(n.) Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(2) Breast conserving surgery in patients with small tumors combined with radiation therapy has gained wide popularity due to better cosmetic results without significant changes in survival.
(3) A critical attitude towards the use of silicone breast implants, when these are used for purely cosmetic purposes, is recommended at present.
(4) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
(5) Success is measured not only in terms of cosmetic appearance, but as enhanced capacity of the child's hand in all activities of daily living (Fig.
(6) The cosmetic result was judged as excellent in 10 cases, good in 3 and less favourable in 1.
(7) To evaluate the cosmetic outcome of conservative surgery (CS) and radiation therapy (RT) for early-stage breast cancer and its stability over time, we reviewed the records of 593 patients treated from 1968 to 1981.
(8) No infectious complications, delayed wound healing, or cosmetic problems were seen.
(9) The technique is not complicated and gives good cosmetic results.
(10) We have attempted to provide an overview of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act as it pertains to animal drugs and feed additives.
(11) Soap is regarded as a cosmetic rather than an agent for removal of microorganisms.
(12) More and more patients are coming to cosmetic and dermatologic surgeons for augmentation of their lips.
(13) Psychological benefits resulting from the cosmetic improvement may outweigh the probability of recurrences in this rare condition.
(14) Lastly, the proportion of recurrence-free treatment sites with a good or excellent long-term cosmetic outcome after x-ray therapy (63%) was lower than previous reports in this series with curettage-electrodesiccation (91%) and surgical excision (84%).
(15) All 5 patients who have undergone the procedure have excellent cosmetic and functional results.
(16) The second surgical stage after a three-month reentry procedure was strictly for cosmetic improvement by means of a free gingival graft.
(17) Of the patients, 94% reported good or excellent overall satisfaction and 96% reported excellent cosmetic results.
(18) Kathon is an anti-microbial agent that is used as a preservative in cosmetics and bodily hygiene products.
(19) Thus, a cosmetic-induced berlock dermatitis was suspected.
(20) A combined transorbital and transcranial operative approach was used for total tumor removal and cosmetic repair.
Peel
Definition:
(n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
(n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
(v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
(v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
(v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
(v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
(n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
Example Sentences:
(1) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
(2) Turn the sponge out onto the paper, then carefully peel off the lining paper.
(3) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(4) Certain advantages over chemical peeling and dermabrasion used singly or together in different areas of the face are pointed out.
(5) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
(6) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
(7) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
(8) Such prosecretory granules, large and irregular in shape, "peeled off" from the stacks of saccules with residual saccular or tubular structures still attached to them, some of the latter forming trans-tubular networks.
(9) Despite huge uncertainties over their ability to pay for carbon capture and storage technology, [Peel subsidiary] Ayrshire Power has decided to go ahead with these plans and call Labour's bluff.
(10) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
(11) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
(12) The major benefit of the peeling technique is the preservation of an intact posterior capsule.
(13) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
(14) In addition, patterns which have been considered more characteristic of in vivo demyelinative lesions have been found, susch as vesicular disruption of myelin lamellae and peeling off and phagocytosis of myelin by phagocytic mononuclear cells with electron dense cytoplasm.
(15) In addition to the increased calcium leachability, the dentin bonding agent peeled off with time from the dentin discs.
(16) PriyaKannath via GuardianWitness Makes 2-3 glasses ½ medium beetroot 1 medium carrot 1 celery stalk 1 apple 125g cooked brown rice 1 Peel and roughly chop the beetroot, carrot, celery and apple, and put in a smoothie maker or blender along with the rice and about 300ml water.
(17) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
(18) 2 Puree together the pomegranate jewels and the peeled satsumas.
(19) Incorporation of the stock diet to the peel diet resulted in a slight increase which amounted to 6% in both male and female rat groups.
(20) There were no signs of valvular stenosis, exuberant peel formation, or calcification of the conduit in any of the patients.