HAE attacks can occur in various locations of the body but are categorized into three main types: attacks affecting the skin (cutaneous attacks), attacks affecting the gastrointestinal system (abdominal attacks) and attacks affecting the larynx (laryngeal swellings) [ 4].
Five individuals had severe psychomotor retardation, generalized scaly, erythematous skin, and attacks of hypertonia.
Harden your bones by wrapping a cloth over your skin and attacking the tree.
There's anti-Catholicism here too, at least if you accept one scholar's thesis that the story of the ape who makes a false Aslan out of a donkey in a lion skin is an attack on papist idolatry.
Severe scratching may produce erosion of skin where bacteria attack.
As a dermatologist and occasional sufferer of "winter itch" myself, I was delighted to read "Saving Your Skin When Winter Attacks" (Feb. 13).
The prevalence of invasive MRSA — when the bacteria has not merely colonized on the skin, but has attacked a normally sterile part of the body, like the organs — is greater, Dr. Bancroft wrote, than the combined rates for other conditions caused by invasive bacteria, including bloodstream infections, meningitis and flesh-eating disease.
As the first line of defense against infection, the skin encounters constant attacks.
They've found some commonalities among such disparate diseases as systemic lupus erythematosus, which attacks skin, kidneys, heart, and brain; scleroderma, which hardens and destroys skin and connective tissue; rheumatoid arthritis, which damages joints; and type I diabetes, which kills insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas.
