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.
Some commentators define Modernism as a mode of thinkingâone or more philosophically defined characteristics, like self-consciousness or self-reference, that run across all the novelties in the arts and the disciplines.riedrich Nietzsche (1844â1900) was another major precursor of Modernism, with a philosophy in which psychological drives, specifically the  will to power  (Wille zur Macht), was of central importance: Nietzsche often identified life itself with 'will to power', that is, with an instinct for growth and durability.