(superl.) Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.
(superl.) Smeared or defiled with grease.
(superl.) Like grease or oil; smooth; seemingly unctuous to the touch, as is mineral soapstone.
(superl.) Fat of body; bulky.
(superl.) Gross; indelicate; indecent.
(superl.) Affected with the disease called grease; as, the heels of a horse. See Grease, n., 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Homozygotes have sparse greasy fur and lower viability and fertility than normal littermates.
(2) Ivanovic simply seemed to pull a muscle when he slipped on the greasy surface.
(3) We head off for breakfast at a greasy caff in London's West End.
(4) After allowing the 0.25% greasy ointment to take effect for 6 hours, about half of the dose applied to rats and three quarters of that applied to pigs could be removed from the application area (rejection rate).
(5) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
(6) Touch the soil, as Dughan did, and as his daughter did too at the sight of him, and it felt greasy, heavy, as if someone had poured cream onto loam.
(7) Immunization to provoke a persistent anti-melatonin antibody response at the winter solstice resulted in significantly increased greasy fleece weight, % cashmere yield, and mass of cashmere produced, but no change in fibre diameter in both sexes.
(8) The concentration and base in which a steroid is used influence this activity, and traditional greasy ointments are probably the most effective vehicles.
(9) The Jamaican lived up to his showbiz reputation as he made light of the greasy conditions and waved to the delighted crowd on his way to the blocks.
(10) Traditionally, such an outcome has felt beyond all realms of reason and possibility, with the notion that a decent sort of chap could politick his way to the top of Vatican's greasy poll more outlandish even than the idea that such a soul could take the White House.
(11) The Italian greasy spoon (now gone) sold overpriced, watery cappuccino, but was only yards from both Downing Street and the Treasury, and its interior, only dimly visible from the street, was small enough to deter eavesdroppers.
(12) The resistance of the virus was tested in vitro in a fluid medium of 50% Henk's balanced saline solution, 50% Eagle's medium MEM and a supplement of 10% normal calf serum as well as its resistance on artificially virus infected pig skin and greasy wool of sheep.
(13) The only art scene in Glasgow at the time was figurative painting: people with long greasy hair and moustaches who were like, "I could've been a shipbuilder, but I decided to be a painter instead."
(14) There was subjective benefit in hair growth and greasiness and a significant reduction in the semi-objective Ferriman-Gallwey index in nine of 10 subjects assessed for at least 9 months.
(15) We go back again and again for another greasy burger or indeterminate hunk of fish, knowing full well how bad it is for us.
(16) We rely on consumers information regarding the following properties of sunscreens: stickiness, oily shine, greasiness, discoloration, odor, and tolerance.
(17) The majority of complaints concerned the greasiness of mupirocin ointment.
(18) In the Middle East, where sport has over the past 15 years become increasingly important as a means of projecting soft power and building nationhood, involvement in bidding for events and climbing the greasy pole in international sports organisations has become a useful means of obtaining and retaining personal standing.
(19) The advantages of immediate wound closure in case of open leg wounds, as opposed to delayed repair or the use of greasy dressings, need no longer be proven.
(20) In both the twelve and four month studies the marked placebo effect of "youthful skin appearance", and on skin greasiness in the twelve month study, indicate that no reliance can be placed on patient judgement of skin texture and appearance.
Sebaceous
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, fat; composed of fat; having the appearance of fat; as, the sebaceous secretions of some plants, or the sebaceous humor of animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) An extensive immunohistochemical study of other normal tissues reveals that the majority show only weak focal staining with SM-3 or none at all, the distal tubules and collecting ducts of the kidney, and sebaceous glands being the only normal tissues studied to show homogeneously positive staining.
(2) The ultrastructure of the sebaceous gland of the camel is generally similar to that of other animals.
(3) Adrenal androgens appear to be the major determinants of sebaceous gland activity during the prepubertal period and to be additive to another hormone or hormones during puberty.
(4) The clinical and histological characteristics of sebaceous carcinomas of our series are compared with those recorded in the literature.
(5) Specifically discussed are mixed tumor, monomorphic adenoma, carcinoma ex-pleomorphic adenoma, clear-cell tumor, sebaceous lymphadenoma, and sebaceous carcinoma.
(6) We further document for the first time that IL-1R in normal skin is localized to the living layers of the epidermis, sebaceous and eccrine glands, as well as to a prominent network of dermal dendritic cells, and upper dermal blood vessels.
(7) The virus initially appeared within certain keratinocytes, sometimes surrounded by keratinocytes whose surfaces were also positive for the antigens, in the lower epidermal layers including the hair follicles, and then extended upward to the entire epidermis and downward to the sebaceous glands 1-2 days later, when no macroscopic skin lesion was seen.
(8) A high proportion of these sebaceous tumors (69%) exhibited specifically-associated hyperplasia of the overlying epidermis.
(9) Sebaceous glands were absent in all stages of folliculitis in seven of eight follicular units.
(10) We here report a fourth case of recurrent sebaceous carcinoma with metastases that occurred on the face of an 82-year-old woman who had received radiation to the area for cosmetic epilation 35 years previously.
(11) The distribution and activities of several oxidative enzymes in various regions of the sebaceous glands of the domestic cat have been studied.
(12) Our case is very similar both clinically and histologically to that of 'giant solitary sebaceous gland hyperplasia' described by Kudoh et al.
(13) Linoleic acid was incorporated into the triglyceride (triacylglycerol) fraction of the sebaceous gland lipid at a greater rate than palmitic and oleic acids.
(14) Sebaceous glands were significantly reduced in volume and showed decreased metabolic activity as measured by glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and succinic dehydrogenase enzyme activities.
(15) An infant with the linear nevus sebaceous syndrome also had new findings of porencephaly and nonfunctioning major cerebral venous sinuses.
(16) It is concluded that the sebaceous glands in males show no morphological change in relation to age between the 20s and 50s.
(17) Mucous cell proliferation in a periapical radicular cyst from a patient with a family history of colonic malignancies and multiple sebaceous neoplasms of the skin, so-called Muir-Torre syndrome, is reported.
(18) Both clear-cut benign and transitional sebaceous neoplasms should also be recognized as having the potential to undergo an ominous clinical regrowth upon subtotal excision and a complete squamous transformation.
(19) With the use of an immunohistologic technique with monospecific anti-CA 1, we demonstrated two different sources of the protein, mucous salivary glands and hair roots, where it originates from sebaceous glands.
(20) The following conclusions can be drawn from our study and applied to external therapy: a detergent like Dermofug should be used instead of an alcohol to enhance the penetration of a drug into the infrainfundibulum of the sebaceous glands, since the former can block the growth of Propionibacterium spp.