See Also: dermatitis, contact(medicine)
Contact dermatitis(health)
Contact dermatitis(medicine)
irritant contact dermatitis(medicine)
dermatitis, allergic contact(medicine)
Allergic contact dermatitis(medicine)
Contact dermatitis, allergic(health)
contact-type dermatitis(medicine)
Allergic contact dermatitis(health)
granary(dictionary)

Contact dermatitis, allergic (health) and granary (iou)


Contact dermatitis, allergic (health)


Also called allergic contact eczema, this is a red, itchy, weepy reaction where the skin has come into contact with a substance that the immune system recognizes as foreign, such as poison ivy or certain preservatives in creams and lotions.





granary (iou)



granary noun. L16.
[Latin granarium (usu. pl. -ia), from granum GRAIN noun1: see -ARY1.]
A storehouse for threshed grain. L16.
F. Fitzgerald The French and Japanese administrations had neglected to fill the emergency rice granaries.
fig. A country or region producing a large amount of grain; esp. such a region considered as the supplier of another region. L16.
Bosworth Smith Palestine was the granary of Tyre, supplying it with corn and oil. J. Raban The rest of Arabia had looked to the fertile soil of the plateau to provide a granary for the subcontinent.
Comb.: Granary bread (proprietary name for) a type of brown bread containing whole grains of wheat.