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.
(sometimes initial capital letter) a deliberate philosophical and practical estrangement or divergence from the past in the arts and literature occurring especially in the course of the 20th century and taking form in any of various innovative movements and styles. Origin of modernism. 1730-1740.