What's the difference between skin and tan?

Skin


Definition:

  • (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.

Tan


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
  • (n.) See Picul.
  • (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
  • (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
  • (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
  • (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
  • (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
  • (v. i.) To get or become tanned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
  • (2) In t(7;9)(q34;q34.3) translocations from three cases of T-ALL, the breakpoints occur within 100 bp of an intron in TAN-1, resulting in truncation of TAN-1 transcripts.
  • (3) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
  • (4) Both internalized and cellularly enveloped hexamethylenediisocyanate-tanned dermal sheep collagen degraded by the detachment of fibrils.
  • (5) This demonstrates that a UVA tan provides photoprotection against acute UVA exposure.
  • (6) In this study the efficacy of preserving microvascular heterografts with glutaraldehyde tanning was investigated.
  • (7) A comparative study of tanned cell hemagglutination (TCH) and counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE), two easy and reliable methodes for the routine detection of antibodies against nuclear antigens was performed.
  • (8) Mackay confirmed following Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Newcastle United that a resolution had been reached over the issue but Cardiff's players are reportedly no longer happy for Tan to be in the dressing room on match days.
  • (9) Reversible binding of BAN and TAN had Ki values of 1 x 10(-9) and 1 x 10(-10) M, respectively as determined by log probit plots.
  • (10) These findings are relevant to the risk-benefit analysis of sunscreen preparations, especially in skin type II, as they provide evidence that a 5-methoxypsoralen-induced tan is protective against the DNA-damaging effects of solar UV radiation, and thus has the potential to reduce the carcinogenic risk of exposure to such radiation.
  • (11) Modified human umbilical vein allografts tanned with glutaraldehyde and encased in a polyester mesh were used as arterial substitutes in 13 femoropopliteal reconstructive procedures.
  • (12) Patients with polymorphic light eruption who intend to obtain a tan by sunbathing should not, therefore, be treated with sunscreens which may worsen their rash, but should be advised to sunbathe without sunscreens for a shorter time.
  • (13) At higher concentrations, O2 and TAN sensitize the fast-stage damage by a fixation reaction that competes with its repair; in contrast, misonidazole appears mainly to operate by reaction with an earlier, ever shorter form of oxygen-dependent damage.
  • (14) I asked if they had a black baby face, and my mother even asked if they had a “tan” baby (since my husband is white and our child will be biracial), but the sales woman told me that their babies only came in black and white.
  • (15) The potency and selectivity of D,L-4-(3,4-dichloro-benzoyl-amino)-5-(dipentyl-amino)-5-oxo-pen tan oic acid (CR 1409) as a cholecystokinin (CCK) antagonist was investigated on motor responses of the longitudinal and circular muscles of the guinea-pig isolated ileum.
  • (16) This article examines the indoor tanning industry, the effects of ultraviolet-A radiation, and public education.
  • (17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
  • (18) The carcinogenic effect of 3 commercially available ultraviolet A (UVA) tanning sources was studied in lightly pigmented hairless mice.
  • (19) All tumors occurred as solitary, soft to firm, solid, tan, and ulcerated masses in the digits of dogs aged 11 to 15 years.
  • (20) Anti-hTG titers far below those detected by the tanned-red cell hemagglutination test had very large effects, to the point where measurements of hTG could not be made, when a cross-reactive precipitating antiserum was used.

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