(n.) The science which treats of the skin, its structure, functions, and diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) Topical and systemic antibiotic therapy is common in dermatology, yet it is hard to find a rationale for a particular route in some diseases.
(2) However, an anti-nef antibody response was also seen in 5 of 93 (5%) nonrisk dermatological patients and in 4 of 37 (11%) healthy blood donors.
(3) Recognition and prompt treatment of this potentially fatal dermatological crisis is stressed.
(4) Using an oil painting by G.F. Watts displayed in the National Portrait Gallery of London, we made an attempt to diagnose the dermatological alterations recognizable.
(5) The notion of life-threatening dermatoses may seem to be a contradiction in terms, but in fact there are a number of serious dermatologic conditions that require prompt attention to prevent fatal consequences.
(6) The cases were all consecutive patients with a new diagnosis of lichen planus, and the controls were patients under dermatological care observed under the same conditions.
(7) The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1971-1974, provides the only data on the prevalence of dermatologic disease in the United States.
(8) More and more patients are coming to cosmetic and dermatologic surgeons for augmentation of their lips.
(9) A study was carried out using iontophoresis of lidocaine with epinephrine to determine the practicality of this method of delivering local anesthesia prior to invasive procedures in dermatology offices.
(10) A clinical dermatological examination was performed on 49 patients (30 males, 19 females; 24-64 years of age) 3.1 years after successful kidney transplantation.
(11) In comparative studies on some treatment-criteria of patients of a dermatological children-ward between 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1977 we found a tendency to increased out-patient-treatment, a reduction in period of clinical sojourn and a significant increase in patients drug consumption.
(12) Topical glucocorticoids are still among the dermatologicals most frequently used.
(13) Efforts to provide an increased focus on the primary care activities of internists have been characterized by some as requiring a substantial increase in experience with ambulatory patients and significant training time invested in office gynecology, office orthopedics, otorhinolaryngology, and dermatology.
(14) Reports in the literature about cinnamon oil toxicity are limited to allergic reactions and local irritant effects from dermatologic exposure.
(15) Dermatology nurses are playing an increasing role in the assessment and care of HIV-infected patients.
(16) In vivo ultrasound examination has been introduced into dermatology as a non-invasive diagnostic technique.
(17) Although some are well described in the literature, the findings in others are insufficiently detailed from a dermatologic point of view.
(18) The major system involvement included otorhinolaryngeal, respiratory, arthritic, renal, cardiovascular, dermatologic, and neurologic diseases.
(19) Current knowledge of genes relevant to dermatology is discussed.
(20) The author describes 10 patients with this disorder and suggests a relation to angioedema, a common dermatologic condition with numerous triggering mechanisms.
Dermis
Definition:
(n.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.
Example Sentences:
(1) As with alloplastic orbital implant extrusions in enucleated sockets, autogeneous dermis fat grafts can be useful in managing extrusions in previously eviscerated sockets.
(2) It increased linearly in both the epidermis and dermis, reaching nearly 100% 24 hr following its injection on Day 8.
(3) Thinning of the dermis and the arrangement of collagen in parallel bundles appear to be constant findings.
(4) These injections led to epidermal hyperplasia in areas overlying the irritant and the effect was most significant when the irritant was placed in the upper dermis.
(5) The dermis from the more severely injured skin of both groups showed a homogeneous appearance ("necrosis").
(6) Applied atelocollagen was histopathologically compared with applied lyophilized porcine dermis (LPD) and controls in rats, with regard to the time course of healing.
(7) First, vasculitis extending deep into the reticular dermis or subcutaneous tissue seemed to be associated more often with systemic disease such as malignancy or connective tissue disease.
(8) Histologic examination of biopsy specimens from the involved area of skin revealed the presence of inflammatory cell infiltrates and various degrees of collagen accumulation in the dermis, subcutis, fascia, and underlying muscle.
(9) The biopsy findings consisted of eosinophilic individual necrosis of epidermal cells, satellite cell necrosis, basal liquefaction degeneration, and scanty cell infiltration into the dermis.
(10) Ten tissue sections from 10 examples of Bowen's disease were excised from paraffin blocks, rehydrated, and incubated in 90% formic acid at 45 degrees C for 18 h. The epidermis was gently removed with the aid of a dissecting microscope, and the remaining dermis with attached basal lamina was processed for scanning electron microscopy.
(11) Monoclonal antibody studies performed on biopsy specimens from both patients revealed 70% to 100% cells staining with CD5, 80% to 90% staining with CD4, 30% to 50% staining with CD8, and an increase in CD1-staining cells in the papillary dermis, indicating a predominantly helper T-cell infiltrate.
(12) The pathologic findings were dominated by lymphocytic inflammation around centrally placed follicles evolving to follicular necrosis that extended to the perifollicular epidermis and dermis.
(13) Similar vacuoles were also observed in the epidermal intercellular spaces and within the dermis.
(14) Acitretin flux through tape-stripped monkey skin and dermis was only slightly higher than through intact skin.
(15) Two had multiple nodules and the third had a single, recurrent lesion in the dermis or subcutis of the distal extremities.
(16) The increase of PGD synthetase activity in 3-week-old rats was mainly due to the increase of specific activity of PGD synthetase in the epidermis, which was separated from the dermis by heat treatment (55 degrees C, 30 s).
(17) This collagen appeared present throughout the whole dermis with slight variations at 4 months, where there was less extracellular collagen near the hair bulbs.
(18) The key assumptions are (1) that the target site is in the lower epidermis (basal layer) or in the dermis, and (2) that it is the thermodynamic activity (i.e., the free drug concentration, C*, of the active drug species) at the target site that is the true correlate of drug effectiveness.
(19) In initial lesions, CD1a+ cells represent up to 50-60% of the infiltrating cells of the dermal compartment, in several cases being preferentially localized in the upper part of the papillar dermis close up to the epidermal CD1a+ cells in basal position, whereas in chronic psoriasis they represent less than 10%.
(20) An antiserum raised in Rabbits against brain glycoprotein precipitated an identical antigen in faetal dermis and intestine extracts, and also in non nervous tumors (breast adenocarcinomas and adenofibromas, ovarian cystadenoma, gastric and colonic adenocarcinomas, hepatomas, malignant melanomas, rhabdomvosarcoma, fibrosarcomas).