(n.) Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.
(n.) Hence, the foul remains of anything adherent.
(n.) Anything like flakes or scales adhering to a surface.
(n.) Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot.
Example Sentences:
(1) I had cooked, sometimes, with difficulty, yet woke one day to find I had somehow assembled a bizarre array of crockery on my floor, like a gnomes' tea party but with much scurf; I daily grew too fatigued to lift things and spent increasing hours abed.
(2) The relative contribution from loose scurf or from stratum corneum squames was not determined.
(3) Because diagnostic scales and scurf, or small scales, are easily lost in the process of collecting and preparing herbarium specimens of the new species, the potential for confusion among related species is increased.
(4) On the removal of the scurf covering the supposed entrance of the erysipelas, a larva of Dermatobia hominis, the human bot fly, was extracted from the head skin, and the inflammation completely disappeared within a short period of time.
(5) Minor scurfing and hair loss occurred on some calves with all compounds, but hair coats were normal 28 days after treatment.
(6) So now, when some drab functionary presents himself as speaking for the party, he is no more than scurf on a sea of money handed out by any opinionated casino magnate.
(7) Animal scurf extracts are nearly always contaminated with mites.
(8) A survey of vertical distribution showed no mite penetration deeper than inner stratum corneum where 57% of mite sections were seen; 30% were within outer stratum corneum or scurf; 13% were on the outer surface and less than 1% were detached.
(9) Within flocks, itchmite infested sheep or sheep with scurf had higher prevalences of fleece derangement than sheep on which no mites or no scurf were found.
(10) Among flocks, there were positive relations between the prevalence of fleece derangement and prevalence of itchmite or scurf and between itchmite count and mean scurf score.
(11) Horse or dog scurf collected in the summer months will be contaminated by pollens.
(12) Itchmite infested sheep had a higher prevalence of scurf than those with no detectable mite infestation.
Scurfy
Definition:
(superl.) Having or producing scurf; covered with scurf; resembling scurf.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scurfy lesions characteristically contain a population of large blastlike cells with round to oval nuclei, a vesicular chromatin pattern, and prominent single nucleoli.
(2) The role of the thymus in the development of fatal lymphoreticular disease in the scurfy mouse was investigated.
(3) The X chromosome-linked scurfy (sf) mutant of the mouse is recognized by the scaliness of the skin from which the name is derived and results in death of affected males at about 3-4 weeks of age.
(4) Bone marrow from scurfy mice can reconstitute lethally irradiated, H-2-compatible animals but does not transmit scurfy disease.
(5) Scurfy differs from Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome in that scurfy males are consistently hypogonadal.
(6) We conclude, from these data, that scurfy lesions are mediated by T lymphocytes that mature in an abnormal (sf) thymic environment.
(7) Scurfy (sf), is an X-linked recessive lethal mutation that occurs spontaneously in the C3H mouse.
(8) Characteristic lesions in mice hemi- or homozygous for the X-linked mutation scurfy (sf) include lymphohistiocytic proliferation in the skin and lymphoid organs, Coombs' test-positive anemia, hypergammaglobulinemia, and death by 24 days of age.
(9) Thus, while our findings indicate that scurfy disease may be the result of immune dysfunction, it is not a classic immunodeficiency.
(10) Neonatal thymectomy doubles the life span of scurfy mice, moderates the histologic lesions, and prevents anemia, despite the continued presence of high levels of serum IgG.
(11) The centromere of the X (LGXX) has been tentatively assigned to the end nearest to the scurfy (sf) locus.
(12) Our studies indicate that the phenotype of hemizygous scurfy is not, as has been suggested, a model for human X-linked ichthyosis, but appears to be a disease primarily affecting the lymphoreticular, and possibly the hematopoietic, systems.
(13) Scurfy mice are negative for antinuclear antibodies.
(14) Despite their morphologically aberrant lymphoreticular system, scurfy mice can exist in a conventional environment without evidence of opportunistic infection.
(15) Scurfy (sf) is a spontaneous, sex-linked, recessive mutation that maps to the extreme proximal portion of the X chromosome, about 2 centimorgans from sparse fur (spf).
(16) Raising scurfy mice in a specific-pathogen-free environment does not alter disease expression.