coat with zinc; to galvanize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(2) Adult nonpregnant female rhesus monkeys fed purified diets containing 100 or 4 ppm zinc for 1 yr were mated then studied through midgestation.
(3) Cellular aging is accompanied by increased cellular permeability to zinc(II).
(4) Cytosolic zinc was eluted from a Sephadex G-75 column in the molecular weight region associated with metallothionein.
(5) Serum levels of vitamins A and E, zinc and iron were determined in healthy control subjects and lepromatous leprosy patients belonging to an eastern state of India.
(6) Zinc alpha-2 glycoprotein (ZnGP) was measured in human breast microcysts, breast secretions, breast cyst fluid and serum.
(7) The absorption of zinc from meals based on 60 g of rye, barley, oatmeal, triticale or whole wheat was studied by use of extrinsic labelling with 65Zn and measurement of the whole-body retention of the radionuclide.
(8) In cirrhosis there was a decrease, of zinc (-40%) albumin (-38%) and of activity of ALA D (-48%) and an increase in blood lead (+80%).
(9) The plasma zinc level was significantly lower at the time of onset of zinc deficiency than in normal subjects, before the procedure of TPN, or at the time of symptomatic relief achieved by administration of zinc.
(10) In comparison with animals fed zinc-containing diets, mice fed zinc-deficient diets had reduced numbers of T cells and T-cell subsets, reduced proliferation to mitogens and specific antigen, and a decreased production of interleukin 2 (IL-2), but the number and affinity of IL-2 receptors were not affected.
(11) The contents of magnesium, potassium and zinc plasma did not correlate with the corresponding concentrations in skeletal muscle or circulating blood cells, as investigated in healthy controls, diabetics and in all subjects together, implying that the plasma concentrations are not useful in the assessment of electrolyte status.
(12) A positive association was observed between the prevalence of fatigue, mild abdominal pain, and arthralgia and the blood lead (PbB), urinary lead (PbU), and zinc protoporphyrin (ZPP) levels.
(13) Perinatal brain damage produced by early zinc deficiency followed by rehabilitation with adequate zinc appears to be long term, maybe permanent.
(14) The results of these investigations suggest that there is a biochemically significant decrease in the bioavailability of zinc when these artificial formulas are used.
(15) Each repeat unit contains thirty amino acids and is thought to bind a zinc atom using two cysteines and two histidines as ligands.
(16) The same ratio occurred when zinc (0 to 0.6 mM in citrate buffer) was added to semen or washed spermatozoa.
(17) In the present study, maternal and fetal zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), iron (Fe), magnesium (Mg), and calcium (Ca) status has been studied in Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Wistar rats.
(18) Iron, zinc, cadmium, cobalt, and lead do not interfere.
(19) The addition of zinc to the cell culture medium then led to the expression of hepatitis D antigen associated with, in the short term, a significant reduction in the rate of RNA but not DNA synthesis and, in the longer term, cell death.
(20) In order to determine the specific action of cadmium on bone metabolism, the effect of cadmium on alkaline phosphatase activity, a marker enzyme of osteoblasts, was compared with that of other divalent heavy metal ions, i.e., zinc, manganese, lead, copper, nickel and mercury (10 microM each), using cloned osteoblast-like cells, MC3T3-E1.
Zing
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(1) Watson answered in a mellifluous computerised voice – think Stephen Hawking with extra zing – and in a neat visual trick its screen avatar changed colour depending on how sure it was about each answer.
(2) • workersplaytime.net Chosen by Sink the Pink co-founders, Glynfamous (Glyn Fussell) and Amy Zing (Amy Redmond) Soho Burlesque Club Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Soho Burlesque Club Soho Burlesque Club – at the Hippodrome Casino – is a properly late-night cabaret experience.
(3) He admits to lacking the entrepreneurial zing of contemporaries such as Jamie Byng of Canongate; as he tells the story of his rise through the ranks, it sounds as if he triumphed by being able to keep his cool when faced with managers who had no feeling for books at all.
(4) It's those "extras" that give Secret Cinema its zing: live performance, music, food, dress-up – all sorts of tricks layered over a main-event screening, the details of which are kept a secret until the last moment.
(5) Their European foray this season has seen them become the first Kazakh side to be guarantee a place in the group stage of a Uefa competition – when Celtic knock them out they go into the glamorous Europa League – and that means Zing!
(6) Just a dash of juice or a sprinkling of zest can bring zing to even the most warming of winter dishes – Betty Bee's rib-sticking stew and Anna Thomson's split peas for example – but it was the fresh simplicity of Erum Gulmann's fruit salad, served with a rich, sweetly spiced Indian yoghurt, that stole my heart.
(7) It’s good to see the government has a plan for knights and dames – where’s their plan for jobs?” said opposition leader Bill Shorten, before yelling “zing” and insisting that deputy opposition leader Tanya Plibersek to “give him some skin”.
(8) The moment was intended to feel surreal, as though you were entering Miles’s mind, but as the door began to swing, a deep rumble erupted into a volley of zings and swishes – those troublesome tape decks – as if the scene had plunged into a battle in outer space.
(9) Since it arrived in a burst of glitter eight years ago, best friends Amy Zing and Glynfamous have turned their event from makeshift east London disco into a lavish, 3,000-capacity megamix of stage shows, live music (Little Mix!
(10) Something I think that women generally struggle with in this industry is saying, ‘Actually, I do this, and I’m good at it, and you need to recognise that.’ So reading nominations from people nominating themselves, and their friends, was really lovely, and also seeing men nominate their peers.” One of the judges, Zing Tsjeng , the UK editor of Broadly, pointed out that compared with other journalism awards a lot of younger women were being nominated.
(11) But there's evidence that the public doesn't find the line so zing-y.
(12) Illustration: Alexander Wells Markram's belief in the need for teamwork is rooted in his own experience as a brain researcher and his conviction that only neuroscience is capable of solving the deeper mysteries of how the electrical signals zinging between neurons produce consciousness and how interferences or malfunctions in those electrical channels produce disordered or "diseased" thinking.
(13) Applying some Eastern zing to the symbol of Welsh pride – the leek – it's supremely healthy, packing in spices, peppers and leeks bursting with flavour into a colourful lip-smacking dish.
(14) Chris Pratt as the rogueish leader and Zoe Saldana (green this time, not blue) zip around in cool ships saving the day, zinging each other with jokes.
(15) Press coverage zings with unlikely stories about Davis – that he howls in his prison cells when the five-times daily call to prayer rings out; that the CIA plans a "Hollywood-style heist" to spring him; that he is the linchpin of the CIA's drone programme.