(n.) Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) The following case highlights the diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas encountered in a middle-aged patient who presented with dementia and apathetic hyperthyroidism.
(3) In the 2nd family, several members had cerebellar signs, chorea, and dementia.
(4) Although there was already satisfaction in the development of dementia-friendly pharmacies and Pride in Practice, a new standard of excellence in healthcare for gay, lesbian and bisexual patients, the biggest achievement so far was the bringing together of a strategic partnership of 37 NHS, local government and social organisations.
(5) Arising out of the localisation neuropathological findings in Alzheimer type dementia, it could be that hormonal findings perform a useful function as indicators of a change in neurotransmitter activity in this disease.
(6) In the improved group, the families reported that the gait abnormality preceded the dementia in 11 patients and occurred at the same time in five.
(7) Overall, the relative risk of Alzheimer's disease for those with at least one first degree relative with dementia was 3.5 (95% confidence interval 2.6-4.6).
(8) This technique was applied to a discriminant function model using selected electroencephalographic sleep measures (sleep maintenance, percentage of rapid-eye-movement sleep, and percentage of indeterminate non-rapid-eye-movement sleep) in elderly patients with major depression or dementia of the Alzheimer type.
(9) This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the majority of deaths attributed to presenile dementia and the majority of deaths from senile dementia are the result of the same disease entity.
(10) Diagnoses like neuroses, alcoholism, and senile dementia produced many visits by few patients.
(11) After standardization, men had PD with and without dementia more frequently than did women.
(12) A total of 54 family caregivers of elderly dementia patients completed interviews and questionnaires assessing the severity of patient impairment and caregiving stressors; caregiver appraisals, coping responses, and social support and activity; and caregiver outcomes, including depression, life satisfaction, and self-rated health.
(13) Against the current climate of hospital closure programmes and community care, attitudes to caregiving were examined in three groups of carers, namely mothers caring for a mentally handicapped child, mothers caring for a mentally handicapped adult and daughters caring for a parent with dementia.
(14) Dementia produced a slowing of the major positive (P2) component of the flash VEP but did not affect the latency of the flash P1 component or the P100 pattern-reversal component.
(15) The loss of muscarinic and the sparing of benzodiazepine receptors occurs in the temporal cortex of histologically normal brains in the absence of significant atrophy and of gross dementia.
(16) Such a model accounts for the difficulty in establishing alcoholic dementia as a distinct disorder and in distinguishing it from Alzheimer's disease.
(17) Recently in senile dementia of Alzheimer type, neuronal loss of cholinergic neurons in the substantia innominata is described.
(18) They included patients with Alzheimer's, Huntington's, dementia and psychosis, the report said.
(19) These variables have to be kept under careful control before changes can be claimed as having pathogenetic importance for schizophrenia or for the progressing dementia in this disease.
(20) Human T cell lymphotropic virus Type I (HTLV-I) infection has not been reported to cause dementia.
Rabies
Definition:
(n.) Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was also able to inhibit the binding both of alpha-bungarotoxin and rabies virus glycoprotein to the acetylcholine receptor.
(2) Rabies antigens were detected by direct immunofluorescence labeling in most McCoy cells of the infected culture, and specific antibodies neutralized the virus growth and CPE.
(3) The analysis of the results of both immunochemical assays showed the presence of two specific antigenic fractions of rabies virus.
(4) We analyzed cell extracts from BHK(21) cells infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and rabies virus for in vitro RNA polymerase activity.
(5) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
(6) Some, but not all, of the T cells from these individuals cross-reacted with various laboratory strains of rabies virus with rabies-related viruses such as Duvenhage and Mokola.
(7) Both the tests had 100.0% sensitivity and specificity when mice brain infected with CVS strain of Rabies virus was used.
(8) A technology for preparation of purified concentrates of rabies virus has been developed permitting to use simultaneously dozens of liters of tissue culture virus-containing fluid for the preparation of a concentrate.
(9) Post-exposure protection of rabies-infected mice was observed by proximal application of axonal flow inhibitors, particularly vinblastine, to the local nerve(s).
(10) Cell-mediated immunity induced by rabies vaccination was studied in humans by the determination of specific interleukin-2 (IL-2) production in a large number of donors (postexposure immunized patients and pre-exposure immunized laboratory workers).
(11) Rabies virions in neurons were mostly found within the cluster of such ribosome-rich regions suggesting a close relationship between the two in the synthesis of virus antigen.
(12) The jackal (Canis adustus) was the predominate wildlife species involved (69%) and played a role in the epidemiology of bovine rabies in remote farm areas.
(13) Comparative nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence analyses of the RNA and proteins of several fixed rabies virus strains have allowed detailed characterization of structural-functional relations of individual virus components.
(14) Our results suggest that NK cells of rabies patients are not fully stimulated and that this might contribute to the virulence of rabies.
(15) 228 persons have been previously vaccinated with inactivated human rabies vaccine Mérieux (HDC).
(16) Accordingly, the New York State rabies diagnostic laboratory has replaced the MIT with the in vitro procedure as a backup for the fluorescent-antibody test in the routine diagnosis of rabies.
(17) Two major tryptic glycopeptides were isolated from desialated rabies virus glycoprotein and were analyzed after protease digestion; one contained two oligosaccharide side chains and the other contained a single oligosaccharide side chain.
(18) During 1982 and 1983, the Centers for Disease Control and cooperating Middle Atlantic States and local health departments collected data on 1,610 raccoons that were submitted for rabies testing and on 133 persons who received rabies postexposure prophylaxis as a result of exposure to wild animals.
(19) Rabies virus glycoprotein and snake venom curaremimetic neurotoxins share a region of high homology (30-45 for neurotoxins and 190-203 for the glycoprotein) in the regions that are believed to be responsible for binding the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.
(20) National Canine Rabies Control Programme finalised by the National Committee on Zoonoses has been taken up recently by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.