(n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
(n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
(n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
(n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
(n.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
(n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
(v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
(v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
(v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
(v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
(v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
Example Sentences:
(1) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
(2) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
(3) This is a fascinating possibility for solving the skin shortage problem especially in burn cases.
(4) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
(5) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(6) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(7) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
(8) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
(9) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(10) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(11) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
(12) Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity has been found to occur in nerve terminals and fibres of the normal human skin using immunohistochemistry.
(13) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(14) We investigated the incidence of skin cancer among patients who received high doses of PUVA to see whether such incidence increased.
(15) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(16) In order to develop a sampling strategy and a method for analyzing the circadian body temperature pattern, we monitored estimates of the temperature in four ways using rectal, oral, axillary and deep body temperature from the skin surface every hour for 72 consecutive hours in 10 normal control subjects.
(17) It was shown that the antibiotic had low acute toxicity, did not cumulate and had no skin-irritating effect.
(18) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(19) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
(20) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
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Example Sentences:
(1) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(2) This paper investigates the reliability of six measures of impairment and disability related to mobility after stroke: the Rivermead Motor Assessment (RMA, gross function subsection); gait speed (over 5 and 10 m); the motricity index (leg scores only); functional ambulation categories; sitting to standing (by observation); and mobility categories.
(3) This section was memorably captured by the computer and security expert Caspar Bowden , who wrote: "Interpreting that section requires the unravelling of a triple-nested inversion of meanings across six cross-referenced subsections, linked to a dozen other cross-linked definitions, which are all dependent on a highly ambiguous 'notwithstanding'."
(4) The oral communications and posters were divided into five subsections, covering systematics at supraspecific, specific and subspecific levels, evolution, and life cycles of parasites with hosts in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
(5) Efforts to organize a formal group representing hospital pharmacists, begun in the 1920s, resulted in the formation of a subsection on hospital pharmacy of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1936.
(6) The five-day hearing has fought its way through the dense undergrowth of overlapping clauses and subsections of Ripa.
(7) Because a small region of chromosome 21 containing the ets-2 gene is duplicated in patients with Alzheimer's disease, as well as in karyotypically normal Down syndrome, duplication of a subsection of the critical segment of chromosome 21 that is duplicated in Down syndrome may be the genetic defect in Alzheimer's disease.
(8) Independent variables included in the model were resident scores on the Physician Belief Scale and the psychiatric subsection of the in-training exam scores, patient familiarity, and whether the attending physician was consulted.
(9) The hA subsection (junction to tip) was held constant at 3.9 cm.
(10) 6.12pm BST Carney stops just short of saying Boehner is a general without an army: Discussions with the leaders have not always, well, it has become apparent that a subsection of the House Republican conference has been driving decision making... and that is in part why we have a government shutdown.
(11) Since dermatosurgery has become a generally acknowledged subsection of dermatology, it seems strange that we have got so little account regarding the influences of anesthesia on the results of plastic surgery in the antrofacial region.
(12) Mean scores for the questionnaire's subsections were: Attitudes, 53.62 out of a possible total score of 80; Information, 70.398 out of 90; and Behavior, 9.40 out of 13.
(13) However, the MMSE subsections should not be viewed as highly specific measures of cognition or memory.
(14) In several cell types (subsection IV-B), there is evidence that intracellular pH regulation depends on Cl-(-)HCO3- exchange processes.
(15) Tissue preparation consisted of liquid nitrogen freezing, cryo-sectioning, and freeze-drying, with storage at -20 degrees C. The sections were thawed under vacuum pump, subsectioned, weighed, and assayed for glucose concentration (by dry weight).
(16) This implies that direct DNA binding by Vmw175 involves a linear subsection of the polypeptide, and that mutations in other parts of the polypeptide which affect DNA binding of the whole protein do so by indirect means.
(17) This latter subsection includes a review and critique of some of the most frequently investigated sociodemographic factors in MS research: age, sex, race and socioeconomic status.
(18) The three principal hypothalamic progesterone metabolizing enzyme activities, namely the progesterone 5 alpha-reductase and 5 alpha-dihydroprogesterone NADH- and NADPH-linked 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase (3 alpha-HSOR) activities, were examined in discrete rat hypothalamic subsections throughout the estrous cycle and from ovariectomized rats treated with estradiol benzoate or vehicle.
(19) A comparison of the chromosome elements E of D. melanogaster and D. subobscura shows 12 conserved subsections which have been rearranged by paracentric inversions in the evolution of the two lineages.
(20) Clarity of signal, detail of banding pattern and absence of background allowed the assignment of a 1.8 kb cDNA encoding Esterase-6 to three bands within subsections 69 A1-A3 on the left arm of polytene chromosome 3.