Sentence examples for cyclic disease from inspiring English sources

These trypanosomes must spend part of their life cycle in the insect before they can infect a vertebrate; this is an example of cyclic disease transmission.

The characters Apollodorus and Alcibiades represent the melancholic and manic poles of what Freud calls the "cyclic disease" in "Mourning and Melancholia". Plato conceives of erôs as entrapped within cycles of pleasure and pain, filling and emptying, until the self recognizes its overfullness — that is, its pregnancy.

A cyclic disease pattern was observed; peaks were noted for 1993, 1997, 2000, and 2005.

GLA is an omega-6 essential fatty acid which has been identified as having several beneficial therapeutic effects such as treatment of atopic eczema, diabetes, cyclic mastalgia, heart disease, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.

Cyclic neutropenia, a disease characterized by oscillation of blood neutrophil counts with periods of severe neutropenia occurring every 21 days, is also considered as providing evidence for negative feedback 12.

aaCCP+, positive for antibodies against cyclic citrullinated peptides; DAS28, Disease Activity Score based on evaluation of 28 joints; DMARD, disease-modifying antirheumatic drug; HAQ, Health Assessment Questionnaire MTXX, methotrexate; RF+, rheumatoid factor positive; SHS, Sharp-van der Heijde score; SLZ, sulphasalazine; VAS, Visual Analogue Scale.

Copper and its alloys may also quickly corrode in the presence of chloride by the cyclic process called "bronze disease," during which copper is altered to copper chloride, a powdery white-blue product.

This hypodopaminergic state activates then again the same homeostatic mechanisms, which now upregulate the key elements, resulting in another manic episode and thereby explaining the cyclic nature of the disease.

In humans, cyclic neutropenia, a genetic disease caused by mutations in the NE-coding ela2 gene, is associated with recurrent troughs in neutrophil production and heightened susceptibility to infections, suggesting a dual developmental and functional role for NE [58, 59].

CCP, Cyclic citrullinated peptide; DAS28, Disease Activity Score in 28 joints; HAQ, Health Assessment Questionnaire.

From a previously sporadic and rather cyclic FMD pattern, the disease shape is now mainly endemic in most of the countries.