Drug therapy is warranted for many dogs with liver disease. Glucocorticoids (âsteroidsâ) have been used to prolong survival times in dogs with liver disease due to their anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive properties, although their use and appropriate dosage protocols are somewhat controversial.
chiasma. pl. chiasmata [L., Gr.] chiasm; in genetics, the points at which members of a chromosome pair are in contact during the prophase of meiosis and because of which recombination, or crossing over, occurs on separation.
In rhetoric, chiasmus, or less commonly chiasm, (Latin term from Greek ÏÎ¯Î±ÏÎ¼Î±, crossing, from the Greek ÏÎ¹Î¬Î¶Ï, chiÃ¡zÅ, to shape like the letter Ï) is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism.