(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.
Wax
Definition:
(v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.
(v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
(n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; -- usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.
(n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.
(n.) Cerumen, or earwax.
(n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.
(n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
(n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.
(n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.
(n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; -- called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.
(n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.
(v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(2) This study shows that the sensitivity and specificity of in situ hybridisation for the detection of EBV genomes in AIDS related lymphomas approaches that of Southern blotting, even when using routinely processed archival, paraffin wax embedded material.
(3) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(4) These were not observed in area 5, although here the distribution of callosal neurons waxed and waned in the tangential cortical plane.
(5) The equations of best fit of log(wax esters) vs age suggested that sebum secretion declines about 23% per decade in men and 32% per decade in women.
(6) Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare (MAI) can utilize paraffin wax as the sole carbon source in basal media.
(7) The separation of the defect margins from the reacting material by wax inhibited the bone regeneration.
(8) Wax D also induced small accumulations of macrophages.
(9) 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.
(10) The probe tip was a gold-plated pin, insulated from the saliva by soft wax.
(11) The new Poles are generally optimistic and open-minded, believing their destiny to be in their own hands, that Poland shouldn't be prisoner to its past and that the future waxes bright for their country.
(12) It is recommended to apply cast fillings with a replacement of the occlusive area as quickly after the wax mould as possible because of the diminished gap due to the motion of the teeth.
(13) Acrolein-fixed, polyester wax-embedded tissue sections showed excellent preservation of light microscopic architecture and, when stained with toluidine blue, intense color contrast between DNA, which stained orthochromatically, and RNA, which stained metachromatically.
(14) The use of the technique of wax-plate serial section-reconstruction, based on contiguous axial plane CT images of the upper thorax, to prepare a replica of the central air-way (trachea and major bronchi) of an infant with sling left pulmonary artery type 2B, with bridging bronchus, abortive right main bronchus, and tracheal stenosis due to absence of the tracheal pars membranacea with "ring" tracheal cartilages is described.
(15) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(16) We describe a simple technique of inflation and wax impregnation for the permanent proof of congenital heart defects that can be used in routine perinatal necropsies.
(17) Nasopharyngeal biopsy specimens, formalin fixed and paraffin wax embedded, from 24 patients, eight with undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma, eight with well differentiated squamous carcinoma, and eight showing normal tissue histology, were analysed for the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA by slot-blot hybridisation on extracted unamplified DNA, and also after amplification of EBV specific sequences by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
(18) The wax contains a wide range of organic compounds.
(19) "There are plenty of things she can wax lyrical about without getting into tricky areas: the upcoming first world war centenary, the need for a more global outlook in the economy, the inspiring achievements of British parliamentary democracy."
(20) Free sterols, sterol esters, triglycerides, phospholipids were major components of cercarial lipids, triglycerides, wax esters, free fatty acids, squalen were major components of skin surface lipids.