(n.) An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.
(n.) The itch in man; also, the scurvy.
(n.) The mange, esp. when it appears on sheep.
(n.) A disease of potatoes producing pits in their surface, caused by a minute fungus (Tiburcinia Scabies).
(n.) A slight irregular protuberance which defaces the surface of a casting, caused by the breaking away of a part of the mold.
(n.) A mean, dirty, paltry fellow.
(n.) A nickname for a workman who engages for lower wages than are fixed by the trades unions; also, for one who takes the place of a workman on a strike.
(v. i.) To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this patient's farm, the disease was present for the first time and affected only 2-month old lambs in the form of numerous papulo-pustules located on the lips and later covered by hard and thick scabs.
(2) The effect of an experimental polyetherurethane (PEU) wound covering with a high vapor permeability was compared with an occlusive wound covering (OpSite covering) and air exposure with respect to the rate of reepithelialization, eventual epidermal thickness, and scab thickness in 122 partial-thickness wounds in guinea pigs.
(3) We cannot rule out, however, that the recombinant human growth hormone affected the quality of the scab in full-thickness wounds and thereby only appeared to alter the wound-healing process.
(4) One protein (SCAB 3), released on demineralization of bone with 0.5 M EDTA, appears to represent the alpha 1 pN-propeptide that is normally released during proteolytic processing of type I procollagen.
(5) Treatment-related changes in the skin indicative of irritation (scaling, scabbing, hyperkeratosis, hyperplasia) were found in all 2-EHA-treated groups.
(6) Scabs which had been placed in a disinfecting apparatus (Vacudes 4000) filled with mattrasses consistently proved to be free of infectious vaccinia viruses in each of the chosen programs.
(7) The concepts of "artificial digestion" and "artificial scab" are introduced.
(8) As sheep scab is a notifiable disease in South Africa, it was not possible to include an untreated control group.
(9) The end of new lesion formation, scabbing, and the healing of lesions were all superior in patients treated with 10(5) U to those treated with 10(7) U interferon.
(10) The time to last vesicle formation, time to total scabbing, and time to total healing were measured until complete resolution of the exanthem.
(11) Scabs are suspended in buffer solution and an enriched core suspension is obtained after treatment with detergent, quelants and centrifugation.
(12) Histopathologically, necrosis, scabbing, cell infiltration and thickening of the epidermis were noted at the site of application in the 4.0% BCA group.
(13) Surveys of vertical frozen skin sections from lesions of sheep inoculated with Psoroptes ovis revealed new aspects of scab histopathology, particularly lipid layers adherent to epidermis forming beneath dermal vesicles.
(14) It is necessary to distinguish by differential diagnostics: swine pox, parakeratosis of swine, lesions of impetigo contagiosa suum, pustular dermatitis and scab of swine, from rarely occurring skin diseases of swine hypotrichosis cystica suis and demodicosis of swine.
(15) Consequently, their medial edges did not fuse but rather underwent embryonic would healing with re-epithelialisation (which often formed needle track invaginations), but no signs of inflammation or scar or scab tissue formation.
(16) It could be confirmed that the usual terminal disinfection with formaldehyde vapor was unable to completely disinfect the scabs.
(17) By day 7 collagenase concentrations approached the low concentrations of normal skin when epithelialization was complete and the scab rejected.
(18) alopecia, necrosis of the ear and scab formation, were completely inhibited by 1,25-D3 therapy.
(19) I don't know what else she'd already had done by 2007, but I can see incisions in the creases where her ears and cheeks meet that look so fresh, they still have tiny lines of scab.
(20) It became really like a scab he could pick when the economy cratered in the mid-1980s and a lot of people fell out of work,” Powell continued.
Scabbiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being scabby.
Example Sentences:
(1) HM-8 from a scabby wheat kernel sample from England produced a novel toxin when grown in culture on rice.
(2) An experiment, involving 1200 broiler chickens, was conducted to evaluate the effects of stocking density (providing either 840, 720, 585, or 454 cm2 of floor space per bird) on the incidence of scabby hip syndrome at slaughter (42 days).
(3) The problems of combat measures against contagious ecthyma (scabby mouth) of sheep and the human Orf-virus infections are discussed.
(4) Scabby lesions of 40 (77%) out of a total of 52 cases were positive for the virions, while sera of all infected animals which reacted positively for pox viral antibodies (LSD) was significantly higher (P less than 0.001) in comparison to those of healthy-appearing animals.
(5) Turner gets older and even crankier; his paintings become more proto-impressionistic; his relationships with various women and incidental men rumble on; poor old Hannah Danby gets increasingly marginalised and scabby (she suffered from a disfiguring skin disease).
(6) Gentle scratching twice a week resulted in skin lesions that could not be distinguished from clinical scabby hips at slaughter.
(7) Clipping of the claws at day 25 could almost completely prevent scabby hips at day 45 when the birds were slaughtered.
(8) The investigation also showed that there existed close relationship between the level of T-2 toxin contamination and the epidemic of wheat scabby.
(9) Clinical signs exhibited were listlessness, scabby lesions on skin near the foot pads, mild alopecia and a reduction in body-weight gain.
(10) These results demonstrate that a cell culture produced scabby mouth vaccine is feasible.
(11) A study was made of deoxynivalenol (DON) incidences and levels in 1982 hard red winter (HRW) wheat grown in areas of Nebraska and Kansas known to have scabby wheat.
(12) Decrease in stocking density and an increase in feeding space resulted in a reduction of skin lesions at day 25 and resultant scabby hips after slaughter.
(13) The aetiology of scabby hips was studied in broilers by scratching the skin with chicken claws, clipping the birds' claws and varying the effects of stocking density and food trough allocation.
(14) Broilers from commercial flocks experiencing a 10-60% incidence of scabby-hip lesions at processing were examined, and selected skin lesions were cultured.
(15) Affected goats had a scabby or ulcerated prepuce, with a distorted or pinhole preputial orifice.
(16) She grew up a scabby-kneed mill-worker’s daughter in the foothills of the Appalachians, wearing dresses that her mother made from the free lengths of cotton that lined flour and feed sacks.
(17) Orf virus, derived from contagious pustular dermatitis (scabby mouth) lesions in sheep, was adapted to cell culture and subsequently evaluated as a potential vaccine for sheep.
(18) Corn cultures (five isolates each of Fusarium graminearum Group 1 from wheat crowns, Group 2 from scabby wheat grains and from ear rot of corn and five isolates of F. crookwellense) were screened for their ability to produce deoxynivalenol (DON), nivalenol (NIV), fusarenon-x (FUS-X) and zearalenone (ZEA).
(19) No positive correlation was found between feather condition and the severity of scabby hips at slaughter at day 45.
(20) The incidence of scabby hip syndrome was higher at the higher stocking density.