(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.
Phthisic
Definition:
(n.) Same as Phthisis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phthisical eyes of 2 patients revealed clinically unsuspected, partially necrotic and partially vital malignant melanomas of the uvea and extensive intraocular ossification.
(2) A white retrolental membrane is seen initially, later the eyes usually become phthisic.
(3) An abnormally small, shrunken choroidal blush can be seen with microphthalmia, extreme degrees of hyperopia, and in the phthisical eye.
(4) Implementing a DFG with the authors' method allows improvement in the enophthalmos concomitant with a phthisical globe.
(5) Twenty four per cent of hypotonous eyes and 4% of eyes with normal or elevated IOP became phthisical.
(6) In 3 eyes vision deteriorated to no light perception; 2 of them became phthisical.
(7) Exenteration of the phthisical eye and orbital contents showed an extensive pleomorphic adenocarcinoma of the nonpigmented epithelium of the ciliary body with extraocular extension.
(8) The two brothers of this patient both had phthisical left eyes, and those eyes were examined histopathologically.
(9) With the exclusion of one phthisical eye in each group final mean intraocular pressure in the ACTSEB group was 15.1 mm Hg, with a mean of 0.43 medications, and 14.4 mm Hg, with a mean of 0.95 medications, in the Molteno group.
(10) The majority of eyes in which the vitrectomy fluid was replaced with saline solution became phthisical.
(11) The right eye became blind and phthisical, and it was enucleated at the age of 42 years.
(12) Another case who had panophthalmitis prior to surgery became phthisic.
(13) Thirty (70%) of 43 eyes, which had follow-up of at least two months, became phthisical.
(14) It is suggested that a prolonged phthisical state of the eye is one condition wherein the mosaic pattern may become permanent and that, as a secondary event, this is followed by irregular calcification of Bowman's layer which particularly involves the ridges projecting into the epithelium.
(15) The end-stage ossification resulted in "phthisic bone" formation which completely filled the vitreous cavity in a manner very similar to the human condition of phthisis bulbi.
(16) These results suggest that the majority of severely-injured eyes become phthisical, but do not require removal for pain.
(17) This eye ultimately became phthisical and required enucleation because of chronic pain.
(18) The authors describe a new application using dermis-fat grafting either primarily or secondarily in conjunction with evisceration of selected phthisical globes.
(19) Three eyes eventually required enucleation for the relief of pain; one stabilized, and two others became phthisical.
(20) A hugh episcleral traumatic conjunctival inclusion cyst enveloping almost the whole eye, which appeared in the left phthisical eye of a young woman who sustained a perforating ocular injury a few years before enucleation, is described.