| wasting syndrome | <syndrome> A condition characterised by loss of ten percent of normal weight without obvious cause. The weight loss is largely the result of depletion of the protein in lean body mass and represents a metabolic derangement frequent during AIDS. (31 Dec 1997) |
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| HIV wasting syndrome | <syndrome> Involuntary weight loss of greater than 10 percent associated with intermittent or constant fever and chronic diarrhoea or fatigue for more than 30 days in the absence of a defined cause other than HIV infection. A constant feature is major muscle wasting with scattered myofibre degeneration. A variety of aetiologies, which vary among patients, contributes to this syndrome. (12 Dec 1998) |
| wasting | Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. <medicine> Wasting palsy, progressive muscular atrophy. See Progressive. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wasting disease | A graft versus host reaction in mice first observed following intravenous injection of allogeneic spleen cells into newborn animals. Synonym: wasting disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wasting palsy | A serious neurologic disease that results from the progressive degeneration of the motor neurons. (27 Sep 1997) |
| wasting paralysis | A serious neurologic disease that results from the progressive degeneration of the motor neurons. (27 Sep 1997) |
| salt wasting | Inappropriately large renal excretion of salt despite the apparent need of the body to retain it. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome | <syndrome> A syndrome characterised by outbreaks of late term abortions, high numbers of stillbirths and mummified or weak newborn piglets, and respiratory disease in young unweaned and weaned pigs. It is caused by swine infertility and respiratory syndrome virus. (radostits et al., veterinary medicine, 8th ed, p1048) (12 Dec 1998) |
| porcine stress syndrome | A severe form of fever that occurs as a reaction to certain anaesthetic agents and muscle relaxants. Malignant hyperthermia is an inherited autosomal dominant condition. Inheritance: autosomal dominant. (27 Sep 1997) |
| gastroenteritis virus, porcine transmissible | A species of coronavirus causing a fatal disease to pigs under 3 weeks old. (12 Dec 1998) |
| porcine | <zoology> Relating to, affecting, resembling or derived from a pig. (09 Oct 1997) |
| porcine adenoviruses | An obsolete term for viruses of the genus Mastadenovirus, with four recognised serotypes, which can cause a mild upper respiratory tract disease in swine. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine epidemic diarrhoea | A disease of pigs caused by the porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus and characterised by acute diarrhoea, with high mortality in piglets. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus | A coronavirus causing porcine epidemic diarrhoea in pigs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| porcine graft | A split-thickness graft from a pig, applied to a raw area on a human as a temporary dressing. (05 Mar 2000) |