(n.) The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Radiological examination and complete hepatological exploration were carried out before and after the treatment in all cases.
(2) The aim of this study was to describe and to evaluate the publications of the last 30 years devoted to computer-aided decision support in clinical hepatology.
(3) Recent progress in hepatology has provided better knowledge in etiology and pathophysiology of hepatic dysfunction and its sequelae.
(4) The program uses a hierarchical list of current (key) topics in hepatology to offer "intelligent" searches.
(5) An expert system for medical decision making in hepatology has been developed with the aim of assisting medical education.
(6) With respect to their knowledge representation, CADIAG-1 has obvious advantages in totally ill-defined areas such as syndromes in internal medicine, whereas CADIAG-2 seems more suited for domains with basic laboratory programs, e.g., hepatology or gall bladder and bile duct diseases.
(7) 45 data had been studied (clinical results, paraclinical data concerning hepatological diagnostic and connective tissue metabolism and morphologic data).
(8) We previously reported that high-dose ursodeoxycholate (UDC) infusion in rats resulted in extensive glucuronidation of UDC, and speculated that the glucuronidation causes bicarbonate-rich hypercholeresis induced by UDC (Takikawa, H., Sano, N., Narita, T. and Yamanaka, M. Hepatology 1990; 11: 743-749).
(9) An epidemiological survey of patients in the Warsaw Clinic of Infectious Hepatology, the Polish National Center of AIDS Control, has been made.
(10) Inspection of the partial amino acid sequence of an unidentified mitochondrial autoantigen (Muno, Kominami, Ishii, Usui, Saituku, Sakakibara & Namihisa, Hepatology 1990; 11, 16-23) shows that it is the E1 beta-subunit of the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, previously identified as a major autoantigen, and not a 'new' alternative major autoantigen.
(11) A study from five hepatology units documenting 157 cases of drug-induced hepatitis and a second study from a laboratory of immunology which tested more than 100,000 sera permitted us to establish the frequency of antiorganelle antibodies and their diagnostic value in drug-induced hepatitis.
(12) Based upon these findings, it can be concluded that liver biopsy remains an indispensable diagnostic procedure in the field of hepatology, since it can result in modification of the clinician's diagnosis in one out of five cases.
(13) In a survey the trend of the biochemical investigations in hepatology is analysed.
(14) In this paper we describe LIED (Liver: Information, Education and Diagnosis), a diagnostic expert system devoted to medical education in the field of hepatology.
(15) Information was gathered on recognition and treatment of alcohol problems in the primary and secondary health sectors, the latter represented by a department of hepatology.
(16) Basic therapy of more complicated causes includes well balanced nutrition and symptomatic treatment according to the known principles of hepatology and intensive care medicine.
(17) For the manual search, the contents of 34 arbitrarily selected, gastroenterologic, hepatologic, surgical, or general journals were perused.
(19) CADIAG-1 and CADIAG-2 are medical expert systems with applications in rheumatology, gastroenterology, and hepatology.
(20) This is an overview about the work of the Central Scientific Research Institute of Gastroenterology, Moscow, with special attention of hepatology.
Herpetology
Definition:
(n.) The natural history of reptiles; that branch of zoology which relates to reptiles, including their structure, classification, and habits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Herpetology is a rapidly growing interest in this country, reptiles being kept both for research purposes and as pets.
(2) He became known as the "Adder King", occasionally came to work with a snake in his sleeve and would go on to publish seven highly regarded books on herpetology (and prove, inter alia, that snakes are not susceptible to music).
(3) His many outstanding contributions to the fields of immunology, public health, toxinology and herpetology required not only a very high level of observational, deductive and practical ability but also an unswerving vision and sense of duty; this was allied to great administrative skill and exceptional energy.