(n.) The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the most frequently employed are physical pressure or vacuum (acupressure and cupping), temperature variation (cauterization, moxibustion, electronic heat devices, infrared lamps, ultraviolet lights, ice, dry ice, and surface coolants such as ethyl chloride), ultrasound (sonapuncture), injection therapy (aquapuncture), implantation of various materials into points, laser stimulation (laserpuncture), and electrostimulation of the acupuncture points, with or without needles (electroacupuncture).
Subcutaneous
Definition:
(a.) Situated under the skin; hypodermic.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) All of the rabbits immunized with FCA developed sterile subcutaneous abscesses.
(3) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
(4) Subcutaneous adipose tissue extracellular glucose was investigated in vivo in man with a microdialysis technique.
(5) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
(6) The results obtained on fat cell membranes from abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue demonstrated the following.
(7) Five daily injections of TGF beta-1 or -2 were administered subcutaneously over the frontal and parietal bones of seven-week-old mice.
(8) Accordingly, we repleted vitamin D-depleted rats with subcutaneous injections of 2600, 520, and 130 pmoles of cholecalciferol (D3), 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25(OH)D3), and 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25(OH)2D3), respectively, for up to 3 weeks.
(9) A more pronounced and significant inhibition was observed in chicks given BCG subcutaneously 8 weeks before the start of the dietary regimen.
(10) A case of multiple, subcutaneous, neutrophilic abscesses due to T. rubrum in an immunosuppressed renal allograft recipient is described.
(11) The DTH responses were induced by subcutaneous injection of allogeneic epidermal cells (ECs) and were assayed by footpad swelling.
(12) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
(13) Prolonged beta-adrenergic stimulation obtained by subcutaneous injection of isoproterenol in unanesthetized, unrestrained rats elicited ventricular fibrillation in approximately 80% of animals at 10-12 months of age.
(14) There is no previous report of a subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma developing in radiation dermatitis.
(15) From the subcutaneous transplanted tumors a large number of MLuC1-positive tumor cells could easily be recovered, thus indicating the validity of the in vivo methodology.
(16) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(17) Perinephric rabbit fat was divided into small particles with scissors and razor blades and then injected subcutaneously into the donor rabbit.
(18) They were given to volunteers by the subcutaneous route with and without the addition of Al (OH)3 as adjuvant.
(19) Because haptenated cells can induce immunity if injected subcutaneously or into cyclophosphamide-pretreated recipients (thereby avoiding the induction of suppressor cells), we suggest that the activation of contrasuppressor cells by antigen-antibody complexes overrides suppressive influences in the host, allowing immunity to become dominant.
(20) This study reports on biological response modification induced by prolonged continuous subcutaneous (s.c.) infusion of recombinant interferon-gamma (rIFN-gamma) with particular attention to changes of soluble CD14.