(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.
Scald
Definition:
(v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
(v. t.) To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
(n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
(a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.
(a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
(n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.
(n.) One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A homosexual man developed staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome associated with a Staphylococcus aureus septicemia.
(2) This explains why the most frequent localizations of scalding were the face, head, neck, trunk and upper limbs.
(3) After the scald injuries (10-second, full-thickness burns) were induced, a reduction in phagocytic activity by the spleen took place with an accompanying increase in the uptake of colloid material by the lungs.
(4) These findings suggest that cimetidine suppresses scald injury on the peritoneo-serosal surface by competitive inhibition with histamine.
(5) These data indicate that the nursery outbreak was caused by phage group I staphylococci rather than group II organisms previously associated with staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome.
(6) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
(7) This compound possesses marked effects on prevention of adjuvant arthritis, cotton-pellet granuloma formation and hyperalgesic edema (scalding) and the extent is similar to that observed with indomethacin and piroxicam.
(8) Ten mice subjected to a 25% scald were compared with ten anesthetized littermates (controls) and six untreated mice (normal mice) 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 21 days after burn.
(9) Thirty-seven of the children in this group suffered from scalds and six from flame burns.
(10) Contrary to the clinical catabolic situation in scalded and starved rats, it was not intracellular glutamine but glycine which was considerably influenced by catabolism and starvation.
(11) The object of this work is briefly to draw attention to a new type of accident as the cause of scalding in children.
(12) Rokitamycin (RKM) dry syrup, a newly developed macrolide antibiotic, was administered to children with ages between 6 months and 15 years and 10 months suffering from skin and soft tissue infections including 41 cases of impetigo, one case of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) and 2 cases of subcutaneous abscess totalling 44 cases.
(13) The major cause of pediatric burns was scalding, 236 (82.8%).
(14) Poisoning and scalds showed a remarkable age dependence with 81% of children admitted for poisoning or suspected poisoning being in the 1-3 year age group, and 63% admitted for scalds under the age of two.
(15) Scalded rats fed isonitrogenously, but with different amounts of glucose showed only minor changes in AA concentrations.
(16) The absorption of mercury was investigated after three phase crusting by Grob on a second-degree scald burn of 10 to 15% of the body surface in rats.
(17) Staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome, an exfoliative dermopathy, affects neonatal and infant children.
(18) A single hindlimb scald in the rat was produced, and 3 days later soleus muscles were incubated in vitro with and without insulin.
(19) The localized form of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, bullous impetigo, occurs commonly in children but rarely in adults.
(20) A modified Walker burn model was used to inflict 50% total body surface area scald burns on the rats.