(1) Collagenous carcass of human derma is formed by interconnected fibrils, fibrillar fasciculi, fibers and their fasciculi.
(2) The results show that: 1) a correlation exists between an increase in diameter of collagen fibrils and somatic growth until sexual maturity is reached; 2) fibril populations are subsequently spread over a wider range due to the presence in the derma of classes of newly formed and therefore thinner fibrils.
(3) The prevalence rate of each symptom was 8% for respiratory organs, 5% for delayed type of respiratory disorders, 10% for nasal mucosa, 16% for eyes, 16% for urticaria-like derma and 26% for eczema-like derma.
(4) The changes in the derma, selected as a representative of highly organized connective tissue, were studied by 8 types of staining and histochemical reactions in 896 biopsies of macroscopically unchanged skin from the gluteal region of 56 patients with acute phospho-organic pesticide intoxication between the 2d and 15th day after the intoxication.
(5) Some authors report that collagen in derma after industrial treating by the salts of chrom imply rather diffuse X-ray patterns.
(6) In the absence of microscopic changes in the germ-free animals there was revealed in their skin a neutrophilic-mononuclear infiltration of the derma, dilatation of the vessels, thrombosis of individual vessels.
(7) The microscopic analysis of certain points in man and in animal has shown specific elements of the acupuncture point, under the form of a thickness of the epiderm, a modification of the collagen fibers of the derma, of the vascular spiral vessels surrounded by a network of a amyelinic fibers of the cholinergic type, with interlaced myelinic fibers.
(8) The former were localized in the epi- or perineurium of pulpless nervous fibers of the derma, the latter among collagen fibers.
(9) There is no simple explanation for the reported observations but it is possible that local factors in the derma or an aspecific antiinflammatory action of deoxytetracycline are responsible for the unusual response of dermal experimental infection to antibiotic treatment.
(10) Certain new data have been obtained on the process of the MC specific granules formation in the derma from progranules up to the stage of a mature granule.
(11) Connective tissue frame-work of the regenerated area on the abdomen and the back resembled intact derma by fiber distribution.
(12) This kind of neoplasm develops itself inside the derma without involving the epidermidis and shows an aggressive biological behaviour.
(13) Mycosis fungoides initially involves the epidermis and the superficial layers of derma at a depth of about 1 cm.
(14) In hypertrophy, the derma replaces the mammary gland, reducing the size of the secondary involutions.
(15) Electron microscopic examination of the upper layers of the derma in skin biopsy specimens from 20 patients with psoriasis, collected both in foci of lesions and those of apparently intact skin, has revealed that changes in amyelinic nerve fibers are more marked in foci of involvement.
(16) Therefore the collagen in derma is not distroed after salt treatment.
(17) Basing on the histologic findings (suprabasal vesicles above the basal layer, acantholysis in the epidermis, and negligible lymphocytic infiltrate in the derma), Gougerot-Hailey-Hailey's disease has been diagnosed.
(18) The dermaerosion of the corium could not be repaired but changed the color of the derma of the patient who recovered after a lapse of 2 years and 8 months.
(19) There were revealed evidences of intensified neofibrillogenesis, changes in collagen structures of the derma (destruction and defects of packing of collagenous fibrills, variability of their thickness in a fibre) and in the microcirculatory bed.
(20) These disorders involve hemocoagulation, angiopathic, and chronic inflammatory processes in the derma, that lead to necrosis and sclerosis of dermal connective tissue.
Skin
Definition:
(n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
(n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
(n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
(n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
(n.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
(n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
(v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
(v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
(v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
(v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
(v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(3) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(4) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(5) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(6) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(7) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
(8) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(9) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(10) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(11) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(12) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
(13) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(14) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(15) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(16) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(17) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
(18) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(19) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(20) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.