noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tract of land (= a large area of land )
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Cattle ranching requires large tracts of land.
vast areas/expanses/tracts etc (of sth)
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vast areas of rainforest
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alimentary
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Free-living communities and alimentary tract helminths: hypotheses and pattern analysis - D Simberloff.
biliary
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Despite these criteria, patients with biliary tract calculi have been included in several studies of primary sclerosing cholangitis.
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Despite these measures, biliary tract calculi recurred in all 12 patients after removal.
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We have reviewed our experience of exfoliative cytology in the management of patients with biliary tract strictures.
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Improved methods of obtaining a tissue diagnosis are therefore becoming essential to the management of biliary tract strictures.
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Sclerosing cholangitis and biliary tract calculi - primary or secondary?
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This group included 23 patients with biliary tract calculi, commonly considered as excluding the diagnosis of primary sclerosing cholangitis.
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Patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis complicated by biliary tract calculi were more likely to be symptomatic at presentation than those without calculi.
digestive
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But for all the insufficiency of Rheinberger's digestive tract , this is an enjoyable disc.
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Because it dissolves easily in water, it is rapidly absorbed from the digestive tract and mixes easily with blood.
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Or it could simply be activity in the digestive tract .
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What seems to happen is that the calcium in your food combines with oxalic acid right in your digestive tract .
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This is a cleansing agent of the digestive tract and it also aids digestion.
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Dinosaurs also had a larger digestive tract that seemed to have co-evolved with the changes in Earth's flora and fauna.
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Towards the end of his life he overdosed on dry adrenalin, and scorched his digestive tract .
gastrointestinal
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Neuropeptide Y has also been isolated from the gastrointestinal tract with large concentrations found in the biliary tree.
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The remaining amount of uric acid is excreted in the biliary, pancreatic, and gastrointestinal secretions through the gastrointestinal tract .
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It is well known the Crohn's disease is a diffuse lesion of the entire gastrointestinal tract .
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Twenty two had severe lifelong constipation and eight had symptoms suggesting a motility disorder exclusively of the upper gastrointestinal tract .
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Postmortem examination was carried out in seven patients, and the gastrointestinal tract was fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin.
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Iron deficiency anaemia is commonly caused by chronic blood loss from the gastrointestinal tract .
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These histological findings were similar in all parts of the gastrointestinal tract .
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Colonic mucins are also highly sulphated, more so in fact than mucins produced elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract .
huge
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Oceanic drift-nets are literally wiping out life over huge tracts of the world's oceans.
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Wind farms also take up huge tracts of land and can kill birds caught in turbine blades.
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The Ringstrasse was built on a huge tract of open land surrounding the city which had previously served as a military fortification.
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To the north-west, there is of course Milton Keynes. Huge tracts of this city of 137,000 are not yet built.
intestinal
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Finally, the intestinal tract was excised, fixed in formalin, stained with haematoxylin and eosin, then coded.
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Following absorption in the intestinal tract , potassium is partially filtered from the plasma by the kidneys.
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They include some of the symptoms of allergy: Disturbances of the stomach and intestinal tract , such as stomach ache.
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It attacks the intestinal tract , liver and other organs.
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Hexamita is in fact routinely isolated from the intestinal tracts of many species of tropical and coldwater fish including trout and goldfish.
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The bullet ripped through her intestinal tract and lodged in her lower abdomen....
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Doctors had to perform a colostomy, rerouting the undamaged intestinal tract to a substitute opening in her lower abdomen.
large
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The first applications for permission to grow large commercial tracts of the new trees are expected to come in about five years.
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There are also large tracts where, it would appear, no University research has been undertaken.
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A forest is a dense growth of trees and shrubby undergrowth covering a large tract of land.
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It's not a single canyon but rather a branching series of gorges covering a large tract of land.
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Over the winter of 1997 / 98 huge fires had destroyed large tracts of forest in Borneo.
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Otherwise large tracts of land would be lost to the sea.
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Dinosaurs also had a larger digestive tract that seemed to have co-evolved with the changes in Earth's flora and fauna.
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The lucrative sugar-beet industry had led to the buying up of large tracts of land before the World War.
low
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We are not aware of reports from developing countries of the outcome of hypoxaemia in children with acute lower respiratory tract infection.
reproductive
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Following mating, the sperm are stored in special tiny tubules in the female's reproductive tract .
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Are women getting education and treatment for reproductive tract infections?
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In most mammals sperm are viable in the female's reproductive tract for a matter of hours.
respiratory
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The cilia in the respiratory tract hasten the exit from the body of possibly harmful foreign material.
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Subjects who developed a symptomatic infection of the upper respiratory tract were retested while ill and again one month later when asymptomatic.
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With further respiratory tract infections there remains a tendency to impaired hearing, but this is transient.
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We are not aware of reports from developing countries of the outcome of hypoxaemia in children with acute lower respiratory tract infection.
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Ether is irritant to the mouse respiratory tract and can cause excessive mucous secretion.
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It is another remedy with an affinity for the respiratory tract .
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Certainly smoking stimulates mucin secretion by the respiratory tract mucosa, probably by a direct irritant effect.
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When inhaled, these very small clusters are deposited in the respiratory tract .
upper
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Twenty two had severe lifelong constipation and eight had symptoms suggesting a motility disorder exclusively of the upper gastrointestinal tract .
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Subjects who developed a symptomatic infection of the upper respiratory tract were retested while ill and again one month later when asymptomatic.
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Thus, for the first time, recordings of fasting and fed motility patterns of the upper gastrointestinal tract have been achieved.
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In some - perhaps most - cases effusion may be a normal reaction to an upper respiratory tract infection.
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Little is known, however, about plasminogen activators in solid tumours of the upper gastrointestinal tract .
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Unlike the dysuria associated with cystitis or upper renal tract infection, gonococcal dysuria is rarely combined with frequency of micturition.
urinary
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This can have devastating consequences, and may cause long-term damage to the urinary tract .
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Infections of kidney / urinary tract 12, 399 4. 9&038;.
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There may be much urging to urinate, smarting, stinging, burning along the urinary tract .
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Infections in the bloodstream, urinary tract or lungs usually are dangerous only to people with other illnesses and weakened immune systems.
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Infections of kidney / urinary tract 8, 006 3. 5&038;.
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It is now doubtful whether urinary tract infection has any role to play in the production of this renal lesion.
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Nine percent of patients had at least one urinary tract infection.
vast
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There were in fact many others, with vast tracts of empty space between them.
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That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral.
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At a time when vast tracts were unsettled, it was all too easy for governments to be profligate.
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All is slanted to maintaining the Establishment stranglehold on vast tracts of land for their own selfish playgrounds.
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At the same time, the forest path and road lights were switched on and lit up vast tracts of the Heide.
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Gosse was perplexed at the vast tracts of time required by geologists to account for the deposition of all the strata.
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The vast tracts of sterile desert land were broken only by irregular patches of short, dry grasses or rough scrubland.
■ NOUN
census
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The variations in prosperity in the North Side become more acute when observed on the smaller scale of the census tract .
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Its neighbouring census tract to the north exhibited diametrically opposite trends, suggesting that whilst one area improved another declined.
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When census tracts are scrutinised in this neighbourhood a sharp division in experience becomes apparent.
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When the data for census tracts are observed a marked discrepancy can be seen within East Allegheny.
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There is less monitoring of such programmes at the micro-scale, that of the neighbourhood or census tract .
infection
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With further respiratory tract infections there remains a tendency to impaired hearing, but this is transient.
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Gastrointestinal tract infections 1, 377 0. 6&038;.
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It is now doubtful whether urinary tract infection has any role to play in the production of this renal lesion.
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Gastrointestinal tract infections 985 0. 4&038;.
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We are not aware of reports from developing countries of the outcome of hypoxaemia in children with acute lower respiratory tract infection .
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Are women getting education and treatment for reproductive tract infections ?
■ VERB
publish
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The latter led him to publish a pungent tract on patent medicines.
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He buried himself in books on comparative religion, and began publishing scholarly tracts and books about the goddess.
write
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It was for him that St Bernard wrote his famous tract on papal power.
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Women who wrote tracts did not automatically create scandal in those days, but public platform speaking was denied them.
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He was interested in politics and wrote tracts .
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He wrote many religious tracts and books.
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Plotinus wrote his most impassioned tract to attack Gnosticism as pretentious mumbo-jumbo.
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The political leaders themselves were often active propagandists; both Somers and Harley, for example, wrote their own tracts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Bible tracts
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There are large tracts of vacant land near the river, which could be used for farming.
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Vast tracts of Brazilian rain forest continue to be cut down every year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable.
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As indicated, Spenser was unsuccessful, his tract censored.
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His fame rests on the flurry of tracts he published in his last years, and little is known of his background.
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Large tracts of the North-East and North Yorkshire are used by the Army for training.
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Postmortem examination was carried out in seven patients, and the gastrointestinal tract was fixed in 10% neutral buffered formalin.
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These histological findings were similar in all parts of the gastrointestinal tract .