(n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.
Example Sentences:
Whitlow
Definition:
(a.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone.
(a.) An inflammatory disease of the feet. It occurs round the hoof, where an acrid matter is collected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two patients had herpes simplex infection of the fingertips (herpetic whitlow) associated with herpetic keratitis.
(2) The positive beneficial results indicate that aggressive iontophoretic treatment for herpetic whitlow is useful and justified.
(3) Herpetic whitlow can be distinguished from a paronychia by the lack of a tense pulp space, formation of vesicles, and serous (rather than purulent) drainage.
(4) Primary and recurrent herpetic whitlow respond to acyclovir.
(5) Burton, meanwhile, have put head of academy Mike Whitlow in caretaker charge, assisted by senior players Ian Sharps and Lee Bell.
(6) In December 1987, we investigated an increased number of cases of herpetic whitlow in medical intensive care unit nurses who routinely gloved for secretion contact.
(7) Herpetic whitlow, caused by herpes simplex, looks similar to other infections of the digit but pursues a self-limited course, resolving in 3 to 4 weeks; surgical treatment is strongly contraindicated.
(8) Herpes simplex viral infection of the digits, also known as herpetic whitlow, is a rather common hand problem encountered in dental and medical personnel.
(9) Results of the treatment of 100 patients with bony, bony-articular panaritium, thecal whitlow and pandactylitis are described.
(10) Often these "herpetic whitlows" were caused by H. hominis type 1 and occurred in medical personnel.
(11) The least alterations were observed in the serous stage of unguinal panaritium and subcutaneous whitlow in patients from 15 to 25 years of age with the term of the disease 1-2 days.
(12) The crystal structure has been determined by molecular replacement methods, using an energy-minimized alpha 1-P model structure derived from crambin (Whitlow and Teeter: Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics 2:831-848, 1985, Journal of the American Chemical Society 108:7163-7172, 1986).
(13) An employee with active herpetic whitlow must wear a glove on the involved hand while working in patient care areas.
(14) Controlled studies of acyclovir therapy for herpetic whitlow have not been done; however, its use by health care providers to treat the symptoms of herpetic whitlow and a review of the disease are discussed in this case report.
(15) We report a case of an adult whose first herpetic whitlow was complicated by secondary periungual abscesses that progressed despite intravenous antimicrobial therapy.
(16) A recent series of 13 recurrent "herpetic whitlows" yielded 11 isolates of H. hominis type 2 and only two of H. hominis type 1.
(17) An unusual case of a gangrenous herpetic whitlow is reported.
(18) However, a difficult therapeutic dilemma occurs when a whitlow is seen with an established bacterial abscess.
(19) Herpetic whitlow is a herpes simplex virus infection of the finger.
(20) The recurrence of herpetic whitlow suggests that the infection persists for life.