(n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
(n.) Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.
(n.) A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.
(v. i.) To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
(v. t.) To raise a blister or blisters upon.
(v. t.) To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
Example Sentences:
(1) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
(2) We have previously characterized the kinetics of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) production at cutaneous sites of allergic inflammation employing a blister-chamber model.
(3) In addition, various tissue cages and the use of skin blisters has been a popular means for testing antibiotic penetration into extra-cellular fluid.
(4) Patients with moderate or severe rheumatoid disease of the hands often could not extract tablets from blister packs.
(5) Suction blisters were raised on psoriatic lesions and normal appearing skin.
(6) After distribution of the agents in the body, the concentrations of both drugs in blister and parenteral fluid were similar to those in serum.
(7) Symptoms included surface lesions, blisters and abscesses.
(8) We describe a skin blister chamber technique with a novel multiwell device which allows the observation of cell accumulation under different conditions, i.e., in presence and in absence of a foreign body (coverslip).
(9) Institution of systemic corticosteroid therapy resulted in a satisfactory clinical response and cessation of the blistering process.
(10) The BB-isoenzyme was found to be the predominant form in blister fluid while only the MM isoenzyme was found in serum.
(11) The pruritic effect of purified bile salts has been tested by applying them to blister bases.
(12) The time course of appearance and the dynamic changes of immunocompetent cells were assessed in human skin following sterile suction blister would healing.
(13) The patterns of in vivo release of histamine and tryptase were determined during prolonged Ag incubation in atopic individuals, using skin chambers placed over denuded skin blister sites.
(14) Concentrations of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime were measured by Andrews and Wise in blister fluids, in ascites and pleural fluid by us.
(15) It is a Saturday afternoon in the southern Turkish town of Antakya, blisteringly hot.
(16) The keratinocytes of the blister roof showed aggregation of the tonofibrils at the periphery, and vacuolization of mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum.
(17) The most often used experimental models (different tissue cage models the fibrin clot, skin blisters, skin windows, skin chambers) applied in animal and man for studies of antibiotics are presented as well as a discussion concerning their relevance to the clinical situation.
(18) This paper is the first published report of vesicular dermatitis due to blister beetles of the family Meloidae in Panamá.
(19) A search for an intact blister is always warranted when erosions, oozing, or crusts are noted.
(20) The lesions on the UV-A-exposed skin are mainly erythema and blisters.
Hematoma
Definition:
(n.) A circumscribed swelling produced by an effusion of blood beneath the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(2) The authors present a boy with a sudden onset a large intracranial hematoma causing rapid neurologic deterioration.
(3) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
(4) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
(5) We conclude that these good results are due to the short interval between accident and operation as well as to the evacuation of the intraarticular hematoma, together with a stable internal fixation and functional rehabilitation.
(6) We report a case of a 47-year-old man with anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome associated with subdural hematoma.
(7) Two term newborn infants born by frank breech delivery had posterior fossa hemorrhage diagnosed by CT scan within the first 72 hours of life and underwent successful surgical drainage of hematoma.
(8) We report the case of a small spontaneous mesencephalic hematoma which occurred in a 50 year-old normotensive male patient.
(9) Cavernous hemangiomas of the brain stem are usually discovered accidentally during evacuation of a hematoma, and successful surgical treatment of these lesions is seldom achieved.
(10) Renal injuries associated with large or expanding retroperitoneal hematomas were more likely to require temporary vascular occlusion than injuries without such associated hematomas.
(11) Four percent of the 20-gauge and 2% of the 21-gauge patients had mild hematomas.
(12) We report the case of a pediatric patient with a spontaneous spinal subdural hematoma that was not associated with a coagulation abnormality.
(13) Drainage of the hematoma was uniformly curative, although six patients had transient postoperative symptoms.
(14) In the cases with Large hematoma, Low ICP was not observed, but High ICP was found in 4 of 7 cases operated on within 8 hours (57.1%) and the other three indicated Moderate ICP (42.9%).
(15) CT findings of 46 patients with operatively confirmed chronic subdural hematomas are reviewed.
(16) T1 values of chronic hematomas (more than 3 days old) were comparatively short and in the same range as T1 of white matter.
(17) The postoperative CT images show successful evacuation of the hematoma, and the clinical evaluation also showed satisfactory results.
(18) In such a case with a large hematoma, the presence of a tumor may be obscured on CT scan and angiography.
(19) The attenuation values of each pixels in hematoma formed V-figure in profile display, vfrying from minimum density (40-60) in the center of radiolucent zone to the maximum density (80-90) in peripheral clots.
(20) The symptom course was longer than that for spontaneous epidural hematoma.