Sentences with phrase «involves pricking»

This involves pricking your finger then dipping a test strip in your blood and inserting it into the machine for an accurate reading.

This involves pricking the surface of your child's skin with a drop of liquid allergen.

Acupuncture is a system of complementary medicine that involves pricking the skin or tissues with needles, used to alleviate pain and to treat various physical, mental, and emotional conditions.

But he reserves his sharpest invective for us on earth: «Your gods are apathetic, self - involved pricks... Mount Olympus relocated to Zurich... By all means, keep up your fascination with the facade of democracy but when you need some pragmatic leadership you know who to pray to.»

Not exact matches

Yet unlike a true allergy, intolerances do NOT involve an immune response and does not show up on allergy testing mentioned above (blood test and skin prick testing).

They will likely want to do a skin test, which involves placing liquid extracts of food allergens on your child's skin, usually by pricking the skin of their forearm or back, and seeing if a reaction occurs within 15 minutes.

This test involves placing liquid extracts of food allergens on your child's forearm or back, pricking the skin, and waiting to see if reddish raised spots (called wheals) form within 15 minutes.

Your baby will also have a newborn blood spot test, also known as the heel prick test, this involves using a few drops of your baby's blood to test for one of nine rare, but serious health conditions.

«This means even something as small as a pin prick in the skin still involves a response in your entire body.»

Also common in people with thyroid disease is acroparaesthesia, which involves burning, tingling, or pricking sensations or numbness in your extremities when you haven't been moving for a while, such as after sleep.

This form (known as «art corporel» in France) is exemplified by the Serbian artist Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), whose most famous performance - «Rhythm 0», first performed in 1974 - involved her passively enduring a range of acts performed upon her by the audience, whose members cut her, pricked her with thorns, tickled her with feathers, took off her clothes and even pressed a loaded gun to her head.

This test involves an oral swab or blood from a finger prick, and the results take as little as 10 minutes.