In bad cases the scanty urine may be reddish and the swelling may extend to the skin and envelopes of the testicle, which may become thickened and doughy, pitting on pressure.
The skin of the scrotum is tense, and it may be edematous (pitting on pressure), as are the deeper envelopes and spermatic cord.
This is comparatively rare in the mare, though in some cases the udder becomes painfully engorged before parturition, and a doughy swelling, pitting on pressure, extends forward on the lower surface of the abdomen.
In this case the tissues generally are distended with liquid, and the skin is found at all points tense and rounded, and pitting on pressure with the fingers.
His Practica are taken almost entirely from the Arabian writers, as filtered through Gaddesden, one of them being the prevention of pitting by opening the pocks with a gold pin or needle.
The means to prevent pitting was usually to open the pustules with a golden needle; that is the Arabian advice, and all the Arabists copy it.
It was like pitting a school-boy against a hurricane.
The idea of pitting a sergeant of police against the tragedy that was coming seemed ludicrous to him.
Out of this chimney the sparks flew when the smith was working, pitting the black shingle roof and searing the drooping leaves of the hickories.
The coat had brass buttons, a plenteous pitting of moth-holes, and a braided collar.
It is said that if light is admitted into the patient's room through yellow blinds, so that the red and blue rays of the sun are excluded, pitting will be prevented.
A fourth and much more simple method of preventing pitting from small-pox is to lightly touch every part of the face with a feather dipped in sweet oil.
In some instances the connective tissue beneath the skin and between the lobules of the gland is affected, then the swelling is uniformly rounded and of nearly the same consistency, pittingeverywhere on pressure.
The deep layer of the skin is infiltrated with serum, which gives it the characteristic condition of pitting under pressure.
This is a dropsical condition of the skin and subcutaneous areolar tissue, characterized by pitting under pressure, the fingers leaving a dent which remains a short time.
Pitting of the swollen parts, although quite exceptional in acute articular rheumatism, will exist under the conditions just mentioned.
In a few cases the gums are but slightly altered, perhaps oedematous only or pitting upon pressure, or they become the site of bloody extravasations.
Perhaps there is a little oedematous pitting about the ankles.
A few hours more and Chauvelin in his turn would be pitting his wits against the resources of that intricate brain, and he felt like a war-horse scenting blood and battle.
The gear hardness specified is necessary to reduce to a minimum the pitting or surface fatigue of the teeth.
None of us, in our wildest moments, think of pitting ourselves against the laws of nature.
The proud man, whether he knows it or not, comes into direct conflict with God: he may not intend it, but he is pitting himself against the Omnipotent.
In these, pitting invariably follows, while in those cases where the eruption remains distinct, pitting is not certain to occur.
He saw only a naked man-thing, hairless and futile, pitting his puny fangs and soft muscles against his own indomitable savagery, and he charged.
Tarzan was coiling his rope the while he lectured Taug on the futility of pitting his poor powers, physical and intellectual, against those of his betters.
They require special treatment to remove the cause of the pitting and the following method of refinishing is very good.
It is an interesting fact that pitting is much less frequently noted on those parts of the body from which light is excluded by the covering of the clothing.
This is, it may be noticed, entirely different from the pitting upon pressure, without much if any change of color, in local oedema or general anasarcous effusion.
Solar light should be excluded {452} as rigidly and completely as possible, since it is reasonably certain that its access to the face has an etiological relation to the pitting of that part, often the most serious sequel of the affection.
Pitting on pressure is the sign of watery effusion.
The skin over it is red, hot, and tense, and there is much tenderness and little or no pitting on pressure.
In canning factories the work is nearly all done by machinery, including peeling, pitting and cutting the fruit, soldering the cans and putting on labels.
The stones of the peach do vary, however, very materially in size, shape, grooves and ridges, pitting and in characteristics at base and apex.
By pitting it against Rugova and provoking Rugova's camp against a strengthened KLA - Milosevic could have incited a veritable, full fledged civil war among the Albanians.
They will take advantage of existing schemes (and ask for more, pitting one country against another).
Success has also attended thepitting of selling districts against each other.
His joy is in combating and in overcoming--in pittinghis will to power against the laws and desires of the rest of humanity.
One man pitting his courage and knowledge against all the forces organized by society to stamp him out.
Decidedly any lone man pitting his courage and wit against the Dangerfield entourage would need sympathy.
It is she whom I am pitting against the Protestant.
The man knew he was pitting his own against a master mind.
Men feel a fearful joy in pitting themselves against stern natural obstacles and being compelled to exert all their physical energy and endurance, and all their wit and nerve and courage, in order to overcome them.
If the ascent is made at all it will be made for the sheer love of the thing, from pure enjoyment--the enjoyment a man gets from pitting himself against a big obstacle.
We determine which is the faster horse by pitting one against the other in a race.
And because of this belief there were many who offered but little defense, feeling as they did the futility of pitting their puny mortal strength against that of a deity.
He thought now only of the savage joy of living, and of pitting one's wits and prowess against the wiles and might of the savage jungle brood which haunted the broad plains and the gloomy forest aisles of the great, untamed continent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pitting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
