What's the difference between discase and disease?
Discase
Definition:
(v. t.) To strip; to undress.
Example Sentences:
(1) After transperitoneal approach to the lumbar spine, 400 units of Discase was injected into each disc.
(2) In this study the IgE and IgG specific for sensitivity to chymopapain of 21 patients receiving chymopapain (Discase for injection) was monitored over a 6-month period after injection.
(3) Chemonucleolysis with chymopapain (Chymodiactin, Discase) bears the risk of unpredictable anaphylactic reactions.
(4) The procedures were done under general anesthesia with 18-gauge single needle technique using biplane image intensification and routine discography prior to Discase injection.
(5) A 10- to 14-year follow-up questionnaire of 146 patients treated for sciatica from a herniated nucleus pulposus by chymopapain (Discase) injection revealed a durable, satisfactory result in 66%.
(6) A skin prick test including Discase, Chymodiactin, and Solutrast 250 M, which is a radiopaque dye, has been performed in a total of 257 patients; 222 patients were tested before, and 35 patients were tested after chemonucleolysis with chymopapain.
(7) A skin prick test including Discase, Chymodiactin and Solutrast 250 M, which is a radiopaque dye used for discography, has been performed in a total of 208 patients.
(8) Chymopapain (Discase) was injected at a dose of 0.125 nanokatal unit into the intervertebral discs of rabbits, and sequential changes in the metabolism of water, proteoglycan, collagen, and noncollagenous protein were investigated separately in the nucleus pulposus, anterior, and posterior anulus fibrosus.
(9) Since 1963 Chemonucleolysis [CNL] with discase and collagenase has served as a supplementation to the surgical approach in the treatment of prolapses of lumbar disks.
(10) A prospective, multiinstitutional, double-blind trial comparing the effect of chymopapain (Discase) vs. placebo (cysteine-edetate-iothalamate: CEI) for lumbar intervertebral disc rupture with sciatica was carried out on 173 patients, the largest such study reported to date.
(11) They were treated either by nucleolysis with chymopapain (4 000 U of discase), or by discography followed by injection of distilled water as a placebo.
(12) Positive results were rarer in cases of minimal change discase and of membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis.
(13) From that, follow their practical applications: comparison between several groups that may differ either from the characteristics of the discase or from the received treatments and from the vital future forecasting, either on one group's level, or for an individual.
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.