| SPT | Skin Prick Test |
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| SPT | Skin prick testing |
| prick | 1. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks. 2. To spur onward; to ride on horseback. "A gentle knight was pricking on the plain." (Spenser) 3. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine. 4. To aim at a point or mark. 1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. "Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary." (Shak) "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." (Acts ix. 5) 2. The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. "The pricks of conscience." 3. A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point. Hence: A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour. "The prick of noon." The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin. "They that shooten nearest the prick." . A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch. "To prick of highest praise forth to advance." Spenser. A mathematical point; regularly used in old English translations of Euclid. The footprint of a hare. 4. A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. Origin: AS. Prica, pricca, pricu; akin to LG. Prick, pricke, D. Prik, Dan. Prik, prikke, Sw. Prick. Cf. Prick. 1. To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper. 2. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. "The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron." (Sandys) 3. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; sometimes with off. "Some who are pricked for sheriffs." (Bacon) "Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off." (Sir W. Scott) "Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked." (Shak) 4. To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. 5. To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; sometimes with on, or off. "Who pricketh his blind horse over the fallows." (Chaucer) "The season pricketh every gentle heart." (Chaucer) "My duty pricks me on to utter that." (Shak) 6. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse. "I was pricked with some reproof." "Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart." (Acts II. 37) 7. To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged. "The courser . . . Pricks up his ears." 8. To render acid or pungent. 9. To dress; to prink; usually with up. 10. To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail. To trace on a chart, as a ship's course. 11. <veterinary> To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness. To nick. Origin: AS. Prician; akin to LG. Pricken, D. Prikken, Dan. Prikke, Sw. Pricka. See Prick, and cf. Prink, Prig. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| prick-eared | <zoology> Having erect, pointed ears; said of certain dogs. "Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pricker | 1. One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle. 2. One who spurs forward; a light horseman. "The prickers, who rode foremost, . . . Halted." (Sir W. Scott) 3. A priming wire; a priming needle, used in blasting and gunnery. 4. A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, used in sailmaking. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pricket | <zoology> A buck in his second year. Origin: Perhaps so called from the state of his horns. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pricking | 1. The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. "There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword." 2. <veterinary> The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. Same as Nicking. 3. A sensation of being pricked. 4. The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. 5. Dressing one's self for show; prinking. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| prickle | <plant biology> A hard, pointed outgrowth from the surface of a plant, involving several layers of cells but not containing a vein. (05 Mar 1998) |
| prickle cell | <cell biology> Large flattened polygonal cells of the stratum germinosum of the epidermis (just above the basal stem cells), that appear in the light microscope to have fine spines projecting from their surfaces, these terminate in desmosomes that link the cells together and have many tonofilaments of cytokeratin within them. (05 Mar 1998) |
| prickle cell layer | The layer of polyhedral cells in the epidermis; shrinkage artifacts and adhesion of these cells at their desmosomal junctions gives a spiny or prickly appearance. Synonym: prickle cell layer, spinous layer. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prickleback | <zoology> The stickleback. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| pricklefish | <zoology> The stickleback. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| prickly | Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. <botany> Prickly ash, any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines. (05 Mar 1998) |
| prickly heat | An eruption of papules and vesicles at the orifices of sweat glands, accompanied by redness and inflammatory reaction of the skin. Synonym: heat rash, lichen infantum, lichen strophulosus, prickly heat, strophulus, summer rash, tropical lichen, lichen tropicus, wildfire rash. (05 Mar 2000) |
| prickmadam | <botany> A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See: stonecrop. Origin: F. Trique-madame. (05 Mar 1998) |
| prickwood | <botany> A shrub (Euonymus Europaeus); so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Synonym: spindle tree. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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prickle: make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample" cause a stinging pain; "The needle pricked his skin" prick up: raise; "The dog pricked up his ears" asshole: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous goad: stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick incision: a depression scratched or carved into a surface prickle: cause a prickling sensation cock: obscene terms for penis to cause a sharp emotional pain; "The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience" sting: deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" the act of puncturing with a small point; "he gave the balloon a small prick"
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| prickly poppy |
any plant of the genus Argemone having large white or yellow flowers and prickly leaves and stems and pods; chiefly of tropical America annual Old World poppy with orange-red flowers and bristly fruit
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| prickle cell |
a cell in the germinal layer of the skin (the prickle-cell layer); has many spines and radiating processes
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| prickly heat |
obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity
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| prickly pear cactus |
prickly pear: cacti having spiny flat joints and oval fruit that is edible in some species; often used as food for stock
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| prick | the act of puncturing with a small point |
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| prick | obscene terms for penis |
| prick | (obscene) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous |
| prick | a depression scratched or carved into a surface |
| prick | prod or urge as if with a log stick |
| prick | make a small hole into |
| prick | of insects, scorpions, or other animals |
| prick | to cause a sharp emotional pain |
| prick | of the ears of an animal, for example |
| prick | cause a prickling sensation |
| prick | cause a stinging pain |
| prick | of the ears of an animal, for example |
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