(n.) An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.
Example Sentences:
Colophony
Definition:
(n.) Rosin.
Example Sentences:
(1) 14 patients with verified moderate contact allergy to colophony were patch tested with adhesive mass (10%), Portuguese colophony (10%), zinc oxide (10%), purified resin acids (10%), and Portuguese colophony (10%), in combination with zinc oxide.
(2) Patch testing with the ICDRG standard test battery gave positive reactions to colophony, balsam of Peru, and turpentine peroxides.
(3) Analysis of the agents to which workers with recognised occupational asthma were exposed identified commonly recognised agents such as isocyanates, colophony, and flour and generally less well recognised ones such as oil mists.
(4) All 3 positive patch tests to colophony were in males.
(5) Colophony and formaldehyde appeared to have less industrial significance than we expected.
(6) Of 8 mascaras analysed with High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), 3 contained colophony.
(7) Four patients with occupational asthma associated with exposure to soldering flux or hot-melt glue containing pine resin (colophony) were subjected to occupational type inhalation challenge testing.
(8) Colophony (rosin) is a widespread material which is obtained from species of the family Pinaceae.
(9) Two groups of patients were studied, one with known contact allergy to colophony and hand eczema, 'colophony patients', and the other consisted of patients who suspected that their eczema was caused by contact with paper, 'paper patients'.
(10) The results of patch tests with colophony in the standard series between 1983 and 1987 were analyzed.
(11) In patients with hand eczema, in whom hydrocortisone sensitivity was less common, hydrocortisone was still a common allergen, occurring as frequently as wool alcohols and colophony.
(12) The eliciting potential was also verified in patients with known allergy to colophony.
(13) Twenty-one patients are described who developed asthma, or evidence of a peripheral airways reaction, while working in the electronics industry and exposed to solder flux fumes containing colophony (pine resin).
(14) Patients with suspected allergy to colophony were patch-tested with colophony (rosin) of different kinds (gum rosin, tall oil rosin).
(15) It is concluded that allergens found in colophony can also be present in Baltic amber.
(16) In the European standard series, only a few positive reactions were seen to possible cosmetic allergens: fragrance mix (n = 3), wool alcohols (n = 3), formaldehyde (n = 2), balsam of Peru (n = 1), and colophony (n = 1).
(17) Skin sensitisation could not be induced in mice by topical application, or by subcutaneous or intradermal injection of unconjugated colophony.
(18) We concluded that our patient had an occupational hand contact dermatitis induced by telefax paper and possibly caused by colophony allergy.
(19) The patients' eczema had been caused chiefly by contact with colophony in their work.
(20) 7 resin acids, 3 synthetically prepared derivatives and the neutral fraction of Chinese colophony were studied by experimental sensitization using a modified FCA method.