(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.
Typhoid
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to typhus; resembling typhus; of a low grade like typhus; as, typhoid symptoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two new typhoid vaccines, one for oral administration and the other for injection, which have much fewer and milder side effects than previous whole-cell parenteral vaccines, have become available.
(2) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.
(3) Salmonella typhi O and H antibody titres were determined by the Standard Agglutination Test (SAT) in 85 patients with bacteriologically proven typhoid, 102 patients with non-typhoidal febrile illnesses (control group 1), and 170 healthy subjects (control group 2).
(4) Forty four (11%) of these isolates were resistant to chloramphenicol, ampicillin, co-trimoxazole and tetracycline, the first three being drugs currently used in treating typhoid fever.
(5) Criterion of inclusion in the study was either positive blood culture in 70 (80%) cases or postmortem gross appearance of typhoid fever in 18 (20%) cases.
(6) It may be concluded that for recovery in typhoid fever CMIR is more important than antibodies.
(7) If you send them within 48 hours and there's a typhoid outbreak , you're putting these people at risk."
(8) Performing 178 fuctional-metabolic tests in 50 cases of typhoid fever (of which 10 severe and complicated forms), the authors established the prognostic value energy deficiency (approximately P), lactate, alkaline reserve and GPT.
(9) Chloramphenicol can be used to treat serious pediatric infections when Haemophilus influenzae is a likely pathogen, as well as typhoid fever, anaerobic infections, bacterial meningitis in patients allergic to penicillin, brain abscesses, and rickettsial infections.
(10) Studies were designed to develop an animal model which mimics the asymptomatic carrier state of typhoid fever, Salmonella typhi infection, in man.
(11) To study this in man we investigated the relation between a number of APPs, including fibrinogen and alpha 2-macroglobulin, and the inflammatory edema induced by a primary immunization against cholera, typhoid, and yellow fever.
(12) The efficiency of an ELISA method, designed to detect polyvalent IgG and IgM antibodies to Salmonella typhi polysaccharide was evaluated in patients admitted or convalescing from typhoid fever and in control subjects.
(13) The fluorescent Vi antibody test was however found superior to both tests not only in giving less false positives but also in detecting more typhoid carriers.
(14) Lymphocyte adenosine deaminase (L-ADA) activity, a measure of lymphocyte activity, was estimated in 10 healthy controls and 30 patients with typhoid fever (20 uncomplicated and 10 complicated) at the time of admission, at onset of complications and weekly until recovery.
(15) Practical and clinical aspects make it necessary to differentiate between typhoidal, systemic infections and enteric salmonellosis, which normally remains localized in the gut.
(16) Inflammatory reactions to intradermal S. typhosa endotoxin increased significantly during typhoid fever.
(17) We investigated the effect of hydrocortisone on mortality and complications in chloramphenicol-treated severe typhoid fever (STF) in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
(18) In addition, since endotoxin can impair bile secretion, our results suggest that endotoxin may have a pathogenetic role in the development of liver injury during typhoid fever.
(19) The frequency and intensity of general and local reactions were identical for equal doses of typhoid and paratyphoid B vaccine.
(20) We report the case of a young man in whom Citrobacter freundii caused a primary invasive illness similar to typhoid fever.