(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.
Topical
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.
(n.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.
(n.) Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(2) Topical and systemic antibiotic therapy is common in dermatology, yet it is hard to find a rationale for a particular route in some diseases.
(3) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(4) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(5) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
(6) Health information dissemination is severely complicated by the widespread stigma associated with digestive topics, manifested in the American public's general discomfort in communicating with others about digestive health.
(7) Female CD-1 mice were initiated with 200 nmol 7,12-dimethylbenz[a] anthracene and topically promoted three times weekly for 20 weeks with doses of 25, 50, 100, or 200 nmol mirex.
(8) This study compares the effects of 60 minutes of ischemic arrest with profound topical hypothermia (10 dogs) on myocardial (1) blood flow and distribution (microspheres), (2) metabolism (oxygen and lactate), (3) water content (wet to dry weights), (4) compliance (intraventricular balloon), and (5) performance (isovolumetric function curves) with 180 minutes of cardiopulmonary bypass with the heart in the beating empty state (seven dogs).
(9) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
(10) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
(11) The tetracaine component of TAC is superfluous for obtaining topical anesthesia of minor dermal lacerations of the face in children.
(12) I think we are still trying to understand all that and I think that fits under the broader topic of social licence and what bringing in automation to an area does to that region as a whole, which we don’t quite know yet.” Could carbon farming be the answer for a 'clapped-out' Australia?
(13) UPDATE II [Tues.] Two other items that may be of interest: first, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger was the guest for the full hour yesterday on Democracy Now, discussing the paper's role in reporting the NSA stories, and the video and transcript of the interview are here ; second, marking our collaboration on a series of articles about spying on Indians, the Hindu has a long interview with me on a variety of related topics, here .
(14) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(15) A water based 5% benzoyl peroxide gel (Benzac W5) was compared with topical 1% clindamycin phosphate solution (Cleocin T) in the treatment of acne vulgaris using a randomized, investigator blind study design.
(16) In conclusion, this study indicates that topical CsA is capable of locally suppressing a strong T-cell-mediated immune response after an initial short-term systemic dose of CsA.
(17) Poly(ortho ester) bioerodible polymers are suitable materials for the topical administration of a wide variety of therapeutic agents; varying the nature and amounts of excipients physically incorporated into the polymer will vary the erosion rates from a few hours to many months.
(18) Future studies will need to carefully evaluate the vehicle used and the strength of topical CsA employed.
(19) The animal model of psoriasis was effectively treated by bimolane, both systemically and topically, and also by parenteral methotrexate and topical betamethasone valerate.
(20) Data were compared with those from a previous study with topical 1% minoxidil solution.