(n.) The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
(n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
(n.) Same as Nicking.
(n.) A sensation of being pricked.
(n.) The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
(n.) Dressing one's self for show; prinking.
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.
Relocation
Definition:
(n.) A second location.
(n.) Renewal of a lease.
Example Sentences:
(1) In these three patients, laxity of the knee in flexion was so severe that posterior instability could not be corrected merely by patellar relocation.
(2) Nursing homes are important alternatives to large hospitals when psychiatrically ill patients are relocated in the community, but their suitability for this type of patient is being questioned.
(3) However, BBC director general Mark Thompson said recently that the row over senior executives not relocating to the corporation's new headquarters in Salford would become a "non-issue" once the move is completed.
(4) But when refugees are relocated to the US, it’s for good.
(5) Getting them to safety is now vital.” While the EU’s hotspots approach improved the fingerprinting and security vetting of migrants, the auditors said that funding and relocation “bottlenecks” had extended the detention of migrants, with disastrous consequences for children.
(6) Relocation to a nursing home can be stressful and may result in mental and physical illness.
(7) Relocation of this segment, in effect, opens the D-glucose channel; maltose and cytochalasin B would thus inhibit transport by mechanisms which block this positional change.
(8) Among Hereford bulls, body weights were similar (P greater than .10) in all control and relocated bulls by the end of the study, except that MH bulls moved to TX had lower body weights (P less than .01).
(9) But the Afghan redundancy programme offered the chance to relocate to Britain only to interpreters who were still serving British forces in Helmand province in December 2012 and were employed for more than 12 months.
(10) In recent days, potential officials with the incoming administration have repeatedly made clear Trump’s desire to relocate the embassy early in his presidency.
(11) The relocalization is virtually complete at 0.1 microM lead and by 30 min of exposure.
(12) Instead of ordering deportation of the three absent juveniles, Judge A Ashley Tabaddor agreed with their attorney, Miguel Mexicano, an Esperanza staffer, that the cases should be rescheduled and relocated.
(13) May denied that a refusal to take part in the EU relocation programme did not mean Britain was not helping other European countries.
(14) On 2 October, Hungary is due to hold a controversial referendum on the relocation plan, which involves sending 1,294 asylum seekers to Hungary.
(15) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
(16) The acetabulum must be totally reconstructed and relocated as near as possible to its original orientation.
(17) She went on to deliver a stark warning that leaving the single market would deter international investors from Britain and lead major companies to question whether they should relocate to mainland Europe.
(18) The Fujia Petrochemical PX plant in Dalian was shut down after more than 10,000 people took to the streets on 14 August 2011 to demand its relocation on public safety grounds.
(19) The 2012 deployment of MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft on the island , and the relocation of a military base have added to popular resentment towards Tokyo.
(20) Astra, second only in size in Britain to GlaxoSmithKline, has been cutting costs, with plans unveiled last year for all research and development at its Alderley Park base to cease by 2016 with the loss or relocation of more than 2,000 jobs.