chronic phase

collocation in English

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chronic
adjective
uk
/ˈkrɒn.ɪk/us
/ˈkrɑː.nɪk/
(especially of a disease or something bad) continuing for a ...
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phase
noun[C]
uk
/feɪz/us
/feɪz/
any stage in a series of events or in a process ...
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Transmission from thesechronicphaserabbits recruits susceptibles into thechronicphase, protecting them from acute infection.
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The converse does not apply becausechronicphaseindividuals result from the recovery of acutes.
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Despite the clearance of parasitaemia, pathological changes persisted in thechronicphase.
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The obstructive lesions are encountered more frequently with the recurrences, or later in thechronicphase.
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Hepatic fibrosis has not been described as an important finding in thechronicphaseof fascioliasis.
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In thechronicphase, patients may be asymptomatic or present cardiac and\\or digestive alterations.
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The acute phase is favoured when dr/dt is positive and thechronicphaseis favoured when it is negative.
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Survivors, in which the infection has entered thechronicphase, reproduce, and the population begins to recover.
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Therefore, reinfections carried out in thechronicphaseproduced a significant increase of electrocardiographic abnormalities when compared with the other groups.
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It has also been suggested that the host immune response may play a role in tissue damage in thechronicphase.
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Also, it is possible for thechronicphaseto persist due to the presence of the acute, when it alone could not invade a naive population.
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This suggests that the majority of adults should be in thechronicphase, acute lesions by repetitive infections being superimposed on chronic disease with relative frequency.
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During thechronicphase, many people suffer from depression and fatigue.
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Its curative capabilities during thechronicphaseare, however, limited.
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Thechronicphasemay be compensated or uncompensated.
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Chronicphasehas, mainly debility control and supportive care options.
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Finally, to determine whether the nature, severity, or correlates of such attentional deficits differ in a morechronicphaseof schizophrenia, a chronic schizophrenia sample is also being assessed.
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Predictors of carer depression included more physical symptoms, fewer social contacts, patient disability in the acute phase (but not thechronicphase), patient depression and abnormal or disruptive patient behaviour.
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In thechronicphase, the treatment used traditionally has been streptomycin for 10 days.
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Although the symptoms resolve, even with treatment the infection persists and enters achronicphase.
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In some dogs the third and most serious stage of infection, thechronicphase, will commence.
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During thechronicphase, pulmonary manifestations include cough, expectoration of discolored sputum, hemoptysis, and chest radiographic abnormalities.
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