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Anaesthetic

Definition:

(a.) Capable of rendering insensible; as, anaesthetic agents.
(a.) Characterized by, or connected with, insensibility; as, an anaesthetic effect or operation.
(n.) That which produces insensibility to pain, as chloroform, ether, etc.

Example Sentences:

(1) Typical kinetics of local anaesthetics are presented for various methods of regional anaesthesia informing the anaesthetist on corresponding plasma concentrations if the recommended maximum doses are exceeded and thus he gets useful information for his daily work.
(2) With attention to proper performance and patient selection, spinal and epidural anaesthesia are safe and efficacious options when choosing anaesthetic technique.
(3) The response to LBNP in the pentobarbitone-anaesthetized rat appeared not to be influenced by the autonomic nervous system.
(4) Indeed, several lines of evidence suggest that intravenous anaesthetics are thought to induce loss of consciousness by blocking the excitatory synaptic transmission.
(5) Gallbladder mucosal net fluid transport and motility were measured in vivo by a continuous perfusion technique in the anaesthetized cat.
(6) The effect of histamine on coronary blood flow (CBF) was studied in anaesthetized grayhounds.
(7) A method for continuous measurement of the anaesthetic Ethrane in blood and gas samples is described.
(8) The regional differences of myocardial oxygenation were studied in anaesthetized open-chest dogs by measuring the myocardial perfusion rate, the microvascular hematocrit, the PS-product of 51Cr-EDTA, and the microvascular blood volume across the left ventricular wall in the heart working in situ.
(9) An epidemiological survey carried out in 460 public and private institutions chosen at random country-wide in France made it possible to study injuries whose treatment had necessitated an anaesthetic.
(10) In order to investigate the ability of a computer-assisted continuous infusion (CACI) system to maintain constant plasma levels of sufentanil during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) using pharmacokinetic data derived from healthy surgical patients to determine the infusion rate, ten patients were anaesthetized with diazepam, enflurane and oxygen until ten minutes prior to the expected time of initiation of CPB.
(11) Molecular biology and electrophysiology have shown different mechanisms of action on this sodium channel, which depend on the chemical structure and electrostatic charge of the local anaesthetic molecule.
(12) Chloralose-urethane is considered a suitable anaesthetic in rats when studying the effects of noradrenaline and guanethidine.
(13) The increase probably reflects an inhibition of the re-uptake of released 3H-noradrenaline; in addition, phencyclidine appears to enhance the release of noradrenaline per pulse.--The actions of phencyclidine and ketamine on central noradrenergic neurones may contribute to the characteristic psychotropic side-effects of these general anaesthetics.
(14) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
(15) The hepatic balance for valine, leucine and isoleucine has been measured in anaesthetized virgin controls and 9 and 12-day pregnant rats.
(16) With an ambulance service staffed by doctors from the anaesthetic and intensive care units of the central hospitals it is possible to provide prehospital treatment in 70% of all severe traffic injuries in the County of Ringkøbing.
(17) Moreover, anaesthetic wash-out in children differed from that in adults.
(18) Furthermore, an association of tiapride-corticoids was effective in treating post-anaesthetic spasm of the glottis.
(19) However EMLA is a useful anaesthetic for taking biopsies in this area and may be used as premedication for local infiltration.
(20) Seven or 14 days of treatment with the beta 2-adrenoceptor agonist clenbuterol, 0.3 mg kg-1, s.c., twice daily, increased the basal mean blood pressure in normotensive urethane-anaesthetized rats.