(n.) The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tetradecane (TD), testosterone (TS), and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) were separately inuncted on rabbit pinnas once a day; the pinnas were biopsied on days 1, 3, 7, and 28.
(2) Attention is called to the fact that, long before the systematization of oral digitalis therapy by Withering in the eighteenth century, the drug was applied to the skin by inunction, producing effects that can now be recognized as due to an overdosage of Digitalis glycosides.
(3) Supplementation of the EFAs by the diet, parenterally or by the inunction of oil rich in linoleic acid, were reported to alleviate the symptoms of EFA deficiency.
(4) To investigate the pathologic changes of sebaceous glands during comedo formation induced by topically applied substances in a rabbit pinna model, purified tetradecane was inuncted on the ventral aspect of the rabbit pinnas once a day for a week.
(5) Supplementation of the diet with EFA, parenterally or by the inunction of oil rich in linoleic acid, were reported to alleviate the symptoms of EPA deficiency.
(6) In human volunteers presenting with normal skin an investigation has been carried out to determine the specific skin surface dose, the actual application volume, and the theoretical surface film thickness resulting from thin and thick layer inunction of 4 common corticosteroid topicals.
(7) Sun-exposure and thorough inunction of the cream were required for the more advanced changes.
Unguent
Definition:
(n.) A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is found that local applications of the unguent with soluble collagen, but not solution of the collagen, stimulate healing of erosions and full-thickness excision wounds in the rat skin.
(2) The treatment recommended in a 5-percent suspension or unguent of pimaricin (natamycin).
(3) Underneath the Great Hall was once an “elaboratory”, where apothecaries concocted their unguents, vomit cakes and elixirs.
(4) From the viewpoint of the technics of application and considering the cost too, the unguent is more favourable.
(5) He survived on the pittance he earned from working as a traditional "African doctor" but his unguents could not protect his daughter from the hidden hunger that threatens the lives of five million people in Malawi .