(a.) Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.
Example Sentences:
(1) This diagnosis was obscured by the absence of cutaneous, oropharyngeal, and respiratory involvement.
(2) Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described.
(3) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
(4) Juvenile diabetics appear to have fewer cutaneous abnormalities than adults who develop the disease, but the juvenile diabetic is not spared.
(5) Purpura fulminans is the cutaneous manifestation of acute activation of the clotting mechanism resulting in massive hemorrhage due to an intravascular consumption coagulopathy.
(6) We have characterized previously a model of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection of rat dorsal root ganglia (DRG) following cutaneous infection.
(7) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(8) Investigations in normal subjects demonstrate that the LLR is a reflex mediated by fast conducting muscle and cutaneous afferents.
(9) There was an isolated patient in whom IgA-CIC seemed to correlate with the clinical events of cutaneous and systemic involvement.
(10) A rare coincidence of cutaneous Rhinosporidiosis and Lepromatous leprosy is reported.
(11) Patients with a Bricker cutaneous ureteroileostomy will essentially benefit from this possibility.
(12) (4) Electrical stimulation by cutaneous devices or implants can give much benefit to some patients in whom other methods have failed and there are indications, not only from anecdote and clinical impression but also now from experimental physiology, that it may benefit by mechanisms of interaction at the first sensory synapse.
(13) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(14) We have previously characterized the kinetics of prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) production at cutaneous sites of allergic inflammation employing a blister-chamber model.
(15) No guidelines for the margin of resection of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma have been based on data measuring subclinical tumor extension, as have been formulated for basal cell carcinoma.
(16) Capillary neogenesis, probably in reaction to subclinical cutaneous vascularity, was detected in 59% of cases (86% of subjects presenting extra-articular rheumatism).
(17) We conclude that endothelial cell populations with different levels of collagen gene expression exist within cutaneous neurofibromas: some are actively expressing type I and VI collagen genes, whereas in other the expression of these genes is effectively down-regulated.
(18) Cutaneous lesions did not develop, and in the lymph nodes the average weight and number of treponemes detected were significantly lower than in normal and control hamsters.
(19) Thirty-four family members had cutaneous malignant melanoma, and 31 of these 34 also had histologically confirmed dysplastic nevi.
(20) In those patients not on steroids the results showed a good correlation with the cutaneous Kveim test.
Dermal
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.
(a.) Pertaining to the dermis or true skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
(2) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(3) New lamellae are formed by these cuboidal cells which then divide and migrate into the lamellae where they assume the characteristic attenuated appearance of fibroblasts in the adult dermal lamellae region.
(4) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
(5) Cultured human dermal fibroblast cells were labeled with [35S]methionine, and the membrane-bound cyclooxygenase was solubilized and immunoprecipitated 35S-labeled fibroblast cyclooxygenase migrated on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with a molecular size of approximately 73,000 daltons, similar to that of native sheep cyclooxygenase and of cyclooxygenase covalently labeled by [3H]aspirin, i.e.
(6) Both before and after application of the stimulus, the walls of the superficial dermal vessels of the patients with dermographism were thinner and contained less extracellular matrix material than vessel walls of the patients with cold-induced urticaria.
(7) The results suggest that chronic sunlight exposure may be associated with an impediment to normal maturation of human dermal collagen resulting in tenuous amount of HHL.
(8) We have investigated the whole-body dermal penetration of styrene, xylene, toluene, perchloroethylene, benzene, halothane, hexane, and isoflurane in rats and compared the permeability constants with available human studies on vapor penetration.
(9) Calification of dermal elastic fibers is a characteristic feature of affected skin.
(10) In 3 cases, this was due to recurrence of the tumor, and in 2 cases the cause was dermal necrosis.
(11) Focal dermal hypoplasia (FDH) is a rare ectomesodermal dysplasia syndrome characterized by cutaneous, skeletal, dental, ocular, and soft-tissue defects.
(12) In a transgenic mouse model, dermal fibrosarcomas develop in a pathway comprised of at least three stages: mild fibromatosis, aggressive fibromatosis, and fibrosarcoma.
(13) Dermal infiltrates were larger in the allergic response, but epidermal invasion was greater in the irritant reaction.
(14) This calcium-binding protein was not in skin epidermis, but was confined to the dermal layer.
(15) Maximal acyloxyacyl hydrolysis reduced lipopolysaccharide tissue toxicity, as measured in the dermal Shwartzman reaction, by a factor of 100 or more.
(16) Responses of keratinocytes, epidermal dendritic non-keratinocytes and dermal leukocytes were therefore recorded following multiple topical applications of the potent complete tumor-promoting agent 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA).
(17) The progeny exposed to DES prenatally and DMBA postnatally (DES-DMBA-exposed progeny) developed a greater multiplicity of tumors per tumor-bearing animal (p less than 0.001) and higher rates of neoplasms of the reproductive tract, e.g., ovarian and uterine tumors, mammary gland and forestomach tumors, and dermal melanomas.
(18) In this study, we examined the modulation of cell surface expression of MHC antigens and the CAM intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), lymphocyte function antigen 3 (LFA-3), and CD44 on human dermal microvascular endothelial cells (HDMEC) both grown in monolayers and differentiated into capillary-like structures on the basement membrane-like substrate matrigel.
(19) Dermal collagen, elastin, and glycosaminoglycans are altered.
(20) Histopathologically, the lesions display caseating and noncaseating dermal granulomas that mimic those seen in tuberculosis, tuberculoid leprosy, sarcoidosis, and other diseases.