(n.) That which infects, or causes the communicated disease; any effluvium, miasm, or pestilential matter by which an infectious disease is caused.
(n.) The state of being infected; contamination by morbific particles; the result of infecting influence; a prevailing disease; epidemic.
(n.) That which taints or corrupts morally; as, the infection of vicious principles.
(n.) Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods; implication.
(n.) Sympathetic communication of like qualities or emotions; influence.
Example Sentences:
(1) In January 2011, the Nobel peace prize laureate was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital for what officials initially described as tests but what turned out to be an acute respiratory infection .
(2) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(3) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
(4) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(5) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
(6) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(7) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
(8) Thus, saponin and ammonium chloride can be used to isolate whole infected erythrocytes, depleted of hemoglobin, by selective disruption of uninfected cells.
(9) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(10) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(11) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
(12) Patients were chronically ill homosexual men with multiple systemic opportunistic infections.
(13) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(14) Subtypes of HBs Ag are already of great use in the epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infections; yet they may have additional significance.
(15) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(16) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
(17) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
(18) 53 outpatients with HIV-infection classified according to the Walter Reed staging system (WR1 to WR6).
(19) Other research has indicated that placing gossypol in the vagina does inhibit the effect of herpes simplex virus type 2 infection, however.
(20) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
Slough
Definition:
(a.) Slow.
(n.) A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire.
(n.) A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
() imp. of Slee, to slay. Slew.
(n.) The skin, commonly the cast-off skin, of a serpent or of some similar animal.
(n.) The dead mass separating from a foul sore; the dead part which separates from the living tissue in mortification.
(v. i.) To form a slough; to separate in the form of dead matter from the living tissues; -- often used with off, or away; as, a sloughing ulcer; the dead tissues slough off slowly.
(v. t.) To cast off; to discard as refuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mucosal sloughing with hemorrhage and infarction were observed at 3 hours.
(2) More suppliers have told the Guardian of extensive negotiations with Amazon staff in Slough, adding to the impression that the company carries out important trading activities in the UK and so could be liable for tax.
(3) In mammalian small intestine absorptive cells are known to migrate from the villus base to the villus tip from which they slough.
(4) The most marked effect of the ZnSO4 took the form of necrosis and sloughing of surface cells in both strains one-half day after ZnSO4 irrigation.
(5) Cameron’s call for the Malaysian political class to fight corruption came as he pitched the country’s financiers the chance to invest in £17bn worth of UK infrastructure projects ranging from a Leeds orbital road route, Slough town centre and prime residential properties along the Thames.
(6) The histopathologic features include peritubular sclerosis, small vessel sclerosis, premature germ cell sloughing, and variable degrees of hypospermatogenesis.
(7) Changes in sperm head morphology are caused by (1) a dramatic reshaping and consolidation of the acrosome in which excess plasma membrane overlying it is sloughed as a cluster of vesicles, (2) a reorientation of the nucleus almost parallel to the axis of the tail and (3) distal movement of the droplet from its initial envelopment of the nucleus to an eccentric position on the anterior segment of the midpiece.
(8) Acute hypothermia induced a sloughing of cells from the villi into the lumen of the gut, as indicated by an increased DNA in luminal washings.
(9) Toxic epidermal necrolysis results in skin sloughing that resembles a partial-thickness thermal injury.
(10) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that in diabetic BB rats there was consistent evidence of swollen cells, raised nuclei, and sloughing of nuclei in endothelial cells of the aorta.
(11) However, after sloughing of labelled cells in the intestinal lumen, Pu was reabsorbed by the distal epithelial cells.
(12) It places the implant deep to prevent skin slough and irregularities in skin surface contour.
(13) Newer communities have settled in towns and cities such as Milton Keynes, Slough, Northampton, Southampton, and in London, notably Ealing, Tower Hamlets and Newham.
(14) Sloughing vesiculobullous oral lesions are a frequent component.
(15) Within 1 day of injury, columnar epithelium sloughed intact from the trachea with a concomitant reduction of nearly 35% in the basal cell population.
(16) Early changes (0-2 hours) included focal tumor and endothelial cell vacuolation and swelling as well as sloughing of tumor cells into papillary spaces.
(17) Histologically, the 4.0 ppm animals demonstrated bronchiolar epithelial necrosis and sloughing, bronchiolar edema with macrophages, and focal pulmonary edema.
(18) Ciliated cells had a slightly vesiculated cytoplasm, and many were in the process of being sloughed from the epithelial surface.
(19) Preliminary histochemical studies show that terminin is also found in the superficial epithelial layer of the esophagus, where terminal differentiation is followed by apoptosis and sloughing off into the lumen.
(20) In both the mouse and the rat, some of the superficial cells sloughed between fetal day 18 or 19 and the day of birth.