(n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
(n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.
(n.) Alt. of Acrostical
Example Sentences:
(1) Mr Elton's flourishing of "Augusta" is made the more repellent by Mrs Elton's mock-coy revelation that he wrote an acrostic on her name while courting her in Bath.
(2) With these factors in mind, health educators may set them out as an acrostic, based on the 1st letters of a slogan which could be taught to attendants: A Child Needs Personal Love With Which To Enjoy Protein.
(3) Top Gear's James May was once sacked by Autocar for working an acrostic (a message spelled out in the initial letters of each line) into a special supplement, which explained how editing the pull-out was a "real pain in the arse".
(4) Campaign strategies this time around have included an acrostic poem attacking a local Fairfax Regional paper, the Mandurah Mail, for being “Malicious Asshole Nutcases Dickheads” (it goes on, but we won’t).
Pneumonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lungs; pulmonic.
(a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.
(n.) A medicine for affections of the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(2) Calves showing signs of pneumonia had low levels of IgG1 (45-5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml compared with "now-pneumonic" calves which had relatively high levels (only 9.5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml).
(3) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
(4) The causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis (CMV-associated, 2 pats.
(5) The conventional explanation for the high fatality rate due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis among allogeneic transplant recipients is that immunosuppression renders the host unable to control replication of this opportunistic agent.
(6) He is still well; however, interstitial pneumonitis, mild thrombocytopenia, and polyclonal hypergammopathy have persisted for 4 years.
(7) The criterion of efficacy was the ability of the vaccines to reduce the extent of pneumonic lesions in vaccinated as against unvaccinated control lambs.
(8) After challenge with P. hemolytica, the levels of plasma arachidonic, oleic, and palmitic acids, together with PGE and 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, were elevated markedly, in association with clinical signs of bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis.
(9) In 110 cases with acute leukemia, the main causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis, relapse of leukemia, infection and GvHD.
(10) To assess the efficacy of the combination of the antiviral agent ganciclovir (9-1,3 dihydroxy-2-propoxymethylguanine) and high-dose intravenous immune globulin for treating cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
(11) A marked peripheral predominance of the interstitial densities was seen in all seven cases of fibrosing alveolitis and in the patient with rheumatoid lung, in marked contrast with the two cases of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in whom a central distribution of the changes was seen.
(12) Patients receiving 20 Gy or more of mediastinal irradiation before coming to transplant had more idiopathic or cytomegalovirus (CMV) interstitial pneumonitis than those who received less than 20 Gy (30% v 9%, P = .027).
(13) To better characterize the cytotoxic lymphocytes present in the lung of patients with hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), we studied cells recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of 5 subjects with farmer's lung disease.
(14) The breathing of 40% oxygen for a sufficient time seems to be a threshold for dangerous lung effects, since one patient developed a diffuse pneumonitis and another a partly-diffuse partly-focal pneumonitis while exposed to this concentration.
(15) We showed previously that trehalose dimycolate (TDM) in oil administered intraperitoneally into susceptible mice produced interstitial and hemorrhagic pneumonitis by the seventh day after injection and that mature T cells are necessary for the production of these lesions.
(16) A good correlation was observed between the lung weights and severity of the atypical pneumonitis.
(17) Although each of the serotype strains appeared to be a potential bovine pathogen, subtle differences were observed which may explain the importance of Serotype 1 strains in bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis.
(18) The symptoms and signs observed in this patient are seen in less than 10% of patients with this disease: arthralgia, epistaxis, jaundice, skin rash, and pneumonitis.
(19) We report two cases of uncommon pathological reactions, one resembling a hypersensitivity pneumonitis and the other mimicking a giant cell interstitial pneumonia.
(20) Indications for therapy included severe dyspnea, hemoptysis, and postobstructive pneumonitis.