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.
In art theory, formalism is the concept that a work's artistic value is entirely determined by its formâthe way it is made, its purely visual aspects, and its medium. Formalism emphasizes compositional elements such as color, line, shape and texture rather than realism, context, and content.