What's the difference between fell and skin?

Fell


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Fall
  • () imp. of Fall.
  • (a.) Cruel; barbarous; inhuman; fierce; savage; ravenous.
  • (a.) Eager; earnest; intent.
  • (a.) Gall; anger; melancholy.
  • (n.) A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.
  • (n.) A barren or rocky hill.
  • (n.) A wild field; a moor.
  • (v. i.) To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.
  • (n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting.
  • (v. t.) To sew or hem; -- said of seams.
  • (n.) A form of seam joining two pieces of cloth, the edges being folded together and the stitches taken through both thicknesses.
  • (n.) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 76 patients (73%) radionuclide and hemodynamic data fell in the same category.
  • (2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (3) Accidentally discovered nearly 40 years ago as the first true antidepressants, the MAOIs soon fell into disfavor due to concerns about toxicity and seemingly lesser efficacy compared with the newer tricyclic compounds.
  • (4) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (5) mycoides cluster' at a similarity level (S) of 66% and which remained undivided at up to 78% S. At higher similarity levels, these strains fell heterogeneously into mixed sub-phenons containing strains of both subspecies.
  • (6) The mean acne scores, derived from grading and counting lesions and comedones, fell from 63.3 to 6 in the Diane 50 and from 64.2 to 4.5 in the Triphasil group.
  • (7) Acute and chronic experiments were performed and, in both, the hepatic concentration of GSH fell during the first 6 h after haemorrhage; this fall was followed by a significant rebound elevation at 24 h. In the chronic haemorrhage experiment the hepatic GSH level was normal at 1 week after haemorrhage.
  • (8) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
  • (9) Blood pressure rose and heart rate fell in proportion to the dose of noradrenaline infused.
  • (10) In the remaining 60 patients (35 with atherosclerotic stenosis and 25 with fibromuscular dysplasia), both mean systolic and diastolic pressure fell immediately after percutaneous transluminal dilatation and remained significantly lower for a period of up to five years.
  • (11) TRH levels in serum fell and then returned to initial levels after L-DOPA administration in primary or pituitary hypothyroidism.
  • (12) The patients with phrynoderma fell into two groups.
  • (13) After effective treatment the level fell and rose again 10 months prior to the conventional clinical diagnosis of relapse.
  • (14) Urinary excretion of hydroxyproline fell significantly in patients receiving ND, whereas the biochemical indices of bone formation did not change (alkaline phosphatase) or increased (osteocalcin; P less than 0.01).
  • (15) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
  • (16) By all 50 O sera we found that 71.08%, strains was serotype however, they fell into 42 O ser-types.
  • (17) In gastric ulcer patients DNA loss or turnover was significantly (p less than 0-01) higher than normal, and fell significantly (p less than 0-01) after four weeks' treatment with carbenoxolone when 16 of the 17 ulcers had healed.
  • (18) But infrastructure fell for the third consecutive quarter, decreasing by 5.6%.
  • (19) In 31 patients in whom specific IgE fell to low (less than 6% counts bound) or unmeasurable levels, immunotherapy was discontinued, and sting challenge was carried out 1 to 3 years later.
  • (20) The absolute number of monocytes and B-lymphocytes fell significantly (p less than 0.01) on the first and second day after exercise.

Skin


Definition:

  • (n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
  • (n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
  • (n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
  • (n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
  • (n.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
  • (n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
  • (v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
  • (v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  • (v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
  • (v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
  • (v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
  • (2) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
  • (3) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
  • (4) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (5) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
  • (6) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
  • (7) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
  • (8) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
  • (9) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
  • (10) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
  • (11) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
  • (12) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
  • (13) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
  • (14) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
  • (15) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
  • (16) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
  • (17) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
  • (18) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
  • (19) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (20) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.