(n.) A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.
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Gravy
Definition:
(n.) The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
(n.) Liquid dressing for meat, fish, vegetables, etc.
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(1) Four episodes each of myasthenia gravis and pemphigus occurred in our patients; both were reported rarely in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
(2) The potency of atracurium was determined in five patients with moderate to severe generalized myasthenia gravis undergoing thymectomy.
(3) Four samples of thymoma obtained from patients affected by myasthenia gravis have been immunohistologically analysed on cryostat sections using a panel of antisera and monoclonal antibodies specific for antigens which define different stages of intrathymic lymphocyte differentiation and antigens specific for different types of thymic epithelial cells (cortical, medullary).
(4) While studying the latter, we raised a T-cell line from the thymus of a myasthenia gravis patient against recombinant alpha subunit of the human acetylcholine receptor, the target of this autoimmune disease.
(5) ALG therapy is effective in the suppression of cellular immune mechanism, therefore it can be assumed that it exerts its effect in myasthenia gravis by inhibiting thymus hormone stimulation.
(6) Treatment modalities in myasthenia gravis consist of surgery, chemotherapy and plasmapheresis.
(7) We used a "sandwich"-type immunoenzymometric assay (IEMA) and a radioimmunoassay (RIA) to measure antibody against the human nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in serum from individuals with myasthenia gravis, with markedly different results for certain specimens, as measured by the two techniques.
(8) The discoveries that in Graves' disease and myasthenia gravis there are IgG antibodies directed against receptors sites are examples of such developments, while "ikiopathic" thrombocytopenic purpura is now accepted as immunological owing to its behaviour during pregnancy.
(9) The literature on the possible risk of myasthenia gravis complicating pregnancy and delivery is sparse and partly contradictory but some of the reports on the number of perinatal and neonatal deaths are alarming.
(10) We measured the antibody response to 12 pneumococcal polysaccharide antigens in patients with myasthenia gravis (MG) receiving a variety of therapies in order to determine whether the T-cell-independent IgG response to these antigens was augmented by plasmapheresis.
(11) A 34-year-old woman with long-standing multiple sclerosis had a 2-year history and physical signs of myasthenia gravis.
(12) Symptoms suggesting possible myasthenia gravis are seen in speech therapy and cleft palate clinics, and often labeled "palatal insufficiency" without a more specific diagnosis.
(13) The myasthenia gravis improved substantially after thymectomy.
(14) Fluctuations in idiotypic and anti-idiotypic Ab levels over time in two myasthenia gravis patients were found to vary either inversely with one another or in relation to one another.
(15) Sufficient antigenic homology exists between receptors of different species that electric organ receptors are capable of inducing in mammals experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis.
(16) The myasthenia gravis was controlled with pyridostigmine.
(17) These monoclonal antibodies recognized idiotopes present on immunoglobulins in 14-60% of patients presenting myasthenia gravis, indicating substantial idiotype sharing.
(18) Relatively mild and slowly progressive illness, dispersion of patients over at least eight provinces and states in three countries, and a previously unsuspected vehicle had contributed to prolonged misdiagnoses, including myasthenia gravis (six patients), psychiatric disorders (four), stroke (three), and others.
(19) Some of the ones they've sent to the European parliament, one of them got sent to prison , others had to send back a lot of money because they all believed what they were saying about the Brussels gravy train and rather unwisely tried to take advantage of it.
(20) Neuromuscular presynaptic impairment may account for the worsening of myasthenia gravis by thyrotoxicosis.