What's the difference between emollient and epicerastic?
Emollient
Definition:
(a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
(n.) An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emollients can increase the water content in the stratum corneum by delivery of their water to the skin, and by occlusion.
(2) As opposition to her and her measures became more intense, she responded not with emollience but with increased ferocity.
(3) In conclusion, regular use of emollients prevented irritant dermatitis from a detergent.
(4) p1 percent) with desoximetasone emollient cream (0.25 percent) showed the new topical steroid to be clinically superior in the relief of moderate and severe inflammatory manifestations of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
(5) While it’s too early to suppose that President Trump’s attitude won’t change, given his unpredictability, the more emollient tone does appear to be pacifying markets for now.” Analysts also pointed to another reason for the strength in US markets.
(6) One wing of the party wants Ed Miliband to take the fight to Ukip; the other calls for a more emollient approach so as not to insult or upset former Labour supporters who have been seduced by the Faragian view of things.
(7) But, if the prime minister believed Morgan would simply be a more emollient version of her predecessor – or as one of her close allies put it, “if they thought she would just be a Stepford minister” – he had misunderstood the 41-year-old MP for Loughborough.
(8) But everyone knows that Bercow, a much more abrasive Commons chair than either Hoyle or his equally emollient Tory colleague, Nigel Evans, is not popular among Tory MPs.
(9) Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, who has previously compared the Republican presidential nominee to Hitler and Mussolini , tried to strike a more emollient tone, tweeting : “I believe in dialogue to promote the interests of Mexico in the world and to protect Mexicans wherever they are.” Many of his countrymen, especially among the intellectual elite, were rather blunter as they anticipated the arrival of a man who has accused Mexico of “bringing their worst people” to America, including criminals and rapists.
(10) As the campaign has progressed, and his chances of victory have increased, some figures on the party’s centre-right, such as Chuka Umunna, who had initially sounded alarms about the leftwing insurgent, began to make more emollient noises.
(11) Then standard amounts of the emollients were applicated to the induced skin reactions, twice daily for a period of 5 days.
(12) Nor does Xi's confidence in overseas dealings necessarily indicate a more emollient approach to foreign relations.
(13) Supportive therapy involves maintaining the affected extremities at warm temperatures and the use of emollient creams.
(14) His emollient language, in answer to a question from the former Labour sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe, contrasted with last week's prime minister's questions when he described the £162m programme as a "complete failure".
(15) The message was a reprise of the commitment to engagement approach he signalled in his inaugural address and was made in an emollient tone that contrasted sharply with that used by George Bush, who included the Islamic Republic in his "axis of evil".
(16) Very superficial burns require only application of an emollient to limit inflammation and pain and prevent desiccation.
(17) Emollient and realistic, because, without question, Tsipras is in an uncomfortable position.
(18) In this study, the influence of 4 after-work emollients on the healing of irritant skin reactions of varying intensity was assessed.
(19) Findings from these multicenter studies confirm the value of the skin replica technique and help establish the efficacy of tretinoin emollient 0.05% cream for photodamaged skin.
(20) Brian Cathcart, the executive director of the campaign group, later issued a more emollient statement: "The direct involvement of ministers in these secret negotiations means no one can be confident that the public's interests are being served rather than the interests of the editors and proprietors, or of the politicians."