(n.) The outermost skin or pellicle of a plant, found especially in leaves and young stems.
(n.) A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(2) All the canals open independently at the surface of the cuticle and the substance deposited there is a mixture of proteins and acid mucosubstances.
(3) The second gene lies within an intron of the purine gene and encodes a cuticle protein.
(4) In vitro the epidermis synthesized and secreted both forms into both the cuticle and the medium.
(5) The morphology of the adult female cuticle is discussed.
(6) In all these cuticles the tubular filaments arise from the plasma membrane of the epidermal cells and they contain argentaffin material, regarded as sclerotin precursors, and lipid-staining material, regarded as wax precursors.
(7) Between the cuticle and dermal collagen there are granular deposits which might be immune complexes involving the collagenous component of cuticle.
(8) Eisenia epidermis does not recordably synthesize the cuticle until after wounding (first eight segments removed).
(9) Cuticle morphology identifies two types of sensilla trichodea, two types of sensilla basiconica and one type of sensillum coeloconicum.
(10) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
(11) A homozygous mutant escaper had weak, completely unpigmented cuticle and unpigmented bristles.
(12) On dark-adaptation of the 11-day adult eye, the rhabdomers move towards the cuticle.
(13) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
(14) Thus, during larval growth the cuticle remains flexible and extensible.
(15) C3 conversion products were detected on larval cuticles by eosinophil adherence and by immunofluorescence with C3c antiserum.
(16) Both genes encode 5.5-kilobase mRNAs, similar in size to the mammalian and Drosophila type IV collagen gene transcripts but much larger than the cuticle collagen transcripts of C. elegans.
(17) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
(18) The antibodies, which were produced in the course of T. spiralis infection in rats, specifically bound to the inner layers of the body cuticle and the cuticle of the hindgut, but not to the cuticle of the esophagus.
(19) Autonomous expression of Met was found both in abdominal cuticle as well as in external male genitalia.
(20) However, late larval worms that expressed the adult cuticle did not express blisters either.
Paronychia
Definition:
(n.) A whitlow, or felon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the high rates of dermatoses found in a study of 686 female workers in a canning factory in March 1990, use of protective gloves was extremely low, even though there was evidence that they prevented acute paronychia and intertrigo.
(2) Infectious causes of finger pain include cellulitis, tendinitis, paronychia, felon, and infectious emboli, which generally require antibiotics with or without drainage.
(3) Herpetic whitlow can be distinguished from a paronychia by the lack of a tense pulp space, formation of vesicles, and serous (rather than purulent) drainage.
(4) Although clinical adverse effects were frequent in all groups, severe side effects, namely hair loss and paronychia, occurred frequently only among patients treated with an initial dose of 50 mg of etretin daily.
(5) Twenty food handlers affected by chronic paronychia were submitted to patch tests with the fresh foods that were suspected of being the cause of the dermatitis.
(6) This lead to a complete acute zinc deficiency syndrome with pronounced acrodermatitis enteropathica-like skin changes in the face and the genital region, paronychia, flat blistering on the hands and feet, loss of hair, fingernail ridging (Beau's) and serious physical changes.
(7) An "old" paronychia is a major catastrophe: small fistula, great damage.
(8) Subsequent to an autopsy of a tuberculotic cadaver, a pathology resident presented with a painless paronychia and axillary adenopathy after surgical incision and broad-spectrum antibiotics had failed to improve his condition.
(9) The highest primary healing rates were seen in lesions caused by paronychia (84%) and stress ulcer (76%).
(10) Infections (pemphigus, paronychia, conjunctivitis, umbilical infection) occurred in 12.9% of the infants, of whom 65% got infection after discharge from the nursery.
(11) Because of recurrent paronychia of the right thumb "granulation" tissue was removed from the nail-bed of a ten-year-old girl.
(12) Progressive, extremely painful paronychia of the left third and fourth fingers gradually developed, which persisted despite a variety of treatment protocols, including antibiotics and radiotherapy, ultimately necessitating amputation of the distal portions of the digits.
(13) Infections were present in 7%; over half were paronychias.
(14) A 55-year-old woman presented with suppurative paronychia that became chronic.
(15) Furthermore, when the two recurrent paronychia were treated with both procedures, one healed completely and the other was markedly improved.
(16) Especially, the radiotherapy of the following diseases seems to be favourable: parotitis, mastitis, abscess, furuncle, paronychia and panaritium.
(17) A cross-sectional prevalence study among 686 female workers in a canning factory in the western Cape showed high rates of dermatoses--in particular, chronic paronychia, intertrigo and dermatitis of the hands.
(18) The clinical picture can be protean and mimic verrucae, onychomycosis, paronychia, eczema, pyogenic granuloma, verrucous tuberculosis, subungual exostosis, glomus tumor, dermatitis vegetans, amelanotic malignant melanoma, kerato-acanthoma and of course squamous cell carcinoma.
(19) Our results confirm the view that an immediate hypersensitivity reaction to foods can be responsible for some cases of chronic paronychia in food handlers.
(20) Six patients with nail infections due to Candida albicans not associated with paronychia affecting a total of 20 nails received itraconazole (100 mg daily) for a mean period of 5.9 months.