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Blockade (medicine)


blockade


1. Intravenous injection of large amounts of colloidal dyes or Other substances whereby the reaction of the reticuloendothelial cells to Other influences (e.g., by phagocytosis) is temporarily prevented.

2. Arrest of peripheral nerve conduction or transmission at autonomic synaptic junctions, autonomic receptor sites, or myoneural junctions by a drug.


straddle (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: stride]
to sit or stand with your legs on either side of someone or something
::The photo shows him dressed in leather, straddling a motorbike.
if something straddles a line, road, or river, part of it is on one side and part on the Other side
straddle sth between sth
::Mount Elgon straddles the border between Kenya and Uganda.
to include different areas of activity, groups, time etc
::Her research straddles mathematics and social sciences.
::immigrants straddling two cultures