(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.
Rind
Definition:
(n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.
(v. t.) To remove the rind of; to bark.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of clinical symptoms and CT scan findings, 66 patients were categorized as having sustained a RIND and 187 a stroke.
(2) CT scanning has identified a subset of these patients who have sustained a reversible ischemic neurologic deficit (RIND) rather than a completed stroke.
(3) As early as E6 glial cells were labeled including the glial cells located in the rind between the neurons and the glial cells surrounding the neuropil.
(4) The method was used in one patient whose heart was surrounded by a thick rind of fibrous scar tissue following two previous operations for coronary artery disease, and was highly successful when other methods had failed.
(5) Estrogen levels in pregnant women provide a means of monitoring the feto-placental bond, since in late pregnancy, estriol is produced by the fetal adrenal rind.
(6) Alcoholic extracts of the rhizomes of Alpinia galanga, Andrographis paniculata, bark of Cinnamomum zeylanicum, rind of Citrus decumana, Desmodium triflorum, seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana, rhizomes of Kaempfaria galanga, Lippia nodiflora, tender leaves of Morinda citrifolia, rhizomes of Pollia serzogonian, Tephrosia purpuria and rhizomes of Zingiber zerumbeth showed good in vitro anthelmintic activity against human Ascaris lumbricoides.
(7) Out of the total number, 46 (11.3%) operations were done in the 1st, asymptomatic stage of disease, for the haemodinamically significant stenoses and ulcerated plaques; 173 (42.5%) in the 2nd clinical stage for hemispheral and nonhemispheral transient ishemic attacks (TIA) and reversible neurologic deficits (RIND); 3 (0.7%) in the 3rd stage which is a progressive cerebrovascular stroke and 185 (45.5%) in the 4th clinical stage of the disease, in patients with previous cerebral infarction and a permanent neurologic deficit.
(8) The system has been evaluated and applied to the determination of 2-phenylphenol (2PP) fortified in orange rind.
(9) Acephate residue levels in rind were less than 3.0 ppm 14 days after treatment; acephate residues in pulp were less than 3.0 ppm throughout the experiment.
(10) Salads might feature watermelon, pickled rinds and cashews, while cocktails are little belters: the Del Bac Date ($12), made with Tucson’s malt whisky and local fruit, is purest nectar.
(11) The symptoms of moyamoya disease were due to cerebral ischemia, such as transient ischemic attack (TIA), reversible ischemic neurological deficit (RIND), and minor stroke.
(12) Patients with TIA (n = 44; male 21, 58.3 years SD 12.3), complicated migraine (n = 3, all female, 24, 40, 63 years) and RIND (n = 17; male 10, 56.5 years SD 16.8) showed no abnormalities of CCT and AR as compared to normals.
(13) The menu was diplomatic: rind de bouillon with vegetables and pancake stripes, asparagus with veal schnitzel, followed by strawberries and ice cream and cheese and grapes, along with German wines.
(14) In particular, the incidence was checked of: cardiovascular death, reinfarction, angina pectoris, TIA or RIND, stroke, arterial thromboembolism, venous thromboses, heart failure, complex ventricular arrhythmias, silent myocardial ischemia.
(15) In mature adult worms (4-6 months post-infection), the rind of nerve cell bodies has completely disappeared and cell bodies are scattered around and within the neuropile.
(16) The described procedure is particularly useful in reoperations on a heart with a covering rind of fibrous scar tissue.
(17) It is suggested that TIAs, including AF, and RIND should be regarded as separate entities from a pathophysiological and clinical point of view.
(18) Other labelled somata lie dispersed or in small groups around the protocerebral bridge, below the optic tubercles, proximal to the ventral rim of the lobula, and in the lateral and ventral somatal rind of the suboesophageal ganglion.
(19) Of these patients, 43 who had clinical symptoms of TIA, RIND, or bruits on the neck or supraclavicular fossa, were reviewed.
(20) Grate some rind into risottos, pasta sauces, stews and puddings (but don't grate too deep – the white pith doesn't taste good.)