(superl.) Diseased with the scab, or mange; mangy.
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.
Scald
Definition:
(v. t.) To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
(v. t.) To expose to a boiling or violent heat over a fire, or in hot water or other liquor; as, to scald milk or meat.
(n.) A burn, or injury to the skin or flesh, by some hot liquid, or by steam.
(a.) Affected with the scab; scabby.
(a.) Scurvy; paltry; as, scald rhymers.
(n.) Scurf on the head. See Scall.
(n.) One of the ancient Scandinavian poets and historiographers; a reciter and singer of heroic poems, eulogies, etc., among the Norsemen; more rarely, a bard of any of the ancient Teutonic tribes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A homosexual man developed staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome associated with a Staphylococcus aureus septicemia.
(2) This explains why the most frequent localizations of scalding were the face, head, neck, trunk and upper limbs.
(3) After the scald injuries (10-second, full-thickness burns) were induced, a reduction in phagocytic activity by the spleen took place with an accompanying increase in the uptake of colloid material by the lungs.
(4) These findings suggest that cimetidine suppresses scald injury on the peritoneo-serosal surface by competitive inhibition with histamine.
(5) These data indicate that the nursery outbreak was caused by phage group I staphylococci rather than group II organisms previously associated with staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome.
(6) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
(7) This compound possesses marked effects on prevention of adjuvant arthritis, cotton-pellet granuloma formation and hyperalgesic edema (scalding) and the extent is similar to that observed with indomethacin and piroxicam.
(8) Ten mice subjected to a 25% scald were compared with ten anesthetized littermates (controls) and six untreated mice (normal mice) 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 21 days after burn.
(9) Thirty-seven of the children in this group suffered from scalds and six from flame burns.
(10) Contrary to the clinical catabolic situation in scalded and starved rats, it was not intracellular glutamine but glycine which was considerably influenced by catabolism and starvation.
(11) The object of this work is briefly to draw attention to a new type of accident as the cause of scalding in children.
(12) Rokitamycin (RKM) dry syrup, a newly developed macrolide antibiotic, was administered to children with ages between 6 months and 15 years and 10 months suffering from skin and soft tissue infections including 41 cases of impetigo, one case of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome (SSSS) and 2 cases of subcutaneous abscess totalling 44 cases.
(13) The major cause of pediatric burns was scalding, 236 (82.8%).
(14) Poisoning and scalds showed a remarkable age dependence with 81% of children admitted for poisoning or suspected poisoning being in the 1-3 year age group, and 63% admitted for scalds under the age of two.
(15) Scalded rats fed isonitrogenously, but with different amounts of glucose showed only minor changes in AA concentrations.
(16) The absorption of mercury was investigated after three phase crusting by Grob on a second-degree scald burn of 10 to 15% of the body surface in rats.
(17) Staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome, an exfoliative dermopathy, affects neonatal and infant children.
(18) A single hindlimb scald in the rat was produced, and 3 days later soleus muscles were incubated in vitro with and without insulin.
(19) The localized form of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, bullous impetigo, occurs commonly in children but rarely in adults.
(20) A modified Walker burn model was used to inflict 50% total body surface area scald burns on the rats.