(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.
Premunition
Definition:
(n.) The act of fortifying or guarding against objections.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hence the type of immunity which developed against this parasite is premunition and may last for life.
(2) Host animals exposed to low levels of infection were found to develop a strong protective immunity against subsequent lethal challenge and clinical disease even though parasites were not completely eliminated nor prevented from further establishment (premunitive immunity rather than sterile immunity).
(3) Lambs premunized with a relatively less pathogenic (RLP) isolate of Haemonchus contortus were challenge exposed each day with 500 3rd-stage larvae (L3) of a normally pathogenic isolate of the same worm, starting on day 9 of the premunition-induced infection.
(4) It is concluded that treatment with nifurtimox leads to a loss of resistance to reinfection with a large number of trypanosomes, which is maintained with challenge with a few parasites, and that these two thresholds of premunition are probably associated with humoral and cell-mediated anti-T. cruzi immune responses, respectively.
(5) Parasites were not completely eliminated nor prevented from further establishment, therefore the protective immunity was not sterile but rather a state of premunition.
(6) When used alone, immunoglobulin G from African adults who had reached a state of premunition against malaria was found to have no or very limited direct effect on invasion and multiplication of P. falciparum asexual blood stages.
(7) It is therefore suggested that antibody plays an important role in establishing an infection-immunity (premunition) in this system.
(8) Anaphylactoid 'self-cure' did not occur in this experiment but something like premunition certainly did.
(9) Pigeons (Columba livia) that had recovered from previous infections were susceptible to reinfection, whereas pigeons with chronic infection acquired immunity (premunition).
(10) New emerging atypical forms of malaria, characterized by weak parasitemia, among peoples without premunition, back from Plasmodium falciparum resistant areas, make it necessary to use rapid, sensitive, reliable methods of parasitologic diagnosis.
(11) Low levels of APMP in subjects susceptible to clinical manifestations of the disease and high levels in subjects in a state of premunition suggest that the results of the merozoite phagocytosis assay more closely reflect clinical immunity than do other markers of antimalarial humoral immunity.
(12) A 48.5% of premunition in 421 pregnant women living in the Western part of Cameroon is observed with an anti-Toxoplasma gondii indirect immunofluorescence test.
(13) Immunity to the intracellular protozoan, Toxoplasma gondii, in mice is of the premunition type.
(14) Parasitological "cure" by treatment with trypanocidal drugs led to loss of the premunition state associated with the disappearance of antibodies able to induce complement-mediated lysis or ADCC against circulating forms of T. cruzi.