What's the difference between cellulitis and induration?

Cellulitis


Definition:

  • (n.) An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
  • (2) Authors demonstrate the possibility of the tuberculous etiology of the cellulitis.
  • (3) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
  • (4) An unusual and extremely rare displacement of teeth due to trauma, resulting in cervical space cellulitis with probable secondary complications is presented.
  • (5) Bacterial orbital cellulitis is a feared complication of paranasal sinus infection.
  • (6) A review of 104 patients with acute orbital cellulitis during the past decade showed that the frequency of hospital admissions for this disease has increased recently.
  • (7) Cellulitis was rare (1 per 1,900 cases) and endophthalmitis was even rarer (1 per 30,000 cases).
  • (8) The pathogenesis of both syndromes may be explicable by the fact that soluble parasitic allergens bind to cellules of the respiratory tract and induce hypersensitivity reactions under the influence of reagins.
  • (9) Similar cellulitis, mainly perivascular, was found in kidneys and anterior mediastinum.
  • (10) The clinical symptoms and signs were somewhat atypical and included acute suppurative cellulitis in the floor of the mouth plus localized periodontitis involving 36.
  • (11) Local swelling or haematoma at the injection site occurred in 15 patients (5.9%), cellulitis in 2 (0.8%) and minor contrast reactions in 6 (2.3%).
  • (12) Three patients developed cellulitis and skin necrosis following fluorescein dye extravasation.
  • (13) At follow-up or suture removal, patients were evaluated for signs of wound complications (cellulitis, ascending lymphangitis, purulent discharge, or dehiscence).
  • (14) A child is reported who developed a mycotic aneurysm of the cavernous portion of the internal carotid artery following staphylococcal cellulitis and septicemia.
  • (15) Three other patients developed cellulitis of the trachea and root of the neck, centered around the tract through the party wall; one patient suffered a fracture of the cervical spine.
  • (16) The authors believe that the increasing population of patients with depression of cell-mediated immune response will lead to an increase in the frequency with which cryptococcal cellulitis is seen and emphasize that proper evaluation of a patient with presumptive cellulitis includes consideration of fungal, as well as bacterial, etiology.
  • (17) On the basis of clinical and histopathological criteria they have been classified as follows: 22 cases with gas gangrene (clostridial myonecrosis), 16 cases with anaerobic cellulitis, 20 wound infections, 8 cases of septicemia, 5 of bacteriemia, 1 of tetanus, and 5 other clostridial infections.
  • (18) Other indications included trauma (n = 5), chronic nonhealing wounds (n = 4), urine-induced cellulitis (n = 1), idiopathic dermal necrosis (n = 1), and chronic lymphoplasmocytic dermatitis (n = 1).
  • (19) One third of the children with cellulitis showed one or several complications.
  • (20) Other sources of infection were skin, postoperative, intravenous catheter site and cellulitis.

Induration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of hardening, or the process of growing hard.
  • (n.) State of being indurated, or of having become hard.
  • (n.) Hardness of character, manner, sensibility, etc.; obduracy; stiffness; want of pliancy or feeling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Phaso-contrast and interference microscopy investigations revealed in the damaged cells an induration of the sarcoplasmic matrix due to an increase in the dry matter concentration.
  • (2) The indurations from immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reactions were readily distinguishable, but the hyperthermic responses appeared to contain elements of both immediate and delayed hypersensitivity.
  • (3) This feature of ILC may also help explain why tumors may be palpable as areas of vague induration or thickening rather than as discrete masses.
  • (4) Since therapy performed by means of the moving head technique had beneficial effect on chronic prostatitis, plastic induration of the penis and the accompanying sexual potency disturbance, the method is recommended for use.
  • (5) Such a treatment augmented erythematous delayed reactions in animals immunized with BGG in CFA, but abolished induration at the reaction sites.
  • (6) While most of the clinical features--including diffuse mucosal inflammation, indurative edema, rash, and lymphadenopathy--are self-limiting, coronary artery aneurysms and the possibility of thrombotic occlusion occurs in up to 20% of children.
  • (7) We describe 2 patients who presented with chronic painful indurated swelling of one lower limb, thought at the time of referral to be due to chronic venous insufficiency.
  • (8) In the early postoperative period within an observation period from 3 to 19 months the characteristic and rather common complications in patients operated for hydrocele did not occur (hematocele, chylomas, which are mostly of ex vacuo type because of impaired blood supply and lymph system of the scrotum, abscesses, indurations of the scrotal and testicular tissues, relapses of the hydrocele, etc).
  • (9) Distal areas in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), such as the dorsal skin of the hand are more frequently involved and more indurated than proximal areas.
  • (10) Clinical signs included lesions, indurations, and enlargement of lymph nodes.
  • (11) The precise basis of induration has not been established, although activation of the clotting system with consequent fibrin deposition has been clearly implicated.
  • (12) When IL-1 was injected intradermally into the backs of rabbits, the injection sites became indurated, erythematous, and warm to the touch after 4 hrs and annular lesions much like those of erythema chronicum migrans were seen in some animals after 24 hrs.
  • (13) In contrast to epicutaneous spongiotic contact dermatitis, HLA-DR was only seen on skin appendages and nearby basal keratinocytes in indurated tissue reactions with the exception of the reactions with focal basal cell layer disruption and an indurated patch test performed one week post angry back syndrome.
  • (14) A 52-year-old woman who had undergone an intrapleural sponge plombage operation because of tuberculosis, and had since shown an uneventful medical history for 35 years, was referred with a complaint of back skin induration over the previous surgical scar.
  • (15) The prevalence of tuberculous infection in a population is generally estimated from calculating the proportion of tested individuals who react with at least 10 mm of induration to 5 TU of PPD-S tuberculin.
  • (16) After 16 months, one of the two infected ewes suffered from indurative lymphocytic mastitis.
  • (17) In the guinea pigs an intradermal dose of PHA-P produced erythema and induration with a maximal response at 24 hours after the injection.
  • (18) Anergy, defined as no induration to any of four intradermal antigens, was present in 12%.
  • (19) Either the palpation method or the ball-point pen technique may be used to measure induration that results from TB skin testing.
  • (20) Similar, but less severe changes were seen at the site of skin tests on BCG-vaccinated subjects who were 'negative' by conventional criteria of measurement of dermal induration and they became greatly exaggerated after successful re-vaccination.