What's the difference between depilation and epilation?
Depilation
Definition:
(n.) Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing.
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.