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hepatitis
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Word definitions for hepatitis in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hepatitis \Hep`a*ti"tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, liver + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the liver.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE active ▪ Histological examination before treatment showed that all the patients had chronic active hepatitis with cirrhosis. ▪ Long-term consequences include chronic active hepatitis , cirrhosis and liver cancer. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin
Usage examples of hepatitis.
Then herpes, then cytomegalovirus, then gay-bowel syndrome, then hepatitis B.
Beginning in 1963, officials at the Willowbrook State School, a residence for developmentally disabled children in Staten Island, New York, intentionally infected healthy children with hepatitis in order to test the effects of gamma globulin on the disease.
Because there was a case of hepatitis at their school, I took the girls to Doctor Miller for shots of gamma globulin, and to make up for that, took them and two friends to lunch and the movies the next day, a Saturday.
The doc and nurse both had blood on them, a no-good way to be working in this day of AIDS, Hepatitis, Avian Pneumonitis and God knows what else the terrorists might be cooking up.
His platelet counts dropped alarmingly and his viral count from the hepatitis soared.
Hepatitis a Salmonella Shigella Staphylococcus Giardia or Campylobacter, then you may not work there.
At the moment, hepatitis C, HIV, hemophilus influenza, and various diabetes genes are all owned by some entity.
Since they are needle drugs there is always the chance of missing a vein, which leads to a stiff arm for a few days or of contracting serum hepatitis from unsterilized needles.
So this was a free clinic and they screwed up the test and I came up positive with surface antigens and hepatitis.
Hookworms, tapeworms, pinworms, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea, hepatitis, salmonella and dozens of other diseases have been attributed to the house fly.
Fields effect), cirrhosis of the liver, alcoholic hepatitis, degeneration of the heart muscles resulting in eventual congestive heart failure, bloated appearance, flabby muscles (including alcoholic's ass), chronic stomach inflammation (in extreme cases, bleeding ulcers), pancreatitis, anemia and other bone marrow problems, low blood sugar (sometimes leading to sudden death), tremors (shaky hands), seizures, paranoia, emotional and behavioral problems, and so on.
He had recently recovered from hepatitis gotten from a piece of community artillery passed from junkie to junkie in an East Los Angeles shooting gallery.
Long before the Crossings, such plagues as varicella, diphtheria, influenza, rubella, epidemic roseola, morbilli, scarlatina, variola, typhoid, typhus, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, hepatitis, cytomegalovirus herpes, and gonococcal were eliminated by vaccination .
The effects can be sufficiently debilitating to incapacitate 80 percent of a workforce, with such consequences as preventing harvesting of a food crop, thus rendering a population vulnerable to all of the opportunistic threats that come with malnutrition and an impaired immune system, such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, dysentery, and typhoid fever.
I had been there six years ago for a gamma globulin shot, when the hepatitis epidemic was running wild through the Middle East.