(n.) The art of preserving from, or of preventing, disease; the observance of the rules necessary for the preservation of health; preservative or preventive treatment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Early diagnosis (fever, increase of leucocytes and toxic signs in differential blood count, thrombocythemia, decrease of anorganic phosphate), prophylaxis, and treatment are discussed.
(2) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
(3) This combination has been recommended as prophylaxis as well.
(4) This work supports the value of metronidazole but suggests that a single-dose regimen is adequate for prophylaxis.
(5) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
(6) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(7) It is now known from several clinical studies that the mean pH values of gastric fluid under sucralfate prophylaxis are considerably lower than under conventional stress ulcer prophylaxis.
(8) It was concluded that combined prophylaxis with HBIG and hepatitis-B vaccine immediately after birth is the best method for prevention of HBV perinatal transmission from HBeAg positive carrier mothers to their infants.
(9) A thorough dental prophylaxis before acid-etching of enamel is often recommended.
(10) We think that carotid endarterectomy carries an even better prophylaxis for the brain as a whole than had been thought.
(11) The marginal cost effectiveness of erythromycin prophylaxis compared to no prophylaxis is $12,900 per quality-adjusted year of life saved.
(12) A vaccine, which was prepared from one of the strains isolated, was used in addition to antibiotic prophylaxis to control the enzootic disease.
(13) A complex scheme of prophylaxis of exacerbation and progression of chronic bronchopulmonary diseases in children was developed.
(14) Ventriculometry in the context of a wider diagnostico-therapeutic regime on the intensive care unit was found to be conducive to target-oriented brain pressure prophylaxis and therapy.
(15) Duration of prophylaxis: Antimicrobial agents must be present in the tissues throughout the operation.
(16) All nine injuries had antibiotic prophylaxis before and after nail removal.
(17) Prophylaxis in urological surgery is usually taken to mean antibacterial agents.
(18) A policy of selective antibiotic prophylaxis is justified and in high risk patients with in-dwelling catheters single dose prophylaxis is highly effective.
(19) The observed degree of efficacy of amoxicillin prophylaxis and of tympanostomy tube insertion must be viewed in light of the fact that study subjects proved not to have been at as high risk for acute otitis media as had been anticipated and in view of the differential attrition rates.
(20) These observations emphasize the need for retargeting prevention of caries in order to provide additional preventive treatment to the high incidence groups while the routine prophylaxis given to the other groups may be decreased.
Treatment
Definition:
(n.) The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
(n.) Entertainment; treat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tryptic digestion of the membranes caused complete disappearance of the binding activity, but heat-treatment for 5 min at 70 degrees C caused only 40% loss of activity.
(2) Once treatment began, no significant changes occurred in Group 1, but both PRA and A2 rose significantly in Groups 2 and 3.
(3) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(4) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(5) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
(6) 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.
(7) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
(8) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(9) More than 2 months after the combined treatment were required for the suppression.
(10) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(11) The use of organophosphorus preparations in the treatment of ectoparasites and endoparasites of pigs is discussed.
(12) 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.
(13) With UVB treatment clinical improvement was achieved, and a less pronounced decrease in epidermal LC was noticed.
(14) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(15) The patients should have received treatment for at least seven days and they should not be "ill".
(16) Whether hen's egg yolk can be used as a sperm motility stimulant in the treatment of such conditions as asthenospermia and oligospermia is subjected for further study.
(17) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
(18) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(19) The purpose of these studies was to better understand the molecular basis of chromosome aberration formation after mitomycin C treatment.
(20) In all cases the polyarthritis is cured by anti-inflammatory treatment in 1-6 months.