Word Finder - relapsing

definition

To fall back again; to slide or turn back into a former state or practice.

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He has improved recently but keeps relapsing into states of utter confusion.

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(of a disease) To recur; to worsen, be aggravated (after a period of improvement).

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To slip or slide back physically; to turn back.

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A relapse.

The kings were fighting for their lives, the great nobles were indistinguishable from brigands and the whole nation seemed to be relapsing into savagery.

In plague countries the diseases with which it is most liable to be confounded are malaria, relapsing fever and typhus, or broncho-pneumonia in pneumonic cases.

Maltafeverand relapsing fever, monkeys have been used with success, but in others, e.g.

Suppression of acute and relapsing experimental allergic encephalomyelitis with mitoxantrone.

Tick-borne relapsing fever in west USA and west Canada.

A lung carcinoma or an infiltrate of residual or relapsing chronic myelogenous leukemia in the lung could be definitely ruled out.

Rebif is indicated for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis.

Clinical efficacy TYSABRI is indicated as a single disease modifying therapy in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis to prevent relapses and delay progression of disability.

We describe 5 patients with a relapsing encephalopathy in association with Hashimoto's disease and high titers of anti-thyroid antibodies.

Septicaemia, tuberculosis, glanders, fowl-cholera, relapsing fever, and other diseases are now brought definitely within the range of biology, and it is clear that all contagious and infectious diseases are due to the action of bacteria or, in a few cases, to fungi, or to protozoa or other animals.

A period of 2 years should be allowed after recovery from relapsing fever.

Some textbooks refer to this sub type as relapsing progressive MS.

More Information Prof Alan Thompson, MS Society Medical advisor, talks about relapsing remitting MS.

The trials are now complete and results showed Tysabri reduced both relapse rates and the progression of disability in people with relapsing remitting MS.

We describe 5 patients with a relapsing encephalopathy in association with Hashimoto 's disease and high titers of anti-thyroid antibodies.

Because naltrexone blocks the "highs," relapsing drug abusers are at a higher risk for accidental overdose.

Learning to avoid environments where heavy smoking will occur will also help keep the newly abstinent person from relapsing.

Don't beat yourself up about relapsing because it will only make it harder for you to reach your goal of never lighting up again.

Chronic, or relapsing, infection occurs with hepatitis B in about 5-10 percent of cases.

Many of the people who did not ended up relapsing.

Of course, relapsing is a major issue, and the contestants have issues in their personal lives as well.

The diseases to which the act applies are smallpox, cholera, membranous croup, erysipelas, scarlatina or scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued or puerperal fever, and any other infectious disease to which the act has been applied by the local authority of the district in the prescribed manner.

It was first recorded as poisonous by Livingstone and is now known to be the carrier of the Spirochaete of relapsing fever in man, known as tick fever.

Indolent disease / recurrent relapses We currently use pulsed cyclophosphamide for disease that is severe but not critical, or for relapsing disease.