(n.) The art of treating diseases of the hands and feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have assessed foot problems of, and chiropody provision for, 96 people aged 80 years and over who were living at home.
(2) At present the provision of chiropody for old people is inadequate and ways of improving foot care must be found.
(3) Chiropody is therefore the mainstay of treatment and recurrence is prevented by redistribution of weight bearing forces by moulded insoles in special footwear.
(4) Essential aspects of management are specially constructed shoes, intensive chiropody and precise antibiotic treatment.
(5) The prevalence of symmetrically impaired distal vibration perception was 23%, and 54% of patients either needed or were receiving chiropody.
(6) When combined with palpation of peripheral pulses most patients at risk of foot ulceration can be identified allowing targeting of preventive chiropody and orthotic resources.
(7) In conclusion, despite the interest of most practices in starting a diabetic clinic, access to dietetic and chiropody services was inadequate.
(8) Of the elderly people interviewed, most had received medical care in the previous two months, and chiropody was the commonest supportive service used.
(9) Private chiropody tended to be performed in the home and was more frequent than National Health Service (NHS) treatment.
(10) Access to dietetic and chiropody services on the premises was available in 19 (41%) and 17 (37%) practices, respectively.
(11) The provision of physiotherapy and chiropody services is essential, especially for the participants' complaints, two-thirds of which affected the axial skeleton.
(12) A prototype system, which has now been extended, has been operational for some time covering the chiropody and school nursing staff groups.
(13) Trivial injuries of the foot, wounds (chiropody), bacterial or mycotic infections often lead to tissue defects in the form of a perforating ulcer (in which neuropathy predominates) or of gangrene (in which angiopathy predominates).
(14) Of the 47 people receiving chiropody, two-thirds were being seen privately.
(15) Fifteen subjects needed but were not having chiropody.
(16) Few elderly Asians were aware of social services, such as meals on wheels, home helps, social workers, and particularly chiropody.
(17) The performance of a simple glass bead sterilizer designed for use with hand held instruments such as in chiropody surgeries was studied and found to be generally within specification.
(18) The feet of 259 new patients at a chiropody clinic were examined for tinea pedis, onychomycosis, and erythrasma: 23% of men and 4% of women were infected by dermatophytes, and the nails of seven males were infected by non-dermatophytes.
(19) These results suggest that callus may act as a foreign body elevating plantar pressures and that a significant reduction in pressure is achieved by local chiropody treatment.
(20) Chiropodial care was less readily available in 1990 with 17% of respondents (compared with 11%) reporting a complete lack in the clinic.
Treatment
Definition:
(n.) The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
(n.) Entertainment; treat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(3) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(4) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(6) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(7) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(8) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(9) More than 2 months after the combined treatment were required for the suppression.
(10) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(11) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(12) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
(13) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(14) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(15) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(16) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(17) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(18) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(19) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(20) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.