Inoculation in the mouth is by way of an abrasion of mucous membrane or through a carious tooth.
A slight abrasion alone is sufficient to set up a train of symptoms out of all proportion to the cause.
The poison cannot enter through an intact epidermis or epithelial layer; an abrasion or solution of continuity is requisite for infection.
At such points the surface was being built up; at other points, abrasion was taking place, and the surface was being cut down.
Since the rate of motion of the ice is different in different parts of the glacier, the mutual abrasion of transported materials is a process constantly in operation.
If prominences of rock exist in its path, as is often the case, they oppose the movement of the ice, and receive a corresponding measure of abrasion from it.
The abrasion effected by a moving body of ice under such conditions would be great.
If the process of abrasion be continued long enough, the forms, even of the large hills, may be greatly altered, and their dimensions greatly reduced.
The exposure of a considerable number of them, as already mentioned, is due to the rupture and partialabrasion of this surface.
In some parts of the skin the ossicles are exposed on their outer face; but appearances render it almost certain that this exposure is due to the disintegration and abrasion of the specimen.
Compared with subaerial denudation, marine abrasion is a comparatively feeble agent.
A glacier erodes its bed and banks in two ways,--by abrasion and by plucking.
The product of plucking is bowlders, while the product of abrasion is fine rock flour and sand.
How may a plain of marine abrasion be expected to differ from a peneplain in its mantle of waste?
Lake Mendota, one of the many beautiful lakes of southern Wisconsin, is rapidly cutting back the soft glacial drift of its shores by means of the abrasion of its waves.
Is the ground moraine of Figure 87 due chiefly to abrasion or to plucking?
In rough practice these defects are left to remove themselves by abrasion and wear, the process being to allow the parts to be somewhat loose (wherever possible) in their adjustment, and adjust them closer as the abrasion proceeds.
This is an advantage, not only on account of the time saved, but also because the cutting edges of the teeth are saved from the abrasionand its consequent wear which occur in rotating a tap backwards.
That the cold rolled will be harder, and will therefore suffer less from abrasion of the journals.
To protect the ways of the bed from the abrasion that would be caused by the emery and water falling upon them, guards are attached to the carriage extending for some distance over the raised [V]s.
Defn: A rubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children.
Defn: A bruise or abrasion produced on the foot or ankle of a horse that interferes.
I shall analyse the poison of the wound and microscopically examine the nature of the abrasion this afternoon.
He was right; there was a minute abrasion visible.
Exposure to the sun readily blisters it, and after the slightest abrasion it bleeds freely.
It was found that the foot and lower third of the leg had been completely denuded of a boot and woolen stocking, without any apparent abrasion or injury to the skin.
Infection takes place through an abrasion of the skin, and the disease usually occurs on the feet of adult males who work barefooted in the fields.
The path of infection is usually through an abrasion of the skin, and the primary manifestations are local, constituting what is known as the malignant pustule.
Facial erysipelas is the commonest clinical variety, infection usually occurring through some slight abrasion in the region of the mouth or nose, or from an operation wound in this area.
In the horse the chronic form of glanders is known as farcy, and follows infection through an abrasion of the skin, involving chiefly the superficial lymph vessels and glands.
This sore usually originates in an abrasion of the epidermis, such as a sun blister, the bite of an insect, or a scratch.
Infection invariably takes place through an abrasion of the surface, although this may be so slight that it escapes observation even when sought for.
I have already said enough, perhaps, about the abrasion of the Hebrides, but I may add a few words upon the origin of the freshwater lakes.
But wherever hills and peaks and hummocks of rock broke the regularity of the surface, there great abrasion took place and no till was accumulated.
The Finches are of course still in flocks, but a rapid abrasion of the pale edges to the feathers is remarkable, sure sign that the nuptial period is now approaching.
It is worn for nearly a couple of months, subject of course to some change from abrasion and sun.
In the first place, we have to consider the singular abrasion of the surfaces over which the glacier has moved, quite unlike that produced by the action of water.
Erysipelas is a disease caused by germs which gain entrance through some wound or abrasion in the skin or mucous membranes.
Even where no wound is evident it may be taken for granted that there has been some slight abrasion of the surface, although invisible.
It is more common in the weak, but may occur in anyone, owing to the entrance of pus germs through a slight prick or abrasion which may pass unnoticed.
When the pressure exceeds a certain amount, fixed for each pair of surfaces, abrasion of the softer surface or other change of form takes place, the resistance becomes greater and is no longer wholly frictional.
The reducing of the rubbing surfaces in escapements as much as the nature of the materials will allow without abrasion in the course of time (55).
The arc of contact is thus too small to withstand the pressure without abrasion of one or both surfaces.
The simple contact of the virus with the slightest abrasion will suffice {929} to convey the disease.
Some years ago a well-known physician, with whom I was intimately acquainted, died from facial erysipelas and meningitis which had originated in a slight abrasion of the upper lip.
The lymph should be moistened with water, or, if it is quite old, with glycerine, before the abrasion is made, so that it may have time to dissolve.
I have seen an infant dying from an erysipelas added to a post-auricular diphtheria, this being due to a slight abrasion of the surface.
The gastric mucous membrane is of a dark violet or pale pink color, according to the stage of the disease; its follicles are enlarged, and patches of superficial abrasion may be observed on it.
General Smith was quite unwell, and was suffering from his leg, which was swollen and very sore, from a mere abrasion in stepping into a small boat.
He was hit three times in all--twice in one leg, both serious wounds, and once on the head, a slight abrasion of the scalp.
The stones showed displacement; and here and there an abrasion that appeared to have been made by the hoof of a horse.
For the same reasons, all sensible abrasion is avoided: for we have proved that the passage of any point of one wheel, over the corresponding point of another, is indefinitely less than the distance between the nearest particles of matter.
If this estimate was correct, it would show an abrasion equivalent to nearly one foot from the whole surface of the Canadian Fall.
If this estimate was correct, it would show an abrasion equivalent to nearly one foot of the whole surface of the Canadian Fall.
Less than three months afterward the abrasion was continued some two hundred feet toward Goat Island.
A constant abrasion of their banks is produced by the action of water, frost, and ice.
American side of the river, just below this bridge, where the disintegration of the shale and abrasion of the superposed rock is strikingly exhibited.
About every third return of spring has increased the abrasion at these two points.
Losses by abrasion will bring down this point by perhaps one-tenth of 1 per cent.
In either case, he obtains coin that has suffered more or less abrasion by handling, and this loss of weight by abrasion, amounting to perhaps one-tenth of 1 per cent.
Abrasions over front of neck, especially near left ear, probably from ligature; also abrasion on upper part of chest, probably from forcible pressure.
Body and head moist and warm; emission of semen; face livid; upper lid discolored; abrasion of skin under right ear; deep red mark around neck.
We have already referred to the fact which Portal long ago remarked, namely, that the spleen has been ruptured without ecchymosis or abrasion of the skin.
This occurs mostly in the lymphatics of the skin, and effects an entrance through some wound or abrasion of the skin or mucous membrane, which may be almost microscopic in size.
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