(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.
Trichinosis
Definition:
(n.) The disease produced by the presence of trichinae in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.
Example Sentences:
(1) An enzymatic and immunologic study of 18 patients with trichinosis leads to the following conclusions: The stage of muscular invasion in trichinosis is accompanied by a release of cellular enzymes representative of striated muscle fibres in nearly all the cases.
(2) Control strategies to prevent human trichinosis should include trichinosis surveillance of all commercial swine, as well as strict compliance with current regulations.
(3) Further investigation is needed to establish its role in the treatment of taeniasis, Hymenolepsis nana, Strongyloidiasis, Trichinosis, and Dipetalonema perstans.
(4) Parasitic zoonoses caused by nematodes, such as trichinosis, present a public health concern as well.
(5) This study indicates that both ketoconazole and mebendazole should be considered in the treatment of trichinosis in humans.
(6) In 1982, an epidemic of acute trichinosis occurred in Bitburg with 402 cases.
(7) The most important diseases are toxoplasmosis, taeniasis, cysticercosis, sparganosis, clonorchiasis, fascioliasis, fasciolopsiasis, paragonomiasis, echinostomiasis, trichinosis, gnathostomiasis, and angiostrongyliasis.
(8) Although fewer than 100 cases per year are reported to CDC, trichinosis continues to persist as a public health problem in this country.
(9) Tests for trichinosis and other parasites and for allergic and connective-tissues disorders were negative, and serum immunoglobulin concentrations and erythrocyte sedimentation rates were normal.
(10) Two outbreaks of trichinosis occurred in France in 1985 and 1,073 cases were identified.
(11) Mucosal peroxidase is localized in LP cells and its activity increases several-fold during intestinal trichinosis.
(12) E. coli pyelonephritis produced a similar adrenal response, although the peak serum corticosterone caused by pyelonephritis was less than the serum corticosterone occurring during the first peak of eosinophilia during trichinosis.
(13) This article reported the result of the chest radiographs of 14 patients with trichinosis, in regard to the X-ray manifestations, pathologic basis and clinical significance.
(14) The role of tail chewing in the transmission of trichinosis in swine is briefly discussed.
(15) Procedures known to deplete or inactivate the pool of recirculating lymphocytes such as neonatal thymectomy, administration of antilymphocyte serum, and prolonged thoracic duct drainage, either singly or in combination, resulted in a highly significant reduction in the eosinophil response to trichinosis.
(16) Trichinella spiralis is a parasite of carnivorous animals that causes the disease trichinosis.
(17) Clinical and morphologic observations are described in a 46 year old woman with fatal trichinosis.
(18) Trichinosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of eosinophilia in travelers returning from abroad.
(19) Before 1990, the proportion of cases of trichinosis attributable to consumption of commercial pork had declined steadily.
(20) A severe case of trichinosis occurred following the ingestion of raw meat from a common black bear, Ursus americanus, that was shot in Butte County, California.