Hepatic veno-occlusive disease Hepatic veno-occlusive disease Hepatic veno-occlusive disease or veno-occlusive disease with immunodeficiency (VODI) is a condition in which some of the small veins in the liver are obstructed. It is a complication of high-dose chemotherapy given before a bone marrow transplant (BMT) and is marked by weight gain due to fluid retention, increased liver size, and raised levels of bilirubin in the blood. The name sinusoidal obstruction syndrome is now preferred if VODI happens as a result of chemotherapy or bone marrow transplantation. Apart from chemotherapy, VODI may also occur after ingestion of certain plant alkaloids such as pyrrolizidine alkaloids (in
Proper adjective as "chauvinistic". In addition, over time, an adjective can lose its capitalization by convention, generally when the word has overshadowed its original reference, such as "gargantuan", "quixotic", "titanic", or "roman" in the term "roman numerals". An adverb formed from a capitalized adjective is itself capitalized. For example: Verbs such as "Canadianize" are written with a capital letter, although not generally described as "proper verbs". Proper adjective In English orthography, the term proper adjective is sometimes applied to adjectives that take initial capital letters, and the term common adjective to those that do not. For example, a person from Boston is