6 sentences with “characterised”

Oxidation is the chemical reaction characterised by the fixation of oxygen on a body or compound.

Rubella is an infectious, contagious, epidemic disease characterised by a measles-like rash and lymph node infarctions.

Malnutrition is the organic state characterised by a lack of minimal amounts of dietary energy, protein or other important nutrients.

Zoster is characterised by the eruption of clusters of small vesicles appearing on an inflamed base, in the cutaneous areas connected to certain nerve trunks.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease, characterised by inflammatory changes in the synovial membranes and joint structures, and by atrophy and rarefaction of the bones.

The social elites insisted that scientific progress, economic growth and their own growing political power were all results of the superiority of European civilisation, a civilisation that had reached its pinnacle through their own ingenuity. Particularly in the last decades of the century, they characterised that superiority in racial terms.