What's the difference between disease and nosologist?

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.

Nosologist


Definition:

  • (n.) One versed in nosology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The physician preparation procedure was compared with a procedure wherein a panel of three nosologists coded the original death certificate for the underlying cause of death.
  • (2) 1.136 death certificates representing all 1985 Bremen cardiovascular deaths and a 50%-sample of non-cardiovascular deaths in the age group 25-69 years were analyzed for reliability of nosologists' coding according to ICD-coding rules (9th revision).
  • (3) Copies of death certificates were obtained for all 120 confirmed deaths, and cause of death was coded by a nosologist using the rules of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision.
  • (4) We conclude that training, individual characteristics of nosologists, and other factors may cause important artifacts when comparing German mortality statistics on a regional level or during different time intervals.
  • (5) The new standardized death certificates were then transmitted to a panel of three nosologists who coded the cause of death.
  • (6) However, many critical issues confronting nosologists are fundamentally nonempirical and cannot be addressed by the scientific method.
  • (7) A nosologist recorded each death certificate in accordance with the ninth revision of the International Classification of Diseases.
  • (8) Death certificates with diagnoses possibly containing coronary heart disease deaths were enumerated, and cause of death was recorded from the certificate in two ways: as the first listed ("immediate") cause and as the "underlying cause" assigned by a trained nosologist.
  • (9) It is argued that while nosologists often think of themselves along positivist lines, and are often criticized by hermeneutic thinkers for just these assumptions, a synthetic view accounts best for how psychiatric science works.
  • (10) Death certificates were obtained on 3,013 members of the study group and classified according to the 8th Revision of the ICA by a trained nosologist.
  • (11) Kraepelin is often called a nosologist; but one must not forget that Kraepelins nosology was not a static one, nor did he vote in favor of any kind of dogmatism.
  • (12) Classification of causes of death by a nosologist is standardized and relatively inexpensive, although the quality of the data recorded on death certificates has been subjected to criticism and the level of detail may not allow examination of specific circumstances of the death.
  • (13) These certificates, and their International Classification of Diseases (ICD 8) codes derived by an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) nosologist, were compared with the actual death registration papers and their ICD 8 codes.
  • (14) Although many nosologists advocate the autonomy of borderline personality disorder (BPD), its heterogeneity led to demands that it be absorbed into the affective disorder spectrum.
  • (15) The 1.136 photocopied death certificates were used to assess intra-observer-variation in Bremen and to determine inter-observer-variation among 7 nosologists from 6 different State Statistical Offices and the Federal Statistical Office.
  • (16) Deaths were coded by a qualified nosologist and standardized mortality ratios were calculated.

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