skin diving
skin-dive | underwater swimming without any more breathing equipment than a snorkel |
skin care
skincare | care for the skin |
galvanic skin response
GSR
psychogalvanic response
electrodermal response
electrical skin response
Fere phenomenon
Tarchanoff phenomenon | a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety, can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body |
pilomotor reflex
gooseflesh
goose bump
goosebump
goose pimple
goose skin
horripilation | reflex erection of hairs of the skin in response to cold or emotional stress or skin irritation |
hide
pelt
skin | body covering of a living animal |
helminth
parasitic worm | worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes |
parasitic jaeger
arctic skua
Stercorarius parasiticus | a variety of jaeger |
| fungus gnat | mosquito-like insect whose larvae feed on fungi or decaying vegetation |
fungus gnat sciara
sciarid | minute blackish gregarious flies destructive to mushrooms and seedlings |
| thick skin | skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros) |
| artificial skin | a synthetic covering with two layers used experimentally to treat burn victims |
| skin | an outer surface (usually thin), the skin of an airplane |
| skin | a bag serving as a container for liquids, it is made from the hide of an animal |
transdermal patch
skin patch | a medicated adhesive pad placed on the skin for absorption of a time released dose of medication into the bloodstream |
waterskin
water skin | a container of skin for holding water |
complexion
skin color
skin colour | the coloring of a person's face |
skin
tegument
cutis | a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch, your skin is the largest organ of your body |
| skin graft | a piece of skin taken from a donor area and surgically grafted at the site of an injury or burn |
| skin cell | any of the cells making up the skin |
beard
face fungus
whiskers | the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face |
cutaneous vein
vena cutanea | one of a number of veins in the subcutaneous tissue that empty into deep veins |
touch sense of touch
skin senses
touch modality
cutaneous senses | the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands), only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us |
tactual sensation tactility
touch perception
skin perceptiveness | the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain |
cutaneous sensation
haptic sensation
skin sensation | a sensation localized on the skin |
| skin test | any test to determine immunity or sensitivity to a disease by introducing small amounts on or into the skin |
tuberculin test
tuberculin skin test | a skin test to determine past or present infection with the tuberculosis bacterium, based on hypersensitivity of the skin to tuberculin |
| skin flick | a pornographic movie |
potato skin
potato peel
potato peelings | crisp fried potato peeling |
peel
skin | the rind of a fruit or vegetable |
banana peel
banana skin | the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded), he slipped on a banana skin and almost fell |
dermatologist
skin doctor | a doctor who specializes in the physiology and pathology of the skin |
skin-diver
aquanaut | an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder |
thin person
skin and bones
scrag | a person who is unusually thin and scrawny |
| skin effect | the tendency of high-frequency alternating current to distribute near the surface of a conductor |
| fungus family | includes lichen families |
| fungus genus | includes lichen genera |
| fungus order | the order of fungi |
Dutch elm fungus
Ceratostomella ulmi | fungus causing Dutch elm disease |
black root rot fungus
Xylaria mali | fungus causing black root rot in apples |
leak fungus
ring rot fungus
Rhizopus stolonifer | fungus causing soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables and rings of dry rot around roots of sweet potatoes |
potato wart fungus
Synchytrium endobioticum | fungus causing potato wart disease in potato tubers |
white fungus
Saprolegnia ferax | a fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins) |
blue mold fungus
Peronospora tabacina | fungus causing a serious disease in tobacco plants characterized by bluish-grey mildew on undersides of leaves |
damping off fungus
Pythium debaryanum | fungus causing damping off disease in seedlings |
clubroot fungus
Plasmodiophora brassicae | a fungus resembling slime mold that causes swellings or distortions of the roots of cabbages and related plants |
| club fungus | a club-shaped coral fungus |
| coral fungus | any of numerous fungi of the family Clavariaceae often brightly colored that grow in often intricately branched clusters like coral |
| tooth fungus | a fungus of the family Hydnaceae |
Fungi
kingdom Fungi
fungus kingdom | the taxonomic kingdom including yeast, molds, smuts, mushrooms, and toadstools, distinct from the green plants |
| fungus | an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter, ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia |