What's the difference between defervescence and departure?
Defervescence
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Defervescency
Example Sentences:
(1) However, high-dose oral ampicillin therapy had no advantage over that with lower doses or over chloramphenicol as judged by the rate of defervescence after the start of treatment, the rate of clinical relapse and the frequency of excretion of Salmonella typhi during convalescence.
(2) After quinine therapy defervescence occurred and blood smears were continuously free of malaria parasites.
(3) Among infants with bacteremia but without meningitis, differences from nonbacteremic children were detected in clinical appearance prior to fever reduction but not following defervescence.
(4) At defervescence, core temperature fell to a level near that of the pre-lesioning base line.3.
(5) Fourteen patients (58%) responded to percutaneous cholecystostomy, as evidenced by a decrease in WBC count, defervescence, and the ability to be weaned off vasopressors.
(6) Two patients with H. influenzae cellulitis and bacteraemia defervesced within 24 hours and their blood cultures became negative promptly.
(7) Prompt defervescence was attributed to reduction of bacterial flora and institution of appropriate antibiotic treatment based on culture of the aspirate and sensitivity studies of organisms.
(8) Analysis of febrile responses indicated that amantadine-treated patients had significantly more rapid defervescence.
(9) At least 90% of the patients in each group had subjective improvement and defervescence within 2 days, and all patients followed for at least 2 weeks achieved complete clinical and bacteriologic cure.
(10) As compared to the randomized control group of patients treated with antibiotics alone, patient survival was only slightly improved (from 25% to 42%; NS); however, the defervescence time was significantly shorter (10 vs. 16 days), and a greater percentage of microbiologically positive cultures became negative (40% vs. 8%; p less than .01).
(11) Four patients were febrile for 36 h after initial defervescence.
(12) This temperature-relationship persisted under conditions with different states of cutaneous vasoconstriction and thermal panting as observed in fever and during defervescence.
(13) No difference was discerned between these two agents in terms of time required for defervescence, roentgenographic clearing, and ultimate outcome.
(14) In the treatment of Gram-positive bacteraemia, first-line administration of teicoplanin was found to be associated with early defervescence and with a significantly higher rate of success without modification of treatment (P less than 0.01).
(15) In 45 patients in whom typhoid fever was confirmed by culture of a blood sample, cefotaxime (1 gm BID) was administered intravenously for four days; if defervescence did not occur by day 5, the dosage was increased to 2 gm BID until defervescence, when it was reduced to 1 gm BID until discharge.
(16) Defervescence was a little more rapid with chloramphenicol (six to seven days) than with ceftriaxone (seven to ten days) even though blood, urine and stool cultures were all negative from the third or fourth day of treatment.
(17) Therapy with intravenous gamma-globulin (IVGG) results in rapid defervescence, disappearance of signs and symptoms of inflammation and prevention of coronary artery aneurysms.
(18) The same dose of salicylate given 4 h after the start of an EP infusion resulted in rapid and progressive defervescence.
(19) Defervescence of fever was rapid (median: 4 days) and the duration of hospitalisation was short (median: 8 days).
(20) However, defervescence of fever following commencement of antibiotic therapy occurs equally rapidly in these three groups.
Departure
Definition:
(n.) Division; separation; putting away.
(n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
(n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.
(n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
(n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
(n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ultimate nonsurvivors of ICU admission (36 per cent) had shorter out-of-hospital times, shorter travel distances, and increased interventional support, as assessed by the Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System applied over the telephone and prior to departure at the referring hospital.
(2) The unidirectional Cl- fluxes may have significant contributions from both the transcellular and paracellular pathways, with the direction of departure from predicted values being consistent with the presence of Cl- exchange diffusion.
(3) The announcement of Dame Helen Ghosh's departure from the top job at the Home Office the morning after the Olympics is likely to leave Whitehall looking "maler and paler".
(4) At higher concentrations of burimamide, inhibition curves showed distinct evidence of departure from competitive character for both guinea pig and rabbit atria.
(5) The main findings of the study in comparison with the control group were: Mean OCC residue levels in blood were slightly higher in group A and markedly so in group B; The variability and the extent of departure from normality of distributions of organochlorine insecticides (OCIs) decreased, whereas those of PCBs increased, in arteriosclerotic patients (more markedly in group B); The degree of correlation between blood serum levels of various OCCs was elevated in group A and low in group B.
(6) I suppose he’ll have to go to QPR.” Lampard released a statement confirming his departure from Chelsea that read: “When I arrived at this fantastic club 13 years ago I would never have believed that I would be fortunate enough to play so many games and enjoy sharing in so much success.
(7) Everton ended with 10 men after Seamus Coleman limped off with all three substitutes deployed but there was no late flourish from a visiting team who, with Fernando replacing Kevin De Bruyne after the Irish defender’s departure, appeared content to settle for 1-2.
(8) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
(9) The departure of Emmerson – who said in a statement that no allegations had been put to him – is a huge blow.
(10) The model assumption that there are no second- or higher-order interactions was tested in the 2 X 2 X 2 X 2 table of twin by disease outcomes without revealing strong evidence of departure, even in this large data set.
(11) Four non-executive directors have now announced their departure.
(12) Yes, Shine, the company she set up after a controversial departure from Sky, was helped by an output deal with that branch of the family firm.
(13) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
(14) With Hilton's departure to the US, Coulson's role is likely to become even more important.
(15) The 24-year-old becomes Alan Pardew’s fifth signing of the summer and offers much-needed support up front after the departures of the loan signing Loic Rémy and the out-of-contract Shola Ameobi.
(16) The killings set the stage for the departure of former president Viktor Yanukovych, the installation of the new government, the Russian incursion in Crimea and Ukraine's current crisis.
(17) Taking the results of this first series as a point of departure, the next experiment focussed on the possible masking influence of friction noise on the perception of a preceding stop.
(18) However, the dihybrid cross with linkage group I marker maroon showed a highly significant departure from 39:13:9:3 ratio.
(19) He told me it was a difficult moment because of the departure of André, who is a friend of his, and that we had to look ahead.
(20) In overturning the fine, the court today found that the commission had long "practiced restraint" in exercising its authority to sanction broadcasters for indecent content, and that the mammoth fine was an improper departure from that.