(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.
Insolence
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being unusual or novel.
(n.) The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal impudence.
(n.) Insolent conduct or treatment; insult.
(v. t.) To insult.
Example Sentences:
(1) 50 runners with exertion induced injuries of the lower extremity were provided with appropriate running shoe insoles.
(2) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
(3) Subjects used these insoles during dance class for 15 weeks.
(4) Based on clinical and biomechanical peculiarities of foot, in the institute have been developed insertable orthopaedic devices for mass-produced footwear for mentioned pathology: corrective device with unloading element and curative insole.
(5) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
(6) The author discusses the use of accommodative weight-dispersing insoles as an alternative to surgical excision for the treatment of such lesions.
(7) Controlled rigidity is provided by the incorporation of a spring steel shank between the sponge insole and the hard wearing plastic sole.
(8) I was told it was a contractual requirement, despite there being no mention of either the strike system or the obligation to sell insoles within the contract itself.
(9) Therefore running shoe insoles can eliminate peak forces by exactly placing supporting elements.
(10) Treat with orthotic insoles or look at upping your shoe size.
(11) This paper describes a study of the effectiveness of commercially available shock absorbing insoles when used in four different pairs of shoes during normal walking.
(12) Insoles will be available to turn any existing shoes into smartshoes.
(13) A new method was developed for the quality testing of shoes, insoles and sport shoes.
(14) The purposes of this study were: 1) to compare the impact forces in running using running shoes with conventional insoles to the impact forces using running shoes with four different viscoelastic insoles, 2) to discuss possible effects of the viscoelastic insoles on lower leg kinematics, and 3) to explain the force and kinematic results using a mechanical model.
(15) A full account is given of (a) Wilhelm Werneck's therapeutic coagulations (1835): rupturing of cataract by focussed light (sun, phosphorus); (b) Maximilian Adolf Langenbeck's "insolation" of corneal, pupillary and retinal lesions and of traumatic cataract (1859); (c) Vinzenz Czerny's coagulation experiments on the retina of various animals (1867, 1882).
(16) Vertical foot bearing pressure was decreased by an average of 18% by wearing shoes padded with a Professional Protective Technology insole and the decrease was greater in patients with higher foot pressure.
(17) About a third of dancers fitted with viscoelastic insoles and a tenth of placebo insert wearers found that the insoles made their shoes too tight to be comfortable.
(18) Without physical exercise and direct insolation death usually occurred later (on the average of 5-9 days) from acute renal and renal-hepatic failure.
(19) The mechanism of the static effects of the wedged insole for the medial osteoarthritic knee was studied in ten women.
(20) The most important finding was that an elastic polymer insole with good shock absorbency properties did not prevent stress reactions of bone during a 12-week period of vigorous physical training.