(n.) The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.
(n.) The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.
(n.) The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.
(n.) The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling.
(n.) The exterior portion of the earth, formerly universally supposed to inclose a molten interior.
(n.) The shell of crabs, lobsters, etc.
(n.) A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.
(n.) An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
(n.) To cover with a crust; to cover or line with an incrustation; to incrust.
(v. i.) To gather or contract into a hard crust; to become incrusted.
Example Sentences:
(1) In certain cases the ulcerous crust is removed with chloramine.
(2) A rapid evolution of epithelialization was found in case of treated animals as distinguished from control sample, where the infected crust was far from being healed.
(3) Future ice loss and bending of the crust due to rising sea levels have the potential ultimately to raise levels of both earthquake and volcanic activity.
(4) A search for an intact blister is always warranted when erosions, oozing, or crusts are noted.
(5) In general, healthy panelists evaluated the cakes as sweeter, crust bitterness as greater, and overall eating quality as higher than the panel members with carbohydrate metabolic disorders.
(6) The tanks fell from 2,000ft on to the salt crust of the open desert and burst open as they struck the ground.
(7) A negative correlation between the number of mites and the presence and extensiveness of crusts was observed.
(8) The presence of subcorneal pustules in a solitary, indolent, crusted plaque, or in erythema annulare-like lesions with a trailing scale, is evidence of atypical psoriasis.
(9) Requirements for intranasal douching with saline have varied; however, we have had no problems with bothersome crusting following b.i.d.
(10) Disadvantages are a longer healing period and temporary crust formation as in conchotomy, the high technical effort and cost of the laser.
(11) Crusting was found around the lashes, and the lids developed loss of lashes and hair.
(12) Within three weeks after treatment was initiated, all animals were free of crusts.
(13) After the crust falls, carrying away some tattoo pigment on its deeper surface, a pale-pink scar forms, then gradually fades in several months.
(14) We report a case of nonvesicular hydroa vacciniforme in which only extensive crusting associated with hypertrophic scarring on sun-exposed skin was present.
(15) The absorption of mercury was investigated after three phase crusting by Grob on a second-degree scald burn of 10 to 15% of the body surface in rats.
(16) For oxalate stones a separation of the outer layer (crust) from the inner layer (core) marked the point of maximum load.
(17) The vesicles progress to pustules, then to crusts that eventually are lost.
(18) A case of localized CrS appearing as a yellowish and crusted plaque on the second right toe is reported in a woman with AIDS.
(19) All the patients were elderly women who developed chronic, extensive, pustular, crusted and occasionally eroded lesions of the scalp which produced scarring alopecia.
(20) For all their apparent beauty and fragility, just think of coral reefs as big lumps of rock with a living crust.
Incrustation
Definition:
(n.) The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.
(n.) A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit of lime, sediment, etc., from water on the inner surface of a steam boiler.
(n.) A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement.
(n.) Anything inlaid or imbedded.
Example Sentences:
(1) Complications were hemorrhagia in 1 patient and incrustation in 2.
(2) Postoperatively, bladder capacity was adequate without evidence of incrustation or ossification.
(3) These chalky deposits next to metacarpo-phalangeal articulations were always associated with chalky incrustation of the radio-carpal joint.
(4) In 19 cases over-all (6.4%) an auxiliary procedure was required to decrease incrusted stone burden and enable stent retrieval.
(5) In our report we have tried to find some links between the degree of incrustation and the duration of using the device.
(6) This line of research prompts the questions: are incrustates and inflammatory debris beneficial for contraceptive effect, or counterproductive?
(7) The role of the mineral content of the nervous tissue in the pathogenesis of the incrustation is discussed.
(8) These incrustations were less radiolucent than the surrounding tissues.
(9) We report the first case of unilateral, upper tract obstruction secondary to incrustation and stone formation on a silicone double-J ureteral stent.
(10) Inorganic incrustates and cellular accumulations on used IUDs, 50 Szontaghs, 13 Copper T-200s, 3 Gravigards and 2 Lippes Loops, were examined.
(11) With regard to the present cases, we review the limited literature available on the coexistence of incrusted cystitis and E. coli uroinfection and discuss the mechanisms through which E. coli could induce formation of lithiasis and incrustations in the urinary tract.
(12) Dissolved substances constitute the external mucilaginous layer and elements intimately incrusted in the wall.
(13) Incrustate on the surface of IUD appears to have a primary role in induction of the process.
(14) Incrustation occurred at the injection site during administration in all treated groups.
(15) Furthermore, an improperly fashioned stoma may make fitting of an ostomy appliance difficult, resulting in urinary leakage with secondary dermatitis and incrustation.
(16) Incrustation occurred in 9.2% of the stents retrieved before 6 weeks, 47.5% indwelling 6 to 12 weeks and 76.3% thereafter.
(17) Microscopic and chemical analyses revealed the highest incrustation rate on Teflon and the lowest on polyurethane (about four times lower than on Teflon).
(18) Fe3+ is located in the cytoplasm of nephrothelium of tumour-affected kidney tubules, intensively incrustates the cell cytoplasm in the primary tumoural node and is revealed in separate nuclei of the primary node cells.
(19) A method for the determination of acrylamide traces as a residue of anti-incrustation agents in sugar was developed.
(20) The presence of an incrustate could be observed both during in vitro as well as in vivo ultrasonographic studies.