(n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.
(n.) A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.
(n.) That which serves for payment or recompense.
(v. t.) To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.
(v. t.) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
(v. t.) To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
(v. i.) To manufacture counterfeit money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
(2) Heads you 'own it' Ian Read, the Scottish-born accountant who runs the biggest drug firm in the US carries in his pocket a special gold coin, about the size and weight of a £2 piece.
(3) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(4) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
(5) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(6) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
(7) For Bond fans, this is the best Christmas present – the return of James Bond and classic elements of the series with yet another classic title coined by Ian Fleming,” said Ajay Chowdhury of the James Bond International Fan Club .
(8) A 49-year-old man was operated for coin lesion detected on routine chest X-ray.
(9) Lavoisier subsequently coined the word "oxy-gène."
(10) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
(11) The chest X-ray film revealed a coin lesion in the right upper lung field (S1), the same segment as the previous pneumonia.
(12) If the eye shielding block cannot be placed at the optimal shielding point, a simple coin placed on the eye lid surface will also reduce the lens dose substantially when a regular eye shielding block is placed on the blocking tray (Lin's coin effect).
(13) Her companion, a man in his fifties, also refused to give his name to the “Lugen Presse” (liar press, a term coined by the Nazis and frequently chanted at Pegida events), but is quick to add: “We’ve nothing against helping foreigners in need, like those poor people in Syria, but we should be helping them in their own country, not bringing them over here.” The demonstrations feel like an invitation for anyone to voice any grievance.
(14) In 1761, while still an apprentice surgeon, he made his discovery of the unique and bizarre cause--compression of the oesophagus by an aberrant right subclavian artery--of a fatal case of 'obstructed deglutition' for which he coined the term 'dysphagia lusoria' and for which he is eponymously remembered.
(15) A 58-year-old woman was referred to the Fukuoka University Hospital because a coin lesion approximately 5 cm in diameter was detected in the right lower lobe of the lung by routine roentgenographic examination.
(16) Kettering didn't let the matter lie - after all, clubs like Bayern Munich had been coining it in on the continent for years - and so, with Derby and Bolton, they put forward a proposal to the FA regarding shirt sponsorship.
(17) Rodgers' team took the lead from their first corner when Suárez – pelted with coins from the away section that he handed to referee Martin Atkinson – swept to the near post.
(18) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(19) Bronchial cysts usually occur centrally near the mediastinum, but may present as a peripheral "coin" lesion requiring distinction from other causes of coin lesions of the lung.
(20) Using a small silicon microchip in a USB, a 'lab on a chip' as it has been coined, DNA data can be analysed within minutes and outside a laboratory.
Nummular
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Nummulary
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 113 patients with nummular eruptions of unknown origin were collected over a period of 8 years.
(2) The patient presented unusual skin lesions of nummular eczematous dermatitis, signs of delayed puberty and stunted physical development, together with the typical symptoms involving visceral organs and lungs.
(3) The results obtained in 95 patients with nummular microbic eczema show the part played by epidermal alterations in the development of occupational an iatrogenic contact sensitizations.
(4) Five patients with cerebrovascular hemiplegia developed an endogenous eczema (nummular eczema, pompholyx, allergids, atopic dermatitis).
(5) Twenty-two consecutive patients with nummular psoriasis were treated with a 0.05% clobetasol propionate stick on the right side of the body and with 0.05% clobetasol propionate ointment (Dermovate, Glaxo) on the left according to an intermittent application schedule.
(6) Levodopa administered orally in doses of two to four grams daily for up to eight weeks had no apparent therapeutic effect on psoriatic lesions in eleven patients with severe nummular psoriasis.
(7) The mean time needed to obtain complete remission was, for lichenifications, 2 weeks; pruriginous lichenoid papules, 12 days; chronic hand eczema, 2.5 weeks; nummular eczema, 8 days; perioral eczema, 11 days, and breast eczema, 10 days.
(8) We report a 63-year-old man with violaceous nummular patches on the trunk.
(9) The pathogenesis of the epidermal and cutaneous reactions to a microbic invasion comprises many criteria for the diagnosis of a nummular microbial eczema.
(10) Sera from 16 patients suffering from active psoriasis without arthropathy (2 guttate, 10 nummular, and 4 mixed type) were examined for the presence of circulating immune complexes.
(11) Absolute numbers of CD3+ T lymphocytes and their subpopulations were determined and statistically evaluated in the lesional skin of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, nummular dermatitis, pityriasis rosea, and lichen planus.
(12) In another patient, with nummular psoriasis, slightly elevated levels of circulating immune complexes were measured by two of the assay systems.
(13) The morphological type of psoriasis (patchy, guttate or nummular) had no influence on the therapeutic result, but the degree of infiltration of the lesions and their location on the lower limbs proved to be a factor of relative resistance.
(14) Nummular keratitis was seen in 31.8% of cases between 8-10 days.
(15) Dermatologists in areas where nail wrapping is becoming more fashionable are advised to be alert to potential cyanoacrylate glue allergies which present as periungual eczema which may be associated with eyelid dermatitis and features of nummular dermatitis particularly over the dorsal hand.
(16) The sera of persons with generalized eczema (Whitfield-type) or with disseminated nummular eczema were examined for complement-activating antibacterial antibodies to test the hypothesis that some eczematous change results from an antibody-mediated cytotoxic reaction.
(17) Dryness of the skin that resulted from leprosy had led to the development of nummular eczema in this case.
(18) There was also a prompt response to once daily treatment with halcinonide in patients with contact dermatitis, eczema of the hands, and more serious cases of eczema nummulare and allergic skin reactions, many of whom had failed to respond to previous topical steroid therapy.
(19) During the first year after thioridazine exposure retinal pigmentation evolves from a granular to a patchy or nummular appearance.
(20) The capillary loops in acute nummular eczema were identical in ultrastructure to those of normal skin.