(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.
Plastic
Definition:
(a.) Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
(a.) Capable of being molded, formed, or modeled, as clay or plaster; -- used also figuratively; as, the plastic mind of a child.
(a.) Pertaining or appropriate to, or characteristic of, molding or modeling; produced by, or appearing as if produced by, molding or modeling; -- said of sculpture and the kindred arts, in distinction from painting and the graphic arts.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
(3) The consequences of proved hypersensitivity in patients with metal-to-plastic prostheses, either present prior to insertion of the prosthesis or evoked by the implant material, are not known.
(4) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
(5) FGF did not influence P production, while EGF clearly increased basal P production of the cells cultured on plastic.
(6) Alveolar macrophages (greater than 97% esterase positive) were isolated form bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by adherence onto plastic.
(7) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(8) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
(9) Radiological examination provides more accurate indications for plastic surgery of the pelvic floor, influences the operative procedures and permits better evaluation of operative results.
(10) Unlike cells grown on plastic, RME cells grown on type I collagen were readily subculturable and serial subculture resulted in the cells undergoing 15-20 population doublings (5-6 passages) before exhibiting any loss of growth potential.
(11) In 36 patients plastic reconstruction of the urinary bladder, sphincter and urethra was performed with local tissues after the Young technic in the G. A. Bairov modification.
(12) This result contraindicates a general permissive-requisite role for forebrain NE for the mammalian brain's plasticity during its critical periods.
(13) Markram's papers on synaptic plasticity and the microcircuitry of the neural cortex were enough to earn him a full professorship at the age of 40, but his discoveries left him restless and dissatisfied.
(14) Thus functional plasticity in response to early experience appears to be a fundamental aspect of cortical development.
(15) A metal-plastic prosthesis was tested in positions and with forces considered applicable to arthritics.
(16) The surgeon must have an exact idea of this canal before undertaking operation for plastics of the hernial defect.
(17) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
(18) Asymmetries occur less often whilst using the low-cervical-pull according to Sander, due to the reduced friction between the two plastic parts of this headgear system.
(19) This paper reports the findings of a national survey of Medical Schools and Plastic Surgery Units.
(20) Plastic surgery seems to be successful in mitral valve lesions, whereas lesions of the aortic valve are such that valve replacement is required.