| 单词 | hepatitis c |
| 释义 | > as lemmashepatitis C hepatitis C n. a form of viral hepatitis that is typically spread by contaminated blood products and which can result in chronic inflammation, cirrhosis, and primary cancer of the liver; (more fully hepatitis C virus) the virus (an RNA virus related to the flaviviruses) causing this.Hepatitis C was originally known as non-A, non-B hepatitis. ΚΠ 1974 Lancet 3 Aug. 246/1 Our findings imply that a substantial proportion of post-transfusion hepatitis cases is caused neither by HB viruses nor hepatitis A agent, and suggest the existence of an additional virus(es), hepatitis type C.] 1975 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 24 May 409/2 More sensitive serological tests for surface antigen might lead to a reduction in the number of cases of post-transfusion hepatitis but are unlikely to eliminate it completely because of the potential infectivity of blood containing antibody to the Dane particle core and the possible existence of a reputed hepatitis C virus. 1989 New Scientist 6 May 30/1 The Chiron Corporation..has at last published a report of its discovery of the blood-borne hepatitis virus that it has christened hepatitis C. 1995 Independent 25 Apr. 5/2 Hepatitis C is causing a silent epidemic with up to 40 per cent of carriers eventually developing chronic active hepatitis. 2009 Private Eye 6 Mar. 27/1 Health officials already knew they may have contracted hepatitis C, but haemophiliacs themselves did not. < as lemmas |
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