Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to a disease or condition that affects many organ systems of the body.
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- adjective Of, pertaining to or affecting more than one
system ororgan of the body
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Examples
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Similarly, an approach called multisystemic therapy has been shown to reduce rearrest rates of juvenile delinquents by up to 70 percent.
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The report, Edging Away from Care, looks at good practice in 11 local authorities to keep young people at risk of entering care living at home, using methods that include family intervention programmes FIP, family group conferencing or multisystemic therapy.
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Known also as PMWS, multisystemic disease implies the involvement of multiple organ systems and requires by definition, systemic lymphoid depletion in advanced cases.
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The first day was devoted to porcine Circovirus, which is not only responsible for PMWS (post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome) but which has also been clearly associated with problems in reproduction.
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Canine distemper is a contagious, incurable, often fatal, multisystemic viral disease affecting the respiratory, gastrointestinal and central nervous systems.
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Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) was first described by Harding and Clark at the Western Canadian Association of Swine Practitioners '(WCASP) conference in 1996, and later at the American Association of Swine Veterinarians' (AASV) meeting in Quebec City in 1997.
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With the onset of PMWS (Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome) in Northern Ireland, Pietrain and Tempo genetics became popular choices due to their reported ability to increase the survivability of pigs in herds afflicted with PMWS.
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PCV2 is known as porcine circovirus closely associated with post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS).
BioMed Central - Latest articles Shuanghui Yin 2010
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With the onset of PMWS (Post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome) in Northern Ireland, Pietrain and Tempo genetics became popular choices due to their reported ability to increase the survivability of pigs in herds afflicted with PMWS.
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PCV2 is believed to cause postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome in young piglets, marked by diarrhea and an inability to gain weight.
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