Twitter Google Share on Facebook unguis Thesaurus Medical Legal Financial Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to unguis:unguis incarnatus un·guis (ŭng′gwĭs) n.pl.un·gues(-gwēz) 1.ZoologyA nail, claw, or hoof. 2.BotanyThe clawlike base of some petals. ...
While short-term remission of type 2 diabetes is a striking and highly desirable outcome, the ultimate health benefits from weight management are likely to depend largely on long-term maintenance of a lower body weight. Long-term low-intensity structured programmes, including support for changing ...
Now Scotland, England & Wales celebrate last Monday in May as ‘Spring bank Holiday’, with some private aka ‘public’/boarding schools using the holiday as their half-term break. Pentecost connection is now merely a religious calculation. Scotland’s private schools, like Gordonstoun in Moray;...
The term originates from the Greek word xanthos=yellow. They are composed of monocyte-derived foam cells (resulting from intracellular accumulation of lipids of which the major constituent is cholesterol ester) and connective tissue. In most cases, the underlying mechanisms for the formation of ...
The remarkable impact of antibiotics on human health is being eroded at an alarming rate by the emergence of multidrug resistant pathogens. There is a recognised consensus that new strategies to tackle infection are urgently needed to limit the devasting
Summary Background: Atorvastatin is very effective in reducing plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) levels. However, there is no long-term survival study that evaluated this statin. PatientsMethods: To assess the effect of atorvastatin on morbidity and mortality (total and coronary) ...
(5) Fifteen years later, von Haller was first to identify such a lesion as an "atheroma," a term used in Greek literature to describe a space filled with gruellike matter. Arteriosclerosis: rethinking the current classification pneumoniae DNA was present in the majority of samples and that the...
G. et al. Safety and eficacy of long-term statin treatment for cardiovascular events in patients with coronary heart disease and abnormal liver tests in the Greek Atorvastatin and Coronary Heart Disease Evaluation (GREACE) study: a post-hoc analysis. Lancet 376, 1916–1922 (2010). CAS PubMed...
This paradigm was complemented by observations of the Greek-come-Roman, Galen, adding the term function laesa, referring to a loss or disturbance of function. In essence, pathology or disease is a displacement from homeostasis, and it is the role of inflammation to sense this displacement and ...
We aimed to trace the geographic origin of HIV-1 infection for migrant PWIDs and to investigate if transmissions occur more frequently among individuals with a non-Greek origin versus those between mi- grants and Greeks. Methods Our sample included 2,977 HIV-1 infected individuals diagnosed in ...