(n.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Example Sentences:
(1) We observed a significant content of ELCF in three of seven patients with eczema prior to patch testing.
(2) 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.
(3) A case of disseminated Herpesvirus hominis (type I) in a 23-year-old White man with widespread eczema is reported.
(4) A 34-year-old female operating room nurse developed hand eczema to natural latex.
(5) There was a tendency for serum levels of IL-2 and receptor IL-2 to decrease, especially in patients with atopic eczema.
(6) Viral warts and eczema were, as in 1981, the second and third most common diagnostic categories amongst new patients.
(7) In children, manifestations of IgE-mediated food allergy (often in association with other immune mechanisms) include self-limiting and immediate reactions (e.g., urticaria, wheeze) and chronic diseases (food-sensitive enteropathies, eczema).
(8) Of subjects who had rhinitis, 38% also had atopic eczema, while rhinitis--as the only symptom--was found in 8.8%.
(9) Basic physiological characteristics were examined in the uninvolved skin of 39 patients with hand eczema and in 39 healthy controls.
(10) Its associations with sex and with prior and concurrent hay fever and eczema were examined in a nationally representative sample followed from birth to 23 years of age (British 1958 birth cohort).
(11) small children, urticaria factitia, eczema) tests with two or three grasses or a grass-mixture are sufficient.
(12) A majority of the patients presented with eczema of the hands, face or the lower legs.
(13) If there is a primary dysfunction of the immune system in atopic eczema it might be reflected in altered capacity to generate delayed-type hypersensitivity.
(14) Although eczema occurred predominantly in infants with higher social level the respiratory tract symptoms were reported more frequently in children from working class families.
(15) In 43 the primary eczema was on the hands, in 38 under costume jewellery, suspenders, ect.
(16) The results suggest that reduced numbers of circulating NK cells and pre-NK cells account for the depressed level of NK cell activity in subjects with severe atopic eczema.
(17) Similar trends were noticed in the occurrence of eczema.
(18) The antigen-presenting and lymphocyte stimulating functions of Langerhans cells as effector cells in allergic contact eczema are proved.
(19) 2 children presented a classical picture of the Wiskott-Aldrich's syndrome followed by eczema, recurrent infections and trombocytopenia.
(20) On the basis of their symptoms, it is suggested that infantile eczema is not an essential sign of the disorder, whereas the high frequency of hernia, strabism and upward slant of the palpebral fissures is underestimated in the literature.
Scabies
Definition:
(n.) The itch.
Example Sentences:
(1) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(2) Norwegian scabies is an unusual Sarcoptes scabiei infestation.
(3) We report the occurence of Norwegian scabies in a 13-year-old boy with Bloom's syndrome who had impaired humoral and cell-mediated immunity.
(4) Meanwhile the adoptive mother had contracted scabies.
(5) The effect of three nematicides, aldicarb, fensulfothion, and phenamiphos at four concentrations (1, 5, 25, and 125 ppm) was tested on the growth of five bacteria, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Corynebacterium fascians, Erwinia carotovora, Pseudomonas solanacearum, and Streptomyces scabies and four fungi, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.
(6) Gonorrhoea was found in association with scabies in 9 out of 18 men and in 3 out of 5 women.
(7) Cases 1 and 3 had extensive scabies, which in Case 1 was of the Norwegian type.
(8) Shigellosis, salmonellosis, pediculosis, scabies and campylobacter infections are seen in male homosexuals because of orofecal contacts.
(9) Scabies is endemic in Africa where living conditions make synchronous treatment of every member of the large extended family impossible.
(10) An erythemato-squamous, papulo-crustous, non-itching dermatosis of 4 months duration was finally diagnosed as Norwegian scabies in the immunosuppressed.
(11) Two applications of 1% lindane 1 week apart was the only treatment used without attending to hygiene for scabies and pediculosis.
(12) Scabies is more common than usually thought and often difficult to recognize when the general standard of hygiene is high.
(13) At 10-15 degrees C, females and nymphs survived 1-3 weeks at 97% r.h., 1-2 weeks at 75% r.h. and 5-8 days at 45% r.h. At 20-25 degrees C, survival was significantly reduced but all life-stages survived at least 2 days at 25% r.h. and 5-6 days at 75-100% r.h. Long survival off the host coupled with host-seeking behavior of these mites make it likely that environmental contamination is a source of scabies in domestic and wild mammals, and in humans.
(14) Scabies continues to be an important parasitic disease of humans, and other mammals.
(15) We believe that this highly atypical presenation, which had several features found in Norwegian scabies, was due to muted inflammatory response that permitted a great proliferation of the mites.
(16) This study determined the prevalence of Sarcoptes scabiei in the home environment of 37 confirmed cases of scabies and in five nursing homes with scabietic patients.
(17) The scabies epidemy being observed since 1965, had developed from persistent endemic centres and pursues continuous the cyclic course of the scabies humanis in periods of 15 to 20 years.
(18) Three elk with severe scabies had an estimated 0.6 x 10(6), 3.8 x 10(6) and 6.5 x 10(6) mites, respectively.
(19) In the Ayurvedha and Sidha system of medicine (Indian system of medicine) Azadirachta indica ADR ('Neem') and Curcuma longa ('Turmeric') has been used for healing chronic ulcers and scabies.
(20) The diagnosis and management of outbreaks of scabies in health care facilities may be difficult.