What's the difference between disease and semiotic?

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.

Semiotic


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.
  • (a.) Same as Semeiotic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It examines from a semiotic perspective the double transformations of spirit and host which in the beliefs and practices of the People of the Air constitute "therapy."
  • (2) Biology thus is, in itself and in all its aspects, natural semiotics with a pronounced proximity to deterministic chaos.
  • (3) The endoscopic anatomy of the subdural space structure and endoscopic semiotics of intracranial lesions are presented.
  • (4) I want the whole run as raw material for my up-coming PhD on the semiotics of 20th-century Britishness at the University of Uppsala.
  • (5) A semiotic conceptualization of pain in the chronic pain syndrome is proposed.
  • (6) Special attention is paid to psychopathology as well as to psychodynamic and semiotic aspects of the delusional illness.
  • (7) A phonocardiographic semiotics of the complications is presented.
  • (8) The present empirical study of the semiotic aspects of suitability for psychotherapy grew out of this early experience.
  • (9) The results of this and previous studies are interpreted within a semiotic theory of communication.
  • (10) This paper reports phenomenological and semiotic research on therapeutic rituals in a Muslim shrine, concentrating on three cases studies.
  • (11) Bodily expressions were analyzed according the semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce.
  • (12) Normal tomoechoencephalogramme and ultrasonic semiotics of transverse sections of the brain in different pathology is described with reference to its nature and interrelationships with the meninges and brain matter (tumours, abscesses, emningeal and intracerebral haematomas, hydroma, brain confusion, intracranial foreign bodies).
  • (13) In the neurological examination of the child, there is a growing significance of subclinical semiotics and graphomotor expression.
  • (14) The goal of the present paper is to give a classification of psychosomatic theories on symbolic body functioning by applying two modern semiotic theories (Peirce, de Saussure).
  • (15) In the article is presented the echographic semiotics of the forearm interosseous membrane, based on the results of 10 forearm examinations.
  • (16) Semiotic structures have the form of saying something about something to someone and involve speech act, reference, pragmatics, and interpretation.
  • (17) The semiotics of curry allows for market segmentation and a premium pricing strategy.
  • (18) A comparison of image quality assured by electroroentgeno- and roentgenography did not establish any significant difference in soft tissue tumor semiotics.
  • (19) Echographic semiotics of radiation cystitis was studied in detail versus cystoscopy data.
  • (20) This article shows that since scientific explanation employs a language of its own, its syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic dimensions must therefore be analysed with the help of semiotics.