(superl.) Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.
(superl.) Hard; callous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digestion of cytoplasmic components of horny cells was observed by electron microscopy, but both cell membranes and desmosomes remained intact.
(2) Strains of C. albicans differing in their abilities to secrete proteinase in vitro and to produce germ tube were inoculated onto the skin surface of newborn mice, and the invasion of the yeast cells into the horny layer was examined by histological techniques.
(3) Morphologic features of Malassezia(M.) furfur in the horny layer from clinical lesions of tinea versicolor were examined by scanning electron microscopy and compared with the appearance of fungus in the horny layer from normal skin and in culture.
(4) The absolute concentrations of 8-Methoxypsoralen were estimated in the horny layer, epidermis and dermis.
(5) In the next stage, the roof consisting of the malpighian layers is disrupted, and the vesicular fluid comes into contact with the horny layer.
(6) The systematic evaluation of the original curves takes into consideration amplitude, angle of climb and medium route and results in a horny layer sample-obtained successively from one and the same horny layer strip-series test area-impressioned by individual and regional horny layer conditions.
(7) The nature of the horny layer which, as the uppermost barrier takes over the main part of the protective function of the skin against all locally applied substances, is shortly outlined.
(8) Removal of the horny layer decreased epidermal IL 1-like activity.
(9) The superficial dermis contained horny cysts, similar to those present on the cheeks.
(10) Munro's microabscess under the horny layer also included IFN-gamma producing cells.
(11) The fluid was obtained from the skin surface of female mongrel dogs by transcutaneous suction after removal of the horny substance.
(12) The mockery continued when he noted semi-automatics had only two purposes: to kill people, and to let their owners go to a shooting range, "yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel".
(13) In both sites the plasma membranes of the horny cells were thickened and there was a cytoplasmic meshwork of microfibrils in the cells.
(14) Epithelial cells changing from the granular stage of differentiation to the horny stage are more numerous, and reveal sequential events of transformation in finer detail in the rumen epithelium than in other keratinizing epithelia thus far studied in the electron microscope.
(15) Yet there is Samantha, bawdy as the Wife of Bath, always cheerfully horny and materialistic, utterly without Calvinic redeeming qualities, living at last with her devoted younger boy toy in LA in the Sex and the City movie – finally leaving him because she is just not cut out to mix her driving, unmediated sexual energy with commitment.
(16) "Before you hit puberty, you have this growing, really urgent sense of horniness."
(17) This reflected enhanced permeability resulting from reduction of the horny layer to less than one-half its normal thickness.
(18) Remaining reactivity with antibodies, but not lectins, was almost completely abolished immediately before the final disintegration of the desmosome structure in the lower horny layer.
(19) The calcified concretions are also seen in the lymphatic capillaries, the intraepidermal sweat ducts and horny layer; at a site they perforate the epidermis and penetrate in a sweat pore.
(20) Elastic fibres were prominent in the upper dermis, the lower levels of the epidermis and in the hyperkeratotic horny layer.
Keratose
Definition:
(n.) A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.
(a.) Containing hornlike fibers or fibers of keratose; belonging to the Keratosa.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a double-blind, randomized, within-patient comparative study, the efficacy and tolerability of Ro 14-9706 (an arotinoid methyl sulfone) in the treatment of actinic keratoses was compared with that of tretinoin (all-trans-retinoic acid).
(2) Two hundred and twenty-four people (36.4%) had a spontaneous remission of at least one of their solar keratoses.
(3) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
(4) Four patients are described who experienced an acute episode of eczematous dermatitis of the scrotum where 5-fluorouracil (Efudex) cream had inadvertently been applied in the course of treating warts and keratoses.
(5) A 70-year-old Japanese female with lepromatous leprosy developed squamous-cell carcinoma within a long standing area showing solar keratoses on her head.
(6) Lichen spinulosus is a benign follicular eruption seen primarily in younger persons and is frequently classified among the follicular keratoses.
(7) The proportion of the more common pathological diagnoses was unchanged between the two periods, but the proportion of correctly diagnosed naevi, cysts, and seborrhoeic keratoses increased in the second.
(8) This report documents the development of multiple cutaneous tumors, including squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, actinic keratoses, keratoacanthomas, and one case of lentigo maligna, in seven patients who received topical therapies for mycosis fungoides.
(9) HPV-41 was originally isolated from a facial wart, but its DNA has subsequently been detected in some skin carcinomas and premalignant keratoses (Grimmel et al., Int.
(10) Severe photoaging of the skin, which may be caused by exposure to both natural and artificial ultraviolet light, ultimately results in actinic keratoses and cancer.
(11) Comparison with other drugs and diseases suggests malignant keratoses are initiated in two stages by the cytotoxic effect of azathioprine, the role of immunosuppression remaining unproved.
(12) A 76-year-old woman with ovarian adenocarcinoma and sudden onset of many seborrheic keratoses is reported.
(13) Patients with basal cell carcinoma and solar keratoses were treated with etretinate.
(14) A 51-year-old woman had a severe pustular contact hypersensitivity reaction to fluorouracil used to treat actinic keratoses on the face.
(15) In seborrheic keratoses, allergic contact dermatitis and ichthyosis vulgaris, the cytochrome oxidase activity was greatly reduced or abolished in keratinocytes, Langerhans' cells, and melanocytes, whereas the peroxidase activity was present as in normal epidermis.
(16) The local immune responses of such lesions (warts, condyloma acuminata, actinic keratoses, Bowen, basal and squamous cell carcinomas) was studied in 32 frozen skin specimens taken from 15 male transplant recipients and compared to similar lesions from the normal population.
(17) A systematic study of keratin expression in epidermal lesions (six actinic keratoses, 10 Bowen's disease, seven squamous cell carcinomas) has been undertaken by using a large panel of monospecific monoclonal antibodies to individual keratins.
(18) Ninety-four renal allograft recipients receiving cyclosporin A (CsA) immunosuppression for up to 4 years were examined for the presence of viral warts, keratoses, and skin cancers.
(19) In 9 of 10 patients who had keratoses at admission, there was an increase in number at discharge.
(20) Although this mode of delivery is not practical for clinical use, intralesional alpha 2-IFN demonstrates biologic activity against actinic keratoses.