At the same time, there are strong suggestions the whole thing is the warped fantasy of a sexually hungry manic-depressive: Anna Madeley's governess accepts the mild advances of her employer, willingly allows the boy Miles to fondle her left breast and even, at one point, touches herself up in front of a mirror while clutching a pornographic letter.
In HIV-positive patients, CD4+ lymphocyte count or percentage-based immunological staging (not significant, mild, advanced, severe) was performed according to the WHO classification [ 30].
Since advanced lung disease is positively correlated with severity of disease and hence a measure of transmissibility [ 10– 125 26] 26], we looked for differences in transmissibility among MTBC lineages, using advanced extent of lung involvement (mild or advanced lung disease) as the outcome in the logistic model.
Mild and advanced fibroses were respectively induced in rats by thioacetamide (TAA) treatment for 3 and 9 weeks.
We worry, though, that with mild but advancing dementia, my father won't be able to fully comprehend the implications of being fed through a tube implanted in his gut.
The diabetes complications considered included both mild and advanced pathophysiologic changes (e.g., both microalbuminuria and stroke) and both self-reported symptoms (e.g., pain severity or impotence) and objectively documented disorders (e.g., retinopathy or glomerular filtration rate).
The treatment of these coexistent rheumatic disorders should always be made after careful evaluation of the status of the underlying chronic liver disease (mild hepatitis, advanced fibrosis, and compensated or decompensated cirrhosis) [ 13].
When categorizing the patients with active TB into "mild" and "advanced" forms of infection (American Tuberculosis Society criteria) [ 30], the lytic activity of CTLs was found to be lower in the "advanced" than in the "mild" active TB or healthy PPD+ persons [ 30], suggesting exhaustion of CTLs.
Although Norway's economy slipped into negative growth in the fourth quarter, its downturn will be among the mildest of advanced economies, with analysts expecting a contraction in the range of 1.0 to 2.0% in 2009 and a return to growth in 2010.
