What's the difference between blanch and purpura?

Blanch


Definition:

  • (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
  • (a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
  • (a.) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
  • (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
  • (a.) To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
  • (a.) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  • (a.) Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
  • (v. i.) To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
  • (v. t.) To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
  • (v. i.) To use evasion.
  • (n.) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
  • (2) Particularly, the losses during blanching and thawing (drip) are discussed.
  • (3) The blanching activities and hence bioavailabilities of the cream, ointment and fatty ointment preparations of Nerisone and Temetex (diflucortolone valerate 0.1%) were evaluated using an occluded and unoccluded blanching assay.
  • (4) Beans were steamed-blanched at 100 degrees C for 2 minutes, and then canned and autoclaved at 121 degrees C for 10 minutes.
  • (5) The angiomas of the skin may occur in 3 forms: large cavernous angiomas; blood sac looking like a blue rubber nipple, they can be emptied; irregular blue mark, sometimes with puncted blackish spots, they may not blanch on pressure.
  • (6) The soluble dry matter content of blanched mushrooms was less than 50% of that of the fresh.
  • (7) Since the bloody coup of 1979, South Korea seems to have had journalistic carte blanche as the "lesser of two evils".
  • (8) Holiday's regular label, Columbia, blanched at the prospect of recording it, so she turned to Commodore Records, a small, leftwing operation based at Milt Gabler's record shop on West 52nd Street.
  • (9) Guanethedine (1% in eucerin) increases the blanching phenomenon (false transmitter effect of dopamine).
  • (10) During endoscopy, using recently sterilized endoscopes that were flushed with 3% hydrogen peroxide after the glutaraldehyde cycle, instantaneous blanching (the "snow white" sign) and effervescence were noted on the mucosal surfaces when the water button was depressed.
  • (11) Controversy subsists about interpretations of "delayed cholinergic blanch" in atopic dermatitis.
  • (12) The intensity of corticosteroid-induced blanching has been found to vary at different areas of the flexor aspect of the human forearm.
  • (13) There was no significant difference between Dioderm and Dioderm C. Unlike creams containing more potent corticosteroids the hydrocortisone formulations apparently failed to produce steroid reservoirs in the stratum corneum as assessed by the blanching response.
  • (14) The significance of the terminal residues of the red pigment-concentrating hormone (RPCH: Glu-Leu-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Gly-Trp-NH2) for its blanching effect on crustacean chromatophores has been investigated.
  • (15) Fifty-three percent of the population showed skin blanching in response to topical application of the steroid.
  • (16) Widespread pruritic, urticarial papules developed at times of stress and exercise, each papule being surrounded by a striking blanched vasoconstricted halo.
  • (17) This case was thought to be livedo reticularis and cerebral thrombotic lesions (Sneddon's syndrome) associated with atrophie blanche or livedo(id) vasculitis and may be one clinical subset of primary anti-phospholipid syndrome.
  • (18) Like the rest of Tarkovsky’s filmography, these two works have received extensive analysis .Coming on the heels of the shelved Andrei Rublev , long withheld from release by the Soviet government, Solaris enjoyed such a degree of success that Tarkovsky was effectively given carte blanche for any future projects.
  • (19) Wounds in group CS were "sterilized" (0.5-mm spot size, 25 W, CW) by gently heating the wound without causing blanching or charring.
  • (20) Terre'Blanche founded the white supremacist AWB in 1970, to oppose what he regarded as the liberal policies of the then South African leader, John Vorster.

Purpura


Definition:

  • (n.) A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples.
  • (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, usually having a rough and thick shell. Some species yield a purple dye.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
  • (2) A close correlation between purpuric reaction and drugs was observed in seven cases of chronic pigmented purpura.
  • (3) The criteria selected by a classification tree method were similar: palpable purpura, age less than or equal to 20 years at disease onset, biopsy showing granulocytes around arterioles or venules, and gastrointestinal bleeding.
  • (4) The association of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) and pregnancy is of special therapeutic significance because it increases the risk to mother and infant during labor.
  • (5) Two cases with brain purpura following Gram-negative septicaemia were examined morphologically and immunohistochemically.
  • (6) Chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is an autoimmune disorder in which the abnormality in cellular immunity has remained only vaguely defined.
  • (7) Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) is more frequently seen in young females than in any other age or sex group.
  • (8) An eight-day-old girl suffered from purpura fulminans at her four extremities, skull, bladder, ovary and vagina.
  • (9) Sera from 24 children with Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) and 25 controls were tested for rheumatoid factor (RF) of various isotypes.
  • (10) The discoveries that in Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis there are IgG antibodies directed against receptors sites are examples of such developments, while "ikiopathic" thrombocytopenic purpura is now accepted as immunological owing to its behaviour during pregnancy.
  • (11) We attempted to search for any specific change in the immune system during the onset of childhood acute immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) in order to clarify the pathophysiology of acute ITP by examining the lymphocyte subset, lymphocyte blastogenic response, serum complements, and immunoglobulins in 18 patients with childhood acute ITP and 18 controls (control values after normalization).
  • (12) The hematoma resulted from intraparenchymal bleeding due to Henoch-Schönlein purpura.
  • (13) Verotoxin-producing E. coli (most frequently E. coli O157) have been implicated in the pathogenesis of diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
  • (14) The action of intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) in autoimmune diseases, especially in idiopathic thrombocytic purpura seems to be due to Fc-receptor blockade and immunomodifying qualities.
  • (15) Newborn infants with congenital homozygous protein C deficiency develop catastrophic thrombosis (purpura fulminans) and will not survive beyond the neonatal period without protein C replacement.
  • (16) The onset of purpura in this patient was during the incubation of rubella before the initiation of immune response, suggesting that in some patients the mechanism of platelet damage in ITP associated with rubella is through a direct effect of the virus, rather than by circulating antibodies.
  • (17) At autopsy there were scattered purpura on the skin, and the muscles were atrophic and yellowish-grey in color.
  • (18) 18 patients with proven autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura (ATP) (group A) were screened for human lymphocyte antigens (HLA) and compared with 13 patients with secondary thrombocytopenic purpura (group B).
  • (19) Five patients with post-transfusion purpura (four due to Zw(a), one presumably due to HLA antibodies) were treated with intravenous immunoglobulin (IgG) at doses of 0.4 g per kg body weight.
  • (20) We have investigated the methods for the maintenance of a pregnancy in a patient with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), said condition, since 1984, having been controlled by a plasma infusion every 3 to 4 weeks.

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