(a.) To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.
(v. i.) To grow or become red; to blush.
Example Sentences:
(1) Endoscopy shows a wide range of alterations, "unspecific colitis" with reddening or edema, ulcerations or at the worst pseudomembranous colitis.
(2) Patients with fever, polymorphous skin eruption, congested conjunctiva, reddened palms and soles, red lips and oral mucous membrane, and soft-tissue swelling of the peripheral extremities and who experience membranous desquamation of fingers and toes should be suspected of having mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome.
(3) In three patients painful reddening of a well-circumscribed area of the skin occurred within five days of starting anticoagulant treatment with phenprocoumon (Marcumar), and within a short time it developed into a full-blown picture of coumarin necrosis.
(4) As babies approached the point of sweating, spontaneous activity usually ceased, the skin reddened, and a sunbathing posture was adopted.
(5) Congestion and vivid reddening of the caecum and marked serosal and submucosal oedema are present.
(6) Six hundred cases of febrile disease with damage to Yin and reddened tongue syndrome and hypokalemia.
(7) The usual responses of skin to TPA promotion, including an increase in dark cells, epidermal thickening, reddening and erosion were all suppressed in animals treated with hyperthermia near the time of TPA application.
(8) All the patients treated had reddening of the skin, but this was reversible after the end of therapy, as were the other side-effects, i.e.
(9) After nine minutes, Quigg had not landed a punch of significance, his reddening features telling a story of anxiety and frustration as his opponent moved him about the ring at will, making him miss and making him pay.
(10) Regarding local adverse reactions, MDP-virosome vaccinees frequently developed mild local pain, reddening and swelling, which disappeared within 5 days; as regards systemic no adverse reactions, leucocytosis developed among the MDP-virosome vaccines, but no other reactions were observed.
(11) The external and internal clinical signs were reddening of the anal area, swelling of the abdomen due to accumulation of ascitic fluid in the abdominal cavity and extensive swelling of the posterior kidney.
(12) Injection resulted in decreased body weight, moderate mortality, swollen and reddened livers and kidneys, pancreatitis, and disturbances of the nervous system.
(13) reddening or swelling along the peripheral venous access) resulted in a longer catheter duration and a less frequent need for an additional venous access in the silicone group.
(14) Where present, common necropsy findings included pulmonary congestion, oedema and consolidation, adrenal enlargement and reddening, haemorrhage and ulceration of stomach and small intestine, and lymphadenomegaly and splenomegaly.
(15) During the follow-up period, changes in endoscopic findings were observed more frequently, from the erosive type to the reddening type, and from the reddening type to normal.
(16) The bark polyphenols consist mainly of polymeric leuco-delphinidins and leuco-cyanidins which redden exceptionally rapidly to light.
(17) Details of fever and signs and symptoms of infection such as pain, sinus tenderness and reddening of the eardrum were recorded before and after treatment.
(18) Walls of the colon and rectum were thickened, and the mucosa was reddened and covered by an exudate that contained mucus and blood clots.
(19) This is a reflection of poor sun protection habits – people underestimate the damage that sunburn can do to their skin, and many think that skin reddening is just a harmless part of the tanning process, rather than a sure sign that you have damaged your skin irreparably.” The research, carried out last summer, surveyed 1,018 people and found 84% were worried about skin cancer in the UK climate.
(20) During the postoperative assessment, the perioperative nurse notices a reddened spot over the patient's sacral area.
Ruby
Definition:
(n.) A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
(n.) The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
(n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
(n.) See Agate, n., 2.
(n.) Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
(a.) Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
(v. t.) To make red; to redden.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
(2) 8.59pm BST Mary and Paul would have received death threats if Ruby had won, I think.
(3) Other lasers that are in clinical use, such as the red ruby and near-infrared Nd-YAG lasers, can provide selective treatment only when the epidermis is cooled concurrently.
(4) But Ruby Tweedie, another local resident, said: "There have been so many doubts about his guilt that it's only fair that the man, who has only a few months to live, should be shown mercy."
(5) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
(6) No recombinants were detected among 410 offspring produced from a backcross mating segregating for Ldh-1 and ru-2 (ruby-eye-2).
(7) NWR may be celebrating its ruby anniversary but will an organisation born to alleviate the lot of the housewife survive to drink to its golden when, politically and personally, she is apparently dead and buried?
(8) Ruby Tandoh faced online abuse during her appearances on The Great British Bake Off – and now the 21-year-old philosophy student has been set up for a fresh mauling by the Daily Mail .
(9) The argon laser and the ruby laser have been used to open the pigment layer in three cases of surgically incomplete peripheral iridectomy.
(10) 8.16pm BST Ruby's look so attractive but it's Mary who says this, not Paul.
(11) Louise Brock was keen for her daughter Ruby, who has Down's syndrome, to go to a mainstream school.
(12) Ruby confirmed several points: arthrosis is inevitable after a variable delay (10 years for the most optimistic).
(13) A 19-year-old man sustained a bilateral coagulation of the macula caused accidentally by a ruby laser rangefinder mounted on a tank.
(14) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
(15) Then the final thickness of the sections is exactly adjusted by screwing three rubies out of the holder's bottom.
(16) 8.57pm BST Ruby is in floods, Mel and Sue are administering hugs.
(17) Ruby-eye (ru) is an autosomal recessive in linkage group 2.
(18) The reason, according to former federal agents and experts on rightwing extremism, is a vivid institutional memory of the bloodshed that marked standoffs with radical rightwingers in Ruby Ridge , Idaho, in 1992 and at Waco , Texas, the following year.
(19) The intensity-dependent transmission of primary leaves of Triticum aestivum seedlings at lambda = 694 nm was measured with single pulses of a Q-switch ruby laser.
(20) Five genetically distinct mutants with increased bleeding times and abnormal dense granules were used: maroon (ru-2mr), light ear (le), ruby eye (ru), beige (bg1), and pale ear (ep).