Skin \Skin\, n. [Icel. skinn; akin to Sw. skinn, Dan. skind, AS. scinn, G. schined to skin.] 1. (Anat.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
Note: In man, and the vertebrates generally, the skin consist of two layers, an outer nonsensitive and nonvascular epidermis, cuticle, or skarfskin, composed of cells which are constantly growing and multiplying in the deeper, and being thrown off in the superficial, layers; and an inner sensitive, and vascular dermis, cutis, corium, or true skin, composed mostly of connective tissue.
2. The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
3. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See {Bottle}, 1. ``Skins of wine.'' --Tennyson.
4. The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
5. (Naut.) (a) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole. --Totten. (b) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
{Skin friction}, {Skin resistance} (Naut.), the friction, or resistance, caused by the tendency of water to adhere to the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel.
{Skin graft} (Surg.), a small portion of skin used in the process of grafting. See {Graft}, v. t., 2.
{Skin moth} (Zo["o]l.), any insect which destroys the prepared skins of animals, especially the larva of Dermestes and Anthrenus.
{Skin of the teeth}, nothing, or next to nothing; the least possible hold or advantage. --Job xix. 20.
{Skin wool}, wool taken from dead sheep.
Skin \Skin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skinned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Skinning}.] 1. To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
2. To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. --Shak.
3. To strip of money or property; to cheat. [Slang]
Skin \Skin\, v. i. 1. To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
2. To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited. [College Cant, U.S.]
But whether the technique catches on may depend on how many radiologists embrace it, as they must perform the task of inserting a catheter through the skin and into the patient's gallbladder.
Shiseido Co., Japan's leading cosmetics maker, says its Australian and Singapore subsidiaries are recalling six skin care products containing an acid that one Australian researcher linked to skin cancer.
Shiseido Co., Japan's leading cosmetics maker, says its Australian and Singapore subsidiaries are recalling six skin care products containing an acid that one Australian researcher linked to skin cancer.
But Ms. Ingram argued that "Ruby Lewis did not perceive the plaintiff as having different skin color from she." She said the issue was Ms. Morrow's job performance.
Both the U.S. Surgical and Johnson & Johnson devices are for use in laparoscopic surgery, or surgery that requires only a small surface incision in the skin.
The Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that every 1 percent decline in ozone overhead means an eventual increase in skin cancer of 5 percent to 6 percent.
Metal scaffolding around a third plane, an A-300 airbus, was blown into the aircraft's skin.
Cher was given a 9.9 on a 10-point image scale by Daniel Eastman, a former Hollywood skin care and makeup expert.
It asks for an injunction to block plans by researchers at the National Institute of Health to use a rat virus to manipulate a gene in an experimental treatment of melanoma, a virulent and often fatal skin cancer.
In one series of tests, she said, mice infected with what is normally a skin disease developed fewer skin ulcers under ultraviolet radiation, but between 15 percent and 40 percent of them died.
In one series of tests, she said, mice infected with what is normally a skin disease developed fewer skin ulcers under ultraviolet radiation, but between 15 percent and 40 percent of them died.
Under the skin, he's an actor.
Close inspection of the upper skin of early-model Boeing 737s was ordered Oct. 5 by the Federal Aviation Administration after routine inspections turned up cracks near where sections of sheet metal overlap, officials said Friday.
Another gene-therapy experiment, also approved by NIH last week and awaiting FDA clearance, would treat patients with a lethal form of skin cancer.
Now we get people in their early 30s, even in their 20s." The precision-cropped hair is mostly gray, but those famous blue eyes remain clear, his skin unlined and his body trim.
Maybe a few missing layers of skin accounted for Marie McLaughlin's next show-stopper, a wildly pitched "Sempre libera."
"By the time I hang up, I'm jumping out of my skin," she says.
At least 15 cases involved cracks or corrosion on an aircraft's outer skin or on control devices.
When a daughter asks why her father beats her mother all the time, the mother tells her, "That man's been beaten down because of the color of his skin."
The missing whale got its name because skin on its snout had been rubbed down to the bone by the rough ice surrounding a breathing hole that kept the mammals alive.
"You go in through the skin on the back of the finger and peel out the cyst," she said. "Then you follow the stalk back to the joint." The stalk, or root, of the cyst must be removed or the growth could recur.
The procedure measures infrared radiation emitted by the skin and isolates hot spots to capture "a picture of pain," according to the 37-page opinion.
Do you pamper your skin with "tissue matrix fluid"?
The biomedical concern said the research initially will target immune-based skin diseases such as psoriasis and eczema, which afflict about four million Americans.
However, the chemical is approved only as an acne treatment and produces such adverse effects as peeling, skin sensitivity to sunlight and swelling, according to the FDA.
The patients each had been newly diagnosed as having Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin cancer that afflicts AIDS patients.
He told about seeing Campbell throw a screaming Lattie into a bathtub of hot water, scrubbing the boy with a rag until his skin started peeling off.
"I think about it, but it doesn't get under my skin in the same way.
In rare cases, nodules proliferate in the skin and over the bones to produce grotesque features.