(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.
Skald
Definition:
(n.) See 5th Scald.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment with SBTPC was made in 34 cases of pediatric bacterial infections; 2 cases of pharyngitis, 19 cases of tonsillitis, 2 cases of bronchitis, 3 cases of impetigo, 2 cases of staphylococcal skalded skin syndrome, 4 cases of urinary tract infection and 1 case each of pneumonia and scarlet fever.