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  • adjective Not apparent; subclinical.

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Examples

  • Dengue cases were classified as inapparent (lack of subjective and objective fever, defined as ≥ 38 °C) or symptomatic dengue.

    PLoS Medicine: New Articles 2008

  • In the absence of fever, experimental work on typhus must take into account the possible existence of inapparent forms.

    Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • The role of inapparent typhus in cases of re-infection is indubitably even more important.

    Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • I had realized that repeated virulent inoculations of the donkey did not cause appreciable preventive properties to be developed in the blood of this animal, but in attempting to find a solution to the problem, I tried to ascertain whether the donkey, apparently resistent to the disease, could not contract inapparent typhus and I found that this was sometimes the case.

    Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • In the guinea pig the disease would be inapparent if the temperature were not noted.

    Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Although benign, inapparent typhus also confers a certain degree of immunity.

    Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Nicolle's discovery of the inapparent infection orientated the work of scientists towards a hitherto unexplored field of research.

    Physiology or Medicine 1928 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • Lebailly and I then went on to demonstrate that inapparent primary infection typhus, which is exceptional in inoculated guinea pigs, is the only form which the disease takes experimentally in the rat and the mouse.

    Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • Nicolle calls this form of typhus «inapparent» typhus and considers it to be the prototype of a group of latent infectious diseases of the same type.

    Physiology or Medicine 1928 - Presentation Speech 1965

  • It led me to the conception of what I have called inapparent infections.

    Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture 1965

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