What's the difference between abortion and ecbolic?

Abortion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage.
  • (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth.
  • (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.
  • (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
  • (2) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.
  • (3) The multiple pregnancy rate was 18% and the abortion rate, 18%.
  • (4) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
  • (5) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
  • (6) There was a negative connection between the measure of total induced abortions in 1986 and the relative increase of abortions in the districts during 1986-87.
  • (7) Latin America has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world – 95% of abortions carried out there are performed in unsafe conditions.
  • (8) Sterilization rates at the time of abortions increased with increasing age and with increasing gravidity, but the total rates, adjusted for age and gravidity of patients, have changed little in the past 15 years.
  • (9) There were 4 spontaneous first trimester abortions and 21 live-born neonates without major problems related to the treatment or to the maternal disease.
  • (10) Only one ewe aborted, 10 days after the first infecting dose, at 94 days of gestation; L monocytogenes was isolated from several sites in both its aborted fetuses.
  • (11) Lupus anticoagulant associated with thrombocytopenia, thrombosis or recurrent abortions was diagnosed in 2 epileptic patients chronically treated with anticonvulsant drugs.
  • (12) According to a Guttmacher Institute review (pdf), about 9% of maternal deaths in India are from complications of unsafe abortions.
  • (13) Only one monoclonal antibody strongly inhibited cAMP binding by CRP, and this was accompanied by a consequent strong inhibition of both lac DNA binding and abortive initiation by RNA polymerase.
  • (14) Of the 68 successful abortions 59% of the patients aborted in 12 hours or less and 88% aborted within 24 hours.
  • (15) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
  • (16) Earlier this week the supreme court in London ruled against a mother and daughter from Northern Ireland who had wanted to establish the right to have a free abortion in an English NHS hospital.
  • (17) The last complete count of the number of US abortions was made by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) in 1982.
  • (18) "Medical professionals have perhaps been the least involved [of all sectors] in debates and discussions around abortion, and anti-choice groups have very effectively carried out a deliberate strategy of targeting and influencing health professionals.
  • (19) As a member of the state Assembly, Walker voted for a bill known as the Woman’s Right to Know Act, which required physicians to provide women with full information prior to an abortion and established a 24-hour waiting period in the hope that some women might change their mind about undergoing the procedure.
  • (20) There were two spontaneous abortions, both in the first trimester, which occurred two weeks after the overdose which may be related to the paracetamol.

Ecbolic


Definition:

  • (n.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (1) Calcium ions are important intracellular mediators of cholinergic and hormonal stimulation of the pancreatic acinar cell, and thus play a central role in the stimulus-secretion coupling of ecbolic pancreatic function.
  • (2) Chronic consumption of alcohol is assumed to give rise to a selective effect on the hydro-kinetic and ecbolic pancreas function.
  • (3) In cases where ecbolics were administered labour was prolonged and the rate of secondary repeat cesareans was higher.
  • (4) A comprehensive review of plants that possess contraceptive or interceptive, abortifacient, ecbolic, oxytocic, or emmenagogue properties is presented.
  • (5) Management of active bleeding episodes is also debatable; it includes platelets transfusions, desmopressin (DDAVP), antifibrinolytic therapy, and ecbolic agents for postpartum hemorrhage.
  • (6) Ethyl (Z)-(3-ethyl-4-oxo-5-piperidino-thiazolidin-2-ylidene)-acetate (piprozoline, Gö 919, Probilin) and its main metabolite Gö 3284 cause a long-acting stimulation of the ecbolic function of the exocrine pancreas in the dog after intraduodenal administration or after i.v.
  • (7) Impairment of this brake plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of alcoholic pancreatitis by causing elevation of pancreatic cholinergic tone and inducing increased pancreon ecbolic response to CCK-PZ stimulation.
  • (8) On the other side, Na-taurocholate had only a weak and not dose-dependent hydrokinetic and no ecbolic effect.
  • (9) In acinar cells, secretin was able to exert slight ecbolic effects, and was also able to potentiate the effect of maximal concentrations of pancreozymin, caerulein, or the C-terminal octapeptide of pancreozymin.
  • (10) Intraduodenal bile stimulated significantly and dose-dependently hydrokinetic and ecbolic pancreatic secretion.
  • (11) The kinetics of Ca++ and enzyme secretion are of corresponding pattern as well at hydrokinetic as at ecbolic stimulation.
  • (12) Postpartum hemorrhage is most commonly due to uterine atony and often responds to medical treatments such as ecbolic medications, uterine massage or bimanual compression, and blood and fluid replacement.
  • (13) The physiologic importance of these ecbolic actions as well as a possible trophic effect remains to be elucidated.
  • (14) The omission of perfusate calcium does not abolish the calcium-protein correlation either at hydrokinetic or at ecbolic stimulation, but diminishes the enzyme-independent calcium fraction.
  • (15) The quantitative relation of calcium and protein secretion was studied on the isolated perfused canine pancreas at different secretory states of hydrokinetic and ecbolic stimulation and various extracellular Ca++-concentrations.
  • (16) Telemetric monitoring is preferrable in oral application of ecbolics, since this entails a saving in ecbolics (4.7 vs 5.4 tablets), regular labor is induced more rapidly (after 57 vs 72 minutes), and total delivery time is shortened (4 hours 24 minutes vs 5 hours 15 minutes.
  • (17) Telemetric monitoring is preferable in oral application of ecbolics, since this entails a saving in ecbolics (4.7 as against 5.4 tablets), regular labour is induced more rapidly (after 57 as against 72 minutes) and total delivery time is shortened (4 hours 24 minutes as against 5 hours 15 minutes).
  • (18) The sequence of events would indicate that the acute pancreatic pathology was precipitated by supranormal ecbolic stimulation of the acinar segment of the "pancreon" units, triggered as a result of a high protein and fat diet.
  • (19) Ecbolic and Hormonal Action of Synthetic Prostaglandin F(2)a in Fetal Mummification in Two Holstein CowsThe effects of treatment with synthetic prostaglandin F(2)a (500mug i.m.)
  • (20) During different secretory states of hydrokinetic or ecbolic stimulation the respective proportions of enzyme associated and independent calcium vary, and thus determine changes in the calcium-protein ratios.

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