(n.) A blain, sore, or inflammatory swelling, produced by exposure of the feet or hands to cold, and attended by itching, pain, and sometimes ulceration.
(v. t.) To produce chilblains upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) A patient with chilblain lupus and chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia (CMML) is reported.
(2) A variety of cold exposure injuries were discussed, including frostnip, chilblains, trench foot, frostbite, and hypothermia.
(3) They expect to see a rise in respiratory infections, especially among the young and the old, burn injuries caused by makeshift fires, and chilblains and frostbite among the many whose feet are clad only in plastic flip-flops or sandals.
(4) The only exit from chaperones and chilblains was marriage.
(5) It is supposed that chilblain with the characteristics described above may possibly be transformed into LE lesions.
(6) Chilblain is conditional on a dysesthesia for cold, diagnosis is easy if in the know, prognosis as usual good and treatment must be more preventive than curative.
(7) The incidence of subjective and objective deviations from health were higher in the carpet weaving than in the schoolchildren and the first ten major complaints in the carpet weaving children were respiratory tract infection, headache, backache, pain in the abdomen, injuries (major and minor), joint pains, diarrhoea and dysentery, fever of unknown origin, dermatitis, and chilblains.
(8) Especially SLE patients with the characteristic of (4) had higher association rates of Raynaud's phenomena, chilblain LE and livedo, suggesting disorder of peripheral circulation.
(9) The patients presented unique clinical features for Werner syndrome such as chilblain-like eruption in infancy and glaucoma caused by uveitis.
(10) Although the percentage of cases who had revealed chilblain frequently (40.0%) and the age of chilblain onset (mean: 10.8 years old) in SLE group were not significantly different from those of control (28.4% and 12.4 years old, respectively), the chilblain which SLE patients developed had some characteristics compared to that of control, (1) higher incidence of chilblain episodes, (2) longer duration until cure, (3) more liability that chilblain leads to erosion or ulceration and (4) frequent occurrence of chilblain in the other seasons than winter.
(11) A case of chilblains on the face of a man is described.
(12) The chilblain lesions are the result of microvascular injury secondary to exposure to cold and possibly hyperviscosity from immunological abnormalities, Elevated serum gammaglobulins, positive latex factor and speckled pattern antinuclear factor are common.
(13) We conclude that the ultraviolet phototherapy is of no value in the prophylaxis of chilblains.
(14) Unfamiliarity of physicians with chilblains (perniosis) gives rise to unnecessary hospital admissions with expensive laboratory and radiologic evaluations and, at times, hazardous therapy.
(15) Aristotle offers a very simple example of this: "On he came, his feet shod with his – chilblains."
(16) An acute episode of chilblains occurred after a long period of exposure to cold.
(17) There were times when I could hardly believe they'd been written in my lifetime, and times when the world they conjured felt so uncannily familiar, I was filled with longing for my childhood, chilblains, black-and -white television, and all.
(18) Chilblain is a frostbite, it belongs to the vascular acrosyndromes by the mere fact of symmetrical lesions and to the dystrophic group by its organic obstructive and thrombotic microangiopathy, especially of venules.
(19) Nancy, a connoisseur of aristocratic chilblains, wrote to Diana: "Debo has become the sort of English duchess who doesn't feel the cold."
(20) This raises a laugh, Aristotle explains, because the listener expects the word "sandals" not "chilblains".
Pernio
Definition:
(n.) A chilblain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biopsies of both ears showed the characteristic vascular and inflammatory changes of pernio.
(2) The semantic differences in the use of the designation "lupus pernio" are such that American dermatologists may not consider patients with nasal rim papules of sarcoidosis to have lupus pernio.
(3) Lupus pernio has been associated with sarcoidosis of the upper respiratory tract.
(4) Thirty-five patients with lupus pernio were observed in a series of 818 patients with clinical and histological evidence of sarcoidosis.
(5) In a series of 34 patients with sarcoidosis affecting the upper respiratory tract and nose, 26 had lupus pernio (LP) and 17 had sarcoidosis of the upper respiratory tract (SURT).
(6) Morning stiffness of bilateral hands, and pernio in the auricles, fingers, planta, and toes had occurred in every winter, since 6 years old.
(7) We suggest that the various histologic descriptions of pernio in the literature and in this case represent different levels of severity of the disease.
(8) Twenty-five of these patients had lupus pernio (LP), which in 8 instances was accompanied by sarcoidosis of the upper respiratory tract (SURT).
(9) Previous case reports showed four elderly men with pernio and a hematologic disorder.
(10) We describe a case of nasal lupus pernio successfully managed with the flashlamp pulsed dye laser.
(11) Other features included intrathoracic sarcoid (86 per cent), lupus pernio (48 per cent), skin plaques (41 per cent), ocular inflammation (48 per cent), nasal mucosal disease (24 per cent), lymphadenopathy (24 per cent), hepatomegaly (13 per cent), splenomegaly (10 per cent), and parotid enlargement (10 per cent).
(12) The presence of necrobiosis in pernio has not been reported previously.
(13) Biopsies of papules of both the lupus pernio and the PFB revealed non-caseating granulomas consistent with sarcoidosis.
(14) Those with lupus pernio were often left with unsightly telangiectatic scars, while the other types of lesions left either pale, slightly depressed scars or no scars at all.
(15) The pathogenesis of pernio in association with CMML remains unclear.
(16) This analysis provides the natural history of lupus pernio and its associated clinical and radiological features.
(17) This analysis provides the natural history of lupus pernio and its associated clinico-radiographic features.
(18) This is the first case report of sarcoidosis infiltrating lesions of PFB and the first of lupus pernio co-existing with scar sarcoidosis.
(19) Chronic pernio is characterized by recurring erythematous, vesicular or ulcerative lesions of the lower extremities and toes, but may present with only digital cyanosis, usually bilateral and commonly symmetrical.
(20) Bone involvement was usually an incidental finding when sarcoidosis presented elsewhere, including lupus pernio (50%) and other chronic skin lesions (41%), lungs (75%), eyes (51%), lymph nodes (21%), liver (17%), spleen (13%), parotids (13%), facial palsy in 2 patients and erythema nodosum in 1.