(n.) The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fragments of lyophilized pigskin were used as 'germ carriers' and after 24 h of treatment the effectiveness of the antimicrobial creams was tested through the evaluation of bacterial recovery both from the surface and from within the 'germ carriers'.
(2) When using the pigskin model, however, care must be exercised to define the level of incisions and the location of flaps or grafts, with respect to the panniculus carnosus.
(3) Rabbits were selected randomly for the removal of the overlaid pigskin at days 7, 10 or 14 for the evaluation of the degree of epithelialization.
(4) Split-thickness pigskin graft (STPSG) was used to replace allograft skin for microskin grafting in 16 patients, nine of whom were burn patients, five suffered from traumatic defects and two from diabetic ulcers.
(5) These axial pattern flaps differed in their viability from similar flaps in humans, and anastomoses between discrete vascular territories were infrequent in pigskin.
(6) Main properties of fresh and three various kinds of preserved pigskin have been compared in our experiment.
(7) Forty burn patients were treated in last two years by the method of covering excised or tangentially excised wound with lyophilized glutaraldehyde pigskin, and then planned replacing by autograft skin according to patient's condition.
(8) We use pigskin as pattern, due to its similarity to human skin and a PUVA 200 Waldman as source of radiation.
(9) In areas where the overlaid pigskin was sloughing, the epithelialization of the underlying microskin grafts was not complete at the same time.
(10) Histological examination showed a cleaner separation of both rat skin and pigskin was obtained at 4 degrees C than at 37 degrees C. Large areas of skin (1600 mm2) could be separated easily as long as adequate amounts of solution were used.
(11) Experiments showed that as a local dressing for burns, non-laminated collagen sponge was significantly better than pigskin or xeroform.
(12) Tissue adherence values of preserved pigskin grafts were not lower or were a little lower than that of fresh pigskin graft at Phase I, and were higher or were a little higher at Phase II (no statistical difference respectively).
(13) In 129 of 140 attempts, human skin cells were successfully cultured on the dermal collagen bed of sterile, dead pigskin.
(14) Ease of availability, negligible cost and facilitated wound healing make this temporary biologic dressing generally superior to either cadaver skin allograft or pigskin xenograft.
(15) Histological examination of the removed pigskin 7 days after application showed obvious eosinophilic changes in the epidermal cells and pyknotic changes of the nuclei, however in some areas newly formed epidermis could be found.
(16) He was New York's seemingly unstoppable construction tsar, the man the press nicknamed "Big Bob the Builder", a master of backroom politics who was chauffeur-driven around the five boroughs in a black stretch limousine with pigskin seats.
(17) Results indicated that the rates of bacterial contamination of fresh pigskin sterilized by conventional method was 9.8%, while no positive culture had been found in preserved pig skins.
(18) Comparing with this value, permeability of radiated pigskin slightly decreased, permeability of glutaraldehyde treated pigskin (GAS) and chlorhexidine-alcohol refrigerated pigskin (ARS) significantly increased (P less than 0.001 respectively).
(19) James Jones jumps, and actually has his hands on the pigskin, but can't reel it in.
(20) The usefulness of in vivo-like culture system using a specialized collagen gel matrix (Spongostan) derived from pigskin was summarized.
Skin
Definition:
(n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
(n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
(n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
(n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
(n.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
(n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
(v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
(v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
(v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
(v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
(v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(3) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(4) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(5) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(6) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(7) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
(8) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(9) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(10) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(11) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(12) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
(13) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(14) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(15) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(16) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(17) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
(18) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(19) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(20) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.