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Sweetener

An extra incentive to encourage investors to buy a bond or preferred stock. For example, a bond may include a right to buy common stock in the issuer for 10% below its market value. A sweetener is designed to help sell securities. It is also called a kicker, a wrinkle, or bells and whistles.

Wrinkled

Describing a publication printed on improperly folded or otherwise bungled paper. Wrinkled paper can be expensive to replace and can be detrimental to a marketing campaign.

wrinkles

See bells and whistles.

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Following four microneedling sessions 30 days apart, subjects were assessed for changes in appearance of wrinkles, skin laxity and texture using validated scales.

MT.DERM GmbH marks Exceed medical microneedling device exclusively in the US for the treatment of wrinkles

Surgeons, doctors and dermatologists all know that patients under general anesthesia do not have wrinkles and that hemiplegic patients do not have wrinkles on the paralyzed portion of their faces.

UNDERSTANDING THE WRINKLE

The French study tracked the health of more than 3,200 working adults - after classifying them into three groups, depending on the number and depth of horizontal wrinkles on their brows.

Worry lines could be sign of heart problems: Study

Participants, who were all healthy and were aged 32, 42, 52 and 62 at the beginning of the study, were examined by physicians who assigned scores depending on the number and depth of wrinkles on their foreheads.

Heart disease can be predicted from forehead wrinkles

This led many to think that there might be a link between the tiny cell organelles and the symptoms of aging such as hair loss, wrinkles, and more serious age-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and neurological disorders.

Symptoms Of Aging Reversed In Mice

The wrinkled skin showed changes similar to those seen in both intrinsic and extrinsic aging -- intrinsic aging is the natural process of aging, and extrinsic aging is the effect of external factors that influence aging, such as skin wrinkles that develop from excess sun or long-term smoking.

Scientists reverse aging-associated wrinkles and hair loss

Most studies of wrinkling patterns assume a single polymer membrane; few studies have investigated wrinkles in laminated membranes.

Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Wrinkling Pattern for Aerospace Laminated Membrane Structures

The parameter [[eta].sub.A]/ [[eta].sub.[lambda]] may reflect the morphology of the graphene wrinkles. The wrinkling number n represents the total number of wrinkling crests and troughs.

A Molecular Dynamics Study on Wrinkles in Graphene with Simply Supported Boundary under In-Plane Shear

? "I put this on before make-up and my wrinkles seemed to disappear.

TARGETED WRINKLE REDUCERS; What's a girl to do when her all-over face cream isn't quite doing enough to THAT particular problem area? Whack wrinkles drone-strike style with a targeted anti-ageing product, of course. Both our winners have an instant optical effect on lines plus long-term skin-plumping benefits

NO wonder Honey the Shar Pei looks forlorn, she can barely lift her eyes due to heavy wrinkles.

Please help us Shar Pei for our wrinkly dog's facelift

Bergstrom Nutrition's newest study, titled "Effects of Oral Supplementation with Methylsulfonylmethane [MSM]," demonstrated that when participants took OptiMSM (the company's exclusively-manufactured, Generally Recognized As Safe MSM orally, their wrinkles reduced and skin texture improved.