(a.) Of or pertaining to pneumonia; as, pneumonic symptoms.
(n.) A medicine for affections of the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(2) Calves showing signs of pneumonia had low levels of IgG1 (45-5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml compared with "now-pneumonic" calves which had relatively high levels (only 9.5 per cent had less than 8 mg per ml).
(3) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
(4) The causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis (CMV-associated, 2 pats.
(5) The conventional explanation for the high fatality rate due to cytomegalovirus (CMV) pneumonitis among allogeneic transplant recipients is that immunosuppression renders the host unable to control replication of this opportunistic agent.
(6) He is still well; however, interstitial pneumonitis, mild thrombocytopenia, and polyclonal hypergammopathy have persisted for 4 years.
(7) The criterion of efficacy was the ability of the vaccines to reduce the extent of pneumonic lesions in vaccinated as against unvaccinated control lambs.
(8) After challenge with P. hemolytica, the levels of plasma arachidonic, oleic, and palmitic acids, together with PGE and 6-keto-PGF1 alpha, were elevated markedly, in association with clinical signs of bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis.
(9) In 110 cases with acute leukemia, the main causes of death were interstitial pneumonitis, relapse of leukemia, infection and GvHD.
(10) To assess the efficacy of the combination of the antiviral agent ganciclovir (9-1,3 dihydroxy-2-propoxymethylguanine) and high-dose intravenous immune globulin for treating cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
(11) A marked peripheral predominance of the interstitial densities was seen in all seven cases of fibrosing alveolitis and in the patient with rheumatoid lung, in marked contrast with the two cases of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in whom a central distribution of the changes was seen.
(12) Patients receiving 20 Gy or more of mediastinal irradiation before coming to transplant had more idiopathic or cytomegalovirus (CMV) interstitial pneumonitis than those who received less than 20 Gy (30% v 9%, P = .027).
(13) To better characterize the cytotoxic lymphocytes present in the lung of patients with hypersensitivity pneumonitis (HP), we studied cells recovered from bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) of 5 subjects with farmer's lung disease.
(14) The breathing of 40% oxygen for a sufficient time seems to be a threshold for dangerous lung effects, since one patient developed a diffuse pneumonitis and another a partly-diffuse partly-focal pneumonitis while exposed to this concentration.
(15) We showed previously that trehalose dimycolate (TDM) in oil administered intraperitoneally into susceptible mice produced interstitial and hemorrhagic pneumonitis by the seventh day after injection and that mature T cells are necessary for the production of these lesions.
(16) A good correlation was observed between the lung weights and severity of the atypical pneumonitis.
(17) Although each of the serotype strains appeared to be a potential bovine pathogen, subtle differences were observed which may explain the importance of Serotype 1 strains in bovine pneumonic pasteurellosis.
(18) The symptoms and signs observed in this patient are seen in less than 10% of patients with this disease: arthralgia, epistaxis, jaundice, skin rash, and pneumonitis.
(19) We report two cases of uncommon pathological reactions, one resembling a hypersensitivity pneumonitis and the other mimicking a giant cell interstitial pneumonia.
(20) Indications for therapy included severe dyspnea, hemoptysis, and postobstructive pneumonitis.
Pulmonic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.
(n.) A pulmonic medicine.
Example Sentences:
(1) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
(2) Two previously unnamed recesses within the serous pericardium are defined and named, one the inferior aortic recess of the transverse sinus and the other, the right pulmonic recess of the transverse sinus.
(3) Two days before death, the patient experienced complete heart block, and an echocardiogram revealed pulmonic valve thickening and an endocardial mass along the left side of the septum.
(4) The characteristic triangular face, stubby nose, peripheral pulmonic stenosis, a history of prolonged neonatal jaundice and evidence of hepatic parenchymal disease were present as well as bilateral small kidneys and delayed puberty.
(5) The RV ejection fractions were determined using thermodilution in two ways: (1) with incremental increases in pulmonic valve to thermistor distance, and (2) with incremental increases in injectate port to tricuspid valve.
(6) Valvar and valvar-subvalvar pulmonic outflow obstructions may be suggested by echocardiography.
(7) Using duplex sector scanners, velocity and blood flow have been obtained from the right and left ventricular chambers and aortic and pulmonic outflow tracts.
(8) Fifty-three underwent tricuspid valvulectomy without replacement and in addition two had pulmonic valve excision.
(9) Protosystolic dips in indicator concentration, noted in curves drawn below the pulmonic valve, suggest that the ventricle emptied sequentially.
(10) Changes in impedance through the large pulmonary arteries are are postulated to be responsible for the abnormal movement of the pulmonic valve during both phases of respiration.
(11) We studied 14 premature infants with the clinical diagnosis of peripheral pulmonic stenosis (PPS) and 15 normal full-term neonates by echocardiographic Doppler examinations.
(12) The morphology and electrophysiology of a newly identified bilateral pair of interneurones in the central nervous system of the pulmonate pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis is described.
(13) The uptake data, while preliminary, indicate that both the chemical species and their physical states are important in affecting alveolar permeation into the pulmonic lymph.
(14) Five patients had a severe form of tetralogy of Fallot; six had pulmonary atresia; five had transposition of the great vessels, ventricular septal defect (VSD), and pulmonic stenosis; five had truncus arteriosus; and one had "corrected" transposition, VSD, and pulmonic stenosis.
(15) Regurgitant fraction was also correlated with regurgitant area which was determined by preoperative area of the pulmonic annulus and width of the outflow patch.
(16) Spontaneously delayed ductal closure has been observed clinically and experimentally in newborns with critical pulmonic stenosis.
(17) An eight-year-old boy with supravalvular pulmonic stenosis, supravalvular aortic stenosis, and ventricular septal defect developed Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis.
(18) Percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty (BV) for pulmonic valve stenosis (PS) is increasingly becoming a nonsurgical alternative in patient management.
(19) Femoral insertion resulted in a greater distance from pulmonic valve to thermistor as compared with jugular placement (p = 0.005).
(20) Rare findings were a cor triatriatum, a tetralogy of Fallot, a partial defect of the pericardium, a pulmonic atresia with VSD, an isolated cleft of the tricuspid valve, and finally a connection of a hepatic vein to the right atrium.