What's the difference between blistering and fast?

Blistering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of 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.

Fast


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
  • (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
  • (v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
  • (v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
  • (v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
  • (v.) Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
  • (v.) Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
  • (v.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
  • (v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
  • (v.) Tenacious; retentive.
  • (v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
  • (v.) Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
  • (v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
  • (a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
  • (a.) In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
  • (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
  • (n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
  • (2) A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium.
  • (3) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (4) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
  • (5) Two hours after refeeding rats fasted for 48 h, ODC activity increased 40-fold in mucosa from the intact jejunum and 4-fold in the mucosa of the bypassed segments.
  • (6) Five of them had a fast-moving Eco RI fragment 5.6 kb long that hybridized with zeta-specific probe but not with alpha-specific probe.
  • (7) A previous study, on grade IV astrocytomas, compared a combination of photons and fast neutron boost to photons only, both treatments being delivered following a concentrated irradiation schedule.
  • (8) J., 4 (1985) 1709-1714) and fast pH changes were applied with a technique developed by Davies et al.
  • (9) Glucose metabolic rates during control and reperfusion were unchanged for hearts from fasted rats, but decreased for hearts from fed rats during reperfusion.
  • (10) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (11) Despite the nearly anaerobic state of the ascites tumor fluid in vivo, cancer cells suspended in this fluid oxidized FFA at least as fast as they do in vitro under aerobic conditions.
  • (12) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.
  • (13) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
  • (14) Variations in light chain composition, particularly fast and slow myosin light chain 1, appeared to occur independently of the variations in heavy chain composition, suggesting that some myosin molecules consist of mixtures of slow- and fast-type subunits.
  • (15) These analyses were carried out on unfractionated culture fluids and on fractions obtained by fast protein liquid chromatography separation using Superose 6 gels.
  • (16) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
  • (17) Normal rat soleus myosin has a major slow and a minor fast component due to two populations of muscle fibers.
  • (18) The effects of insulin on the renal handling of sodium, potassium, calcium, and phosphate were studied in man while maintaining the blood glucose concentration at the fasting level by negative feedback servocontrol of a variable glucose infusion.
  • (19) Plasma and red cell sorbitol concentrations, fasting plasma glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin (GHb) were evaluated in 30 diabetic patients and 42 normal subjects.
  • (20) Acid-fast bacilli were isolated from 3 out of 41 mice inoculoted with heat killed bacilli.