(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.
Lues
Definition:
(n.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lue-M3 is mainly a monocyte marker, and retinoids thus seem to induce a shift from monocytoid to myeloid differentiation.
(2) Differential diagnosis includes tulareaemia, cat scratch syndrome, lues, and foreign body reaction.
(3) Also, the average value was higher in the lues-seropositive group than that in the lues-seronegative group.
(4) About the cases of treated lues at different stages, in 23 samples with VDRL negative has been found no positivity at three tests used, while in 49 samples with VDRL positive 8 are resulted positive at 19S IgM FTA-ABS.
(5) In addition to the usual periosteal and metaphyseal bone lesions of lues, areas of focal lucencies and sequestra were present.
(6) Two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples--from 347 patients with various psychiatric and neurological disorders--and subsequent silver staining revealed two additional polypeptides (Mr 40,000) in 49% of 111 schizophrenics, 46% of 43 schizoaffective patients, 36% of 41 patients with affective disorders, 43% of 28 patients with multiple sclerosis, but not in 25 patients without neurological symptomatology, nor in 9 patients with Lues, and in only 2 of 25 patients with AIDS.
(7) A protocol of search and eventual control of these pathologies has been developed, in which lues, HBV and HIV infections received particular attention.
(8) The test can be a precious diagnostic tool since, beside allowing to decide the recovery from the disease from an immunological point, finds further applications in the connatal and neurological lues.
(9) Moreover, visual acuity is much better correlated with CS than with LUE.
(10) These findings have been rarely reported in early congenital lues.
(11) Abnormalities demonstrated on upper-gastrointestinal series and a positive FTA-ABS suggested gastric lues.
(12) The result of the investigation, performed on 58 patients, demonstrated a high incidence of serum positivity with respect to lues and HBV markers (the later infection seems to be due both to the sexual behaviour and to narcotic addiction).
(13) There seems to be a pattern of progression of ALS signs and symptoms based on area of onset with LLE involvement tending to follow RLE weakness, LUE weakness following RUE onset, and RUE involvement following next in patients whose onset is bulbar.
(14) c) The serological identification of the antibodies present in luetic sera, obtained by associating selected treponemal and non-treponemal tests (VDRL, FTA-5, FTA-ABS, CF-ATPS) enables us to correlate the serological data with the main biological phases of lues, even during the periods of clinical latency of the disease.
(15) The Lues tests were negative during pregnancy but a displacental transfer of pathogenic agents could be assumed.
(16) The antibody titer in serum to Streptococcus pyogenes L-form and Staphylococcus aureus L-form were determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in 28 patients with Behçet's disease, 31 patients with other uveitis (sarcoidosis: 10, Harada's disease: 5, tuberculosis: 4, rheumatoid arthritis: 4, lues: 2, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: 2, herpes simplex: 2, trauma: 2) and 16 healthy normal controls.
(17) These are: congenital changes, trauma, metabolic neuropathies, Meniere's disease, noise-induced hearing loss, lues, sudden hearing loss, and unilateral symptoms of undetermined etiology.
(18) The specimens were obtained from a 63-year-old white male with acquired lues.
(19) To identify the characteristic features of lues in patients infected with HIV, 402 HIV-positive patients were examined for serological and clinical signs of lues.
(20) The authors' experience shows that the following examinations are useful in the diagnosis of acute unilateral sensorineural hearing loss: the recording of acoustically evoked brainstem potentials, an otoneurological examination, a neurological examination to detect a possible centrally located reason for the hearing loss, serological examinations for lues, toxoplasmosis, Borrelia, and the virus KBR if there is any suspicion of a previous virus infection.