How to Use enteric in a Sentence

enteric

adjective
  • Whether over-the-counter enzymes have what’s called an enteric coating also matters.
    — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 2024-02-15
  • Crushing tablets with an enteric coating can destroy it, causing the drug to break down in the stomach.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 2024-03-30
  • Those gut feelings are driven by enteric nerve cells, including glia.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 2023-11-21
  • Those gut feelings are driven by enteric nerve cells, including glia.
    — Yasemin Saplakoglu, WIRED, 2024-01-14
  • The enteric nervous system is often referred to as our body’s second brain.
    — Justin Sonnenburg, Scientific American, 2015-05-01
  • Much of that is enteric methane, which is produced when cud-chewing animals like cows digest their food.
    — Fortune, 2021-06-02
  • As many as half a million children are thought to die every year from enteric diseases, including cholera and dysentery.
    — The Economist, 2018-03-22
  • The alert comes after the presence of high levels of enteric bacteria was reported.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 2019-07-05
  • That leads to incessant burping or, as scientists call it, enteric emissions.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 2021-10-01
  • Erectin packs these ingredients into a capsule with an enteric coating.
    — Dallas News, 2022-12-23
  • The anatomy and digestive habits of cattle and bison cause almost all of the methane to escape from their mouths, a process known as enteric emission.
    — Nate Trela, USA TODAY, 2023-08-11
  • The term enteric refers to the gastrointestinal tract, and observers said the disease could be an intestinal illness like typhoid and cholera.
    — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 2022-06-17
  • The presence of enteric bacteria indicates fecal pollution that can come from storm water runoff, pets and wildlife and human sewage.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 2022-07-14
  • But this process, called enteric fermentation, also produces methane, a potent planet-warming gas that the cattle mostly belch into the air.
    — New York Times, 2020-10-20
  • Of that amount, methane emissions from livestock (called enteric fermentation) comprised more than a quarter of the emissions from the agriculture sector.
    — Michelle Chapman, The Denver Post, 2020-07-14
  • The company will also explore animal feed additives that cut down on the amount of methane that cows produce during enteric fermentation.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 2020-03-04
  • For instance, deletions in the furin cleavage site in the feline enteric coronavirus increase pathogenicity in animals.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2021-09-28
  • Your enteric nervous system, which comprises 100 million nerve cells, is in charge of controlling digestion.
    — Kasandra Brabaw, Health.com, 2021-10-19
  • But 27 percent of all U.S. methane emissions are the result of something known as enteric fermentation—a fancy way of saying pig poop and cow farts.
    — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 2021-04-26
  • Canine enteric coronavirus, which affects the gastrointestinal tract, is fairly rare and typically only affects puppies under six weeks of age.
    — Laura Hanrahan, Woman's Day, 2020-03-04
  • The second largest nervous cluster in our bodies, after the brain, is the bundle in our gut (technically called the enteric nervous system, or ENS).
    — Paul Root Wolpe, Vox, 2018-04-02
  • Dairy cows’ enteric fermentation and manure, as well as the production of the cattle feed, emit significant amounts of greenhouse gasses (GHG).
    — Carla Delgado, Discover Magazine, 2022-05-02
  • Scientists call this little brain the enteric nervous system (ENS) because it is hidden within the digestive system’s walls.
    — Aaraf Adam, Essence, 2022-04-20
  • Now, in new research, scientists have catalogued 12 different kinds of neurons in the enteric nervous system (ENS) of mice.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2020-12-11
  • The institute’s focus is on diseases that disproportionately affect the poor: malaria, tuberculosis, and enteric diseases.
    — Helen Branswell, STAT, 2018-06-07
  • This pathway connects the central nervous system, which controls conscious and unconscious functioning (including breathing and thinking), with the enteric system, a network of nerves that regulates gut activity.
    — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 2020-07-10
  • Agricultural methane emissions stem from enteric fermentation by livestock, manure management, rice production, composting, field burning of field residues, and other processes.
    — Benjamin Zycher, National Review, 2020-08-18
  • The latter is accurate: A recent report said livestock (including poultry) accounts for 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, the bulk of that from enteric fermentation - the digestive process that leads cows to belch methane.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 2019-12-09
  • Still, Chédotal believes the team’s visualizations show previously unknown details of the enteric nervous system, a collection of nerve cells driving gastrointestinal functions, and some of the nodes, vessels, and organs in the lymphatic system.
    — Byesra Öz, science.org, 2023-04-25
  • The advisory was posted to the Department of Health's website Tuesday at 5:52 p.m. Testing found the concentration of enteric bateria enterococci to be too high for safe swimming.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 2018-07-04

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