What's the difference between desquamate and peel?

Desquamate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tretinoin (all-trans-retinoic acid) acts to normalize desquamation of follicular epithelium, promote drainage of comedones, and inhibit formation of new ones.
  • (2) Cellular necrosis and tubular desquamation also were more severe in this group.
  • (3) In this manuscript the epidemiologic, clinical, histopathologic, immunologic and etiologic aspects as well as possible therapeutic modalities for the management of hormone-mediated desquamative gingivitis are examined.
  • (4) In order for a stone to form, the following conditions would seem to be necessary; transient supersaturation of the saliva in Ca++ and PO4--, a pH greater than normal, intracellular precepitation of amorphous tricalcium phosphate which is transformed into crystalline hydroxyapatite and, then, the fixation of crystals on a "matrix" such as desquamated cells, fibrils and collagens.
  • (5) Transmission and scanning electron microscopy were used to study desquamated epithelial cells in the developing and mature dental plaque.
  • (6) In histopathological examination, necrosis, desquamation, large nuclei formation of the tubular epithelium, and tubular dilatation of the kidney and necrosis of the liver cells were observed in the treated groups.
  • (7) Since DG I belongs to the group of transmembrane desmosomal proteins that is believed to constitute the link between the intracellular parts of desmosomes of opposing cells, it is concluded that desmosomes may play an important role in plantar stratum corneum cell cohesion, and that degradation of desmosomes may be an important step in desquamation in plantar epidermis.
  • (8) Histologically, vascular lesions such as vacuolization, degeneration and desquamation of the endothelium and hyalinization and necrosis of the muscular coat predominated, whereas reparatory reactions were relatively sparse.
  • (9) The epithelial surface is covered with adherent masses composed of desquamated and destroyed epithelial cells and leukocytes impregnated with proteins and penetrated by pseudomycelium.
  • (10) Lesions more advanced than moderate pneumonia were complicated with desquamation, severe exudation, and necrosis.
  • (11) Patients with fever, polymorphous skin eruption, congested conjunctiva, reddened palms and soles, red lips and oral mucous membrane, and soft-tissue swelling of the peripheral extremities and who experience membranous desquamation of fingers and toes should be suspected of having mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome.
  • (12) The severity of epilation and desquamation in the field of the radiation port was scored weekly.
  • (13) Desquamation of acinar cell apical cytoplasm and release of cytoplasmic segments into the acinar lumen on the first day following induction of pancreatitis led to formation of duct-like tubular complexes.
  • (14) Lung function showed decreased pulmonary compliance; lung biopsy showed desquamative interstitial pneumonitis.
  • (15) It is well known that spontaneous desquamation and corneocyte size can reflect respectively stratum corneum cohesiveness and epidermal cell proliferation.
  • (16) fingers, hands), acute reactions (moist desquamation, ulceration, etc.)
  • (17) The syndrome is characterized by fever, hypotension, erythema of the skin, erythematous desquamation and multiple organ involvement.
  • (18) Twenty-two patients (12 acyclovir, 10 placebo) experienced erythema or desquamation or both during treatment with the cream.
  • (19) The epithelial surface is covered with adherent masses composed of desquamated and destroyed epithelial cells and leucocytes impregnated with proteinaceous fluid and penetrated by pseudomycelium.
  • (20) However, this protection did not extend to the ciliated epithelium of the trachea because serum antibody did not prevent desquamation of the trachea or significantly decrease viral yield from the trachea.

Peel


Definition:

  • (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.
  • (n.) A spadelike implement, variously used, as for removing loaves of bread from a baker's oven; also, a T-shaped implement used by printers and bookbinders for hanging wet sheets of paper on lines or poles to dry. Also, the blade of an oar.
  • (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
  • (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
  • (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc.
  • (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily.
  • (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A "peeling" technique was used to estimate the time constants (tau 0 and tau 1) and coefficients (a0 and a1) of the first two exponential terms of the series of exponential terms whose sum represented the slope of the voltage response.
  • (2) Turn the sponge out onto the paper, then carefully peel off the lining paper.
  • (3) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (4) Certain advantages over chemical peeling and dermabrasion used singly or together in different areas of the face are pointed out.
  • (5) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
  • (6) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (7) The technique requires only three major steps: (1) decortication limited to the parietal sides of the peel's sac, (2) cleansing the empyemic cavity, and (3) drainage.
  • (8) Such prosecretory granules, large and irregular in shape, "peeled off" from the stacks of saccules with residual saccular or tubular structures still attached to them, some of the latter forming trans-tubular networks.
  • (9) Despite huge uncertainties over their ability to pay for carbon capture and storage technology, [Peel subsidiary] Ayrshire Power has decided to go ahead with these plans and call Labour's bluff.
  • (10) Soft organic material (meat, cucumber peels) was found in four patients, chicken bones in six, pins and needles in six, other nonorganic materials (toys, stone, broken thermometer) in six.
  • (11) 3 For the smoked mackerel pate, peel the sweet potato and chop into cubes.
  • (12) The major benefit of the peeling technique is the preservation of an intact posterior capsule.
  • (13) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
  • (14) In addition, patterns which have been considered more characteristic of in vivo demyelinative lesions have been found, susch as vesicular disruption of myelin lamellae and peeling off and phagocytosis of myelin by phagocytic mononuclear cells with electron dense cytoplasm.
  • (15) In addition to the increased calcium leachability, the dentin bonding agent peeled off with time from the dentin discs.
  • (16) PriyaKannath via GuardianWitness Makes 2-3 glasses ½ medium beetroot 1 medium carrot 1 celery stalk 1 apple 125g cooked brown rice 1 Peel and roughly chop the beetroot, carrot, celery and apple, and put in a smoothie maker or blender along with the rice and about 300ml water.
  • (17) Songwriter Dan Bull urged BBC bosses in Dear Auntie (An Open Letter to the BBC) : "You need to appeal to the people that feel John Peel, and want to keep it real.
  • (18) 2 Puree together the pomegranate jewels and the peeled satsumas.
  • (19) Incorporation of the stock diet to the peel diet resulted in a slight increase which amounted to 6% in both male and female rat groups.
  • (20) There were no signs of valvular stenosis, exuberant peel formation, or calcification of the conduit in any of the patients.

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