(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.
Noma
Definition:
(n.) See Canker, n., 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) No such lymphocytes were identified in normal women, and in the remaining 55 patients, 33 had benign disease of the breast, 20 had Stage III carcinoma of the breast and two had Stages I and II carc-noma of the breast.
(2) Two mechanisms are known which might produce such an effect: Firstly, the shortening of the action potential which occurs during metabolic inhibition will markedly reduce the time during which Ca channels remain open, thereby causing a diminished total Ca influx during the action potential (Isenberg et al., 1983; Noma and Shibasaki, 1985; Kakei et al., 1985).
(3) A full-term neonate with nasal and scrotal noma is uncommon and is therefore reported.
(4) Twenty-eight children with ANUG and nine children with noma were studied over the past 9 years.
(5) Noma and noma neonatorum are rare gangrenous diseases that result in mutilating loss of tissue in the oronasal region.
(6) MAP inhibits the in vitro protein synthesis of rabbit reticulocyte with approximately one-thirtieth the activity of the ricin A chain, a homologous protein with no such bond (Habuka, N., Murakami, Y., Noma, M., Kudo, T., and Horikoshi, K. (1989) J. Biol.
(7) This is then followed by continuing necrosis and possible sequestration as exemplified by noma.
(8) A full-term neonate with orofacial noma, bilateral choanal atresia, and transient neutropenia with B cell deficiency is reported.
(9) (3) Tubed pedicle skin grafting is applied for buccal contracture cases caused by noma etc.
(10) The findings demonstrated that both nutritive and nonnutritive sucking scores were higher in the efficient feeders than in the inefficient feeders and that the revised NOMAS scores accurately classified the two groups.
(11) In PBC contact persons a strong stimulation of naturally occurring mitochondrial antibodies (NOMA) has been observed which was in contrast to the lack of this antibody type in PBC patients.
(12) Thanks to adventurous restaurants – Copenhagen's Noma has served up ants and fermented grasshoppers – and pioneering organisations such as Ento in London, we are coming to terms with the notion that insects might actually be nice to eat.
(13) A transient impaired immune cellular function was found and may have contributed to the development of the noma in this child.
(14) Redzepi first read about Jama in the Guardian last year and invited him to speak at Noma's recent Mad Symposium food festival where his talk was called War zone cuisine: bringing back peace and life to Mogadishu .
(15) René Redzepi, the celebrated founder of Noma, was so shocked at the latest outrage that he launched a fundraising drive to help Somali Ahmed Jama rebuild his establishment.
(16) However, loading the cytosol with Sr2+ by means of a second pipette sealed to the same cell in the presence of Ni2+ as an inhibitor of the Na+-Ca2+ exchanger revealed difference currents compatible with a non-specific cationic channel activated by intracellular Sr2+ (Ehara, Noma & Ono, 1988).
(17) Three Native American children with severe combined immunodeficiency developed noma, a necrotizing gingivostomatitis not previously reported in this country.
(18) The surgical treatment of the sequelae in the patients affected by noma is possible even in emerging countries if the surgeon carefully evaluates each patient individually choosing simple, safe, sound and satisfactory techniques which are conditioned by sex and age of the patients.
(19) Measles is the most common infection preceding the development of noma in Nigerian children.
(20) As Ferran Adrià's heir apparent and current number one cook in the world, René Redzepi of Copenhagen's Noma, tells me: "Ferran and his team are culinary freedom fighters.