(n.) The matter secreted by any of the sebaceous glands.
(n.) The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.
(n.) The cheesy, sebaceous matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The view is presented that it is not the smegma but the alkaline reaction, if the sex act is frequent, which may bear a causal responsibility for carcinoma of cervix.
(2) The lipids of human and equine smegma pools were saponified and the total fatty acids submitted to temperature programmed gas chromatography (GC) analysis.
(3) Storage of preputial smegma in lactated Ringer's solution at 5 C for 24 hours resulted in a 14% loss of sensitivity.
(4) The alcoholic fraction from horse smegma contained about 85% sterol, the remainder constituting alcohols of C12 to C28 and of which 43.5% were branched chain components.
(5) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
(6) After statistical analysis, it was found that sexual activity, smegma and cervical erosion are the high risk factors in causing cervical cancer.
(7) No study has yet proved that smegma facilitates cancer and that circumcision may prevent its occurrence.
(8) Partial operations do not always guarantee cleanliness and probably do not eliminate the risk of penile carcinoma in all cases, if smegma is carcinogenic.
(9) This localisation pattern suggests that, in circumcised males, smegma-induced squamous carcinoma of the glans can be abolished but not the ordinary squamous carcinoma that can develop by chance on the rest of the penis as well as on the glans.
(10) Every visible retention of smegma should provoke the education in washing this region.
(11) World-wide incidences of penile cancer are reviewed and epidemiologic factors including ciecumcision, hygiene, phimosis, smegma, irritation, infection, veneral disease, viruses, environment, race, immune response, trauma, and age are discussed.
(12) Outcome was related to hygiene: subjects who retracted the foreskin when bathing were less likely to have smegma accumulation, inflammation, phimosis, or adhesions than those who did not.
(13) Squalene comprised the main hydrocarbon present in smegma of either species.
(14) From an etiopathogenic perspective, chronic inflammation due to smegma accumulation and the presence of a prepuce seem necessary for the development of this pathology.
(15) The corresponding product from human smegma was primarily sterol.
(16) Poor hygiene practices also appeared to increase risk, particularly as evidenced by detection of smegma on physical examination, although it was difficult to decipher whether this association was etiologic or merely a consequence of disease.
(17) For many years it has been thought that a significant proportion of cervical cancer could be attributed to sexually transmitted agents, such as sperm, smegma, Treponema pallidum, Gonococcus and herpes simplexvirus type 2.
(18) In areas with low hygienic standards we cannot recommend the method since the ability of retaining smegma must still be present.
(19) Chronic trauma, chronic ulcers, and scars were the main predisposing risk factors to the lower limb and the scalp, while ultra violet radiation to the head and neck, and smegma of the uncircumcised penis were thought to be predisposing risk factors.
(20) The cyclopropane fatty acid, 9,10-methyleneoctadecanoic acid, occurred in smegma sampled from men over 35 years of age but could not be detected in the pool from persons of 17-20 years of age nor in any of the equine mixtures.
Whitish
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat white; approaching white; white in a moderate degree.
(a.) Covered with an opaque white powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) At necropsy, small whitish foci were found randomly distributed on the liver surface.
(2) The superior fascicle is whitish, dimmed and frequently thinner than the others and was classified under 4 patterns, according to its insertion.
(3) A whitish and hard tumor, 10 cm in maximum diameter, without any cirrhotic features was noted in the resected liver.
(4) However, no report to date has been made on the presence of H. pylori in the whitish exudate of peptic ulcers.
(5) The fungus could be histologically verified from a whitish yellow thick deposits on the lens in the anterior chamber after enucleation of the eye.
(6) In 52 infertile patients, laparoscopy demonstrated enlarged ovaries (maximum diameter 3.5 to 5 cm) with a smooth whitish surface and no mature follicles, corpora lutea, or other cysts.
(7) The patient initially responded to topical steroids, but developed a whitish capsular plaque through to represent possible Propionibacterium acnes endophthalmitis.
(8) Laparotomy revealed a firm, granular, whitish mass involving the pancreas.
(9) Physical examination was unremarkable except that whitish fluid could be expressed from both breasts.
(10) In patients with this disturbance, the retinal opacification and the visual disturbance are transient, but the tiny depression in the retina with its whitish border is permanent.
(11) A dystrophy of the eye fundi was observed (whitish puncta of the macula); except for the "almond shaped eyes", there was no obvious dismorphism.
(12) On endoscopy, the colour of oesophageal mucosa was normal in 28 and whitish pale in 2 cases.
(13) The tumor is elevated and characterized by a central punched-out area filled with amorphous whitish material.
(14) The lesions produced with a power of 200 mW were characterized by small whitish spots surrounded by grayish rings and retinochoroidal adhesions were produced by proliferated cells.
(15) Colonies of the mutant grown at room temperature did not show the whitish cotton-like morphology typical of the mycelial form of the parental strain.
(16) Of all sites studied by the staining method, H. pylori was detected at the highest frequency in the whitish exudate.
(17) It appeared as a uniform and smooth whitish layer with a thickness proportional to the duration of placement.
(18) The signs of his disease were exsudative retinal detachment with shifting fluid, rip of the retinal pigmentepithelium and a mass of whitish-yellowish subretinal protein.
(19) During laparotomy the liver was enlarged, hard, with multiple whitish nodules on its surgace but was otherwise normal.
(20) Three patients presented an unilateral whitish cloudiness of the corneal epithelium which reduced the vision considerably.