(v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
(v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.
(v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
(v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
(v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
(v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.
(v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.
(v.) The footprint of a hare.
(v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
(n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.
(n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.
(n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
(n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.
(n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
(n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
(n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.
(n.) To render acid or pungent.
(n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.
(n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.
(n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
(n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(n.) To nick.
(v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
(v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
(v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
(v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results have implications in utilizing codeine phosphate as a positive skin prick test control for allergy testing.
(2) The diagnosis of occupational allergy was based on history, skin prick tests and RAST to the pollen.
(3) Prick tests performed on 16 different condom brands showed that 4 brands caused positive reactions in 52-67% of patients.
(4) One hundred and forty-four had non-allergic and 69 allergic asthma verified retrospectively by positive skin prick test in 1988.
(5) The results of this investigation are clearly in contrast to earlier earlier reports, in that there was a very good correlation between prick test, RAST and case history.
(6) The prick tests, using both commercial allergens and specific extracts prepared from the most common types of coffee and their corresponding sacks, confirmed a sensitization in 21 workers (9.6%).
(7) There were statistically significant exposure-response relations between exposure and symptoms from eyes and upper airways, dry cough, positive skin prick test, and specific IgE and IgG antibodies.
(8) The effect of 4.4 mg azelastine administered orally on airway responsiveness, skin prick testing, daily peak expiratory flow rates and symptoms of asthma was compared with placebo in a 7 week double-blind, parallel group study of 24 patients with extrinsic asthma.
(9) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.
(10) Having said that, though, the man is clearly a bit of a prick and one with a serial addiction to publicity."
(11) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(12) In comparison with conventional allergen preparations immunologically characterized allergens were tested by skin-prick-tests for reactions.
(13) Exclusion of asthmatics and taking into account smoking and skin prick test positivity yielded mostly similar results.
(14) The results of the Phadezym-RAST and IgE-Quick correlated very well (r = 0.96) and both in-vitro methods corresponded to the Skin-Prick-Test (greater than 90%).
(15) Throughout history there have been periods of wild exuberance followed by the pricking of bubbles.
(16) By skin prick testing comparable results were obtained with both extracts.
(17) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
(18) In making a computerized cephalometric analysis, first the film should be traced, and the landmarks pricked and manually digitalized into an X-Y coordinate system.
(19) Sections of eggs, fixed 20 to 60 s following fertilization or pricking, show that the tubular cisternae have disappeared and the clusters of cisternae have opened to give rise to longer cisternae arranged in chains.
(20) Bronchial responsiveness to histamine and skin prick test reactions to airborne allergens were measured in a random population sample of 891 adults and 1293 schoolchildren.
Prod
Definition:
(n.) A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
(n.) A prick or stab which a pointed instrument.
(n.) A light kind of crossbow; -- in the sense, often spelled prodd.
(v. t.) To thrust some pointed instrument into; to prick with something sharp; as, to prod a soldier with a bayonet; to prod oxen; hence, to goad, to incite, to worry; as, to prod a student.
Example Sentences:
(1) Anatomists involved with studies of the hippocampal formation are being prodded by computational modelers and physiologists who demand detailed and quantitative information concerning hippocampal neurons and circuits.
(2) When exposed to the nonelectrified prod after 24 h, total burying time was reduced in the 2mA group but still significantly longer than in the 0mA group.
(3) New Jersey environmentalists credit Jackson with prodding Governor Jon Corzine to adopt environmentally friendly policies.
(4) Both in the presence and absence of bedding material, rats explored the nonelectrified prod and showed a small increase in plasma NA and CS contents.
(5) While the Nexus One's single-finger prodding works well enough, there's none of the pinching action to zoom into maps and photographs that makes the iPhone feel so advanced, nor its realistic-feel friction.
(6) Barratt, a housebuilder not always associated with design quality, has built the St Andrews and Barrier Park projects in east London, albeit only after prodding from the London Development Agency, the public body that sold it the land.
(7) Unfortunately for the assembled crowds, Ting kept his powder dry, despite much prodding and questioning, revealing nothing about the year's worth of data from AMS except to say that they would be "important" results and would be made public when he submitted them to a scientific journal within a few weeks.
(8) Lamine Koné pounced on a knockdown from Jan Kirchhoff in the penalty area, evaded a tackle and squared for the substitute to prod home from seven yards and prompt scenes of unbridled jubilation in the away end.
(9) Olsson, totally unmarked, had the simple task of prodding over the line.
(10) Stun guns, shock batons and cattle prods are electric shock devices which can be used as weapons against the human body.
(11) While the degree of anxiety is measured by burying behavior, elicited by the novelty of prod shock, immobility was the prevalent response of WKY rats.
(12) Cut through the fine print and this is the bottom line: p eople with children over the age of six will be prodded back into the workforce.
(13) In microsomal fractions, enzyme activities measured were pentoxyresorufin O-dealkylase (PROD), ethoxyresorufin O-dealkylase (EROD), and epoxide hydrolase (mEH).
(14) They don't even get to go home for a sleep because dough requires contant prodding, waiting, more prodding and worrying.
(15) The enriched Clara cell fraction possessed (per 10(6) cells) greater P-450 and reduced GSH contents and higher enzyme activities (i.e., NADPH- and NADH cytochrome c reductases, benzyloxy (BROD)-, pentoxy (PROD)- and etoxyresorufin (EROD)-O-dealkylases, GSH transferase, GSH peroxidase, GSH reductase and NADPH quinone oxidoreductase) than either the enriched type II cell or endothelial cell preparations.
(16) UN officials said in advance they hoped new commitments from the big industrialised states, such as Japan and China, would prod other countries into action so that they not be seen as the spoilers of a potential deal at Copenhagen.
(17) It will need lots of tweaking to avoid annoying people – it's already being prodded to see whether it takes more or fewer clicks to reach the phone-dialer (more), and whether you can still set wallpaper (no, but your friends do with their picture – you may need to prune your friends).
(18) The Arsenal defender was caught in possession on the edge of the box by the striker Haris Tabakovic and he crossed for Kamberi who could only prod wide.
(19) Superstars where they attended college, hopefuls suddenly find themselves in unusual situations – as lambs in the middle of an Indianapolis field, being poked, prodded, measured and assessed; then as masters and conquerors, listening to famous GMs and coaches playing salesmen and extolling the virtues of their organisation.
(20) Funding for Lending lets the banks borrow billions at just 0.25% interest to prod them to loosen the purse strings, especially for first-time buyers who face huge hurdles when finding loans.