Sentences with phrase «skin patches in»

He gets rough skin patches in the creases of his neck and behind his ears.

On hot days they stretch out and fly, exposing the bare - skinned patches in order to accelerate heat loss, says Bahat.

Not exact matches

With $ 85 million in funding, Chrono makes medicated patches that transmit drugs through the skin using the IoT to customize dosage and timing for a patient.

These out breaks range in severity from a single patch of blistery, itchy skin, to an agonizing blistery rash that can cover one side of the body.

In fact, I had a flaky, itchy patch of skin just below my eyebrow that disappeared and has not returned, since regularly using coconut oil on my face — which has been just over a month now.

Hill underwent a seven - hour surgery in which doctors grafted skin and muscle from his left triceps to patch up his ankle.

I have followed with interest developments over the last few years in the emerging field of impact sensors: small microchip - sized accelerometers and gyroscopes embedded in mouth guards, chin straps, skull caps, ear buds, skin patches and attached to the inside and outside of helmets which, in either send data to sideline personnel or flash an alert about a heavy hit.

installed inside or on the outside of a player's helmet, embedded in a mouth guard, helmet chin strap, skull cap, head band, or skin patch worn behind the ear, for instance), all are essentially designed to do the same thing: alert coaches, athletic trainers, team doctors, other sideline personnel and / or parents about high - risk single and multiple head impacts in order to improve the rate at which concussions are identified.

The notable yellowish brown flakes growing in patches on baby's scalp are the most common sign of cradle cap, but did you know it could also grow on baby's skin in other regions of the body?

Not only did it repair the dry, red patch of skin but also locked the moisture in so it wouldn't happen again.

«According to an exchange from the official Twitter page of the company on Aug. 4J Studios has revealed the origin behind the favorite skins feature in the forthcoming TU12 patch for «Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.

Learn how to tell whether those itchy, red patches on your baby's skin are eczema, how common eczema is in children, and how to...

It can be used to alleviate itchiness and help dry the oozing from poison ivy rash, eczema, which is the inflammation of the skin in red patches with swelling, skin cracking, and even some oozing, as well as other conditions.

Infant eczema usually appears as patches of flaky, red skin in very visible places, including baby's chubby cheeks, behind the ears and on the scalp.

While Eco Nuts has been a terrific solution for many customers with skin allergies and other conditions, people who have many allergies or compromised immune systems should always take proper precautions and first wash one small item in a small container or sink OR do a patch test before washing an entire load in the washing machine.

If you're using a new oil it's a good idea to test a little patch of your baby's skin the day before you want to start massaging, just in case he has a reaction.

You may also have patches of darkened skin caused by a temporary increase in pigment.

It's not uncommon for some newborns to develop small splits or dry patches on the skin, especially in areas such as the hands and ankles.

Baby's skin is very sensitive to dry climates, and this can result in chapped, tender lips, and red patches.

If your baby's scalp is covered in thick, oily yellow or brown scaling, dry flaky skin or crusting patches, it could be cradle crap.

There is nothing better than cuddling a newborn, breathing in her fresh scent and kissing her sweet head... unless that head is covered in flaky, dry skin, or it looks like it has a coating of oily, thick, yellowish scaly patches on it.

These dry, itchy patches of skin will be persistent, even if you work diligently to keep your baby slathered in lotion.

Some may have a condition called acanthosis nigricans, which is a darkening of skin either around the neck or in patches in places like the elbows, knees, knuckles, and armpits.

These skin patches are caused by dilations in your baby's capillaries (tiny blood vessels), which are visible beneath his super-thin skin.

The formation of a crack would cause a tiny movement in the concrete under a patch, causing a change in the electrical charge stored in the sensing skin, which is made of stretchable plastic mixed with titanium oxide.

Some of these ideas are still in the prototype stage, including a patch that administers insulin through the skin just as a nicotine patch administers nicotine.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized in most patients by red, raised patches of skin, or plaques, covered with silvery - white scales.

«But in our design, we had to account for the low volume of ambient sweat that would be present in areas such as under a watch or wrist device, or under a patch that lies next to the skin.»

When easy - to - apply topical testosterone treatments such as skin patches and gels began hitting the market in the early 2000s, testosterone took on a whole new persona as a cure - all for anything that might ail the ageing male, from erectile dysfunction to unwanted body fat.

«But, perhaps more importantly, these results support a rarely tested idea that social signaling itself, such as the need to detect blushing and facial color changes, might have had a role in the evolution or maintenance of the unusual type of color vision shown in primates, especially those with conspicuous patches of bare skin, including humans, macaques, and many others,» concludes co-author Amanda Melin of the University of Calgary.

To expand their research on potential applications of the microneedles patch, the NUS team conducted a study to explore its effectiveness in delivering collagen into skin.

Combined with a commercial serum containing skin growth factor, use of the beauty patch — which is based on electrical energy from sugar and air — led to a 90 % percent increase in collagen fibres, which help to keep the skin supple, after the two - week test.

The shorter time for drug delivery is made possible as the miniature needles on the patch create micrometre - sized porous channels in the skin to deliver the drug rapidly.

Steve McMahon at Kings College London and colleagues used ultraviolet - B radiation to burn a small patch of skin in rats and 10 healthy humans.

After one more surgery to replace small patches of skin, he was released from the hospital in February 2016.

In cosmetic labs, rabbits donning mascara and lipstick are on the way out, while patches of lab - grown skin are iIn cosmetic labs, rabbits donning mascara and lipstick are on the way out, while patches of lab - grown skin are inin.

In September 2015, the team took a 4 - square - centimeter patch of unblistered skin from the boy's groin and grew skin stem cells in the lab from that samplIn September 2015, the team took a 4 - square - centimeter patch of unblistered skin from the boy's groin and grew skin stem cells in the lab from that samplin the lab from that sample.

a) The Eye in your Thigh: a patch of skin cells on the leg that can distinguish between bright and dark conditions, perhaps to help regulate the body clock b) The Ear in your Rear: nerves in the buttocks attuned to infrasound vibrations of between 10 and 25 hertz, perhaps to warn of approaching predators or thunderstorms c) The Nose in your Toes: scent - detecting sebaceous glands on the feet whose purpose is unclear d) The Tongue in your Lung: taste - bud - like receptors that detect bitter substances and dilate or restrict the airways accordingly

To reduce this risk, doctors will also give the women hormone replacement therapy, in the form of oestradiol in a skin patch, supplemented by a dose of progestogen every three months.

When the patch is adhered to skin that has been exposed to the same compounds, corresponding regions of the tree light up in response.

Now he plans to study the approach in humans and hopes to develop a doxy skin patch that will last for an entire tick season.

Zhenan Bao, a chemical engineer developing similar wearable health sensors at Stanford University in California, says that some key components such as batteries and processors do not yet have a flexible form suitable for skin patches.

«We learned that devices that can be worn for a week or longer for continuous monitoring were needed for practical use in medical and sports applications,» says Professor Takao Someya at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering whose research group had previously developed an on - skin patch that measured oxygen in blood.

In a painless procedure, the physicians placed the patches over badly burned skin on eight children and covered them with petroleum jelly — coated gauze.

But he says that benign skin lesions are far more common in the victims: patches that lack sweat glands or the ability to secrete sebum, resulting in intensely itchy, dry skin that's susceptible to infection.

They then used them to create a circuit between microscopic sensors, and embedded it in a stretchable patch that could be rubbed onto the skin like a temporary tattoo (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1206157).

The team is now planning to test the patches in pigs, which have skin that is more similar to our own.

The first hint that they did came when a group of marine biologists at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville, who were studying sharks on the country's Great Barrier Reef, noticed that the coral, bar - cheeked, and blue spotted trout being eaten by the sharks had black patches on their skin.

Many patients also develop infections in the dry, open patches of skin, for example due to colonization by the pathogenic bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, which is particularly abundant on the skin of neurodermatitis patients.

In other cases, fails in the interlocking barrier between cells — the tight junctions — may partly explain why in psoriasis there is an overproduction of epidermal cells, causing thick patches of skin on the surfacIn other cases, fails in the interlocking barrier between cells — the tight junctions — may partly explain why in psoriasis there is an overproduction of epidermal cells, causing thick patches of skin on the surfacin the interlocking barrier between cells — the tight junctions — may partly explain why in psoriasis there is an overproduction of epidermal cells, causing thick patches of skin on the surfacin psoriasis there is an overproduction of epidermal cells, causing thick patches of skin on the surface.