What's the difference between blindness and cecity?

Blindness


Definition:

  • (n.) State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clonazepam was added to the treatment of patients with poorly controlled epilepsy in a double-blind trial and an open trial.
  • (2) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
  • (3) We report the results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of acitretin (Soriatane) in 15 patients with moderate to severe psoriasis.
  • (4) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (5) In a randomized double-blind study, 40 patients with coronary heart disease received intravenously either 0.025 mg nitroglycerin or placebo.
  • (6) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) The epidemiological effectiveness of dipyridamol, an interferon-inducing agent used for the prevention of influenza and viral acute respiratory diseases, was tested in 4 epidemiological trials, 3 of them carried out as double blind trials.
  • (9) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (10) A randomised double-blind trial comparing this preparation with a so-called 'shotgun' combination containing 0.05% betamethasone 17-valerate, 0.1% gentamicin, 1.0% tolnaftate and 1.0% clioquinol in 288 patients in the Philippines resulted in a better efficacy for the diflucortolone preparation in the 80 patients with bacterially or mycotically infected skin diseases.
  • (11) Blinded outcomes of depression and cognition were measured initially and twice in each phase.
  • (12) Therefore, two-dimensional echocardiographic findings in 22 patients with perivalvular abscess found at surgery or necropsy were compared with those in 24 patients without abscess in a retrospective but blinded study.
  • (13) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
  • (14) In a double-blind, randomized, within-patient comparative study, the efficacy and tolerability of Ro 14-9706 (an arotinoid methyl sulfone) in the treatment of actinic keratoses was compared with that of tretinoin (all-trans-retinoic acid).
  • (15) Eighteen adult epileptic patients under CBZ therapy were evaluated in this single-blind, randomized cross-over study.
  • (16) A total of 17 patients suffering from musculoskeletal disease were included in a double blind study to compare the efficacy and safety of piroxicam and indomethacin.
  • (17) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
  • (18) A prospective, double-blind study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of oral dexamethasone premedication in reducing a variety of side effects associated with metrizamide myelography.
  • (19) They then entered, on a randomized and double-blind basis, a cross-over trial of two 16-week periods, blood pressure being measured fortnightly.
  • (20) The design was a single-blind randomised controlled study.

Cecity


Definition:

  • (n.) Blindness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An animal model for Clostridium butyricum necrotizing cecitis has been developed in axenic chickens inoculated orally between 2 and 50 days of life.
  • (2) The tissue level of endogenous prostaglandins seems to exert protection since administration of cyclooxygenase inhibitors, indomethacin and aspirin, markedly increased the incidence of cecitis.
  • (3) The cecitis lesions were well developed 3 and 4 weeks after oral inoculation, including enlargement with an increase of the cecum weight-body weight ratio, a marked hyperplasia, congestion, inflammatory infiltrate and pneumatosis of the cecal wall and mesentery, hemorrhage in the lamina propria and submucosa, and ulcerations and necrotic areas in the mucosa.
  • (4) A highly toxigenic strain of C. difficile readily induced cecitis in germfree and antibiotic-treated conventional mice, and histological examination frequently revealed pseudomembranes.
  • (5) Therefore, we tested the hypothesis that cefoxitin causes Clostridium difficile cecitis in prairie dogs.
  • (6) These data show that passive immunity induced by monoclonal antibodies against toxin A was effective against pseudomembranous cecitis.
  • (7) Cecitis was obtained with two C. butyricum strains isolated from neonatal necrotizing enterocolitis and not with a Clostridium beijerinckii strain from dairy products; the rate of colonization of the intestinal tract by this strain was lower than that obtained with C. butyricum strains.
  • (8) Castor oil also prevented the cecitis and peanut oil exerted partial protection.
  • (9) The prophylaxis of the diabetes is the true prophylaxis of the cecity.
  • (10) The presence of 4% lactose in the diet seemed to be a prerequisite for the development of cecitis in chickens.
  • (11) Acute inflammation of the colon (cecitis) was produced in hamsters by daily subcutaneous administration of an antibiotic for 3 days.
  • (12) Saccharomyces boulardii, a nonpathogenic yeast, was found to be effective in preventing clindamycin cecitis recurrence in an animal model.
  • (13) These results demonstrate that in prairie dogs cefoxitin induces C. difficile cecitis.
  • (14) The fatness as a factor of risk for the diabetic retinopathy and consecutively for the appearance of the cecity have less been studied.
  • (15) Magnesium sulfate given orally and sodium salicylate given subcutaneously reduced the incidence of cecitis only partially.
  • (16) The following prostaglandins completely prevented the cecitis: 16,16-dimethyl-PGE2, 15(R)-15-methyl-PGE2, and 2-acetyl-2-decarboxy-15(S)-15-methyl-PGF2 alpha.
  • (17) Hamsters given the new penicillin temocillin, either orally or by injection, did not develop antibiotic-associated colitis, whereas animals given the control antibiotics cefoxitin or clindamycin developed the disease, which is characterized by marked hemorrhagic cecitis and high cecal levels of Clostridium difficile cytotoxin.
  • (18) The doxium and the photocoagulation could eventually make the cecity to be late but they belong to the group of treatment, but it is not a prophylactic element for cecity.
  • (19) The purpose of this work was to estimate the relationship between the proteases and the C. difficile toxins produced in a gnotobiotic mouse model of pseudomembranous cecitis.

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