What's the difference between convalescence and sanatorium?

Convalescence


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Convalescency

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assay was developed using serum antibodies collected from horses convalescing from strangles.
  • (2) The CT and MRI findings from the acute stage to the convalescent stage were considered to be characteristic of JE.
  • (3) These predictive equations originate from studies of less than or equal to 30 patients generally lacking measurements beyond the third week of convalescence.
  • (4) The voice claiming to be Chávez says he is convalescing and his closest friends betrayed him.
  • (5) The cytotoxic activity of all the strains tested was neutralized by antibody to the Hly- extracellular material and by convalescent pig serum.
  • (6) Specific immunofluorescence tests demonstrated that IgG and IgM antibodies of acute-phase serum to Rickettsia japonica, a spotted fever group rickettsia isolated from patients in Japan, were not detected, while both IgG and IgM antibody titers of convalescent-phase serum increased to 1:320.
  • (7) Throughout convalescence, no special treatment was given beyond medication.
  • (8) In four additional patients studied serially, the cell-mediated immunity was significantly increased during the recrudescence of herpetic infection, with a mean specific immune release value of 51.7 plus or minus 27.8%, compared to 8.7 plus or minus 1.5% during the convalescent period 2 to 10 weeks later (P is less than 0.05).
  • (9) Reovirus-like agents were detected by electron microscopy in the feces of 11 of 31 patients, but none was found from specimens collected during convalescence or from 16 asymptomatic matched controls (P less than 0.01).
  • (10) The immune adherence hemagglutination (IAHA) test was compared with the complement fixation (CF) test and fluorescent antibody (FA) test to measure the antibody titer to varicella-zoster virus (VZV) in 70 sera of convalescents 2 to 8 weeks after herpes zoster onset.
  • (11) Patients with myocardial infarction underwent coronary angiography in their convalescent period to determine involved vessels.
  • (12) This would involve a long period of convalescence by the patient, followed by years of living with his deformity.
  • (13) However, not all convalescent sera were suppressive, indicating that rats immunized with MBP in FCA could become refractory to EAE without assayable levels of suppressive activity in their sera.
  • (14) Bands of reactivity, of the same molecular mass as some of these, were found on immunoblots when rat and human convalescent sera were used as the source of primary antibody.
  • (15) We investigated the ultrastructure of nasal cilia in 27 children suffering from recurrent infections of the upper respiratory tract, during and after the onset of an acute respiratory infection, and after a convalescent period of 12 weeks.
  • (16) A blocking factor that abrogated leukocyte migration inhibition induced by EBV antigen was detected in acute and convalescent sera obtained from six of eight patients, whereas serum antinuclear autoantibodies were detected in the two patients whose sera failed to block leukocyte migration inhibition.
  • (17) In the event of convalescent problems of renal origin, delayed nephrectomy remains an option.
  • (18) The activities of CPK were higher in the acute stage of influenza than during the convalescence out of bed, whilst the controls showed higher activities when ambulant than during bed rest.
  • (19) Convalescent children and staff whose diarrhea had resolved and who were receiving appropriate antimicrobials were allowed to return to the larger center before negative cultures were obtained and were separated in an isolation room.
  • (20) In healthy seropositive adults, IgG antibodies with the same molecular weight polypeptides, excluding the 205K and 235K polypeptides, were detected as in convalescent CMV-MN patients.

Sanatorium


Definition:

  • (n.) An establishment for the treatment of the sick; a resort for invalids. See Sanitarium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors elaborated differentiated complexes of rehabilitative treatment for patients with spastic hemiparesis, normal or decreased tone, as well as for patients with transient disorders of cerebral circulation in conditions of a cardiological sanatorium.
  • (2) In the therapeutic schedule of a great sanatorium, primarily specialized in the treatment of bronchial and asthmatical diseases to the effect of a rehabilitation, a new speciality for the treatment of the symptom cough-Contrapect-was tested.
  • (3) The present study deals with urinary free and total hydroxyproline (HOP) in a group of adults between 63-93 years old, admitted in a sanatorium for geriatries.
  • (4) On admission to National Musashi Sanatorium, three years after the first symptoms' appearance, she presented restless walking, insomnia, memory loss, weakness of concentration, and high degree of disorientation.
  • (5) The author describes problems of psychiatric intensive care and its contemporary structure in the catchment area of the psychiatric sanatorium in Opava.
  • (6) 124 capable men who had survived large focal myocardial infarction underwent a 24-day course of treatment in a cardiological sanatorium situated in climatic conditions of low mountains (1600 m above the sea level).
  • (7) The authors analyzed a group of 52 case-sheets from hospitalized patients with the objective to provide protective in-patient treatment in the sanatorium in Havlíckův Brod.
  • (8) Intradermal immunization of 229 chronic neuropsychic patients in Gura Ocnitzei Sanatorium, Dîmbovitza County, where a typhoid fever outbreak burst, was performed with a freeze-dried typhoid vaccine, suspended in purified and concentrated tetanic anatoxin.
  • (9) Children with cardiovascular dysfunction on sanatorium treatment underwent adaptation which proceeds without pathological shifts and depends on initial functional status of a child.
  • (10) Part I: From the Era of Sanatorium Treatment to the Present pulls together data from yellowed-with-age reports on tuberculosis and vital statistics, historical accounts, and modern computer files, to document the changes in tuberculosis incidence and mortality over past decades to the present.
  • (11) This paper presents observations over 18 cosmonauts who participated in space flights of 75 days to 12 months and stayed in a sanatorium in the city of Kislovodsk thereafter.
  • (12) Widespread screening for HIV infection began 3 years ago, and persons identified as infected have been sent to a sanatorium located in a Havana suburb.
  • (13) A survey of long-term hospitalised Zulu psychiatric patients at Ekuhlengeni Sanatorium, Umbogintwini, Natal, revealed a 31% incidence of neuroleptic-related abnormal movements.
  • (14) The system of staged rehabilitation of chronic bronchitis (CB) sufferers implies a sanatorium treatment stage involving climate, exercise, physical, psychological treatments, etc.
  • (15) Sanatorium treatment and conditioning inhibited sensitivity to meteorological factors in rheumatic children by 60 and in healthy children by 83%.
  • (16) Of the remainder, 5% of the home patients and 6% of the sanatorium patients died of tuberculosis, 4% in each series had bacteriologically active disease at five years and 90% and 89%, respectively, had bacteriologically quiescent disease at that time.
  • (17) Stimulated by positive reports of patients who were treated with CO2-gas injections during a sanatorium stay in the CSSR and after evaluation of the literature, we began with the CO2-gas injection in our patients in 1983.
  • (18) The sanatorium had 14 beds, operating theaters for aseptic and septic surgeries, the most modern devices, instruments, roentgenograph and electric light (17 years before Split was supplied with electricity).
  • (19) Long before the epidemic of lung cancer, or the possibilities of correction for cardiac disease, development of thoracic surgery was closely intertwined with the history of the sanatoriums.
  • (20) Bandits have taken over.” In the sanatorium kitchen volunteers were making lunch.