| skin-muscle reflexes | Superficial or cutaneous reflex's, such as the superficial abdominal reflex's. Synonym: skin reflexes. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| skin-puncture test | Test for Behcet's syndrome; after pricking the skin with a sterile needle, pustulation follows within 24 hours, owing to the dermal sensitivity in this disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skin-pupillary reflex | Dilation of the pupil following scratching of the skin of the neck. Synonym: ciliospinal reflex, cutaneous pupil reflex, cutaneous-pupillary reflex, skin-pupillary reflex. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skinbound | Having the skin adhering closely and rigidly to the flesh; hidebound. Skinbound disease. <medicine> See Sclerema neonatorum, under Sclerema. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skinbound disease | Scleroderma (usually applied to extensive involvement). (05 Mar 2000) |
| skinch | To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving. Origin: Cf. Scant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skinflint | A penurious person; a miser; a niggard. Origin: Skin + flint. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skinfold thickness | The measurement of subcutaneous fat located directly beneath the skin by grasping a fold of skin and subcutaneous fat between the thumb and forefinger and pulling it away from the underlying muscle tissue. The thickness of the double layer of skin and subcutaneous tissue is then read with a caliper. The five most frequently measured sites are the upper arm, below the scapula, above the hip bone, the abdomen, and the thigh. Its application is the determination of relative fatness, of changes in physical conditioning programs, and of the percentage of body fat in desirable body weight. (12 Dec 1998) |
| skinful | As much as a skin can hold. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skink | To draw or serve, as drink. "Bacchus the wine them skinketh all about." (Chaucer) "Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove." (Shirley) Origin: Icel. Skenja; akin to Sw. Skaka, Dan. Skienke, AS. Scencan, D. & G. Schenken. As. Scencan is usually derived from sceonc, sceanc, shank, a hollow bone being supposed to have been used to draw off liquor from a cask. See Shank, and cf. Nunchion. To serve or draw liquor. Drink; also, pottage. <zoology> Any one of numerous species of regularly scaled harmless lizards of the family Scincidae, common in the warmer parts of all the continents. The officinal skink (Scincus officinalis) inhabits the sandy plains of South Africa. It was believed by the ancients to be a specific for various diseases. A common slender species (Seps tridactylus) of Southern Europe was formerly believed to produce fatal diseases in cattle by mere contact. The American skinks include numerous species of the genus Eumeces, as the blue-tailed skink (E. Fasciatus) of the Eastern United States. The ground skink, or ground lizard (Oligosoma laterale) inhabits the Southern United States. Origin: L. Scincus, Gr Alternative forms: scink. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skinker | One who serves liquor; a tapster. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skinless | Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| skinner | 1. One who skins. 2. One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Skinner, Burrhus | <person> U.S. Psychologist, 1904-1990. See: skinnerian conditioning, Skinner box. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skinnerian conditioning | A type of conditioning developed by Skinner in which an experimenter waits for the target response (head scratching) to be conditioned to occur (emitted) spontaneously, immediately after which the organism is given a reinforcer reward; after this procedure is repeated many times, the frequency of emission of the targeted response will have significantly increased over its pre-experiment base rate. See: schedules of reinforcement. Synonym: skinnerian conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| test, skin, for allergy | A test done on the skin to identify the allergy substance (allergen) triggering the allergic reaction. A small amount of the suspected allergy substance is placed on the skin. The skin is then gently scratched through the small drop with a special sterile needle. If the skin reddens and, more importantly, swells, then allergy to that substance is probable. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| toad skin | A follicular hyperkeratotic eruption thought to be due to deficiency of vitamin A. Synonym: toad skin. Origin: G. Phrynos, toad, + derma, skin (05 Mar 2000) |
| tuberculin skin test | See: Mantoux test, Heaf test, tuberculin tine test (18 Nov 1997) |
| tubular glands of the skin | The blind extremity of which is coiled in the form of a ball or glomerulus; collective term for small eccrine and large apocrine sweat glands. (05 Mar 2000) |
| yellow skin | The occurrence of patches of yellow colour in the skin, resembling xanthoma, but without the nodules or plates. Synonym: cholesteroderma, xanthochroia, xanthoderma, xanthopathy, yellow disease, yellow skin. Origin: xantho-+ G. Chroma, colour (05 Mar 2000) |
| farmer's skin | Dry, wrinkled skin with presence of dry premalignant keratoses; observed most commonly in fair-skinned, blue-eyed persons who are exposed by occupation or sport to sunshine for prolonged periods and over many years. Synonym: golfer's skin, sailor's skin. (05 Mar 2000) |
| layers of skin | See: epidermis, dermis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| lepromin skin test | <investigation> A test for leprosy where an extract of infected tissue (antigen) is injected under the skin to determine if you have a current or recent leprosy infection. Normally, little or no skin reaction should result from the injection. A positive skin reaction indicates a leprosy infection. (27 Sep 1997) |
| loose skin | A group of connective tissue diseases in which skin hangs in loose pendulous folds. It is believed to be associated with decreased elastic tissue formation as well as an abnormality in elastin formation. Cutis laxa is usually a genetic disease, but acquired cases have been reported. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lumpy skin disease | A poxvirus infection of cattle characterised by the appearance of nodules on all parts of the skin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| lumpy skin disease virus | <virology> A species of capripoxvirus causing a cattle disease occurring in africa. (12 Dec 1998) |
Synonyms : Bullous Dermatoses, Vesiculobullous Dermatoses, Bullous Skin Disease, Dermatoses, Bullous, Dermatoses, Subcorneal Pustular, Dermatoses, Vesiculobullous, Dermatosis, Subcorneal Pustular, Pustular Dermatoses, Subcorneal, Skin Disease, Bullous
Synonyms : Viral Skin Diseases, Disease, Viral Skin, Diseases, Viral Skin, Skin Disease, Viral, Viral Skin Disease
Synonyms : Corrositex, Episkin, Irritancy Test, Skin, Irritancy Tests, Skin, Skin Irritancy Test, Test, Skin Irritancy, Tests, Skin Irritancy
Synonyms : Manifestation, Skin, Manifestations, Skin, Skin Manifestation
Synonyms : Cancer of the Skin, Neoplasms, Skin, Cancer, Skin, Cancers, Skin, Neoplasm, Skin, Skin Cancers, Skin Neoplasm
| skin test |
A test for an immune response to a compound by placing it on or under the skin.
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| skin graft |
a method of treating damaged or lost skin in which a piece of skin is taken from another area of the body and transplanted in a damaged or missing section
출처: www.american-depot.com/services/resources_gl_s.asp
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| skin graft |
A patch of skin removed from one part of the body and used to cover another, such as an area from which a large melanoma has been removed
출처: www.ehealthmd.com/library/melanoma/MEL_glossary.ht...
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| skin |
The frozen layer is a skin of solid melt that forms next to the mould surface during the filling phase of the moulding cycle.
출처: members.tripod.com/pcbolur/basicprocessterms.html
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| skinfold thickness |
a measure of the amount of fat under the skin; the measurement is made with a caliper and used to estimate body fatness
출처: depts.washington.edu/pwdlearn/web/glossary/glossar...
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| skin | involving a surface only |
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| skin | underwater swimming with a breathing apparatus |
| skin | swim underwater with a breathing apparatus |
| skin | an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder |
| skin | a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend |
| skin | a young person who belongs to a British or American group that shave their heads and gather at rock concerts or engage in white supremacist demonstrations |
| skin | a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies |
| skin | alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales |
| skin | having the skin scraped off |
| skin | a worker who drives mules |
| skin | a person who prepares or deals in animal skins |
| skin | American psychologist and leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990) |