Neither lichen sclerosus nor lichen planus is a deadly condition.
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If you have a dermatological condition such as eczyma, lichen sclerosis, or lichen planus, that may be the culprit.
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Lichen planus may disappear spontaneously or following treatment, but lichen sclerosus rarely improves without proper treatment that should be continued indefinitely.
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Lichen planus generally has broader targets, but an erosive form can affect the anal-genital region and other body parts and be as destructive as lichen sclerosus.
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A related disorder, lichen planus, more often affects the skin and inside of the mouth but can also affect genital membranes, where it can be more challenging to treat than lichen sclerosus.
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We're looking back at the opening of Anthea Hamilton: Lichen!
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For three years, oozing blisters called lichen sclerosus plagued her.
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Less Common Causes Midcalf points out that there are also less common explanations for vulva itchiness, including skin conditions such as eczema, lichen sclerosus, or lichen planus, and, rarely, malignancy such as vulval cancer.
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These include eczema, allergic reactions, or a condition called lichen planus.
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Lichen and moss on a burnt log, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon.
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Here is the lichen turned crouton; here, the squid turned tartlet.
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RELATED: Shop Stylish Outdoor Benches for the Garden A liking for lichen.
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Stands of old-growth hemlock and cedar were draped with dewy lichen.
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That might in turn affect lichen or wolf populations in unknown ways.
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Image: Per Fauchald Caribou are herbivores, feeding on grass, herbs and lichen.
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In rare cases, people can get neurodermatitis, also known as lichen simplex chronicus.
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You can see every shade and crusty edge of lichen on the trees.
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" Ms. Hamilton was chosen for her memorably named solo exhibition, "Anthea Hamilton: Lichen!
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In better air quality, lichen grow faster and sometimes increase in individual count.
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Stir in opacity, inaccessibility, and exclusivity, then powder it with lichen: It's delicious.
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Click here to view original GIFMeet the Lichen Katydid, an insect that has such impressive camouflage skills that it can hide in plain sight when walking on a lichen (a plant-like composite organism of an alga and a fungus).
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Every few years, my relatives visit the marker and scrub lichen from its lettering.
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Mottled with a spray of green-gray lichen, they nearly resembled a camouflage pattern.
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The Association for Lichen Sclerosus and Vulval Health estimates that between one to three percent of women around the world have LS. There's no cure for lichen sclerosus, so the usual medical treatment is a steroid cream to dampen down the inflammation.
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Rock spires meant to resemble petrified sequoias and speckled with yellow lichen towered before us.
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A lichen is what happens when a fungus hugs an algae and doesn't let go.
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New Zealanders are being warned against consuming or licking a certain kind of lichen that grows on roads, pavements, and shaded rocky areas, after claims it's a natural alternative to Viagra, earning it the nickname — and I can't stress this enough — "sexy pavement lichen".
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Moss and lichen add color and texture to rocks, and they bring the impression of age.
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Shake or squeeze the moss/lichen clumps over another transparent dish to collect trapped water. 5.
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You can pick them up in five colors: black, lichen green, ink grey, and brandy rose.
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Glistening cuts of Isfjord cod and roe were nestled atop beds of lichen and ptarmigan feathers.
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Although equally unlikely to grow on rolling stones, lichens do grow in ways similar to moss, with the important requirement of having symbiotic algae close by that actually perform the photosynthesis the lichen needs to grow, in exchange for a cozy spot to live, on the lichen.
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But when Spribille started to get serious about lichen research in grad school, he hit a roadblock.
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" Yet, they added, "when left untreated, vulvar lichen sclerosus can cause significant physical, emotional and sexual discomfort.
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The unrelenting abundance doesn't even feel man-made — decorations pile on themselves like lichen, or like snow.
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A stone cross covered in a web of lichen bears the inscriptions of one of them, the Rev.
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If we think about lichen as responding to the air quality, that's a starting point for this messaging.
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Lichen and fungus are a staple of the reindeer's diet, both of which absorbed much of the Chernobyl fallout.
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"One thing that sets lichen apart from all other symbioses is that all the components are microbes," Spribille said.
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"It's increasingly difficult for artists to pay to live here," Lichen, a 31-year-old performance artist told LAT.
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This study also uncovered a species new to science — a lichen as diminutive as its redwood host is towering.
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Normally, musk oxen survive each winter by pushing their snouts through snow to find lichen, moss and other plants.
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While neither disorder is common, vulvar lichen sclerosus can affect as many as one woman in 30 after menopause.
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While chopping wood, he found that a particular lichen takes on an oniony flavor for three weeks a year.
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So I guess the company thinks there are more people out there who want to date lichen lovers than muckrakers.
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Her concrete stools laced with green and gray wool fibers, for example, are inspired by lichen growing in rock formations.
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While lichen tolerated less severe fires, researchers found, growth did not return as long as 16 years after major fires.
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This year, the focus of the drama is Anthea Hamilton's work in her solo exhibition at SculptureCenter, New York, called Lichen!
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There were ivory fractals of dead lichen, like intricate coral, and miniature hills and valleys of sphagnum moss in every shade.
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There is a wasp named after William Shakespeare, a horse fly named after Beyoncé and a lichen named after Dolly Parton.
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Although the risk of cancer is low, women with either lichen disease should be examined regularly for evidence of a malignancy.
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Collect a clump of moss or lichen (dry or wet) and place in a shallow dish, such as a Petri dish. 2.
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The bug's body matches the wisps of the lichen so damn well that you're not even sure which part belongs to which.
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But we'd need well-preserved fossils to build a case that all three lichen partners have been together since the very beginning.
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Tucked under a ridge of windswept scrub, the rauk faces are chewed with small holes and spotted with white and green lichen.
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The prevailing definition of a lichen is that it arises from a symbiosis between a fungus and a photosynthesizing alga or bacteria.
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Instead of studying only one fungus and one alga, they looked for genetic differences in all fungi between the two lichen species.
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That doesn't fit, and Mr. Kingsley clued for LICHEN here, which is actually not even a plant, interestingly enough, although moss is.
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About one woman in five with lichen sclerosus is likely to have another autoimmune condition, like thyroid disease, vitiligo or alopecia areata.
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So, they would order one book they needed, and nine copies of an obscure lichen book, which was always out of stock.
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The next step will be studying genomes to better understand how various lichen relationships developed and where each fits on the timeline.
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There are also skin conditions that can significantly alter the appearance of the labia, the most common of which is lichen sclerosus.
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China will produce over 30 million tonnes of soybeans by 2020, Zhang Lichen, deputy director of the association, also told an industry conference.
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Sure enough, when they added these markers to samples of lichen tissue, the cells of a hidden fungal partner glowed under the microscope.
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"One reason we think it may have been so hard to culture lichen is that we were missing a key ingredient," Spribille said.
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The nuances of lichen ecology aside, Spribille's research underscores the incredible complexity of the microbial world which is now being revealed through genomics.
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When plants or lichen were growing on top of a sample, emissions decreased by 90% and they were entirely suppressed in wet samples.
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More from Tonic: More serious tattoo-induced skin disorders like sarcoidosis, lichen planis, and lupus-like reactions are increasingly reported in current literature.
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That's when they found that the yellow lichen with vulpinic acid had a much higher number of genes belonging to a basidiomycete yeast.
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And mountain caribou in the northern part of British Columbia simply don't know how to travel to the high country to find lichen.
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Fist-size jagged rocks were piled between outer layers of large, lichen-coated stones — the walls resembled elongated sandwiches, a few feet tall.
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So far, it&aposs available in five rich, versatile colors: black, lichen green, ink grey, and brandy rose — and in sizes XXS-XXL.
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He wanted to get to the bottom of another debate: What was the origin of the hugging habit of most lichen-forming fungi?
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They determined that lichen-forming fungi first evolved about 250 million years ago, on average — long after those plants were rooted on land.
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Every winter, Turi and his extended family look after 1,000 reindeer as they graze freely for lichen under the snow on the tundra.
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The owners of Lichen and Regular Visitors all entered the coffee world with minimal knowledge, and turned to local roasters for their education.
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She clutched at the collar of his T-shirt, her body covered in dark mud and cracked stems of bog cotton, blue lichen.
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The loan was to see if lichen found in both countries were similar, but the sample was destroyed by border officials in Sydney.
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The reindeer live in southern and central Norway, where they graze on lichen and fungus—two things that ravenously absorbed the fallout of Chernobyl.
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"Bryoria have a long and storied cultural significance," Spribille said, explaining how certain Native American tribes relied on the lichen as winter survival food.
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The lichen that produces it, Bryoria tortuosa, can be distinguished from its non-toxic cousin, Bryoria fremontii, on the basis of its yellowish hue.
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Slowly, we began inch-worming our way up, passing bird nests and woodpecker holes, splotches of lichen and scars of long-ago lightning strikes.
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For example, lichen sclerosus, a rash that can appear elsewhere on your body, can cause sex pain if you get it on your vulva.
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She graduated from New York Medical College in Valhalla, N.Y. She is the daughter of Lichen Chen and Minyeong Chen of Temple City, Calif.
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There are varieties of random paths, random two-dimensional surfaces, random growth models that approximate, for example, the way a lichen spreads on a rock.
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And then there were these other areas, which are just exposed granite with [a] thin covering of lichen or grass, which, you know, were beautiful.
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It's been found in 52 genera of lichen across six continents, indicating that it is an extremely widespread, if not ubiquitous, part of the symbiosis.
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It is like looking at a lichen-covered rock on the North Peak in the Catskills, seeing an owl feather, or experiencing an autumn day.
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Made of volcanic rock, they have braved many challenges over the years: climate change, lichen growth, damage from livestock and the encroaching development of tourism.
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"If I'd been diagnosed with lichen sclerosus as a child, been treated and monitored all my life, I might still have got cancer," she says.
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Collect a wide variety of larger twigs and bark for the outside and more flexible, delicate materials like grass, lichen or cobwebs for the inside.
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The unkempt grass alleys and neglected ranks of markers, their stone casings mottled with moss and lichen, speak to the lost world of Jews here.
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Tardigrades, sometimes referred to as moss piglets or water bears, are eight-legged microscopic animals that like to live in moss, lichen, decaying leaves, and soil.
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Recently, a collection of lichen specimens from New Zealand's Allan Herbarium en route to the Australian National Herbarium in Canberra was also destroyed by biosecurity officers.
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A sweeping genetic analysis of lichen has revealed a third symbiotic organism, hiding in plain sight alongside the familiar two, that has eluded scientists for decades.
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This approach caught Spribille's attention when he learned something very strange about Bryoria, a lichen found throughout conifer forests of the western United States and Canada.
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"They found that the toxic and non-toxic forms [of the two species] were identical—at least, in the known parts of the lichen," Spribille said.
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"Making plastics out of corn is like quenching the fire of a cartload of firewood with one cup of water," said Feng Lichen, president of Yumi.
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The findings are very surprising, said François Lutzoni, a professor of biology and a lichen expert at Duke University who was not involved in the study.
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Unable to rear their test subjects in controlled environments, lichen researchers have struggled to perform basic experiments that could shed light the roles of the different symbionts.
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The classic view of lichen is that the photosynthetic organism (an algae or a cyanobacteria, occasionally both) provides food, while the ascomycete fungus offers shelter and structure.
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The rock, like the hump of a whale emerging from the sea, was barren but for lichen and scurvy grass fed by the droppings of sea birds.
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To accommodate vegan diets, Ritual's vitamin D3 is derived from lichen rather than lanolin from sheep's wool, and its Omega-3 comes from algae instead of fish.
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Genital lichen disease is estimated to be 10 times more common among women than men, who are more likely to get it if they are not circumcised.
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From "In the Race to Live on Land, Lichens Didn't Beat Plants": A lichen is what happens when a fungus hugs an algae and doesn't let go.
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We join the herder Issat Turi, whose reindeer are grazing nearby, digging their hooves through the thick snow to uncover patches of lichen on which they feed.
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Clearly, more research is needed to sort out all the ways this newcomer fits into our picture of lichen—but serendipitously, its discovery could make future studies easier.
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The crag clears out of people, so we get down in a dry stream bed underneath a dried up waterfall of lichen-covered rocks and beautiful water-slick stones.
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Lichen planus, which often affects younger women, may start with very itchy purplish bumps on the skin — often the wrist, shins or ankles — that can spread over the body.
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Though I typically avoid wearing leggings to anything but workout classes, the lichen green is so beautiful and the material so comfortable I'll make an exception for this pair.
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The humidity, rainwater, and sunlight nourish the living wall just like the grass of a lawn except the lichen and fungi make a black patina not unlike William's charcoal drawings.
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One species in particular, a sort of sea lichen called Fenestrulina rugula, basically took over, crowding out other species and reducing the biodiversity, with other species declining (but none disappearing).
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In the new study, it was not hard to trace the path of the nitrogen from penguin and elephant seal to lichen and moss and then to mites and worms.
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Like a volcano, it seemed to spit forth its arrangement: a 14-foot-high foundation of gloriously twisted mountain laurel branches covered in lichen, wrapped in foraged invasive greenbrier vines.
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Then he brought out a large bag of dried caribou horn lichen he had collected in the watershed, along with a container of golden medicinal tea made from the vegetation.
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In this case, the stick spiders radiated into three ecological types: brown rock-dwelling spiders, shiny gold leaf-dwelling spiders, and a white matted species of spider that munches on lichen.
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About 17,000 lichen species are known worldwide, although much about them remains unknown — for example, the potential uses for the more than 600 unique compounds that lichens are known to produce.
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One planned dish was a sushi-like confection: raw fermented lamb served atop a cake of crispy fried reindeer lichen, cemented in place with an emulsion of mushrooms and pickled berries.
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"This wasn't at all what we set out to find," said Geoffrey Donovan, an economist who worked on the project with his research partner, Sarah Jovan, a moss and lichen expert.
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After being fast-tracked for a biopsy, she then heard the term lichen sclerosus for the very first time when her gynecologist told her it was probably what had caused cancer.
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Raising sheep for wool, and making her own dyes from local moss, lichen, bark and plants (and the contents of a chamber pot), tapestry freed her from dependence on commercial materials.
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Other skin diseases can appear too: eczema (inflamed, itchy, irritated skin); vitiligo (a loss of skin pigment in blotches); sarcoidosis (an inflammatory disease); lichen planus (flat, itchy, purple bumps); even skin cancer.
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And a worker at the facility is preparing to grow potatoes and turnips on land close to the Arctic Circle that is usually too cold for anything other than lichen and reindeer.
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Lichen sclerosus can occur at any age but most commonly affects girls before puberty and women after menopause, suggesting that low levels of sex hormones may play a role in its onset.
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To Mr. Blake and Mr. Be at Lichen, coffee was key, and a Nespresso wouldn't cut it — it was important to learn brewing from scratch, even the minutiae of scales and timing.
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It is one of the oldest and most successful symbioses in nature, said Toby Spribille, a lichen expert at the University of Graz in Austria, and the lead author of the new paper.
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Around them there seemed to be an infinite sampling of vegetation: ferns and clover and scrub and bracken giving way to maples and firs and oaks and hemlocks covered in lichen and moss.
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Symptoms of lichen sclerosus include smooth white patches on the skin, intense itching, tearing of the skin, discomfort or pain that can be extreme, and in severe cases bleeding, blisters or ulcerated sores.
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The most effective treatment for lichen sclerosus is a potent corticosteroid ointment called clobetasol (Temovate), applied in tiny amounts several times a day at first, then less and less often as symptoms improve.
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At Lichen, a boutique in Williamsburg that sells home goods and furniture, you can pick up Danish glass cups for $7, an Italiana Luce lamp for $85 or a marble chair for $12,000.
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It would be much like South America's Patagonia region is now: a place with not a tremendous amount of vegetation but more biocrusts like lichen and mosses, the "living skin" of the planet.
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Edburg uses wool to make representations of natural forms, like lichen, cheatgrass, river rock, alpaca, grassland, and tornadoes, and these representations of invasive and indigenous flora are then used as props in her portraits.
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"Any woman who has had sexual pain, but invariably those with lichen sclerosus, can develop a vicious cycle of vaginismus (pelvic floor contractions) which causes pain after their condition has been treated," says Frodsham.
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The centuries-old cedar and hemlock trees, and the lodgepole and whitebark pines in the high country, are home to a lichen that the southern herds of so-called deep-snow caribou depend on.
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At last fall's London Design Fair, she presented pastel-colored totems made of Jesmonite — a composite substance made from gypsum powder and acrylic resin — and five species of lichen embedded directly onto their surfaces.
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They were silky-soft and smooth to the touch, and the olive hue, Lichen, was a chic alternative to the drawer of black sports bras and leggings that I, apparently, can't get enough of.
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"Areas like Shannon Falls have very polished granite, it's very slippery with the mist and the lichen and etcetera that builds up around there-going in or near those pools has great risk," Wilcox said.
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Wild orchids, mosses and lichen, unseen birds chirruping, a coastal meadow with soft grass carpeting the slight descent to the waterfront — all these sights were pleasant, but I experienced them with a sense of distance.
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The team looked at nitrogen because its various isotopes made it relatively easy to trace it from the sea to mosses and lichen that grow on land, and to the animals that feed on them.
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Mr. Guiraud said he was all the more angry to learn through news accounts that a similar episode occurred with six lichen specimens on loan from New Zealand that were mistakenly destroyed by Australian authorities.
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