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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hepatitis
noun
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■ 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.
▪ Other possible explanations are that interferon alfa is directly toxic to hepatocytes and that it induces autoimmune chronic active hepatitis.
▪ One patient with chronic active hepatitis was also found to have the type 1 pattern of staining.
▪ Membranous expression of pre-S1 and pre-S2 correlated significantly with active hepatitis B virus replication.
acute
▪ Three cases of severe acute hepatitis have been reported in association with piroxicam.
▪ Only about 30/-40% of patients with hepatitis B develop clinically apparent acute hepatitis.
▪ Although changes in liver function tests are very rare, three cases of severe acute hepatitis secondary to piroxicam have been reported.
▪ Over half the patients who acquire acute hepatitis C virus infection develop chronic hepatitis.
▪ The reported incidence of acute hepatitis B virus in the general population increased by 37 percent from 1979 to 1989.
▪ One had severe acute alcoholic hepatitis and had continued to drink despite medical advice to the contrary.
▪ Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times.
chronic
▪ All 44 patients with chronic type B hepatitis had pre-S1 and pre-S2 display in the liver.
▪ It has been repeatedly reported that smooth muscle antibodies of autoimmune chronic hepatitis are directed to cell actin.
▪ Both reactivities are in fact uncommon in autoimmune chronic hepatitis.
▪ We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.
▪ Patients with chronic persistent hepatitis may, however, survive for years without histological progression.
▪ These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa.
▪ 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.
viral
▪ We report on patients with chronic viral hepatitis who died of hepatic decompensation during or shortly after interferon alfa treatment.
▪ Human bathers, too, risk viral hepatitis, skin reactions and oral thrush.
▪ These centres had treated 2490 patients with chronic viral hepatitis with interferon alfa.
▪ Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period.
▪ Similarly, there are mild disturbances only of acute phase reactants in chronic viral hepatitis.
▪ The aetiology of acute liver failure was viral hepatitis in all but one patients.
▪ These conditions include pulmonary tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, streptococcal septicaemia and various other diseases.
■ NOUN
c
▪ Currently, the group has begun research into new therapeutic approaches for hepatitis C, lymphoma and leukemia.
delta
▪ Concurrently hepatitis delta virus superinfection did not appear to modulate the synthesis and expression of pre-S peptides in the liver.
■ VERB
infect
▪ Most HIV-positive intravenous drug users are also infected by hepatitis C virus.
▪ Semen infected with hepatitis or syphilis can be donated, but only if a woman agrees to accept it.
▪ Approximately one out of ten persons infected with hepatitis B becomes a chronic carrier, able to infect others for decades.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to various surveys, they showed a rate of infectious hepatitis eight to twenty-five times higher than heterosexual males.
▪ Although most chronically infected patients appear to have clinically apparent hepatitis, a subclinical chronic carrier state also exists.
▪ Nineteen eighty-two was the year Jasper had hepatitis.
▪ Prior to the hepatitis B outbreak, most public health officials had ignored the danger signs in gay male epidemiology.
▪ Some organisations knew about the different types of viral hepatitis and that there is a long incubation period.
▪ The hepatitis B antigen is found in blood, saliva, urine, semen, vaginal secretions and possibly other body fluids.
▪ There is no specific treatment for this disease and complete recovery from any form of hepatitis may take four months or longer.
▪ This rules out the possibility that autoantibodies are merely a consequence of hepatitis C virus infection.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hepatitis

Hepatitis \Hep`a*ti"tis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, ?, liver + -itis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the liver.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hepatitis

1727, coined from Greek hepatos, genitive of hepar "liver," from PIE root *yekwr- (cognates: Sanskrit yakrt, Avestan yakar, Persian jigar, Latin jecur, Old Lithuanian jeknos "liver") + -itis "inflammation."

Wiktionary
hepatitis

n. inflammation of the liver, sometimes caused by a viral infection.

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WordNet
hepatitis

n. inflammation of the liver caused by a virus or a toxin

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Wikipedia
Hepatitis

Hepatitis is a disease of the liver characterized by the presence of inflammatory cells in the tissue of the organ. Hepatitis may occur without symptoms, but can lead to jaundice (a yellow discoloration of the skin, mucous membranes, and conjunctiva of the eyes), poor appetite, and fatigue. Depending on the cause, hepatitis can manifest either as an acute or as a chronic disease. Acute hepatitis can be self-limiting (resolving on its own), can progress to chronic hepatitis, or can cause acute liver failure in rare instances. Chronic hepatitis may have no symptoms, or may progress over time to fibrosis (scarring of the liver) and cirrhosis (chronic liver failure). Cirrhosis of the liver increases the risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (a form of liver cancer).

Worldwide, viral hepatitis is the most common cause, followed closely by alcoholic liver disease and non-alcoholic liver disease (NAFLD). Other less common causes of hepatitis include autoimmune diseases, ingestion of toxic substances, certain medications (such as paracetamol), some industrial organic solvents, and plants.

The plural is hepatitides. The word is derived from the Greek hêpar , meaning "liver", and the suffix -itis , meaning "inflammation" (c. 1727).

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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.