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\"Avidity\"The notion of avidity<\/strong> has its origin in avid<\/strong>. East adjective<\/strong> (eager), from the Latin word av\u012ddus<\/strong>, rate one who is ambitious or who is eager for something<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For example: \"I was always eager to know other countries\"<\/em>, \"Greed for wealth can be healthy, but you don't have to be greedy\"<\/em>, \"Although the team was already winning four to zero, the Uruguayan forward continued to show his avidity\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It can be said that greed is the craving that a person<\/strong> has to get something. If we refer to the first example mentioned above, greed is the wish<\/strong> that the subject in question has to visit different nations. In the second example, greed is associated with money ambition<\/strong>, which can function as an incentive to work hard and, in turn, lead to conduct that is reprehensible from a moral point of view. Finally, the third example is linked to appetite<\/strong> of a footballer who wants to continue scoring goals beyond the triumph of his team has already been defined.<\/p>\n

Being greedy is not positive or negative in itself<\/strong>: it is a circumstance or a state that can be used for the development of different kinds of Actions<\/strong>. The hunger for knowledge can cause a person to read a lot, take workshops, or pursue a career. In this case, greed is highly valuable. On the other hand, if the desire to have a lot of money leads a subject to steal or to get involved in illicit businesses, it can be argued that his greed was negative for him and his environment.<\/p>\n

The reading<\/strong> It is one of the activities that are usually linked to greed, when there is a great passion that does not allow the subject to detach himself from his favorite books. In this context it is possible to speak of avid reader<\/em>, and should not be confused with someone who simply likes to read, but is someone who cannot live without it.<\/p>\n

\"Avidity\"In the field of medicine, this term also has a meaning, more precisely when speaking of toxoplasmosis, an infection that originates from the endocellular parasite protozoan known as Toxoplasma gondii<\/em>. The clinical manifestations of this infection present a great variety and one of the values \u200b\u200bthat physicians must ascertain in order to make a proper diagnosis is the greed of antibody<\/strong><\/em>, that is, the strength of its union with multivalent epitopes, which can last several years.<\/p>\n

Measuring the avidity of the antibody is especially useful and for this there is a so-called greed test<\/strong>. The initial response to infection is carried out with a very low avidity antibody, and this results in easy dissociation from antigen binding. On the other hand, a index<\/strong> high is used to rule out a toxoplasmosis infection that has occurred in the past four months.<\/p>\n

From the point of view of medicine, the procedure of this test does not present a marked complexity. Broadly speaking, it is an analysis during which the serum<\/strong> of the patient and is subjected to a duplicate processing in parallel, to obtain two readings that allow the calculation of the avidity index: one with dissociant and the other with diluent. This index must be multiplied by 100 to finally classify the result in one of the three possible ranges: high greed<\/strong> (greater than 30%), medium greed<\/strong> (between 20 and 30%) and low greed<\/strong>(less than 20%).<\/p>\n

Without moving away from science, we can find another use of this term that is not common in everyday speech. In this case, it can be said that the acid<\/strong> sulfuric has a marked greed for water<\/strong>, and that for this reason it is used for the drying of gases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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