What's the difference between hives and urtication?

Hives


Definition:

  • (n.) The croup.
  • (n.) An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (2) This weekend a new dispute has erupted over government proposals to hive off child protection services to companies such as Serco and G4S ; perhaps the ministers and officials behind those plans should look at the case of Sana when they come to make their final decision on the future of another vulnerable section of the population.
  • (3) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
  • (4) They talk of cutting down to size , of hiving off, of limiting the scope, with all the manic glee of a doctor urging his patient to consider the benefits of assisted suicide.
  • (5) If bees from a second hive were allowed to forage at both control sites, however, recruits from the experimental hive, while orienting to these sites, exhibited no evidence of having used any distance information they might have received before leaving their parent hive.
  • (6) immunoglobulin E-mediated hay fever, asthma, eczema, hives) was examined in a nonclinical sample of 379 college students.
  • (7) Last month, the new TSB bank, hived off from Lloyds to increase competition in retail banking, was established with its headquarters in London, despite being founded in Scotland .
  • (8) It’s their winter food, for feeding the 10,000-strong colony in the hive when it’s too cold to fly.
  • (9) Therapeutic response was assessed according to the suppression of symptoms and symptom diary scores of daily itching and frequency, number, size, and duration of hives.
  • (10) For Hartnett, the new challenge is "re-structuring", by which firms hive off key elements of their trade to tax havens in Switzerland.
  • (11) Another, keen to make good on the advantage, was said to be a "hive of activity" in the days directly leading up to the inspection.
  • (12) For instance, the acute symptoms of allergy and asthma such as sneezing, bronchospasm and hives are believed to be largely the result of mediator release from mast cells whereas chronic symptoms (the result of allergic inflammation) can be explained on the basis of eosinophil-mediated tissue damage.
  • (13) After a few weeks, the hive had stabilised again, with around half of the old foragers now working as nurse bees.
  • (14) Symptoms include hives, skin eruptions, abdominal pain, perianal pruitis, diarrhea, and pneumonitis.
  • (15) If you want to go far, go together.” Teddy Ruge is the co-founder of Hive Colab , an innovation hub in Kampala, Uganda .
  • (16) Even so, King outlined a range of ideas that could involve a radical restructuring of the industry, including hiving off safe deposits from riskier assets.
  • (17) While some worker bees remain at home, others take flight in search of nectar, pollen and other hive essentials.
  • (18) Eosinophil counts (range, 4002 to 37,350 cells per cubic millimeter) increased in association with the onset of hives and decreased to baseline levels after their resolution.
  • (19) Risk declined with the total number of specific allergies reported (p less than 0.001), and was reduced in relation to a history of prior asthma, eczema and hives.
  • (20) Hives consistently began at the end of menses and lasted for 1 to 2 weeks.

Urtication


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Caripito itch, a pruritic dermatosis rarely seen in the United States, is caused by contact with moths of the genus Hylesia--specifically, with urticating abdominal hairs of the adult female moth.
  • (2) There was a strong correlation between the susceptibility of each subject to each urticant, but no correlation between the susceptibility to NIICR and age, atopic status or tanning ability.
  • (3) Objective measurements were made at the beginning and end of each treatment period by establishing the minimum time (MT) of cold stimulus application required to provoke urtication.
  • (4) It is therefore an urticating protein and which we have named "Thaumetopoein".
  • (5) It is therefore an urticating protein which we have named thaumetopoein.
  • (6) Important non-immunologic contact urticants are preservatives and flavouring agents in cosmetics and foods.
  • (7) Skin tests have confirmed that the urticant substance is histamino-liberating.
  • (8) A thaumetopoein-like protein was found to be present in oak processionary urticating hairs.
  • (9) An urticarial dermatosis after contact with the urticating hairs of the adult female Hylesia moth may occur by several mechanisms including the intradermal injection of inflammatory mediators through the urticating hairs.
  • (10) Cold sensitivity was associated with histamine release in venous blood draining urticated skin.
  • (11) The urticating apparatus of the oak processionary caterpillar was studied by electron microscopy at times when this species was exceptionally abundant in France.
  • (12) Urticating moths (genus Hylesia and Anaphae) protect their eggs and young caterpillars with urticating hairs, thus it is very ambiguous to label erucism as the contact dermatitis produced by caterpillar production or Lepidopterism as the contact dermatitis caused by moth urticating hairs.
  • (13) It is present in large quantities in the glands producing urticating hairs.
  • (14) Giemsa staining of specimens from eight other cases of cutaneous histiocytosis X from our files revealed mast cells in all of the lesions, although none showed the abundance of mast cells present in the case with urtication.
  • (15) The guinea pig ear is a model for testing non-immunologic contact urticants.
  • (16) Erucism is defined as urtication by Lepidoptera larvae.
  • (17) During the followup period (five days at most), we found localized urtication as a side effect in only one case (4.5%).
  • (18) In order to clarify the mechanisms of urtication after contact with stinging plants, nettle (Urtica urens) hair and whole-plant extracts were examined for the presence of leukotriene (LT) B4 and LTC4 by reverse phase high-pressure liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) and radioimmunoassay (RIA) and for in vitro neutrophil chemotactic activity and histamine contents.
  • (19) Compound 1 could be responsible for the urticating properties of the ant.
  • (20) Collected in Bordeaux, urticating hairs will be considered for allergists as pollens and other allergic particles.

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