Sentences with phrase «skin fragility»

This disease manifests itself as a skin fragility syndrome, where affected dogs begin showing signs of skin sloughing off from the nose, footpads, and lips immediately after birth.

Potent topical corticosteroids may diminish epidermal thickness leading to increased skin fragility.

Dystrophic epodermolysis bullosa, or DEB, is an inherited skin fragility disorder characterized by skin blistering, abnormal wound healing and excessive scarring, which often leads to aggressive skin cancer.

Not exact matches

The themes of the fragility of life and love and the reality of violent death and evil coalesce in The Skull Beneath the Skin (1982) in which Cordelia Gray reappears as the protagonist.

They include lip inflammation, dry mouth, skin thinning and fragility, joint and muscle pain, and hair loss (alopecia).

What it does: Oftentimes, environmental factors such as weather, travel, change of seasons, stress, and pollution can cause fragility on skin's surface.

Yet unlike Tom Cruise's self - doubting alpha male, Woody Allen's lovable neurotic or Ben Stiller's, er, lovable neurotic, Morton's stock in trade has never seemed grating or even repetitive, since she manages to bring to each successive rôle previously uncharted shades of fragility — and looking back at her big screen debut in «Under the Skin» (1997), reveals that she has long been a natural at plumbing the depths of grief and loss.

A lack of these important nutrients can create arthritis like conditions, behavior issues, slow healing, bad smell and skin issues, additional fragility heart and circulation issues, kidney or liver issues, vulnerability to infection and breeding issues.

The choice to work with porcelain in an exploration of the spiritual and physical body in the current exhibition is not arbitrary: porcelain has certain metaphoric connections with fragility and purity (a kind of soft skin) as well as a geological rarity.

Porcelain thus occupies a unique place in our collective imaginary: it is durable enough to be the material of choice for domestic objects and yet it is fragile and delicate enough to have connotations with the fragility of bone or skin.

Berlinde De Bruyckere frequently uses material such as wax, wood, fabric, horse skin, and hair to produce sculptures and drawings that refer to the body's fragility, to suffering and desire.

Wendy Hanson's work conveys beauty and fragility, containing symbolism of skin and scars to mark our own vulnerability.