(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.
Tegument
Definition:
(n.) A cover or covering; an integument.
(n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
(2) Its product (sm22.6) is recognised by antibodies from mice protectively vaccinated with purified adult S. mansoni tegumental membranes and by serum from S. mansoni-infected Brazilians.
(3) The tegumental structures in the adults appear to be clearly differentiated from those in the juveniles.
(4) A preparation highly enriched in tegument membranes from adult worms has been used to probe rodent responses to schistosome surface antigens.
(5) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
(6) An extensive cross-reactivity was observed when sera from human visceral leishmaniasis were used, while only a slight cross-reaction was observed with sera from tegumental leishmaniasis.
(7) Except for the suckers and excretory pores, the whole body surface of the metacercariae and the juveniles are covered with posteriorly pointing tegumental spines which are relatively denser in the forebody than in the hindbody.
(8) The fins are formed by a longitudinal tegument fold containing the same components as the remaining part of the tail tegument.
(9) The electron dense deposit persisted, and tegumental damage at the electron microscope level was minimal or absent.
(10) The higher susceptibility of B. glabrata results in greater power of penetration into mice tegument on the part of the cercariae.
(11) Actin, alpha-actinin and tropomyosin immunoreactivities were detected in the cytoplasm of the apical tegument.
(12) It is suggested that bile salt monomers, rather than intact micelles, adsorb to specific loci on the tegument.
(13) The uptake of [3H]-glyceroltriolete started at the anterior half of the presoma, followed by a consecutive labelling of the entire presoma tegument and the lemnisci.
(14) The possible role(s) of the host immune response in relation to the speed of tegumental repair in vivo is discussed.
(15) Tegumental tissues of paired adult Schistosoma mansoni were removed by treatment with Triton X-100 and recovered by centrifugation.
(16) Hooklets and early developmental stages of hooks were discovered in the tegument among the microtriches in the rostellar region of 83- and 108-day-old Cysticercus bovis.
(17) Using MAA, three forms of actin have been identified in the whole fluke and a single one in the tegumental spines.
(18) At a concentration of 500 nM, praziquantel produced 2 distinct phasic contractions in intact parasites incubated in an elevated [Mg2+] medium but only 1 phasic contraction in parasites lacking their surface tegumental membranes.
(19) The teguments of male and female adult worms differ in the binding of the poly-L-lysine.
(20) This impairment of tegumental integrity and the inhibition of glucose up-take and the stimulation of lactate release are reversible after a 15 min incubation in praziquantel solution.