(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.
Sweatshirt
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(2) I got to HaHagana bridge with a friend and we saw a big man in a red sweatshirt stabbing a soldier twice, apparently someone from the air force,” he said.
(3) David Lengel (@LengelDavid) FYI - I strongly object to Cards first base coach Chris Maloney wearing a hooded sweatshirt under his uniform.
(4) "I understand you're in town to check out our team," Roth told to Dempsey, the hint of a rave green collar visible beneath his grey sweatshirt.
(5) Very abruptly, he yawns, looks bored, and examines his sweatshirt.
(6) I was wearing – I’m imagining, I’m guessing – jeans and a sweatshirt.
(7) Yet he has the unmistakeable air, and sweatshirt, of a Corbynista.
(8) The suspect, who is still on the loose, has been described as a clean-shaved, white male aged approximately 21, with a small, slender build, wearing a grey sweatshirt with jeans and boots.
(9) The bestseller at the eclectic L'Oeuf at no 9 is its own South Pigalle range – branded sweatshirts, caps, kids' toys and bags – perfect souvenirs to let everyone know you have discovered SoPi.
(10) A former sports journalist, Wen, who wore distinctive orange sweatshirts and drove a matching car, moved to covering news but lost his job at a state newspaper after reporting protests by artists about the forced demolition of their property .
(11) She cites sweatshirts made by Brian Lichtenberg bearing slogans such as Feline and Homies – which play on the high-end designer logos of French brands Céline and Hermès – as part of the trend.
(12) And Aisha Tyler in the video wearing a Kenzo-like sweatshirt, when everyone knows Kenzo sweatshirts are positively the dernier cri !
(13) T-shirts and sweatshirts bearing the logo were available to buy at the show, for real-people prices, ie under £50.
(14) Before the attack for which I was arrested, no one in Balochistan knew I had disappeared,” he said, dressed in a navy blue hooded sweatshirt, drinking a coffee with a gaunt look in his eyes as he nervously twisted a rolled up cigarette in his hand.
(15) In a sweatshirt and jeans, sluggish with jetlag, at 46 he has outgrown the buff pretty-boy look of his youth – and some of his old habits too.
(16) But I do find it interesting that they have impacted on people’s wardrobes less than, say, Flashdance did 30 years ago (leg warmers, ripped sweatshirts).
(17) … Most of them had hooded sweatshirts on underneath their helmets, which looked silly as hell … And a kind of scarf thing around their faces with their eyes cut out.
(18) The previous Friday, I took a photo that went viral of pro-police brutality demonstrators wearing sweatshirts which read, “I Can Breathe”, cruelly taunting Black Lives Matter activists by twisting Eric Garner’s final words.
(19) Now, as those explosive muscles bunch under his blue prison sweatshirt, it's "shame awareness" that continues to tell me how to work with Errol.
(20) A campaign against over-fishing saw sweatshirts emblazoned “No fish no nothing”.