(a.) Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(2) We conclude that chronic emphysema produced in dogs by aerosol administration of papain results in elevated pulmonary artery pressure, which is characterized pathologically by medial hypertrophy of small pulmonary arteries.
(3) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(4) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
(5) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(6) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
(7) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
(8) 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.
(9) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
(10) During the chronic phase, pain was assessed using visual analogue scales at 8 AM and 4 PM daily.
(11) These data indicate that CSF levels are not inversely related to the blood neutrophil count in chronic idiopathic neutropenia and suggest that CSF is not a hormone regulating the blood neutrophil count in a manner analogous to the erythropoietin regulation of circulating erythrocyte levels.
(12) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
(13) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(14) The leukemic T-cells in two patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) had specific features of large granular lymphocytes (LGL), and those in two patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) had L2 morphologic characteristics.
(15) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
(16) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(17) These results show that lipo-PGI2 at a very low dose would be beneficial as a treatment for relieving the clinical symptoms of chronic cerebral infarction and that lipid microspheres are a useful drug carrier for PGI2 analogue therapy.
(18) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
(19) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
(20) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
Tabes
Definition:
(n.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.
Example Sentences:
(1) Electrodiagnostic data have not been previously reported in tabes dorsalis.
(2) Central motor and sensory conduction was studied by percutaneous electrical stimulation of brain and spinal cord and by somatosensory evoked potential techniques respectively, in patients with adrenoleukomyeloneuropathy, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis, human T-cell lymphotropic virus-1-associated myelopathy and tabes dorsalis.
(3) Tabes dorsalis and diabetic osteoarthropathy must be differentiated from alcohol-induced syndrome.
(4) The absence of significant correlations between academic skills and self-esteem is underscored by the negative relationship between the TABE scores and the Dean alienation measures.
(5) The paper is concerned with roentgenoanatomical analysis of the osteoarticular system in 607 patients with syringomyelia (21), tabes dorsalis (42), diabetes mellitus (324), psoriasis (187) and traumatic injuries of the spine and spinal marrow (33).
(6) Unlike the previously reported finding of areflexia in tabes dorsalis, all 3 had hypocompliant detrusor hyper-reflexia with detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia and post-micturition residual urine.
(7) For the first time in the English literature, the uro-dynamic findings of a patient with tabes dorsalis are presented.
(8) Are described the three main diseases which provoke a neurogenic arthropathy, that is the tabes, the hydrosyringomyelia, the diabetic neuritis.
(9) Meningovascular and vascular syphilis were relatively more common than in the prepenicillin era; tabes dorsalis and general paresis were unchanged in relative frequency.
(10) A case of postural hypotension in a patient with tabes dorsalis is reported.
(11) Other causes of symptomless pneumoperitoneum include pneumatosis intestinalis, perforation in tabes dorsalis or coma, stercoral ulceration, physiological pneumoperitoneum in women due to exercise in the knee-elbow position, and vaginal douches with a bulb syringe or effervescent fluid.
(12) A case is presented of tabes dorsalis with spinal gumma producing collapse of the L5 vertebra followed by paraplegia.
(13) This situates the pathological process in the central axon of the sensory ganglion, as in tabes or clioquinol poisoning.
(14) Laboratory investigations revealed a major osteoporosis probably related to the neurochirurgical complications of the tabes dorsalis.
(15) The picture is similar to that of syringomyelia and tabes.
(16) Lancinating pain, as described in tabes dorsalis, was noted in four patients with chronic sciatica after several months of laminectomy.
(17) Originally associated with tabes dorsalis, the sign has now been found in a number of conditions with lesions in the area of the nucleus of Edinger-Westphal.
(18) Charcot joints of the spine are well-documented clinical entities most commonly associated with tabes dorsalis.
(19) Finally, various associations, without significance such as multiple sclerosis, diffuse muscular lesions and the classic spondylotic pseudo-tabes, should be rejected.
(20) Nine patients with tabes dorsalis and one patient with diabetic autonomic neuropathy were subjected to hypoxia to test the integrity of their carotid chemoreceptors.