(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.
Wart
Definition:
(n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
(n.) An excrescence or protuberance more or less resembling a true wart; specifically (Bot.), a glandular excrescence or hardened protuberance on plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presence of areas of condyloma, as well as capsid antigens, indicates that lesions containing HPV 16 share certain similarities with conventional warts associated with other HPVs.
(2) The types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) were similar in warts of butchers from these slaughterhouses and of 63 butchers from various slaughterhouses all over the country.
(3) The goat isolates were obtained from animals with various disease conditions including respiratory tract disorders, vulvovaginitis, and wart-like lesions on the eyelid.
(4) The Broken King by Philip Womack Photograph: Troika Books The Sword in the Stone begins with Wart on a "quest" to find a tutor.
(5) We present a patient whose genital warts were recalcitrant to treatment.
(6) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
(7) There was no cross-reactivity between these two viruses, neither with HPV1 responsible for plantar warts nor with HPV2 inducing common warts.
(8) No correlation between the atypical changes and the type of previous therapy for the warts was found.
(9) These findings were confirmed by examination of the experimental cases on the basis of the gross diameter of the warts.
(10) By means of hybridization of nucleic acid, we detected DNA specific for papilloma virus, type 6a, in a caruncle papilloma of a 45-year-old female patient suffering from genital warts.
(11) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
(12) To evaluate the association of genital herpes, genital warts, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis with the occurrence of subsequent tubal infertility, 321 women who had tubal infertility were interviewed concerning their history of these sexually transmitted diseases (STD).
(13) Podofilox 0.5% offers potential advantages in safety and cost over podophyllin resin therapy of genital warts.
(14) About 1 ml of cream per lesion was applied to the warts for 20 to 105 minutes before the operation.
(15) The transmission rate was higher in couples who engaged in anal sex (OR, 2.8; 95% CI, 1.3 to 6.3); in women reporting vaginitis (OR, 4.9; 95% CI, 2.4 to 10.2) or genital warts (OR, 33.3; 95% CI, 4.5 to 244.1); and in those using intrauterine devices (OR, 3.1; 95% CI, 1.4 to 7.1).
(16) Penile intraepithelial neoplasia was significantly (P less than 0.001) more common among subjects with no history of non-genital warts.
(17) Anogenital infection with HPV is multicentric; external anogenital warts and subclinical CIN lesions often exist concurrently.
(18) In benign tumours (virus wart, seborrhoeic keratosis, keratoacanthoma), there was an ordered pattern of EGFR expression.
(19) Past episodes of herpes zoster and of skin and genital warts were also associated with significantly increased HD risks.
(20) Fifteen children with anogenital warts are presented.