(a.) A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.
Example Sentences:
(1) This clinical improvement was also associated with a decrease of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (p less than 0.001), decrease of C-reactive protein (p less than 0.0001) and with improvement of anaemia (p less than 0.05).
(2) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
(3) Therapeutic possibilities for hepatogenous anaemia of complex genesis are discussed.
(4) The presenting feature was an anaemia unresponsive to usual therapy.
(5) Haematological findings in 9 dogs with splenic or hepatic haemangiosarcoma included a mild to moderate normochromic anaemia, neutrophilia, thrombocytopaenia, poikilocytosis and increased target cells.
(6) The authors describe an unusual case of hypoplastic anaemia.
(7) In some normal and iron deficient subjects the GSH-Px activity in the youngest erythrocyte fraction was equal or lower than that previously found in whole erythrocytes of patients affected by haemolytic anaemia.
(8) The infection responded to oxytetracycline and the anaemia subsequently resolved.
(9) In the patients with aplastic anaemia the iron flux was diminished, but never eliminated, demonstrating that the exchangeable compartment was not solely erythroblastic, but included non-erythroid transferrin receptors.
(10) This suggests that there is little survival advantage or disadvantage in the combination of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency and sickle cell anaemia.
(11) However, in most cases red cell synthesis was less than expected from the degree of anaemia, suggesting impairment of bone marrow function.
(12) There was a significant reduction in all colony types in patients with aplastic anaemia when compared with normal controls.
(13) These experimental results demonstrate that aluminium interferes with iron absorption and iron transfer, and suggest that these mechanisms may be responsible for maintaining and even increasing the anaemia observed in aluminium overload.
(14) The antibody was complement-fixing 19S IgM and showed a high thermal range but no detectable haemolytic anaemia was associated.
(15) There was a 25-year history of normochromic normocytic anaemia with moderate basophilic stippling, mild renal failure, hyperuricaemia and abnormal porphyrins.
(16) In view of this, the development of anaemia seems likely to result from the altered iron metabolism induced by stimulated macrophages.
(17) The variation of total Hb in the study population was due, as far as could be defined, only to beta-th-t and a superimposed iron deficiency anaemia (IDA).
(18) Aplastic anaemia and megaloblastic anaemia patients revealed significant differences in the incidence of hepatosplenomegaly, anisocytosis, circulating erythroblasts, relative lymphocytosis (P < 0.001 for all) and reticulocytosis (P < 0.01).
(19) Iron deficiency has been tentatively excluded as a cause of this anaemia by measurement of serum ferritin levels.
(20) Persistent infection with parvovirus (B19) causing severe anaemia has been reported in patients with leukaemia and congenital immunodeficiency.
Asthma
Definition:
(n.) A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until the 1960's there was great confusion, both within and between countries, on the meaning of diagnostic terms such as emphysema, asthma, and chronic brochitis.
(2) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
(3) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(4) The asthma group's fall in FEV1 was also abolished.
(5) We conclude that both exogenously applied PAF by inhalation and antigen exposure are capable of inducing LAR in sensitized guinea pigs, and thus the priming effect of immunization and PAF may contribute to the development of LAR observed in asthma.
(6) The effect of ipratropium bromide administered at two dosage levels, 40 and 80 mug, isoproterenol, 150 mug, and placebo using a metered dose inhaler was evaluated in ten adult patients with asthma in a double-blind, crossover study.
(7) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(8) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
(9) In 20 adult patients with asthma, we evaluated bronchodilation to a single administration of metered-dose glycopyrrolate aerosol (GA) to ascertain its onset and duration of action along with evaluation of safety.
(10) While much research has examined the aetiology and treatment of asthma, little work has been done on its social impact.
(11) There was no statistical difference between atopic children with asthma and those with allergic rhinitis as compared with an age-matched control population of 20 non-atopic children in terms of levels of active T lymphocytes or total T lymphocytes.
(12) This dose is safe and efficient in the maintenance treatment of childhood asthma.
(13) Indicators of the blood kinin system were studied in 57 persons including 42 patients with asthma and 15 healthy persons (control group) in the Kislovodsk health resort area.
(14) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(15) Two patients died from asthma after leaving our service, one patient having left the hospital against medical advice with arterial blood gases demonstrating acute respiratory acidosis during status asthmaticus.
(16) The findings of respiratory and sensitivity tests suggest: (i) that passive smoking may trigger asthma attacks in subjects who suffer from asthma and (ii) that the airways of such subjects show increased histamine reactivity four hours after the passive smoke exposure.
(17) The circumstances surrounding 142 hospital admissions for acute asthma in 110 children during a one year period were examined.
(18) Breathing pattern was no more variable during severe asthma than during recovery.
(19) There is a need for further education of health professionals in the appropriate assessment, documentation and treatment of asthma in children.
(20) For pollen asthma, six studies conclude that there were superior results with desensitization than to placebo.