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 in the ideals of the Enlightenment that the roots of Modernism, and the new role of art and the artist, are to be found. Simply put, the overarching goal of Modernism, of modern art, has been the creation of a better society.