What's the difference between adherence and treatment?

Adherence


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of adhering.
  • (n.) The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (2) Preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees C for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence.
  • (3) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
  • (4) In this study, tritiated leucine placed on the isolated maternal side of amniochorion with adherent decidua was incorporated into newly synthesized tritiated human decidual prolactin.
  • (5) In normal lymphoreticular tissue, IgGEA selectively bound to areas colonized by macrophages, IgMEAC to B-dependent areas, whereas E showed no adherence.
  • (6) Results of this study provide preliminary evidence that tracheal adherence and HA of B avium are closely related.
  • (7) Bacterial adherence to vascular sutures was evaluated in vitro using radioactively labeled Staphylococcus aureus.
  • (8) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
  • (9) Alveolar macrophages (greater than 97% esterase positive) were isolated form bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by adherence onto plastic.
  • (10) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
  • (11) Newborn suppressor T cells were characterized as being non-adherent to Ig-anti-Ig affinity columns, soybean agglutinin receptor negative (SBA-), and susceptible to lysis by anti-T-cell specific antiserum plus complement.
  • (12) Approximately 70% of DN thymocytes became bound to FN-precoated culture plates, whereas 30 to 40% of DP and only 10 to 20% of SP cells adhered to FN.
  • (13) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
  • (14) E. coli strain S22-1, serotype O103:H2, isolated from a child with diarrhoea, contained two plasmids; one of these (pDEP12) hybridized with the CVD419 DNA probe derived from a plasmid found in E. coli O157:H7 and associated with expression of fimbriae and ability to adhere to Intestine 407 cells.
  • (15) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
  • (16) At present significant effects have been documented only for the stage of bacterial adherence to the damaged valve.
  • (17) Binding of fibronectin, an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, to Candida albicans was measured, and adherence of the fungus to immobilized ECM proteins, fibronectin, laminin, types I and IV collagen, and subendothelial ECM was studied.
  • (18) Thrombospondin (TSP), a 450-kDa trimeric glycoprotein secreted by platelets and endothelial cells at sites of tissue injury or inflammation, may play an important role in polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) adherence to blood vessel walls before diapedesis.
  • (19) [3H]-leu leukocyte adherence inhibition assay ([3H]-leu-LAI) was modified to identify activity of Sp-TFM.
  • (20) is related to the presence of adherent clots along cerebral arteries and when severe may lead to cerebral infarction.

Treatment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
  • (n.) Entertainment; treat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
  • (2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
  • (3) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
  • (4) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (6) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (7) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
  • (8) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
  • (9) More than 2 months after the combined treatment were required for the suppression.
  • (10) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (11) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
  • (12) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (13) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
  • (14) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
  • (15) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
  • (16) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
  • (17) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
  • (18) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
  • (19) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
  • (20) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.