(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.
Wheal
Definition:
(n.) A pustule; a whelk.
(n.) A more or less elongated mark raised by a stroke; also, a similar mark made by any cause; a weal; a wale.
(n.) Specifically (Med.), a flat, burning or itching eminence on the skin, such as is produced by a mosquito bite, or in urticaria.
(n.) A mine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three patients reacted with a wheal size greater than or equal to a histamine control at a dilution of 1:1,000 and 3 patients at 1:100.
(2) The validation of the VSC technique with venous occlusion plethysmography (VOP) showed that the increase of time of disappearance of the wheals is well correlated with the increase of capillary permeability demonstrated by VOP.
(3) Cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist slightly reduced the effect of clonidine on the wheal and flare reaction.
(4) Numerous mast cells were degranulated in late wheals, as shown by electron microscopy.
(5) The wheal and erythema reaction caused by intracutaneous application of 5 mug histamine can be inhibited by applying fenoterol in doses from 100--400 mug in form of a metered aerosol on the skin 5 min before the injection of histamine.
(6) Treatment with astemizole, as measured at the end point of each patient's treatment and compared to placebo, resulted in significant improvement of pruritus, erythema, number of wheals, frequency of urticarial attacks, and control of urticaria (p less than or equal to 0.03).
(7) The surface areas of the wheal and flare responses were measured by planimetry.
(8) Substance P produces dose-related wheal and flare reactions in human skin.
(9) Clinically, they are characterised by an immediate wheal and flare or a delayed papular to eczematous process.
(10) The flare response to SP and histamine was suppressed by capsaicin pretreatment whereas the wheal was enlarged.
(11) Histamine caused dose-related increases in blood flow and in areas of wheal and erythema in human skin.
(12) The patient developed an immediate type of skin reaction with erythema and whealing following monochromatic irradiation at 400 nm, but did not have any abnormal immediate skin reaction after exposure to natural sunlight.
(13) The allergen-triggered wheal and flare reaction in ovalbumin sensitized guinea pigs was potentiated by MK 422 and the late phase reaction of the inflammatory response was especially augmented.
(14) Except at high doses the local vasodilatation induced by CGRP was not associated with a wheal and flare as seen with histamine, substance P, and VIP.
(15) Two other patients with sunlight-induced solar urticaria, who had an erythema-and-wheal reaction during and after exposure to sunlight, had no suppressive wave bands in either the UV or visible-light range.
(16) There were also 3 highly allergic children, with immediate hypersensitivity reactions to other food, who, despite having never been exposed to egg, developed large skin prick test wheals to egg white.
(17) It is concluded that the wheal need not be associated with the Provocation-Neutralisation technique, and that a neuropsychological basis for the Provocation-Neutralisation response should be explored.
(18) Pressure wheals were characterized by a mild mononuclear perivascular infiltrate and by patchy dermal infiltrates of eosinophils.
(19) Sections from the wheals of recent onset 24 hours old or less taken from 11 patients with urticaria were examined by electron microscopy.
(20) Five minutes after an id injection of PHA (bactophytohaemoagglutinin M, Difco, 1 mg), mix monilieae, mix tricophyton and PPD Berna, she showed an extensive wheal and flare reaction in the PHA injection area, eyelid oedema and respiratory distress.