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.
Modernism is the movement in visual arts, music, literature, and drama which rejected the old Victorian standards of how art should be made and what is should mean. In the period of high modernism, from 1910 - 1930, the major figures of modernist literature redefined what fiction could be.