(v. i.) To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
(2) 355 out-patients with signs of bronchial asthma were studied with special reference to animal dander sensitization.
(3) Our results show that the highest amount of allergenic material and all the essential allergens are present in cow dander extract.
(4) In the case of initially negative tests with positive second and third SPTs the incidence ranged between 3.2% (cat dander) and 4.3% (birch pollen) per year.
(5) In 30 asthmatic children selected because of a positive skin test to cat dander allergen, we measured the histamine threshold, the reaction after allergen inhalation, the allergen-specific IgE concentration in serum, the lowest allergen concentration to which the intracutaneous skin test was positive (skin titer), and the histamine release of leukocytes after challenge with allergen.
(6) Standard skin prick tests were performed using crude antigens from dander and urine, and 75 to 100% of atopic persons had positive skin reactions.
(7) In patients with extrinsic (allergic) asthma, in whom an immunologic mechanism of the IgE type can be demonstrated, specific sensitivity develops to a variety of common environmental substances, including pollen, fungus spores, house dust mites, and animal danders.
(8) Antigens and allergens of cat and dog dander and hen egg white were most prevalent in the dust samples investigated.
(9) A significant decrease in the SPT (p less than 0.001) and an increase in the allergen-specific IgE (p less than 0.001) and IgG4 (p less than 0.001) was also noted in patients (group B) treated with cat-dander extracts.
(10) There were strong correlations between the titres of RAST and the titres of QAS except cat dander and egg white (r = 0.701-0.924 for the seven allergens).
(11) One major component of the dust (Ag Rl) was also found in large amounts in saliva, slightly less in fur and in only minimal amounts in urine and dander.
(12) Furthermore, by RAST we were able to determine that cotton top tamarin urine and newborn cotton top tamarin dander had antigens that reacted with IgE in the serum of the affected patients.
(13) Thus, a reasonable basis exists for the concept that in the evolutionary scheme there emerged genetically endowed humans with the potential for mounting immediate hypersensitivity responses to multicellular and complex antigenic particulates and animal and plant products, e.g., pollens and danders; hence the atopic state, allergic reactivity and the eosinophil.
(14) Comparison of intracutaneous skin tests and RAST in 2 groups of patients, one consisting of 16 individuals having multiple allergies to pollen, mold and animal dander and the other of 10 patients allergic to mold only, revealed that skin tests were more sensitive than RAST.
(15) The results show a good immunologic response with a standardized dog dander and hair extract.
(16) The patient presented a polyvalent IgE sensitization in prick skin tests and RAST to several animals' dander and epithelia, but RAST inhibition experiments showed a cross-reactivity only between fallow deer and horse allergen extracts.
(17) And when Romney said that his proposed alternative retained several provisions of Obama's act, such as healthcare cover for pre-existing conditions and allowing young people to remain on their parents' policies, lawyer Jerry Schreiber's dander was up.
(18) Urine and dander extracts were found to contain only low levels of AgR1 and its presence in urine was as a contaminant due to mode of collection--it was not present in urine collected directly from the bladder.
(19) Following discontinuation of exposure to dog dander, he continued to have symptoms, considerably in excess of his findings prior to dog dander exposure.
(20) Patch tests reactions to human dander were positive in 120 of 181 (66%) patients with atopic dermatitis, in two of 28 (7%) patients with allergic contact dermatitis, and in one of 31 (3%) normal controls.
Mander
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) See Maunder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Como Park Zoo and Conservatory came up with the idea in response to a common prank where people leave trick messages for friends from people named things like Don Key and Sally Mander, then including the phone number for the local zoo.
(2) "It helps that our front-line staff now has somewhere to quickly transfer these calls to instead of trying to explain that there is no one here with the name ‘Sally Mander,'" said zoo director Michelle Furrer in a release.
(3) My knowledge was based on the vivid depiction of Tyrone Power's Ferdinand de Lesseps meeting Miles Mander's prime minister and getting the money to complete his project in Alan Dwan's 1938 movie Suez .
(4) Instagram remains one of the fastest-growing networks in the UK, with a younger user base than any of the other major networks,” said Jason Mander of GlobalWebIndex.
(5) Probably HMV's branch in Wolverhampton's Mander Centre.
(6) Builders' tea: "The mainstream tea category has lost its sparkle," Neil Manders, Twinings' commercial director, told the Grocer recently.
(7) Indications and modalities for the use of expanders in the head and neck (Argenta et al., 1983; Manders et al., 1984) and the breast (Radovan, 1982; Argenta et al., 1983) are now well established, but severe skin loss in the distal part of the leg, particularly if due to trauma and accompanied by exposure of the neural structure, may create serious problems of reconstruction.
(8) • Jerry Mander is the founder of the San Francisco-based International Forum on Globalization.