What's the difference between rash and silk?

Rash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pull off or pluck violently.
  • (v. t.) To slash; to hack; to cut; to slice.
  • (n.) A fine eruption or efflorescence on the body, with little or no elevation.
  • (n.) An inferior kind of silk, or mixture of silk and worsted.
  • (superl.) Sudden in action; quick; hasty.
  • (superl.) Requiring sudden action; pressing; urgent.
  • (superl.) Esp., overhasty in counsel or action; precipitate; resolving or entering on a project or measure without due deliberation and caution; opposed to prudent; said of persons; as, a rash statesman or commander.
  • (superl.) Uttered or undertaken with too much haste or too little reflection; as, rash words; rash measures.
  • (superl.) So dry as to fall out of the ear with handling, as corn.
  • (v. t.) To prepare with haste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (2) Two young patients presented with generalised lymphadenopathy, otorrhoea, otitis, and rash.
  • (3) --The frequency of common clinical manifestations (eg, headache, fever, and rash) and laboratory findings (eg, leukocyte and platelet counts and serum chemistry abnormalities) of patients with infectious diseases was tabulated.
  • (4) The cause of death was thought to be postoperative Graft Versus Host Disease with skin rash and pancytopenia.
  • (5) Adverse reactions associated with ticlopidine included neutropenia (severe in one patient) with no clinical complications, diarrhea, or rash.
  • (6) The presence of an erythematous skin rash and hemorrhagic complications in acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) suggest that the vasculature may be involved in the immunopathologic process.
  • (7) Hypersensitivity reactions, most commonly skin rashes or pruritus, affect about 1% of patients.
  • (8) The adverse effects were negligible--one patient had light urticarial rash and pruritus.
  • (9) In vitro invasion and in vivo metastasis assays were performed with a panel of MCF-7 cells transfected with isogenic constructs of mutated rasH genes.
  • (10) We describe a man who presented with Reiter's syndrome and a new prominent malar rash.
  • (11) A 71-year-old female showed a rash over the S2-4 dermatomes on the right side.
  • (12) Somebody rashly asked if he listened to the recently reprieved 6 Music – no – or even Radio 1, which he only caught, he said, when turning the dial between Radios 3 and 4.
  • (13) These indicators included temperature elevation, inability to be consoled, level of alertness, nuchal rigidity, bulging fontanel, decreased appetite, rash, referral, and febrile seizures.
  • (14) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.
  • (15) The protective effects of FK565 against systemic infections with herpes simplex virus (HSV) and murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), respiratory tract infection with influenza virus and zosteriform rash with HSV investigated in mice.
  • (16) These included petechial rash, hypertrichosis, acute renal failure, fluid retention and cardiac failure.
  • (17) These results suggest a frequent infection with HHV-6 only a few weeks after BMT and a close association between the infection with the virus and the development of skin rashes.
  • (18) Of these five, one came from a 'normal' control who had a positive anti-nuclear antibody (ANA), facial rash and diabetes, two were from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and two were from patients with mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD).
  • (19) The drug was withdrawn in 6 patients--lack of response in one, thrombocytopenia in one, urticaria in one, rash in one, and granulocytopenia in 2.
  • (20) Supplementation with zinc sulfate 220 mg per day via nasogastric tube resulted in disappearance of the rash with return of serum zinc to normal levels.

Silk


Definition:

  • (n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.
  • (n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.
  • (n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To ascertain whether azo dyes are associated with risk of development of bladder tumors in workers who handpaint Yuzen-type silk kimonos in Kyoto, we investigated the disintegration of dyes to benzidine.
  • (2) Serial keratometry readings were obtained pre- and postoperative cataract extraction utilizing all silk closure.
  • (3) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
  • (4) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
  • (5) The polylactic-polyglycolic acid suture is braided and dyed, and has handling characteristics similar to those of black silk.
  • (6) The radioallergosorbent inhibition test, however, suggested that there may be no cross-reactivity or, if any, only very low cross-reactivity between midge allergens and mite, house dust (HD), silk, shrimp, or mosquito allergens.
  • (7) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
  • (8) A clinical survey in two silk filatures revealed that 36.2% of the persons engaged in the processing of natural silk were suffering from bronchial asthma, while 16.9% of the total subjects had asthma of occupational origin.
  • (9) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
  • (10) Silk Road is just one website; bitcoin is potentially the foundation for a whole new economic order.
  • (11) The presence of specific antibodies against extracts of silk has been shown by the direct RAST and confirmed by the indirect RAST.
  • (12) The skin stapler produced less inflammation and a better aesthetic result over time than the silk stitches.
  • (13) Transcription of the Bombyx mori fibroin gene in a posterior silk gland extract can be separated into three functional steps on the basis of sensitivity to Sarkosyl: 1) formation of an initiation complex, which is blocked by 0.025% Sarkosyl; 2) conversion of the initiation complex to an elongation complex, a step sensitive to 0.05% Sarkosyl; 3) the subsequent elongation of RNA chain which occurs in the presence of 0.05% Sarkosyl.
  • (14) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
  • (15) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
  • (16) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
  • (17) The abdominal safety line, which is a size 1 silk passed through the eyes of the urethral splint (Foley catheter) and rolled up on gauze with some tension on the anterior abdominal wall has been used in three cases.
  • (18) Pretreatment which gave higher grafting onto silk did not always promote the bond strength to the dentin pretreated by the same pretreatments.
  • (19) Six monkeys had significant drops in alveolar bone mass 14 days after the the application of a silk ligature around the gingival margin of an adjacent tooth.
  • (20) Silk ligatures were tied around selected posterior teeth and replaced weekly for 4 weeks.