(n.) A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.
(n.) A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.
Example Sentences:
(1) After bone-union the embracing ring device was removed in conjunction with external lotion and active exercises.
(2) Clindamycin lotion completely suppressed the growth of C acnes organisms, whereas erythromycin and tetracycline did not depress the C acnes counts.
(3) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(4) This suggests that a surgical scrub should be used more widely in clinical practice, and that a spirit-based hand lotion might with advantage become a partial substitute for handwashing, particularly in areas where handwashing is frequent and iatrogenic coagulase-negative staphylococcal infection common.
(5) Tolerability of bifonazole was satisfactory in all cases but one, who interrupted treatment because of pain and local hyperemia where the lotion had been applied.
(6) Sixty-two patients with seborrhoeic dermatitis were treated topically with a 2% ketoconazole foaming gel or with a 0.05% betamethasone dipropionate lotion in a single-blind study for 4 months.
(7) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
(8) From the beginning of time, man has had the instinct to pour things in wounds to kill microorganisms and enhance healing, and..... "wounds are still lathered, bathed, and sprayed with various notions, potions, and lotions".
(9) Like Ray, my parents are Bengali and while they had been taking me back to Kolkata during long summer holidays, I had failed to take to the city, which seemed to offer only August heat, difficult food and calamine lotion for mosquito bites.
(10) A 1% minoxidil lotion was used to treat 670 male patients affected by androgenetic alopecia.
(11) The authors draw attention to the epidemiological association with the eye lotion BSS which was used from which Proteus mirabilis and E. coli were cultivated and with the Ringer solution from which Enterobacter cloaceae and Klebsiella pneumoniae were cultivated.
(12) A clinical trial of the pyrethroid permethrin in 1% lotion was performed on 20 children.
(13) and none of the body lotions were contaminated to that extent.
(14) A selective bactericide for gram-positive bacteria, which is a lotion containing deoxycholic acid, was applied to the feet of the 17 volunteers.
(15) Groups of 38 BALB:c female mice or 16 Skh:2 hairless pigmented mice were treated with 1) lotion vehicle, 2) 0.02% L-selenomethionine (SeMet) lotion, or 3) vehicle and 1.5 ppm SeMet in the drinking water.
(16) The range includes products such as lip gloss (in claret red, precious gold and velvet mauve), bath crystals and body lotions.
(17) By using this method, typical UV absorbers in several commercial cosmetic products such as lip creams, sun oils, lotions and emulsions were able to be rapidly determined without any interference.
(18) Furthermore, the hair can be modified both externally and internally through the use of hair dyes, permanent waving lotions, and hair straighteners.
(19) During recent years, 48 patients with therapy-resistant chronic skin lesions of atopic dermatitis have been treated once a week with clobetasol propionate lotion left under Duoderm occlusive patches.
(20) On May Day last year millions of Britons were rubbing on sun lotion and firing up their barbecues.
Ointment
Definition:
(n.) That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Withdrawal of the drug and application of all-trans retinoic acid ointment resulted in resolving of the keratinisation.
(2) The activity was similar to that of 0.1% phenylbutazone ointment.
(3) The blanching activities and hence bioavailabilities of the cream, ointment and fatty ointment preparations of Nerisone and Temetex (diflucortolone valerate 0.1%) were evaluated using an occluded and unoccluded blanching assay.
(4) A 66-year-old female developed increasing eczematous reactions after treatment of her leg ulcer with a corticoid ointment.
(5) The object was to study the influence of concentration, contact time, psoriasis type, self-treatment at home, frequency of application, ointment base, and the admixture of corticosteroids on the efficacy of "minutes therapy."
(6) Treatments for jock itch include anti-fungal ointments and lotions, or anti-fungal pills for severe cases.
(7) For comparison, the same characteristics of currently used 20% water-soap benzylbenzoate emulsion and of the new ointment base, SAKAP (acryl copolymer), have been examined.
(8) To demonstrate the effect of topical vitamin A ointment upon the healing of corneoscleral incisions, rabbits were incised bilaterally.
(9) 10 coumarins used in perfumery, cosmetics and ointments, have been investigated by 2 different methods to determine their sensitizing capacity.
(10) The addition of MBS to povidone-iodine cream did not produce as significant an improvement in results as its addition to povidone-iodine ointment.
(11) Allergic contact dermatitis to nitrofurazone has been reported from Europe and elsewhere from the use of eyedrops and topical ointments, and the drug in some livestock feeds and veterinary medications has caused a few cases of allergic contact dermatitis in humans.
(12) Two additional plaques were evaluated in each patient; one was left untreated, and another was treated topically with either placebo ointment or betamethasone ointment.
(13) Sorbitan monooleate had no enhancer effect for the IND-Ca gel ointment, while the addition of calcium thioglycolate dramatically decreased the absorption of IND-Ca due to powdering of the ointment.
(14) These ointments, which are marketed as nonsterile products, are similar to those used for hemostatic packing in otolaryngologic surgery.
(15) Only 4% of the patients rated the tolerance of the ointment or cream as moderate or bad.
(16) The increase of d-limonene concentration in the gel ointments was directly proportional to the accumulation of ethanol in the skin.
(17) Sodium salicylate had a marked effect on the release of benzocaine, depending upon the the type of vehicle, with the largest increase observed for the water-miscible base, polyethylene glycol (macrogol ointment BPC).
(18) Thirty-five patients presenting with phthiriasis palpebrarum were all treated with a regimen of 1% yellow oxide of mercury ointment four times daily for 14 days.
(19) A double-blind randomized study to compare the plasma cortisol values at both 9.00 a.m. and 12 midnight following topical application fo 10 g daily for 7 days of either diflucortolone valerate 0.3% (Nerisone Forte) ointment or clobetasol propionate 0.05% (Dermovate) ointment in 20 hospital inpatients suffering from severe psoriasis, showed that clinically both compounds behaved as potent, highly active topical preparations and caused rapid clinical improvement.
(20) Compared to the ointment base, the steroid-treated area was significantly hypoxic up to 13 h after application.