(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.
Obstinate
Definition:
(a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
(a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The patient was a forty-five-year-old female who had been troubled by obstinate Raynaud's phenomenon for ten years before the definite diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension was made.
(2) The whole proves his introversion, ambivalence, hypersensitivity, obstinancy, anxieties, behavioral anomalies, a life rich in fantasies and his underestimation of his own literary work.
(3) Soon my piano lessons had turned into me, an obstinate 11-year old, demanding that my neighbour teach me ever-more intricate DOS commands.
(4) Peritoneal pseudomyxoma has several main features: it is insidious, recurrent, obstinate and severe.
(5) Adamant avoidance of division of primary clinical responsibility among cooperating specialists and clinician obstinancy when dealing with third parties can help prevent suicides.
(6) When an obstinate irritable colon is present, a diagnostics of neuroses is indicated.
(7) Twenty-two cases 23 eyes with obstinate stromal keratitis treated by combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicines are reported in this paper.
(8) Scores of people, including comedian Mark Thomas and wilderness hiker Cameron McNeish, have become joint owners of an acre of land previously owned by Michael Forbes, the quarryman and salmon netsman who has become Trump's most famous and obstinate opponent.
(9) The results show the possibility that recombinant human interleukin-1 alpha could be of help for treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with antimicrobial agents alone.
(10) "[The officials] have become obstinate – they are seeking just different ways to mistreat my mother and us as her children," he said.
(11) During the first weeks of the rheumatoid arthritis the following symptoms are found: articular syndromes, more frequently in form of obstinate polyarthralgias, mono-oligoarthritis, accompanied by morning rigidity and accelerated BSR as well as impairment of the general condition.
(12) In a study for the recognition of the urodynamics of the detrusor after administration of the anticholinergic drug Mictonorm 14 patients with obstinate urge symptoms were examined.
(13) But these factors become important when patients, particularly debilitated patients, are infected acutely or chronically with some of the more obstinate bacteria.
(14) Back by the obstinately uninflated elephant, Simon Vose clambered in to his van and set off on another callout for his house maintenance business.
(15) These results show the possibility that KW-2228 could be of use in treating obstinate infections not successfully treated with an antimicrobial agent alone.
(16) Instead, the focus has been on the objective question: could an obstinate and prejudiced person have honestly based the comment made by the defendant on the facts on which the defendant commented?
(17) But with a very strong El Niño driving record global temperatures and a huge patch of hot water, known as “the Blob” , hanging obstinately in the north-western Pacific, things look far worse again for 2016.
(18) Such querulous, opinionated persons are obstinate "bellyachers" who "stick to their guns" and imaginary legal positions to the extent of being a general nuisance.
(19) Three years later, he provoked intense controversy with the publication of Haig: The Educated Soldier, which was sharply at odds with the popular view that the first world war had been the supreme example of "mud, blood and futility", with British generals depicted as callous, obstinate and incompetent.
(20) The knowledge of these diseases is a prerequisite to the causal and lasting treatment of patients affected by the obstinate and occasionally even painful symptom of the burning tongue.