(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.
Chlorosis
Definition:
(n.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc.
(n.) A disease in plants, causing the flowers to turn green or the leaves to lose their normal green color.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tentoxin is a naturally occurring phytotoxic peptide that causes seedling chlorosis and arrests growth in sensitive plants and algae.
(2) Determinants influencing the degree of leaf chlorosis were located in a separate genome domain encompassing part of gene VI together with the large intergenic region and part of gene VII (nts 6103-90).
(3) Induction of chlorosis was prevented or less evident in mutant plants that were inoculated withPseudomonas tabaci, a bacterial pathogen which produces a toxin that is a structural analog of methioning.
(4) (RS)-AHPA and C-c3Ado induced chlorosis in Nicotiana tabacum leaf discs.
(5) coronafaciens were still able to produce necrotic lesions on oat plants (Avena sativa), although without the chlorosis associated with tabtoxin production.
(6) Chlorosis was assessed after 48 hr of continuous illumination to establish herbicidal potency.
(7) Some cucumber mosaic virus satellite RNAs induce chlorosis on any of several host plants, including either tobacco or tomato.
(8) We found that this bleaching process (chlorosis) in cells deprived of sulfur (S) was similar to that in cells deprived of nitrogen (N), but that cells deprived of phosphorus (P) bleached differently.
(9) Infection of tobacco with various pseudorecombinants of subgroup I and II CMV strains, together with WL3- or B2-sat RNA, suggests that chlorosis is associated with RNA 2 of subgroup II CMV strains.
(10) The correlation of chlorosis induction and a substitution for proline with leucine or serine at amino acid 129 suggests that this residue is the determinant of chlorosis induction.
(11) Site-directed mutagenesis showed that a substitution at nucleotide (nt) 40 in the V1 gene affected streak width, while severity of chlorosis, length of streaks, latency, and host range was determined by a single base change at nt 2473 in the large intergenic region.
(12) Both the "existence" of chlorosis and the way it was understood served ideologically to conceal the growing importance of adolescent labor and the recognition of the social genesis of illness.
(13) Plants that grew varied widely from those with no chlorosis to those with more chlorosis than the original variety from which the discs were taken.
(14) As expected, one group of mutant fail to make toxin in planta, resulting in the absence of chlorosis.
(15) The determinants of host range, severity of chlorosis, streak length, and timing of symptom appearance map to a fragment which includes the large intergenic region and the 5' terminus of the complementary sense C1 gene.
(16) Chlorosis-inducing isolates of Xanthomonas albilineans, the sugarcane leaf scald pathogen, produced a mixture of antibacterial compounds in culture.
(17) causes severe variegated chlorosis in germinating seedlings of certain dicotyledonous species.
(18) By contrast, B2-sat RNA induced chlorosis in tobacco, whereas WL1-sat and G-sat RNAs did not.
(19) Three of the satellite RNAs (B2-sat, G-sat, and WL1-sat RNA) ameliorated the symptoms induced by CMV on tomato, whereas three others (B1-sat, B3-sat, and WL2-sat RNA) induced chlorosis on tomato, the extent and nature of which was CMV-strain dependent.
(20) To determine if chlorosis caused by tentoxin, a toxin produced by Alternaria tenuis Nees., is due to interference with chlorophyll synthesis directly or to disruption of normal chloroplast development, the effects of the toxin on these processes in cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) and cabbage (Brassica oleracea L., var.