What's the difference between mold and scab?

Mold


Definition:

  • (n.) A spot; a blemish; a mole.
  • (v.) Alt. of Mould
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Mould
  • (n.) Alt. of Mould
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Mould
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Mould
  • (n.) Alt. of Mould
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Mould

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
  • (2) Results showed no consistent difference in either the total viable fungal content or the number of different mold species encountered between the labeled and unlabeled foods.
  • (3) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
  • (4) The amoeba, however, could not use yeasts, molds, or a green alga as a nutritional source.
  • (5) The control flaps consisted of intact muscle without any evidence of tissue transformation, whereas the flaps treated with osteogenin and demineralized bone matrix were entirely transformed into cancellous bone that matched the exact shape of the mold.
  • (6) With the proper choice of packaging, molded nitroglycerin tablets stabilized with povidone maintained acceptable potency for up to 2 years at 26 degrees when strip packaged in unit doses.
  • (7) Reality television molded Trump into the ratings and polls-obsessed performer that we know today, and created a new generation of Americans ready to be entertained by him.
  • (8) The ear canal molds were analyzed in terms of tortuosity, caliber, and degree of funneling.
  • (9) The feeding test indicated a relatively low toxicity of molded bread.
  • (10) In all cases, an increase in mold population was concomitant with elevated carbon dioxide concentrations, which indicated the sensitivity of this parameter for measuring fungal activity.
  • (11) Electron microscopic evidence demonstrated that dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) induces formation of giant intranuclear microfilament bundles in the interphase nucleus of a cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium.
  • (12) These flaws were controlled by cooling the metal mold assembly and the cast immediately after the pouring of the molten cerrobend alloy, evenly with water.
  • (13) Several lines of experimental evidence suggest that an anterior-posterior gradient of cyclic AMP exists in migrating pseudoplasmodia of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and that this gradient may be responsible for control of the proportions of stalk and spore cells that form during culmination.
  • (14) The Werner syndrome should not, therefore, be forced into the mold of premature aging but should be studied on its own merits as a condition which may provide us with clues to the pathogenesis of many important problems.
  • (15) The nucleoproteins resulting from digestion of the nuclei of the true slime mold Pysarum polycephalum with micrococcal nuclease have been resolved according to the size classes in linear sucrose gradients containg 0.5 M NaCl, and analysed for DNA, RNA and protein content.
  • (16) A molded rubber sleeve connecting the prosthesis and the thigh was found to enhance this effect so that suction suspension occurred during the entire swing phase.
  • (17) The biological test systems utilized here include humans and other mammals, bacteria, Drosophila, yeasts, molds, and plants.
  • (18) Some responses of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum to ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation were investigated by analyzing two aspects of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) excision repair in the vegetative cells: (i) the fate of thymine-containing dimers and (ii) the production and rejoining of single-strand breaks.
  • (19) Structures resembling red blood cells have been seen in mummies, but have been considered by some to be artifacts or molds.
  • (20) The procedure involved the transfer of heavy mold-form inocula to flasks that contained small volumes of brain heart infusion broth.

Scab


Definition:

  • (n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
  • (n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
  • (n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
  • (n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
  • (n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
  • (n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
  • (n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.
  • (v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this patient's farm, the disease was present for the first time and affected only 2-month old lambs in the form of numerous papulo-pustules located on the lips and later covered by hard and thick scabs.
  • (2) The effect of an experimental polyetherurethane (PEU) wound covering with a high vapor permeability was compared with an occlusive wound covering (OpSite covering) and air exposure with respect to the rate of reepithelialization, eventual epidermal thickness, and scab thickness in 122 partial-thickness wounds in guinea pigs.
  • (3) We cannot rule out, however, that the recombinant human growth hormone affected the quality of the scab in full-thickness wounds and thereby only appeared to alter the wound-healing process.
  • (4) One protein (SCAB 3), released on demineralization of bone with 0.5 M EDTA, appears to represent the alpha 1 pN-propeptide that is normally released during proteolytic processing of type I procollagen.
  • (5) Treatment-related changes in the skin indicative of irritation (scaling, scabbing, hyperkeratosis, hyperplasia) were found in all 2-EHA-treated groups.
  • (6) Scabs which had been placed in a disinfecting apparatus (Vacudes 4000) filled with mattrasses consistently proved to be free of infectious vaccinia viruses in each of the chosen programs.
  • (7) The concepts of "artificial digestion" and "artificial scab" are introduced.
  • (8) As sheep scab is a notifiable disease in South Africa, it was not possible to include an untreated control group.
  • (9) The end of new lesion formation, scabbing, and the healing of lesions were all superior in patients treated with 10(5) U to those treated with 10(7) U interferon.
  • (10) The time to last vesicle formation, time to total scabbing, and time to total healing were measured until complete resolution of the exanthem.
  • (11) Scabs are suspended in buffer solution and an enriched core suspension is obtained after treatment with detergent, quelants and centrifugation.
  • (12) Histopathologically, necrosis, scabbing, cell infiltration and thickening of the epidermis were noted at the site of application in the 4.0% BCA group.
  • (13) Surveys of vertical frozen skin sections from lesions of sheep inoculated with Psoroptes ovis revealed new aspects of scab histopathology, particularly lipid layers adherent to epidermis forming beneath dermal vesicles.
  • (14) It is necessary to distinguish by differential diagnostics: swine pox, parakeratosis of swine, lesions of impetigo contagiosa suum, pustular dermatitis and scab of swine, from rarely occurring skin diseases of swine hypotrichosis cystica suis and demodicosis of swine.
  • (15) Consequently, their medial edges did not fuse but rather underwent embryonic would healing with re-epithelialisation (which often formed needle track invaginations), but no signs of inflammation or scar or scab tissue formation.
  • (16) It could be confirmed that the usual terminal disinfection with formaldehyde vapor was unable to completely disinfect the scabs.
  • (17) By day 7 collagenase concentrations approached the low concentrations of normal skin when epithelialization was complete and the scab rejected.
  • (18) alopecia, necrosis of the ear and scab formation, were completely inhibited by 1,25-D3 therapy.
  • (19) I don't know what else she'd already had done by 2007, but I can see incisions in the creases where her ears and cheeks meet that look so fresh, they still have tiny lines of scab.
  • (20) It became really like a scab he could pick when the economy cratered in the mid-1980s and a lot of people fell out of work,” Powell continued.

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