Vocabulary Word
Word: saline
Definition: salty
Definition: salty
Sentences Containing 'saline'
He may even now--if I may use the phrase--be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age.
His were the shinbones of the saline beef; his would have been the drumsticks.
It is found in the coastal dunes and saline deserts along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia to Egypt.
Near the end of the Jurassic period (c.144 million years ago) the sea levels dropped and a number of islands emerged in the Purbeck area, surrounded by saline lagoons and channels.
It then flooded under a shallow saline lagoon.
This has led to flooding of the continental shelf around the British Isles and may have resulted in the Black Sea becoming saline.
An important proportion of the European population now uses secondary habitats: lowland wet grasslands, coastal grazing marshes, pastures, wet areas near fishponds or sewage works, and saline lagoons.
Typically, a saline solution is used, with 20–40 mEq KCl per liter over 3–4 hours.
A weekly newspaper, the Ypsilanti Courier, is published every Thursday by Heritage Media from their Saline, MI offices.
Salt making became a considerable trade in the 14th and 15th century when the North Frisians used saline peat as a resource.
Tectonic highlands supplied the Eocene sedimentary basins with sediment from all directions: the Uinta Mountains in the center; the Wind River Mountains to the north; the Front Range, Park Range and Sawatch Range of the Colorado Rockies to the east; the Uncompahgre Plateau and the San Juan Mountains to the south and finally, the Wasatch Mountains of Utah and the ranges of eastern Idaho to the west.
The lithology of the lake sediments is varied and includes sandstones, mudstones, siltstones, oil shales, coal beds, saline evaporite beds, and a variety of lacustrine limestones and dolostones.
According to a study conducted by the University of Thessaloniki, the saline hot mineral springs of Ikaria contain the largest concentration of radon in Greece, being also among the most radioactive springs in the world.
The Mallee has no surface drainage: the native vegetation has so high a rooting density that the rainfall of most years is easily absorbed and the porous sandy soils mean that any excess in an exceptionally wet year will recharge groundwater supplies which tend to be highly saline.
Stone Fort Township, Saline County, Illinois
Stone Fort Township is located in Saline County, Illinois.
Daptomycin is supplied as a sterile preservative-free pale yellow to light brown lyophilised 500 mg and 350 mg cake that must be reconstituted with 0.9% saline prior to use.
The lakes in this chain are mostly saline and often described as 'seasonal' because they often dry up during summer months.
The first line of management for chemical injuries is usually copious irrigation of the eye with an isotonic saline or sterile water.
The Casa Grande series consists of very deep, well-drained, saline-sodic soils on fan terraces and relict basin floors.
A specific variety of bone nail use in the femur and humerus is a hollow shell which is inflated with saline under high pressure to grip the interior of the bone, and constitutes a bomb in the cremator.
The Division and Gause’s Brigade arrived just in time to join the pursuit of Steele's army as it retreated from Camden, and join in the attack on Steele as he tried to cross the Saline River at Jenkins' Ferry on April 30, 1864.
The sinking AAIW becomes sandwiched between the Subantarctic water (above) which is much warmer, but more saline and the NADW (below) which is cold and quite salty.
Piperazine exists as small alkaline deliquescent crystals with a saline taste.
From 1885 the constituency consisted of the parishes of Abbotshall, Aberdour, Auchterderran, Auchtertool, Ballingry, Beath, Burntisland, Dalgetty, Dunfermline, Dysart, Inverkeithing, Kinghorn, Kinglassie, Kirkcaldy, Leslie, Markinch, Saline, Torryburn and Wemyss.
The refuge encompasses several habitat types including sand dunes, pickleweed salt marsh, river lagoon, riverine, and a saline pond.
Immediately landwards are the large shallow "étangs", saline marshes, which separate it from Aigues Mortes, a neighboring mediaeval walled city that used to be a port.
Le Grau-du-Roi comes from the occitan word grau (Latin gradus), which refers to the opening of an étang (shallow saline lake), or the watercourse from an etang into the sea.
It is separated from Aigues-Mortes by a series of saline marshes, called "étangs" in French, and a bend in the river Vidourle.
Roberta Frank writes in her article "Viking Atrocity and Skaldic Verse: The Rite of the Blood-Eagle": "By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the various saga motifs—eagle sketch, rib division, lung surgery, and 'saline stimulant'—were combined in inventive sequences designed for maximum horror."
After over 10 years of debate, at the age of 30, Ana Voog had had saline breast implants inserted into her chest to increase their size.
It lies approximately 2 km to the north of Ghulkin, a saline body of water occupying a small hollow at an elevation of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet).
She puts security guards on Apple's room, so House convinces Lucas to disguise himself as a nurse and replace Apple's IV meds with a saline solution.
Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport is a city owned, use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) south of the central business district of Marshall, a city in Saline County, Missouri, United States.
Solar distillation can be used to make saline or brackish water potable.
The immediate destinations of LA 9 are Bienville to the north and Saline to the south.
later, LA 4 intersects LA 155, also connecting to LA 9 at Saline, and the two highways proceed in a concurrency to a point known as Friendship.
The recovery can be aided nonsurgically by bandaging with an osmotic saline solution.
Karl was raised in the small town of Saline in south-eastern Michigan.
One or more chest tubes—with one end inside the opened pleural cavity and the other submerged under saline solution inside a sealed container, forming an airtight drainage system—are necessary to remove air and fluid from the pleural cavity, preventing the development of pneumothorax or hemothorax.
During the 2007 season he was suspended for six games due to alleged infringement of the anti-doping code by intravenous therapy with saline solution and vitamin B1, due to dehydration and inability to take fluids orally.
Shallow tub ewells are saline, so people do not construct shallow tube wells.
During this time they also had an office in Raleigh, Illinois, then the county seat of neighboring Saline County.
The basin contains 483,390 acres (1956 km²) of wetlands, consisting of nearly 38,500 acres (156 km²) of fresh marsh, 28,600 acres (116 km²) of intermediate marsh, 116,800 acres (473 km²) of brackish marsh, 83,900 acres (340 km²) of saline marsh, and 215,600 acres (873 km²) of cypress swamp.
Recorded habitat for the species includes the wooded margins of saline lagoons and creeks.
Its natural habitats are dry savanna, coastal saline lagoons, and arable land.