(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.
Sequela
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, follows.
(n.) An adherent, or a band or sect of adherents.
(n.) That which follows as the logical result of reasoning; inference; conclusion; suggestion.
(n.) A morbid phenomenon left as the result of a disease; a disease resulting from another.
Example Sentences:
(1) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
(2) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
(3) Sequelae of chemo- and radiotherapy were only depicted by magnetic resonance imaging.
(4) The prognosis of meningococcal arthritis is excellent and joint sequelae are rare.
(5) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(6) Since alterations in insulin responsiveness, especially insulin resistance, have been related to the metabolic sequelae of shock, the present study evaluated insulin responsiveness in traumatic shock.
(7) Obstetrician-gynecologists must place lymphocytic adenohypophysitis in the differential diagnosis of pituitary enlargement associated with pregnancy, since treatment is available and the sequelae may be life-threatening.
(8) Sequelae include infertility, pelvic pain, ectopic pregnancy, and perinatal infection.
(9) For sequelae in the brain, nervous plexuses, heart, eye, surgical treatment can be useful, even if frequently with palliative results.
(10) Medical record review provided information on indications for method of delivery, delivery complications and injuries, neonatal complications, and neurologic sequelae up to 4 years of age.
(11) A search was made for predisposing factors and sequelae of diet-induced obesity (DIO) or resistance to DIO (DR).
(12) The goals of burn care are to preserve life, to preserve function, to limit physical and psychological sequelae and to provide social reintegration.
(13) About 7% of all Saudi Arabians, and 42% of those older than 40 years, have a cataract or its sequelae.
(14) Periodical examinations, repeated admissions and treatment of the malignant disease sequelae, make the relationship between the patient and the doctor a lifelong one.
(15) The use of homografts appears to be a promising method of repairing the sequelae of chronic otitis.
(16) Pentaglobin has been postulated to have anti-endotoxin properties and one of the aims of the study was to measure endotoxin levels in these patients together with the clinical sequelae of infection.
(17) The present study, together with previous reports, indicate that lisuride may interfere with ischemia-induced cerebrovascular disturbances and, in such a way, improve some pathological sequelae of cerebrovascular disease.
(18) Due to the better understanding of the therapeutic sequelae, particularly following radiotherapy, this modality is avoided whenever possible in young children.
(19) Three had idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, 2 had pulmonary emphysema, 1 had bronchiolitis and the other had a sequelae of pulmonary tuberculosis.
(20) Studies on the safety of prostaglandins for labor induction, for both child and mother, have generally concluded that if uterine hyperstimulation is avoided, there will be no serious sequelae.