What's the difference between stung and urtication?
Stung
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sting
() imp. & p. p. of Sting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
(2) Those patients who were re-stung within 2 weeks (anergic period) or over 5 years after a generalized reaction to a sting had significantly improved response.
(3) 62 patients who had been stung by a red scorpion were admitted from January to December 1990: 18 with hypertension, 15 with supraventricular tachycardia, 11 with pulmonary oedema, and 18 with local pain at the site of sting but no systemic involvement.
(4) Stung, Mayweather hits right back with a right hand to remind Guerrero of who he's in with.
(5) Both women reported having been stung by jellyfish a month earlier.
(6) A seven-year-old girl, stung by a scorpion, was hospitalized in a confused state with signs of myocarditis and pulmonary edema.
(7) Our past and present re-sting data reveal that a large percentage of initially sting-sensitive patients have no reaction on being re-stung.
(8) It owed altogether too much to Scott and was a fiasco that stung its author so badly that a story claims he sought out all the copies he could find to have them burnt.
(9) A previously healthy 38-year-old man was stung multiple times by yellow jackets without any signs of anaphylaxis being observed.
(10) After being stung by reports that some soldiers had refused to fight Boko Haram or had “tactically retreated” from battle, chief of army staff Lt-General Kenneth Minimah ordered that deserters be court-martialled.
(11) The interventions have stung the government, and with good reason.
(12) 34 min: Stung by my criticism, Deco attempts to put me back in my box by scoring from distance.
(13) The chancellor was stung by last week's criticism from the fund.
(14) However he has been stung badly after leaving his trouser zip undone and not covered by his bee-keeping foil tunic.
(15) Antibodies were raised against CcV protein and used in testing for ovary and in stung eggs.
(16) The pop song's composer, John Ewbank, was so stung by the criticism that he attempted unsuccessfully to have the song withdrawn from the day's festivities.
(17) Garzón was stung by the court's affirmation that he had behaved as if working for a totalitarian regime, fishing indiscriminately for evidence and trampling on defendants' rights by wiretapping jail conversations with defence lawyers.
(18) Oh, and they also stung you for £25 last month when you went a few quid over your overdraft limit.
(19) In Saddam Hussein's hometown, Tikrit, 40-year-old Sunni government worker Hazim Ali Hamid was stung by Obama's praise to US forces for removing Saddam.
(20) The prime minister is still stung by his embarrassing rebuff in 2013 when he suffered an international diplomatic humiliation by failing to win the support of parliament for a bombing campaign designed to sanction Assad for using chemical weapons against his own people.
Urtication
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Caripito itch, a pruritic dermatosis rarely seen in the United States, is caused by contact with moths of the genus Hylesia--specifically, with urticating abdominal hairs of the adult female moth.
(2) There was a strong correlation between the susceptibility of each subject to each urticant, but no correlation between the susceptibility to NIICR and age, atopic status or tanning ability.
(3) Objective measurements were made at the beginning and end of each treatment period by establishing the minimum time (MT) of cold stimulus application required to provoke urtication.
(4) It is therefore an urticating protein and which we have named "Thaumetopoein".
(5) It is therefore an urticating protein which we have named thaumetopoein.
(6) Important non-immunologic contact urticants are preservatives and flavouring agents in cosmetics and foods.
(7) Skin tests have confirmed that the urticant substance is histamino-liberating.
(8) A thaumetopoein-like protein was found to be present in oak processionary urticating hairs.
(9) An urticarial dermatosis after contact with the urticating hairs of the adult female Hylesia moth may occur by several mechanisms including the intradermal injection of inflammatory mediators through the urticating hairs.
(10) Cold sensitivity was associated with histamine release in venous blood draining urticated skin.
(11) The urticating apparatus of the oak processionary caterpillar was studied by electron microscopy at times when this species was exceptionally abundant in France.
(12) Urticating moths (genus Hylesia and Anaphae) protect their eggs and young caterpillars with urticating hairs, thus it is very ambiguous to label erucism as the contact dermatitis produced by caterpillar production or Lepidopterism as the contact dermatitis caused by moth urticating hairs.
(13) It is present in large quantities in the glands producing urticating hairs.
(14) Giemsa staining of specimens from eight other cases of cutaneous histiocytosis X from our files revealed mast cells in all of the lesions, although none showed the abundance of mast cells present in the case with urtication.
(15) The guinea pig ear is a model for testing non-immunologic contact urticants.
(16) Erucism is defined as urtication by Lepidoptera larvae.
(17) During the followup period (five days at most), we found localized urtication as a side effect in only one case (4.5%).
(18) In order to clarify the mechanisms of urtication after contact with stinging plants, nettle (Urtica urens) hair and whole-plant extracts were examined for the presence of leukotriene (LT) B4 and LTC4 by reverse phase high-pressure liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) and radioimmunoassay (RIA) and for in vitro neutrophil chemotactic activity and histamine contents.
(19) Compound 1 could be responsible for the urticating properties of the ant.
(20) Collected in Bordeaux, urticating hairs will be considered for allergists as pollens and other allergic particles.