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Depilate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strip of hair; to husk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within 10 d of treatment the treated areas were completely depilated.
  • (2) The activity in plucked (depilated) skin was only about 25% of that obtained from unplucked (depilated) tissue of the same region.
  • (3) Trypsin treatment of either pilated (type 2) or nonpilated (type 4(*)) gonococci markedly reduces the attachment-ingestion of these organisms with leukocytes, but the same trypsin treatment does not depilate the type 2 organisms nor visibly alter the morphology of their pili.
  • (4) All compounds were tested for dermal toxicity following topical administration of saturated solutions in 1,3-butanediol to the shaved, depilated skin of guinea pigs.
  • (5) Selected concentrations of oxybenzone (2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzophenone) in vehicle (0.1% to 6%) or vehicle alone were applied to the depilated dorsal skin of 30 Hartley strain female albino guinea pigs.
  • (6) The capillary resistance on the depilated dorsal skin was significantly reduced by this combined inflammatory + anticoagulant treatment.
  • (7) was administered ip for 5 weeks to albino and pigmented rats, whose backs had been depilated beforehand.
  • (8) Signs included droopy ears, depilation on the head and neck, and exudate in the ears.
  • (9) The main side effects were depilation, anorexia, stomatitis and leukopenia.
  • (10) The capillary permeability was increased by injection of the purified enzyme into the depilated skin of the back of a rabbit.
  • (11) Manually depilated back skin was exposed once to 1, 2 and 3 times the minimal erythema dose of UVB, and a time course study was performed.
  • (12) Further, depilation of injection sites was found in 7 males and 12 females at the same dose level.
  • (13) Four metabolic products of arachidonic acid lipoxygenation, 5-hydroxyeicosatetraenoate (5-HETE), 12-HETE, 15-HETE, 5(S),12(S)-DiHETE, were injected intradermally into depilated dorsae of albino guinea pigs.
  • (14) 1 In guinea-pigs, previously given Evans blue dye intravenously, 13 to 18 intradermal injections of histamine, with or without other drugs, were made into the depilated trunk skin.
  • (15) The dermatophytes were demonstrated in the material from skin and nail scrapings and depilated hairs by direct microscopic examination and culture; b) 131 cases of several skin diseases other than dermatophytosis (control group).
  • (16) Salmonella weltevreden strains produced a delayed permeability factor (PF) when tested on depilated rabbit skin.
  • (17) The expectation of pubic and genital depilation has been widely attributed to its prevalence in contemporary pornography.
  • (18) The hairless rat may therefore be an attractive alternative to its haired counterpart in this model since, prior to irradiation, it requires no depilation--which itself may affect subsequent erythema production.
  • (19) Referring to the delayed-type toxic signs, depilation, diarrhea and suppression of body weight increase were observed for mice and rats regardless of administration routes, and diarrhea was noted in rabbits by oral route.
  • (20) Total x-ray depilation of the scalp was the accepted mode of therapy for tinea capitis.

Hair


Definition:

  • (n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
  • (n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
  • (n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
  • (n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
  • (n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
  • (n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
  • (n.) A haircloth.
  • (n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
  • (2) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
  • (3) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
  • (4) White hair bulbs which demonstrated no TH activity formed 2SCD, but not 5SCD.
  • (5) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
  • (6) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
  • (7) Bone age has been analyzed mixed-longitudinally in a subsample of 370 patients (660 observations) and showed a slight retardation at all ages between 6 and 13 yr. Development of pubic hair of 91 subjects analyzed cross-sectionally was definitely retarded when compared to adequate reference data.
  • (8) Tumors were induced in athymic, T-cell-deficient nude mice and in syngeneic normal haired mice by treatment with low doses of 3-methylcholantrene (MCA).
  • (9) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
  • (10) A new method of staining the keratin filament matrix allowing a visualization of the filaments in cross section of hair fibres has been developed.
  • (11) However, in subjects with alopecia there was no such difference and the growth rate of all the hairs showed a continuous distribution.
  • (12) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
  • (13) After 7 days, various stages of sensory hair degeneration could be observed.
  • (14) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
  • (15) Subungual hair penetration appears to be much less common.
  • (16) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
  • (17) Of four normal tissues assessed, two (hair follicles and tissues responsible for development of leg contractures) showed no change in radioresponse after treatment with indomethacin, one (hematopoietic tissue) exhibited radioprotection, and one (jejunum) exhibited slight radiosensitization (enhancement factor, 1.12).
  • (18) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
  • (19) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
  • (20) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.

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