(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.
Mantel
Definition:
(n.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patients' preoperative clinical status affected the results of surgery (Breslow p less than 0.03, Mantel p less than 0.02; one-tailed tests).
(2) Patients with grade 2 carcinoma could be separated into one subgroup with small nuclei (mean nuclear area less than or equal to 95 microns2) having a favorable outcome (5-year survival rate: 100%), and into another subgroup with large nuclei (mean nuclear area greater than 95 microns2) showing a worse prognosis (5-year survival rate: 63.2%) (Mantel-Cox, P = .01).
(3) Using the Mantel-Haenszel estimate of the odds ratio, no association was found between the number of moves and MS.
(4) A Mantel-Haenszel analysis of fetal irradiation subfactors indicated that most of the "extra" X-rayed cases in the Oxford Survey of Childhood Cancers were radiation induced.
(5) Thatcher was anti-feminist and a "psychological transvestite", Mantel said.
(6) We therefore analysed these patients' survivals by the unbiased Mantel-Byar method, using a comparison of multiple survival factors (Cox's technique).
(7) A significant dose-response based on a Mantel-Haenszel test of trend was observed for all leukemias.
(8) The DI had (restricted) additional prognostic value to the morphometric features (MPI plus DI Mantel-Cox 53.0, p less than 0.0001).
(9) The Mantel-Haenszel overall odds ratio adjusted for the current relative body weight for the abnormal fasting blood glucose level was 2.86 (95% C.I.
(10) Significant differences in mortality were seen between sham and immunized animals undergoing 100 or 75% splenectomy, while in the 50% group a difference was noted which did not reach statistical significance (Mantel-Cox log rank test).
(11) Although those GE80 had higher median lengths of stays (18 vs. 15 days, p = 0.013) and hospital charges ($7845 vs. $6414, p = 0.002) than those LT80, there was no difference 3-year survival curves (Mantel-Cox p = 0.7155).
(12) Median survival was 8.5 months (range = 1+ to 25) for Arm A versus 5 months (range = 1+ to 28+) for Arm B; this difference was not statistically significant (Breslow test: chi-square = 2.75, P = 0.097; Mantel-Cox: chi-square = 0.32, P = 0.56).
(13) The tests against single designs were carried out by means of Mantel tests.
(14) We show here that score statistics derived from the likelihood function in the latter approach are identical to the Mantel-Haenszel test statistics appropriate for the former approach.
(15) Like Mantel's adjusted chi-square statistic, the method adjusts at every event, based on the numbers of patients still at risk in each of the groups, and is thus able to show up time-dependent effects: factors can be seen to be relevant during certain periods of the study only.
(16) For the aneuploid and diploid cases, these figures came to 53.3% and 98% (Mantel-Cox: P less than 0.0001).
(17) Whatever your view of her she was a shaper of history.” Mantel said her story was an examination of why Thatcher “aroused such visceral passion in so many people”.
(18) Mantel’s new short story, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – August 6th 1983 , prompted outrage after it was published online by the Guardian on Friday.
(19) The Breslow and Mantel-Cox statistics were used to compute survival (surgery-free) dichotomized by prognostic variables.
(20) The cumulative proportion of infants developing chlamydial conjunctivitis was 25% for both groups (P = 0.37, Mantel-Cox test).