What's the difference between depurative and disease?

Depurative


Definition:

  • (a.) Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.
  • (n.) A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The greatest reduction of health risks would come from the routine depuration of clams harvested from growing waters of good sanitary quality.
  • (2) Uptake from ambient water and the depuration of five chlorinated phenolics, two chloroguaiacols (3,4,5-tri- and tetrachloroguaiacol), and three chlorophenols (2,4,6-tri-, 2,3,4,6-tetra-, and pentachlorophenol) were studied in the duck mussel (Anodonta anatina).
  • (3) Depuration experiments were efficient when the fish did not contain high concentrations of bacteria in their muscles.
  • (4) Whole-body elimination was rapid with 45% and 25% of the initial radioactivity from ziram and zineb, respectively, being retained by the end of the 16-day depuration period.
  • (5) In general, there is an improvement in chlorination, sewers and sewage-depuration equipment.
  • (6) Deposition in tissues, accumulation, degradation, or depuration depends on tissue type, metabolic processes, detoxification mechanisms, and the adaptive status of a particular animal.
  • (7) A study was carried out to further evaluate the practicability of viral depuration by assaying individual shellfish.
  • (8) In spite of the diffuse character of the deposited amyloid in the renal tissue, there were still no signs of glomerular sclerosis and clinicalf--normal depuration renal function was observed, with normal creatinine clearance and normal nitrogenous bodies in serum.
  • (9) This wide variation would explain the variability of viral contents obtained in pooled samples during depuration as reported previously.
  • (10) The etched with acid both in the adamantine surface and in that of well depurated porcelain, is an important factor to obtain a good retention.
  • (11) All organs, except the gill and kidney, returned to control values after 12 days depuration.
  • (12) Accumulation, tissue distribution, and depuration of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD)-derived 3H were examined in fingerling yellow perch fed a diet containing 494 ppt of [3H]TCDD for 13 weeks followed by the same diet without TCDD for 13 weeks.
  • (13) Renal failure in itself generates a state of malnutrition, due to three main causes: inadequate ingestion (anorexia, vomiting or diet insufficiencies), the existence of catabolic factors (proteins, acidosis, PTH) and extrarenal depuration (which provokes a lack of amino acids and vitamins).
  • (14) The efficiency of viral depuration was roughly a function of the water temperature within the range tested (5 to 20 C).
  • (15) Depuration half-lives (whole body) of TCDF following 30-day exposure ranged from 40 to 77 days and were significantly more rapid in fish exposed to 42.8 ng g-1.
  • (16) At first they have studied in 8 patients the advantages offered by this technique in terms of depuration of small molecules and of tolerance in comparison with HD and HDF.
  • (17) During a 13-h recovery period the abalones depurated 72.2% of retained residues; however, residue concentration in gonad increased over 100%.
  • (18) Viruses usually were eliminated within a 24- to 48-h depuration period.
  • (19) The objective of the present study was to test the hypothesis that V. vulnificus is a persistent microbial flora of oysters and unamenable to traditional methods of controlled purification, such as UV light depuration.
  • (20) Throughout the process, depuration water contained high concentrations of V. vulnificus, indicating that the disinfection properties of UV radiation and 0.2-microns-pore-size filtration were less than the rate at which V. vulnificus was released into seawater.

Disease


Definition:

  • (n.) Lack of ease; uneasiness; trouble; vexation; disquiet.
  • (n.) An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital functions, and causing or threatening pain and weakness; malady; affection; illness; sickness; disorder; -- applied figuratively to the mind, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of ease; to disquiet; to trouble; to distress.
  • (v. t.) To derange the vital functions of; to afflict with disease or sickness; to disorder; -- used almost exclusively in the participle diseased.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
  • (2) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
  • (3) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
  • (4) Disease stabilisation was associated with prolonged periods of comparatively high plasma levels of drug, which appeared to be determined primarily by reduced drug clearance.
  • (5) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
  • (6) Clinical signs of disease developed as early as 15 days after transition to the experimental diets and included impaired vision, decreased response to external stimuli, and abnormal gait.
  • (7) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
  • (8) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (9) 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.
  • (10) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (11) Of 19 patients with coronary artery disease and "normal" omnicardiograms, only 8 (42%) had normal ventricular angiography.
  • (12) A disease in an IgD (lambda) plasmocytoma is described, where after therapy with Alkeran and prednisone a disappearance of all clinical and laboratory findings indicating an activity could be observed.
  • (13) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (14) Acquired drug resistance to INH, RMP, and EMB can be demonstrated in M. kansasii, and SMX in combination with other agents chosen on the basis of MIC determinations are effective in the treatment of disease caused by RMP-resistant M. kansasii.
  • (15) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (16) Diseases of the gastric musculature, including the inflammatory and endocrine myopathies, muscular dystrophies, and infiltrative disorders, can result in significant gastroparesis.
  • (17) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
  • (18) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
  • (19) We measured soluble CD8 (sCD8) levels in the CSF of patients with MS, other inflammatory neurologic diseases (INDs), and noninflammatory neurologic diseases (NINDs).
  • (20) Measurement of urinary GGT levels represents a means by which proximal tubular disease in equidae could be diagnosed in its developmental stages.

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