Sentence examples for irritant action from inspiring English sources

Some anesthetics have been rejected for therapeutic use because they form explosive mixtures with air, because of their excessive irritant action on the cells that line the major bronchioles of the lung, or because of their adverse effects on the liver or other organ systems.

There were a few lone voices prior to the last two decades who had extolled the laxative properties of the undigested portion of food, assuming that these were related to its irritant action on the bowel mucosa.

Alphacypermethrin did not keep mosquitoes out, but its strong irritant action caused them to prematurely exit the treated house.

A contact irritant action stimulates directed movement away from the chemical source after the mosquito makes physical contact.

To avoid inflating estimates by including mosquitoes in more than one measure, our estimate for contact irritant action included the number caught in exit traps minus the number that subsequently died.

Possibly, gastrointestinal symptoms should be considered related to the local irritant action of styrene in ingested water or foods.

Contact irritant actions were measured by numbers escaping into exit traps during the first 7 hours of observations.

Based on laboratory tests, one of the three (dieldrin) was toxic but had no repellent or irritant actions.

Resistance to a toxic action seems to have no influence on the behavioral responses of mosquitoes to spatial repellent or contact irritant actions.

The criteria include no allowance for the possibility that mosquitoes might become resistant to toxic actions and still be susceptible to a chemical's spatial repellent or contact irritant actions.

The fact that repellent and irritant actions were first documented more than 60 years ago [1] but given no importance, illustrates how lack of appropriate labels and a conceptual framework of multiple chemical actions can work against knowledge and understanding.