(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.
Scalp
Definition:
(n.) A bed of oysters or mussels.
(n.) That part of the integument of the head which is usually covered with hair.
(n.) A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, cut or torn off from an enemy by the Indian warriors of North America, as a token of victory.
(n.) Fig.: The top; the summit.
(v. t.) To deprive of the scalp; to cut or tear the scalp from the head of.
(v. t.) To remove the skin of.
(v. t.) To brush the hairs or fuzz from, as wheat grains, in the process of high milling.
(v. i.) To make a small, quick profit by slight fluctuations of the market; -- said of brokers who operate in this way on their own account.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have not had another incidence of fetal scalp infection associated with intrapartum monitoring.
(2) It is often difficult to study the neurological and autonomic changes in the scalp in these patients.
(3) Tests included recording the scalp EEG, visual and auditory cerebral evoked-potentials, the CNV, cerebral slow potentials related to certainty of response correctness in auditory discrimination tasks, heart rate, respiration and the galvanic skin response.
(4) The possible use of impedance measurement with scalp electrodes to detect intracranial events non-invasively was investigated by measuring the localised impedance changes during cortical spreading depression (CSD) in anaesthetised rats.
(5) To identify the origin of scalp-recorded far-field negativity of short-latency somatosensory evoked potentials to median nerve stimulation (designated N18), direct records were made from the thalamus and ventricular system during 4 stereotaxic and 3 posterior fossa operations.
(6) Complications from tissue expansion of the scalp are similar to those encountered with the placement of expanders elsewhere in the body.
(7) Scalp EEGs correctly localized the side and region of seizure onset in only 1 patient.
(8) Selective angiography revealed a scalp AVM fed by bilateral superficial temporal and right occipital arteries.
(9) After the unsuccessful treatment with classical methods by skin grafting, a mixed myocutaneous Latissimus Dorsi and cutaneous parascapular flap allow the coverage of 25 centimetres of the scalp in his larger axis.
(10) To evaluate whether local anesthetic scalp infiltration blunts hemodynamic responses to craniotomy in anesthetized children (age, 2-18 yr), two concentrations of bupivacaine (0.125% and 0.25%) with vasoconstrictor (epinephrine 1:400,000) were compared with control data when a solution of vasoconstrictor alone was injected.
(11) This operation provides an important alternative to either standard or major scalp reductions.
(12) Monitoring evoked potentials from the brain for prolonged periods during neurosurgical procedures ideally requires attached scalp electrodes that may be placed in a sterile field.
(13) The effect of scalp hypothermia in connection with chemotherapy was evaluated as hair protection in 61 women with disseminated breast carcinoma, where earlier treatment routines had caused wig-requiring alopecia in nearly all patients.
(14) Here we give an example of its application to a comparison of curves, in this particular case average auditory evoked potentials, picked up at symmetrical points on the scalp.
(15) In a continuing study of the EEG as a monitor of cortical activity during anesthesia using a time-domain wave analyzer, the contamination of the EEG by scalp muscle activity was observed.
(16) Angiosarcomas of the skin develop almost exclusively in the following clinical settings: (1) the lymphedematous extremity, secondary to prior mastectomy in most instances; (2) the face and scalp, usually in elderly individuals; and (3) skin that has been previously radiated.
(17) These findings may require a rethinking of specific information processing interpretations of other endogenous ERPs, although the results also indicate that the 'oddball' effect on the P300 and CNV was distinctive in terms of scalp distributions and sensitivity to the manipulation.
(18) A left scalp skin flap (2.5 by 7 cm) based on the superficial temporal artery and vein was transferred to the bald area, with microvascular anastomosis to the superficial temporal vessels on the right side.
(19) Pattern 2, distant metastasis without scalp or regional lymph node spread, was associated with early radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
(20) Cortical activation patterns as measured by negative shifts of the scalp-recorded cortical steady potential ("DC shifts") were assessed in 28 normal subjects during imagining colours, faces, and a spatial map.