When T-cell function is absent in T-cell disorders, the disorder can be lethal. Conventional clinical management for absent T-cell function consists of immune reconstitution using stem cell or bone marrow transplantation. Partial T-cell defects commonly cause abnormalities of immune regulation.
modernism - the quality of being current or of the present; a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village. contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness. currentness, up-to-dateness, currency - the property of belonging to the present time; the currency of a slang term.
The term postmodernist art refers to a wide category of contemporary art created from about 1970 onwards. The hallmark of postmodernist art is its rejection of the aesthetics upon which its predecessor - modern art (1870-1970) - was based. One of these rejected values is the idea that art is something special which should be elevated from popular taste.