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.
From the late 17th to the early 20th century Western aesthetics underwent a slow revolution into what is often called modernism. German and British thinkers emphasized beauty as the key component of art and of the aesthetic experience, and saw art as necessarily aiming at absolute beauty.