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Definition of Congeners
1. congener [n] - See also: congener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Congeners
Literary usage of Congeners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"Residue determinations conducted for environmental degradation and distribution
studies still tend to include comprehensive lists of congeners more in line ..."
2. Oxygen/Nitrogen Radicals and Cellular Injury edited by Kenneth B. Adler, Robert D. Devlin, Val Vallyathan (2000)
"Nitric Oxide and Its congeners in Mitochondria: Implications for ... We have also
found that NO and its congeners can induce Ca2+ release from mitochondria. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"JHG ECZEMA AND ITS congeners: Their Pathology and Bacteriology, with Some
Improvements in Their Treatment. By EDWARD BLAKE, MD, Member of the Royal College ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"... the wild pea, contains two abnormal and interesting species, in which the
foliaceous organs give the plant an appearance very unlike its congeners. Fig. ..."
5. Clinical urinology: A Treatise on the Urinary Aspects of Disease by Alfred Careño Croftan (1907)
"The Factors Determining the Excretion of Uric Acid and its Chemical congeners.
The Pathogenetic Hole of the Purin Bodies. ..."
6. Movements of Religious Thought in Britain During the Nineteenth Century by John Tulloch (1885)
"THE EARLY ORIEL SCHOOL AND ITS congeners. TN 1825, the same year in which the
Aids to Reflection saw the light, ..."
7. The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of by Gilbert White (1853)
"... differs widely from its congeners, m laying invariably but two eggs at a time,
which are milk-white, long, and peaked at the small end; ..."
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