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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation chaplain
  • abbreviation chief
  • abbreviation church

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  • There basic character designs share some commonalities, but as we see in Ch. 4 and 5, JR and Thomas will begin to diverge greatly, and Huff basically stays the middleman.

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  • If I get lucky, I might finish the scene in Ch. 10 that I know the ending of, too.

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  • And now Peter, a 5-year-old standard poodle officially known as Ch. (for champion) Whisperwind on a Carousel, can add the much-coveted (by owners, not dogs) top-dog honors at last week's Westminster Kennel Club show in New York.

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  • Either the Ac.Ch. is a part of the nerve and disappears then naturally with its degeneration, or it belongs to the effector organ.

    Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • In experiments directed towards the study of this question Engelhart and I29 found the following: If one determines the initial value of Ac.Ch. in a heart section, leaving the remaining portion of the heart intact for a few hours, as much Ac.Ch. is found in it afterwards as in the beginning.

    Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Dale also assumed, the Ac.Ch. is present in the organ in a state of rest in some kind of loose, non-diffusible combination, and for that reason it is non-susceptible to attack by esterase and non-effective.

    Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • The last two findings were confirmed by Chang and Gaddum. 26 As Ac.Ch. is not present in the blood, it cannot diffuse from there, and neither, on account of its ready destructibility, could it diffuse from elsewhere in the nerves and ganglia.

    Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • If, therefore, it can be proved that Ac.Ch. is formed in the "synapse", it can only, in my opinion, be in the preganglionic nerve ending or in the ganglion cell.

    Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • In an organ in a state of rest, therefore, the Ac.Ch. is protected against the esterase.

    Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • I must touch on the following: As all activity caused by the application of Ac.Ch. can be halted by atropine, one might expect that wherever Ac.Ch. is released as a result of nerve stimulation, the effect could everywhere be halted by atropine.

    Otto Loewi - Nobel Lecture 1965

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