What's the difference between disease and idiopathy?

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.

Idiopathy


Definition:

  • (n.) A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection.
  • (n.) A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Etiologies included trauma (17), alcohol (9), steroid use (46), sickle cell disease (2), and idiopathy (44).
  • (2) The different tests carried out on the patient make the diagnosis of idiopathie auto-immune haemolytic anaemic haemolytic anaemia in this case.
  • (3) The strictures occurred after anastomosis in seven patients, with carcinoma in four patients, and with inflammatory disease, external compression, and idiopathy in one patient each.
  • (4) Forty-three dogs having pruritus associated with atopy, flea bite hypersensitivity, and idiopathy were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 treatment protocols.
  • (5) The first novel award will be contested by Sam Byers for Idiopathy, Kate Clanchy for Meeting the English, The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer, a registered mental health nurse, and Sathnam Sanghera for Marriage Material.
  • (6) The Forestier's disease is an skeletal idiopathy described by this A. and Rotés Querol, in 1950, characterized by the systemic ossification in variable degree of the vertebral column.
  • (7) The causes of EPVT were protein C deficiency in two; antithrombin III deficiency in one patient, a history of omphalitis in two patients, a history of pancreatitis in one patient and idiopathy in 21 patients.
  • (8) Their indications for treatment included cervical factor infertility, spermatozoal antibodies, idiopathy, poor postcoital test, and oligozoospermia.
  • (9) The shortlists Novel award Kate Atkinson , Life After Life Bernardine Bishop, Unexpected Lessons in Love Maggie O'Farrell, Instructions for a Heatwave Evie Wyld , All the Birds, Singing First novel award Sam Byers, Idiopathy Kate Clanchy, Meeting the English Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall Sathnam Sanghera, Marriage Material Biography award Gavin Francis, Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins Thomas Harding, Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of Auschwitz Lucy Hughes-Hallett , The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War Olivia Laing, The Trip to Echo Spring: Why Writers Drink Poetry award Clive James, Dante, The Divine Comedy Helen Mort, Division Street Robin Robertson, Hill of Doors Michael Symmons Roberts, Drysalter Children's book award Ross Montgomery, Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door Sarah Naughton, The Hanged Man Rises Chris Riddell, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse Elizabeth Wein, Rose Under Fire
  • (10) The causes of pericarditis fell into 6 categories: I, tuberculosis (8 cases); II, idiopathy (17 cases); III, neoplasia (6 cases); IV, purulent bacterial infection (2 cases); V, constriction (2 cases) and VI, radiotherapy (1 case).

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