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.
It is generally agreed that modernism in art originated in the 1860s and that the French painter Ãdouard Manet is the first modernist painter. Paintings such as his Le DÃ©jeuner sur l'herbe (âLuncheon on the Grassâ) and Olympia are seen to have ushered in the era of modernism.