(n.) Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Most hemangiomas are small, harmless birthmarks that appear soon after birth, proliferate for 8 to 18 months, and then slowly regress over the next 5 to 8 years, leaving normal or slightly blemished skin.
(2) We examined all babies born live (4346) at two Finnish hospitals in the course of one year to determine the frequency of birthmarks, specially pigmented lesions, among Finnish newborns.
(3) Birthmarks came out in 1988, when he was 31, The Lost Leader not till 2008, when he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, and knew he did not have long to live.
(4) The sense of an inescapable history that is a keynote of Birthmarks permeates much of the later collection to savage or tragic or absurd effect.
(5) Thermal profiles of ectatic capillaries, modelled on those found in port wine stain birthmarks, are calculated by a method of finite differences.
(6) A naevus is a, 'birthmark; a circumscribed malformation of the skin, especially if coloured by hyperpigmentation or increased vascularity; it may be predominantly epidermal, adnexal, melanocytic, vascular, or mesodermal, or a localised overgrowth of melanin-forming cells arising in the skin early in life.'
(7) Most vascular birthmarks can be categorized, based on clinical and cellular criteria, as either (1) a hemangioma, or (2) a malformation, or (3) a macular stain.
(8) The satisfactory results obtained by laser treatment have increased the number of patients seeking consultation regarding their birthmarks.
(9) One or two peevish voices thought Imlah too clever, too dustily "Oxonian", failing to see how mordantly modern many of the fables and instances in Birthmarks are, within their formal virtuosity and confidently literary bearing.
(10) Pictures of a half-naked four-year-old boy with a "mark of the devil" birthmark on his chest were published by the Sun on its front page, prompting MPs to complain the article was irresponsible, embarrassing and damaging to the child.
(11) The frequencies of the types of birthmarks were: mongolian spots, 81.5%; salmon patches, 22.3%; nevocellular nevi, 2.7%; port-wine stains, 2.1%; strawberry marks, 1.7%; café au lait spots, 1.7% (including a case of von Recklinghausen's disease); epidermal and sebaceous nevi, 0.3%; accessory auricles, 0.3%; and smooth muscle hamartomas, 0.2%.
(12) An increased risk was found only for birthmarks, and specifically for hemangiomas, for children with parents exposed to pesticides in the floriculture industry.
(13) A biologic classification based on clinical behavior and endothelial cell characteristics is used to divide vascular birthmarks into two groups: hemangiomas and vascular malformations.
(14) This article reviews the nature of that distress and the stigmatization suffered by patients with disfiguring birthmarks.
(15) In 1994 he wrote of this work in progress: "If Birthmarks says, we can only be what we are, this says, we can fail to be even that."
(16) All involved complex vascular networks, and about one half of the patients had red or purple birthmarks.
(17) In addition to birthmarks, it was determined that 30.3% of the 508 babies examined at one of the two hospitals had toxic erythema of the newborn.
(18) 148 neonates had birthmarks which were erythema toxicum (ET) in 103 cases, vascular lesions in 19, pigmented in 8, and miscellaneous lesions in 18.
(19) Patients with port-wine stains are now able to receive treatment to improve significantly their birthmark.
(20) Within this diagnosis, several authors have reported the simultaneous occurrence of three different birthmarks, viz., a pigmentary nevus, a telangiectatic nevus and a nevus anemicus.
Strawberry
Definition:
(n.) A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species.
Example Sentences:
(1) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
(2) Erik Erikson used the film character of Dr. Borg from Wild Strawberries to flesh out his life cycle conception of ego integrity versus despair in old age.
(3) On Monday Tesco was selling 454g punnets of British strawberries for £2.
(4) The nucleotides from a trichloroacetic acid extract of mature strawberry leaves were separated into ten main fractions by chromatography on a Dowex 1 (formate form) column with ammonium formate as the eluting agent.
(5) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
(6) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
(7) In 12 months just about every regular professional player outside the Iron Curtain (whose national federations paradoxically denied any truck with unions) had signed up with the ATP but the ILTF confidently fancied it could split the union's confraternity at this very first challenge simply because every player wanted to compete in the "world championship", that is on the strawberry fields of London SW19.
(8) Such problems may vary from a simple strawberry hemangioma to the most complex deformity involving the entire facial skeleton and soft tissue.
(9) 30.37% no angina and 40% no strawberry-like tongue.
(10) The strawberry hemangioma had been treated in infancy with dry ice.
(11) At the height of the harvesting season, between October and July, an estimated 6,000 migrants are employed as strawberry pickers for wages that no Greek, despite record levels of unemployment, would ever accept.
(12) All samples were strawberry-flavored and were evaluated by 88 judges.
(13) The relative standard deviation for repeated determinations of carminic acid in a commercial strawberry-flavored yogurt was 3.0%.
(14) The strawberries are extracted with acetone, and the filtrate is partioned with a mixture of methylene chloride and petroleum ether followed by further extraction with methylene chloride.
(15) According to the t-test for paired means, cola beverages and orange beverages differed from beer, coffee with or without sugar, strawberry yoghurt, buttermilk, and carbonated mineral water at the level P less than 0.01.
(16) His tasting menu runs like a list of ingredients and inspirations: Lindisfarne; razor clam; grouse; spring lamb; strawberry.
(17) The Dream smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry shortcake.
(18) It was good for the product with strawberry flavor, but it was even better for the sample without flavor which had been previously washed.
(19) Clinical mass surveys were carried out on the residents to whom questionnaires on symptoms with reference to strawberry culture in the vinyl-house had been delivered.
(20) Aureobasidium (Pullularia) recovery occurred in different locations according to season, correlating somewhat with the cabbage harvest as well as with the harvest of strawberries.