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Skin prick test
The skin prick test is a diagnostic procedure that detects IgE-mediated allergy by introducing small amounts of suspected allergens into the skin, with results in 15 to 20 minutes.
Skin scratch test
The skin scratch test, also called the allergy scratch test, is an allergy diagnostic procedure in which allergen drops are scratched into the skin to detect IgE-mediated sensitization.
Skin swabbing
Skin swabbing is a non-invasive sampling method that collects surface microbes, skin cells, and lipids with a moistened swab, standard in skin microbiome studies including the NIH Human Microbiome Project.
Skin tag
Skin tag (acrochordon): a common benign, soft, stalked skin growth found in skin folds such as the neck, armpits, eyelids, and groin; linked to obesity, diabetes, and pregnancy, and removed by freezing, heat, or snipping.
Skin Test End-Point Titration
Skin test end-point titration (SET, serial dilution end-point titration, intradermal dilutional testing) is a quantitative intradermal allergy test using increasing allergen dilutions to find a wheal endpoint, developed by Herbert J. Rinkel, used to set immunotherapy doses.
Skin testing
Skin testing is an in vivo allergy diagnostic method in which allergens applied to or injected into the skin provoke reactions, identifying immediate IgE-mediated allergy or delayed contact allergy.
Skin Tests
Skin tests: prick, intradermal, and patch tests that expose skin to allergens or drugs to diagnose immediate (IgE) or delayed hypersensitivity; prick test read at 15-20 minutes, pooled sensitivity 85% for allergic rhinitis.
Skin Trade (film)
Skin Trade (คู่ซัดอันตราย) is a 2014 action thriller directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham, starring Dolph Lundgren and Tony Jaa as detectives fighting a Serbian trafficker (Ron Perlman); released 2015, 96 min, R.
Skin Wars
Skin Wars is an American GSN reality competition series (2014–2016, 3 seasons, 29 episodes) in which body painters face weekly elimination challenges for a $100,000 prize, hosted by Rebecca Romijn and judged by RuPaul, Craig Tracy, and Robin Slonina.
Skin whitening
Skin whitening (skin lightening, skin bleaching) is the cosmetic practice of reducing melanin to lighten skin tone, a $8.8 billion global market driven by colorism and beauty ideals, with hazardous ingredients such as mercury and hydroquinone regulated or banned in the US, EU, and under the Minamata Convention.
Skin Window Technique
The Skin Window Technique, also known as the Rebuck Skin Window Technique, is a lab method developed by John W. Rebuck to study cellular migration during immune reactions since 1955.
Skin-inspired pressure-sensitive electronics
Skin-inspired pressure-sensitive electronics, often called electronic skin (e-skin), are flexible, stretchable sensor systems that detect and map mechanical pressure the way human skin does, for health monitoring, prosthetics, and robotics.
Skin-sparing mastectomy
Skin-sparing mastectomy, first described in 1991, is a breast cancer operation that removes all breast tissue and the nipple-areola complex while preserving about 90–95% of the skin.
Skin-walker
The skin-walker, in Navajo tradition called yee naaldlooshii, is a witch who takes the shape of an animal such as a wolf, coyote, or owl to bring harm.
Skinamarink
Skinamarink is a 2022 Canadian experimental horror film by Kyle Edward Ball, made for $15,000 in his Edmonton childhood home, about two children trapped after windows and doors vanish; it leaked online, went viral, and earned $2 million theatrically.
Skincare (film)
Skincare is a 2024 American psychological thriller, the narrative feature debut of director Austin Peters, starring Elizabeth Banks as aesthetician Hope Goldman. Loosely based on the Dawn DaLuise case, released by IFC Films August 16, 2024, Metascore 61, 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Skindred
Skindred are a Welsh ragga metal band formed in 1998 in Newport, fusing heavy metal with reggae, ska and punk. Fronted by Benji Webbe, they topped the Billboard reggae chart with Babylon and reached UK Number 1 in 2026 with You Got This.
Skinfold Thickness
Skinfold thickness: subcutaneous fat measured by pinching a skin-and-fat fold and reading it with a caliper at sites like triceps and subscapular; used for body fat estimation, distinct from BIA and DXA.
Skinhead
Skinhead: youth subculture from working-class London, late 1960s, offshoot of mods with Jamaican ska and reggae influence; later split into racist, traditional, and anti-racist (SHARP) factions worldwide.
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP), founded 1987 in New York by Marcus Pacheco, are anti-racist skinheads opposing neo-Nazi boneheads; two-tone, yellow armband identity, later an individual designation.
Skink
Skinks (Scincidae) are the most speciose lizard family, 1,743 species on every continent except Antarctica, with centers in Australia and New Guinea; ~20% threatened, key threats habitat loss and invasive species.
Skinning
Skinning is the removal of an animal's hide after slaughter, a key meat-dressing step and the start of leather production. Also called dehiding or hide pulling (upward or downward), it is a main point of carcass microbial contamination.
Skinny Dip (novel)
Skinny Dip (2004) is Carl Hiaasen's comic thriller in which marine biologist Chaz Perrone throws his wife Joey off a cruise ship; she survives, is rescued by ex-cop Mick Stranahan, and fakes her death for revenge over his Everglades pollution fraud.
Skinny Fabulous
Skinny Fabulous, born Gamal Doyle, is a soca artist from St Vincent and the Grenadines who won six Soca Monarch titles and the 2019 Trinidad Road March.
Skinny Love
Skinny Love: indie folk song written by Justin Vernon, released 2007 by Bon Iver on For Emma, Forever Ago; Birdy's 2011 piano cover peaked at UK number 17 and reached 737 million streams.
Skinny pig
Skinny pig, a nearly hairless strain of domestic guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) from a 1970s lab mutation; recessive hairlessness, hair only on muzzle and feet, distinct from the Baldwin, needs warm housing and skin care.
Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy: Vancouver industrial band formed 1982 by cEvin Key and Nivek Ogre, pioneers of industrial music with albums Remission, VIVIsectVI, Last Rights, The Process; disbanded after 2023 Final Tour.
Skins (2017 film)
Skins (Pieles) is a 2017 Spanish drama and black comedy, the feature debut of Eduardo Casanova, about deformed outsiders including Samantha, Laura, and Ana; it premiered at Berlin Panorama and earned three Goya nominations.
Skins (British TV series)
Skins is a British teen drama on E4 (2007–2013), created by Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain, set in Bristol, with the cast replaced every two seasons; remade by MTV in 2011 and cancelled after one season.
Skins game
Skins game: golf format where each hole is a "skin" won by the outright lowest score, with ties carrying over. Also The Skins Game, the 1983–2008 TV event revived on Prime Video in 2025.