Roman David, Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. 1904 (Merriam) Webster's International Dictionary of the English Language says: a sacrifice, or ceremony, by which cities, fields, armies, or people, defiled by crimes, pestilence, or other cause of uncleanness, were purified
Atrophic gastritis (also known as Type A or Type B Gastritis more specifically) is a process of chronic inflammation of the stomach mucosa, leading to loss of gastric glandular cells and their eventual replacement by intestinal and fibrous tissues.ype A gastritis primarily affects the body/fundus of the stomach, and is more common with pernicious anemia. Type B gastritis primarily affects the antrum, and is more common with H. pylori infection.
Atrophic pancreas is the wasting away of the pancreas usually from chronic pancreatitis or CP. CP is further defined as an inflammatory disease that is advanced and described by permanent morphologic changes and gradual formation of excessive fibrous tissue replacement of the gland.