(n.) Red sulphide of mercury, occurring in brilliant red crystals, and also in red or brown amorphous masses. It is used in medicine.
(n.) The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relatively high means in southwestern Idaho specimens may be related to the preponderance of natural cinnabar deposits in that portion of the State.
(2) (4) Twenty-four second chromosome lines out of 37 demonstrated male crossing-over among the cinnabar and brown interval; the average frequencies were 0.0031 for all lines and 0.0034 when non-recombination lines were excluded.
(3) Mercuric sulphide or its counterpart cinnabar occurring in nature has long been associated with Chinese traditional medicine.
(4) A generalized eruption of macular syphilides was not found in the red-cinnabar-colored region of a tattoo on the flexor surface of the patient's forearm.
(5) Lymph vessels were distinguished from blood vessels by intraarterial injection of cinnabar ink.
(6) One of the insects dependent on ragwort, the cinnabar moth, has declined by over 80% in the last 35 years.
(7) In this study groups of mice were fed a diet containing either mercuric sulphide or cinnabar.
(8) The data obtained can be used as a reference for controlling soluble mercury contents in Chinese traditional patent medicines containing cinnabar.
(9) He first tried jade, next gold and cinnabar, but the ideal was a drug which was red like cinnabar and fire-proof like gold.
(10) We report an infant with diaper dermatitis and mild respiratory and enteral infections, treated with a homeopathic mercurial medicine: Mercurius 6a (cinnabar dilute 1 x 10(6)), who thereafter became seriously ill with exacerbation and dissemination of the dermatitis as well as irritability and albuminuria.
(11) Jade, Cinnabar and eventually gold, more precisely Red-gold or Cinnabar-gold, a colloidal gold, became the ideal drug of immortality.
(12) The new techniques of maceration (Malpighi, 1628) and of injection of different substances (water, air, mercury, cinnabar) allowed a strict check of the acquired knowledge and an accurate description of the superficial and deep lymphatic networks in different organs (kidney, heart).
(13) This research discusses reported cases of mercury poisoning related to the use of Chinese patent medicines and the potential toxicity of cinnabar (red mercuric sulfide) and calomel (mercurous chloride), 2 mercurials commonly used in these medicines.
(14) Its climax was reached with cinnabar-gold, which is blood-red, while red-gold is only brick-red.
Vermilion
Definition:
(n.) A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc.
(n.) Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.
(v. t.) To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to dye red; to cover with a delicate red.
Example Sentences:
(1) A rather unusual case of basal cell carcinoma of the labio-mental fold area is presented where it was possible to preserve the vermilion of the lower lip after wide excision.
(2) We feel that the myomucosal advancement flap is a valuable technique to overcome some of the problems in reconstruction of the vermilion after lip-shave.
(3) This article describes a one-stage technique to reconstruct up to one-third of the vermilion after full-thickness excision of the lips.
(4) Similar to previous cases in the literature this girl presented with proportionate intrauterine and postnatal growth retardation, normocephaly, triangular face with bulbous nose, long eyelashes, short upper lip, small vermilion border of upper lip, dorsally rotated ears, deep nuchal hair line, hirsutism, and clinodactyly of little fingers.
(5) Following removal of the hemangioma, the excessive mucosa-vermilion flap is reduced to form an accurate upper lip shape.
(6) The procedure consists in the excision of the vermilion epithelium with immediate repair of the lip by advancement of a flap of labial mucosa.
(7) A method is described to correct major vermilion defects by using a transverse, cross-lip, vermilion flap.
(8) Vermilion border and skin specimens of cattle, rats and humans were processed under standardized conditions for light microscopic observation.
(9) Two keratin-filled pseudocysts which developed in the excretory ducts of sebaceous glands in the vermilion border of the lower lip in an 86-year-old woman are described.
(10) Using discriminant analysis and controlling for race, the FAS face was characterized by landmark measurements which correspond to short palpebral fissure, scooping out of the nasal bridge and thin vermilion [F(4,71)-7.8, r sq-30%, p < .01].
(11) A bilateral tissue expanding flap is described for the reconstruction of the mid-vermilion border.
(12) Defects of the lips must be closed with exact alignment of the vermilion-cutaneous margins.
(13) Both girls had numerous telangiectases distributed over the upper limbs, trunk, face, and vermilion border of the lips.
(14) Philtrum length, philtrum shape, philtrum depth, nasolabial triangular area, vermilion thickness, Cupid's bow peak, horizontal upper lip groove, vermilion border, alar size, depth of alar groove, nasal deviation, nostril shape, nasal tip, columella height, sill shape, columella width, and facial balance of the anterior, profile, and caudal views are used as aesthetic checkpoints for the results of a cleft lip operation.
(15) The studies also revealed the lip elevator muscles and the "fold muscles" coursing down the lip to traverse the orbicularis oris and insert into the dermis of the upper lip, the cutaneous vermilion junction, and vermilion.
(16) This method consists of forming two equilaterally triangular mucosal flaps on the vermilion and a small triangular skin flap in the new position of the commissure and transposing these three flaps to reconstruct the commissure.
(17) A lateral lip orbicularis muscle flap with white skin roll and vermilion is recommended for reconstruction of the Cupid's bow.
(18) The pedicle is cut all around the vermilion leaving only a muscle cuff with the nutrient labial vessels.
(19) The combination of mucosal advancement flaps plus split vermilion grafts and full-thickness preauricular skin grafts are used and illustrated in two patients.
(20) This procedure is applicable only when adequate vermilion is available.