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Drug slang A regional term for marijuana
Imaging A descriptive term for the incomplete filling and parallel spiculation of plical folds seen in radiocontrast studies of the small intestine—which is most striking in the jejunum, given the prominence of plical folds—which corresponds to a thickening of the wall by either intramural haemorrhage or haematoma, related to anticoagulants, blood dyscrasia, trauma, Meckel’s diverticulum, endometriosis, or infiltration of the intestinal wall, as in lymphoma
Sports medicine Body-building noun A large amount of performance-enhancing drugs (anabolic steroids) verb To ingest or inject a large amount of anabolic steroids to increase one’s muscle mass
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(stak)
To build up porcelain in the shape of a tooth in the fabrication of a tooth crown.
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Pasudeco used to have three smokestacks but one collapsed months ahead of the demolition of its mill in 2016.
Just occasionally, Smokestack has a hit on its hands.
Since the black smoke will be released out of the new smokestack 190 feet into the air, it will be carried in the wind, away from the people who work at the plant.
"With this last delay, Bush's EPA has shredded any hope that ship smokestacks bringing cargo to our nation's ports will be forced to clean up any time soon."
Family acquisition and sales transactions were in excess of $100 million and included the purchase of the Falchi Building in Long Island City and the former Grumman property in Bethpage, NY, as well as the sale of the Smokestacks Building in Long Island City and an six-building industrial complex in Bloomfield, NJ.
I've often been asked why I chose a career in a smokestack industry.
Specifically, the mature foundry sales organization is not staffed by impatient, aggressive, "smokestack chasers," but by careful planners, focused, patient prospectors, attentive listeners and politically savvy relationship managers.
In 1980 the AEP Picaway power plant in Central Ohio shut down its short, roof-mounted smokestacks and began directing all emissions through an 88-meter smokestack.
Under the change, those plants will be allowed to pump out more power and consequently more smokestack emissions without having to install costly anti-pollution equipment."
One of the biggest challenges in a consistently challenging project was what to do with the smokestack. Built of tile-faced bricks of three different sizes, it rose 130 feet, more than twice the projected height of the building.
Today, the computer has replaced the smokestack as the icon of business.
It would be extremely difficult for individuals to avoid inhaling the dirty air, compared to the relative ease with which the factory could install smokestack scrubbers or use cleaner coal.
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