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hepatitis

/hep-uh-tahy-tis/US // ˌhɛp əˈtaɪ tɪs //UK // (ˌhɛpəˈtaɪtɪs) //

肝炎,炎症,炎症性肝炎,炎症肝炎

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : inflammation of the liver, caused by a virus or a toxin and characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, and fever.

Examples

  • The vaccine against the hepatitis B virus, for example, works this way.

  • Sinovac founder Yin Weidong, a doctor, started his career in the 1980s in China’s northern city of Tangshan, where he investigated hepatitis outbreaks as part of a municipal public health agency.

  • One common immunization that already uses this technique is the hepatitis B vaccine.

  • This is consistent with several other vaccines, including hepatitis B, measles, mumps and rubella.

  • As many as half of patients failed to get their second dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, for example.

  • He contracted Hepatitis C from drug use, which was a contributory factor in his death.

  • Hepatitis B plays by the same rules, though the rates of transmission are about 10 times more frequent.

  • Over time, he can transmit a bloodborne disease such as hepatitis C to the patients he is “sharing” narcotics with.

  • If left untreated, hepatitis C causes liver damage over the course of decades.

  • If treated early enough, 50 to 80 percent of people who contract Hepatitis C are cured.

  • It differs however essentially from that attending hepatitis, from its not being accompanied with fever.

  • Suppose a man to be attacked with hepatitis, (inflammation of the liver:) he has a pain in the right shoulder.

  • But when the hepatitis is of septic origin, suppuration is likely to occur, the result being an hepatic abscess.

  • A very grave case of hepatitis endangered his life seriously.

  • Obscure lameness in front, of the right leg mostly, may be a symptom of hepatitis.