(n.) A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.
(n.) A handkerchief.
Example Sentences:
(1) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
(2) The case of a young suckling is reported in whom widespread candidosis of the napkin area was followed by the clinical signs of both erythema multiforme and dermatitis seborrhoides infantum.
(3) I imagine that those who think protesting during the National Anthem is un-American think that the Boston Tea Party was a literal tea party with tiny cakes and monogrammed napkins.
(4) The effect of tampon usage on the vaginal microflora of 35 healthy women was determined following their random allocation to either tampon or napkin use for three consecutive menstrual cycles.
(5) Eczema and wheezing occurred to a similar extent in the two groups during the first year of life, although napkin rash, diarrhoea, and oral thrush were commoner in the intervention group, especially during the first three months.
(6) The so-called "napkin psoriasis" is the usual early expression of the disease in infants.
(7) The efficiency of napkin and protection shield is limited.
(8) As we puff our napkins I ask him what effect she had on other diners when she ate here.
(9) She reaches for a green paper napkin on the table in front of us and I realise that she is crying.
(10) There they will be, shivering on the windy platforms of Leuchars-for-St-Andrews, standing forlornly below the train indicator at Euston, holding paper napkins filled with dripping pizzas in Leeds.
(11) Dusting powders are also used on contraceptive diaphragms, sanitary napkins and in toiletries.
(12) Camilla, meanwhile, went for a spiky number that looked a little like a napkin folded into a swan.
(13) Overall, 49% of cases and 39% of controls reported exposure to talc, via direct application to the perineum or to undergarments, sanitary napkins, or diaphragms, which yielded a 1.5 odds ratio (OR) for ovarian cancer (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.0-2.1).
(14) That curve was famously scribbled by Laffer on a napkin over cocktails with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in 1974, and helped underpin Reagan’s so-called trickle-down economics – as well as launching Laffer’s career as one of the most influential economists in Republican circles.
(15) An open, non-comparative, multi-centre study was carried out in general practice to assess the effectiveness, acceptability and tolerability of a 1% clotrimazole plus 1% hydrocortisone cream in the treatment of 112 infants with napkin dermatitis.
(16) Twenty-five infants and children with Candida infections in the perianal, genital and inguinal areas and on the skin normally covered by the napkin or diaper, confirmed by culture tests and microscopy, were treated with a new combined foam preparation containing the active substances nystatin, chlorhexidine and prednisolone.
(17) Contented, I sat for quite a while mapping my talk on paper napkins, and then strolled the small park with the city’s oldest water tower rising from its centre.
(18) Candida albicans has been recovered from the skin of 33 infants out of 53 patients affected with all types of napkin eruption (62 p. 100) and from faecal specimens of 43 patients (81 p. 100).
(19) Photograph: Hayes Davidson The scheme replaces a project known as the Pinnacle , a tower designed by American firm KPF in the form of a rolled-up napkin, which would have spiralled up to a slender point in the City’s planned “cluster”.
(20) Three groups of two subjects each were instructed in three feeding skills: chewing with mouth closed, appropriate utensil use, and appropriate napkin use.
Nappy
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to sleep; sleepy; as, to feel nappy.
(a.) Tending to cause sleepiness; serving to make sleepy; strong; heady; as, nappy ale.
(a.) Having a nap or pile; downy; shaggy.
(n.) A round earthen dish, with a flat bottom and sloping sides.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obama was still in a nappy during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when his predecessor John F Kennedy faced down the Soviet Union’s efforts to site atomic weapons on the island that is just a few dozen miles from Florida.
(2) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
(3) The three young men were trying to get to grips with a troubling scene in which they lark about with a baby in its pram, poking it, pulling off its nappy, goading each other until they stone it to death.
(4) Sales of Mamia nappies have risen 1,000% in the past four years as the company deliberately targeted new parents.
(5) There are thousands of children every year who grow up in homes where nappies - and bedclothes - go unchanged... ...and where their cries of pain go unheard.
(6) Wet nappies at night could cause infants at risk to die.
(7) As friends start preparing for baby number two, I remember the sleepless nights, the toxic nappies and the projectile vomiting phase, and I'm fairly sure we've made the right decision.
(8) "We use the money for things like nappies and milk.
(9) • Wipes, nappies, sanitary towels, rags and condoms do not break down easily and can snag on pipes, drains and the walls of sewers, leading to blockages.
(10) An unselected, mycologically-controlled trial was conducted at the University Children's Hospital of Graz on the treatment of nappy rash by the topical application of Canesten (clotrimazole), a broad-spectrum mycotic in the form of a 1% cream.
(11) Bushy” is the word used most; “nappy” and “kinky” are harsher, coarser words.
(12) A rangy former quarterback with a big, toothy grin, he was raised in the low-income housing projects in Brooklyn – "a tough place" – with his father, a proud but poorly educated man, floating from job to job; one of the worst was delivering and picking up used nappies.
(13) Red and white cell numbers were reduced on light microscopy of specimens obtained from nappies, but bacterial counts were unchanged.
(14) On Tuesday Asda said it would plough £300m into lowering the price of 2,500 essentials including fruit and vegetables, cereal, nappies, milk, meat, eggs and fish in the first three months of 2015.
(15) You're doing all the right things: not telling him off if he wets the bed, putting him in a night nappy etc.
(16) Yes, I admit that in those first few weeks it was a struggle to remember to pick up the nappies and cotton wool I'd paid for, let alone the receipt.
(17) Adult incontinence pads outsold baby nappies for the first time in 2012.
(18) Families spoke out about needing the extra room for medical equipment; box rooms lined with adult nappies and oxygen cylinders that rich men in power called a luxury.
(19) And I've taken pleasure in consulting women half my age about whether I should opt for an Ergo carrier or a Baby Bjorn , whether my feet will ever shrink back to their pre-pregnancy size and whether we really need a nappy bin?
(20) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.