(n.) The art or act of recognizing the presence of disease from its signs or symptoms, and deciding as to its character; also, the decision arrived at.
(n.) Scientific determination of any kind; the concise description of characterization of a species.
(n.) Critical perception or scrutiny; judgment based on such scrutiny; esp., perception of, or judgment concerning, motives and character.
Example Sentences:
(1) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
(2) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(3) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
(4) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
(5) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
(6) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(7) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
(8) This diagnosis was obscured by the absence of cutaneous, oropharyngeal, and respiratory involvement.
(9) The procedure was used on 71 occasions, and in each case a clinical diagnosis was made and compared with the cytological diagnosis made independently by a pathologist.
(10) Other approaches to the diagnosis of pancreatic pseudocysts are reviewed.
(11) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(12) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(13) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(14) The differential diagnosis is more complex in Hawaii due to the presence of granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.
(15) Recognition of the distinctive morphology of MH and the performance of ancillary studies on cytologic preparations should facilitate the rapid diagnosis and early treatment of this aggressive disease.
(16) The diagnosis of variant- or Prizmetal-angina is difficult because if insufficient specificity of the tests.
(17) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
(18) Her muscle weakness and hyperCKemia markedly improved by corticosteroid therapy, suggesting that the diagnosis was compatible with polymyositis (PM).
(19) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
Tuberculin
Definition:
(n.) A fluid containing the products formed by the growth of the tubercle bacillus in a suitable culture medium.
Example Sentences:
(1) Besides various skin tests with the antigens candida, trichophyton, mumps, streptokinase-streptodornase, tuberculin, DNCB and KLH also in vitro experiments measuring the immunoglobulin- and complement concentrations, the antibody production to KLH, the lymphocyte transformation rate to PHA, Pokeweed, Con A, PPD were done nearly in all patients.
(2) The augmentation of IgE-mediated reactions was maximal in tuberculin reactions elicited 1 week after active immunization but was still significant in reactions elicited 6 weeks after immunization.
(3) As a result, it has been found that some of these methods are subject to gross errors and that available figures are unreliable.For estimating the newly infected, a new approach based on the drawing of a curve for the distribution of differences in reaction size from one round of tuberculin testing to another is presented.
(4) The stimulatory effect of purified protein derivative of tuberculin (PPD) was high, whereas a Candida albicans antigen preparation gave a more variable stimulation of the synovial fluid lymphocytes.
(5) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
(6) In humans, intracutaneous BCG immunization leads to positive tuberculin reaction in 6-10 weeks, and skin sensitivity lasts an average of about 4 years.
(7) Tuberculin reactions were mixtures of a perivascular monocytic response (delayed hypersensitivity) which developed early and was absent terminally, and a vasculonecrotic response which developed later and persisted to death of the bird.
(8) That the reaction between tuberculin and platelets is a lytic one was evidenced by observing the release of the cytoplasmic enzyme lactic dehydrogenase and efflux of rubidium-86.
(9) Among BCG-negative children aged 5-14 years, only 5% had a positive Mantoux, a rate lower than most Third World countries but higher than developed countries were under 2% of children are tuberculin reactors.
(10) Preventive therapy for the tuberculin positive, but disease-free child, is provided more cost-efficiently with 6 months than with 12 months of treatment with INH; less than 6 months is not adequate.
(11) Using the MIF-agarose assay, the effect of sera and synovial fluids on the tuberculin-induced migration inhibition was also studied.
(12) However, whereas talus and patella cartilage were affected by the disease, these and femoral-head cartilage seemed to be relatively spared when implanted in air pouches of adjuvant-diseased rats even after a massive inflammatory response was elicited in the cavity following challenge with tuberculin.
(13) Similar transient suppression of tuberculin reactivity by the eczematous inflammation of atopic dermatitis is now shown to occur.
(14) In cultivation of lymphoid cells of the same animals with a nonspecific antigen (tuberculin) the decanted fluids produced no significant cytotoxic action on mous fibroblasts.
(15) Sixty-four patients undergoing elective surgery (indications: 35 with aneurysms, 27 with aortoiliac disease, and two with renovascular disease) and nine patients undergoing emergency operation (indications: two with ruptured aneurysms, seven with aortoenteric fistulas) were skin tested when admitted to the hospital with five ubiquitous antigens (Candida, mumps, tuberculin, Trichophyton, and streptokinase-streptodornase [Varidase]) and read at 24 and 48 hours.
(16) There was no difference among the three strains in their ability to mount delayed hypersensitivity to tuberculin, nor in the response of their cells to PHA in vitro.
(18) It was found that the ability to respond to tuberculin was completely abrogated by the injection of Marcol and could be restored by removing the oil from the peritoneal cavity.
(19) Antigen 60 (A60), a member of the thermostable macromolecular antigen family (TMA) and main component of old tuberculin and purified protein derivative (PPD), has been purified from the cytoplasm of Mycobacterium bovis BCG; its structure and metabolism have already been described.
(20) Tuberculosis infection level in children living together with subjects of groups I, II, Va, Vb and VII dispensary record and tuberculin sensitivity in adults were determined.