What's the difference between scabies and scabious?
Scabies
Definition:
(n.) The itch.
Example Sentences:
(1) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
(2) Norwegian scabies is an unusual Sarcoptes scabiei infestation.
(3) We report the occurence of Norwegian scabies in a 13-year-old boy with Bloom's syndrome who had impaired humoral and cell-mediated immunity.
(4) Meanwhile the adoptive mother had contracted scabies.
(5) The effect of three nematicides, aldicarb, fensulfothion, and phenamiphos at four concentrations (1, 5, 25, and 125 ppm) was tested on the growth of five bacteria, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Corynebacterium fascians, Erwinia carotovora, Pseudomonas solanacearum, and Streptomyces scabies and four fungi, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp.
(6) Gonorrhoea was found in association with scabies in 9 out of 18 men and in 3 out of 5 women.
(7) Cases 1 and 3 had extensive scabies, which in Case 1 was of the Norwegian type.
(8) Shigellosis, salmonellosis, pediculosis, scabies and campylobacter infections are seen in male homosexuals because of orofecal contacts.
(9) Scabies is endemic in Africa where living conditions make synchronous treatment of every member of the large extended family impossible.
(10) An erythemato-squamous, papulo-crustous, non-itching dermatosis of 4 months duration was finally diagnosed as Norwegian scabies in the immunosuppressed.
(11) Two applications of 1% lindane 1 week apart was the only treatment used without attending to hygiene for scabies and pediculosis.
(12) Scabies is more common than usually thought and often difficult to recognize when the general standard of hygiene is high.
(13) At 10-15 degrees C, females and nymphs survived 1-3 weeks at 97% r.h., 1-2 weeks at 75% r.h. and 5-8 days at 45% r.h. At 20-25 degrees C, survival was significantly reduced but all life-stages survived at least 2 days at 25% r.h. and 5-6 days at 75-100% r.h. Long survival off the host coupled with host-seeking behavior of these mites make it likely that environmental contamination is a source of scabies in domestic and wild mammals, and in humans.
(14) Scabies continues to be an important parasitic disease of humans, and other mammals.
(15) We believe that this highly atypical presenation, which had several features found in Norwegian scabies, was due to muted inflammatory response that permitted a great proliferation of the mites.
(16) This study determined the prevalence of Sarcoptes scabiei in the home environment of 37 confirmed cases of scabies and in five nursing homes with scabietic patients.
(17) The scabies epidemy being observed since 1965, had developed from persistent endemic centres and pursues continuous the cyclic course of the scabies humanis in periods of 15 to 20 years.
(18) Three elk with severe scabies had an estimated 0.6 x 10(6), 3.8 x 10(6) and 6.5 x 10(6) mites, respectively.
(19) In the Ayurvedha and Sidha system of medicine (Indian system of medicine) Azadirachta indica ADR ('Neem') and Curcuma longa ('Turmeric') has been used for healing chronic ulcers and scabies.
(20) The diagnosis and management of outbreaks of scabies in health care facilities may be difficult.
Scabious
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions.
(a.) Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cutaneous lymphoplasia in persistent scabious nodules is possibly an indirect evidence of the importance of immunological factors in scabies.
(2) Six patients with pseudolymphomatous scabious nodules were found in the literature and of these only one had evidence of lymphoid follicle formation with germinal centres.
(3) Short lived and persistent scabious nodules are discussed and diagnosis with lymphomatous nodules, dermatofibroma and urticaria pigmentosa considered.
(4) Two patients with one year duration post-scabious nodules are reported.
(5) The number of irritations and post-scabious eczematous reactions was increased after benzyl benzoate treatment.
(6) An abundance of marsh fritillary butterfly caterpillars on downs in Dorset and Wiltshire; in some places they got through all of their food-plant leaves (devil's-bit scabious).
(7) Two patients (5%) required intralesional injections of triamcinolone diacetate because of persistent scabious nodules.
(8) The paper concerns morphological adaptations, embryonal and postembryonal development, life cycle pattern, scabious passage as a reproductive formation, invasive stages, feeding, reproduction and topical relationships with the host, distribution and survival in the environment.
(9) As Ian prepares for the half-mile-long return journey, he points a fistful of oily cotton waste towards the purple thistle-like flowerheads of knapweed, the pink, white and blue pincushion-shaped flowers of scabious, and the vivid blue of cornflower.