(v. t.) To make hard; as, extreme heat indurates clay; some fossils are indurated by exposure to the air.
(v. t.) To make unfeeling; to deprive of sensibility; to render obdurate.
(v. i.) To grow hard; to harden, or become hard; as, clay indurates by drying, and by heat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phaso-contrast and interference microscopy investigations revealed in the damaged cells an induration of the sarcoplasmic matrix due to an increase in the dry matter concentration.
(2) The indurations from immediate and delayed hypersensitivity reactions were readily distinguishable, but the hyperthermic responses appeared to contain elements of both immediate and delayed hypersensitivity.
(3) This feature of ILC may also help explain why tumors may be palpable as areas of vague induration or thickening rather than as discrete masses.
(4) Since therapy performed by means of the moving head technique had beneficial effect on chronic prostatitis, plastic induration of the penis and the accompanying sexual potency disturbance, the method is recommended for use.
(5) Such a treatment augmented erythematous delayed reactions in animals immunized with BGG in CFA, but abolished induration at the reaction sites.
(6) While most of the clinical features--including diffuse mucosal inflammation, indurative edema, rash, and lymphadenopathy--are self-limiting, coronary artery aneurysms and the possibility of thrombotic occlusion occurs in up to 20% of children.
(7) We describe 2 patients who presented with chronic painful indurated swelling of one lower limb, thought at the time of referral to be due to chronic venous insufficiency.
(8) In the early postoperative period within an observation period from 3 to 19 months the characteristic and rather common complications in patients operated for hydrocele did not occur (hematocele, chylomas, which are mostly of ex vacuo type because of impaired blood supply and lymph system of the scrotum, abscesses, indurations of the scrotal and testicular tissues, relapses of the hydrocele, etc).
(9) Distal areas in systemic sclerosis (scleroderma), such as the dorsal skin of the hand are more frequently involved and more indurated than proximal areas.
(10) Clinical signs included lesions, indurations, and enlargement of lymph nodes.
(11) The precise basis of induration has not been established, although activation of the clotting system with consequent fibrin deposition has been clearly implicated.
(12) When IL-1 was injected intradermally into the backs of rabbits, the injection sites became indurated, erythematous, and warm to the touch after 4 hrs and annular lesions much like those of erythema chronicum migrans were seen in some animals after 24 hrs.
(13) In contrast to epicutaneous spongiotic contact dermatitis, HLA-DR was only seen on skin appendages and nearby basal keratinocytes in indurated tissue reactions with the exception of the reactions with focal basal cell layer disruption and an indurated patch test performed one week post angry back syndrome.
(14) A 52-year-old woman who had undergone an intrapleural sponge plombage operation because of tuberculosis, and had since shown an uneventful medical history for 35 years, was referred with a complaint of back skin induration over the previous surgical scar.
(15) The prevalence of tuberculous infection in a population is generally estimated from calculating the proportion of tested individuals who react with at least 10 mm of induration to 5 TU of PPD-S tuberculin.
(16) After 16 months, one of the two infected ewes suffered from indurative lymphocytic mastitis.
(17) In the guinea pigs an intradermal dose of PHA-P produced erythema and induration with a maximal response at 24 hours after the injection.
(18) Anergy, defined as no induration to any of four intradermal antigens, was present in 12%.
(19) Either the palpation method or the ball-point pen technique may be used to measure induration that results from TB skin testing.
(20) Similar, but less severe changes were seen at the site of skin tests on BCG-vaccinated subjects who were 'negative' by conventional criteria of measurement of dermal induration and they became greatly exaggerated after successful re-vaccination.
Inure
Definition:
(v. t.) To apply in use; to train; to discipline; to use or accustom till use gives little or no pain or inconvenience; to harden; to habituate; to practice habitually.
(v. i.) To pass into use; to take or have effect; to be applied; to serve to the use or benefit of; as, a gift of lands inures to the heirs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Growing up in and around war zones and in high-crime environments will inure a person to risk and violence.
(2) Perhaps we are beginning to become inured – thickening our skin and hardening our hearts, proofing ourselves against the pain to come.
(3) It and subsequent genocides could only have taken place because people had become “inured”.
(4) Many of us have become inured to shock at the revolving door between politicians, the civil service, high-ranking military personnel and the arms trade.
(5) Hours after the attack ended, US troops with sniffer dogs checked the building for undetonated explosives, as security officials inured to violence snapped pictures of the bodies and discussed the support the fighters must have received.
(6) The simultaneous changes of thermoregulation can be looked upon as part of the reaction of the whole body (also called inurement).
(7) Inurement by exposure lies at the heart of most of our leisure activities.
(8) All of us can help by advocating on behalf of the doctors and their patients, refusing to accept their suffering is normal, even if the world can sometimes seems inured to Syria’s pain.
(9) A federation whose other alumni include former president Jack Warner, the long time rogue whose scheme to cream off funds meant for Haitian earthquake victims shocked even those who ha become inured to his antics, and Chuck Blazer, who siphoned millions in consultancy fees to fund a lavish Trump Towers lifestyle for himself, his cats and his parrots.
(10) But when you’ve been the subject of a $250bn lawsuit at the tender age of 23, then no doubt you become inured to opposition.
(11) Air traffic controllers stopped work from 1000 to 1300 GMT and journalists stopped work for five hours.But the bleak weather and despondency among Greeks inured to protests against the erosion of jobs and benefits meant the marches largely fizzled, with two unions cancelling plans for a coordinated march to parliament because of the rain.
(12) Her public, now inured to Gaga dressed in beef, was bewildered to hear that Artpop has been heavily influenced by the performance artist Marina Abramovic and sculptor Jeff Koons.
(13) Churchill's "lion-hearted nation" could not have endured the last war, or the Blitz, without inurement training.
(14) He became inured to seeing dead people all around him: "We did not care if we died today or only tomorrow."
(15) If they are not inured to criticism, I don't think anybody is."
(16) Becoming inured to welfare, they cease to hunt for opportunities and investment projects, and lose the skills needed to do so.
(17) In fact, such incidents do not make news in China , for people have long been inured to them.
(18) I also added my name for a more practical reason,” he said, “the government of Bangladesh might be more subject to influence because of this letter than a government in the west, where letters and petitions and appeals and the like are always flying about, and politicians grown inured to them.
(19) I have become inured to the messages on the outside of cigarette packages.
(20) Studios have learned that popular franchises can effectively be inured against weakly-received instalments provided that new movies continue to roll off the production line.