(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.
Narcosis
Definition:
(n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, the same concentration of isopropanol produced narcosis in the dams, retarded body-weight gain and reduced the feed intake.
(2) The time of ethanol-induced narcosis and the extent of ethanol-induced hypothermia were not affected.
(3) The changes attributable to premedication and narcosis were characterized by a primary fibrinolysis which was accompanied by a slight hypercoagulability.
(4) If no progress can be achieved, narcosis mobilization and brisement modéré should be done.
(5) Monomodal neurons had more often simple RF and invariance of OT to narcosis.
(6) Narcosis (pentobarbital) inhibited markedly the resting and stimulated enzyme secretion.
(7) The indices of renal functionality are studied during the course of ether anesthesia in order to ascertain the behaviour of the kidney subjected to narcosis with this drug.
(8) In this particular case, the narcosis has permitted the uncovering of delusions and consequently the administration of the appropriate treatment.
(9) The concept of a critical-volume fraction of anesthetic being necessary for narcosis was discussed in most detail by Mullins.
(10) The antagonism of narcosis or sedation was evident against other barbiturates, diazepam, chlorpromazine, and reserpine, but not against morphine.
(11) Pressor responses were usually obtained in conscious cats, and also narcosis produced reversal effect on rare occasions.
(12) In addition, H2-receptor blocking agents such as cimetidine, ranitidine and famotidine clearly antagonized Hi-induced prolongation of thiopental narcosis, while pyrilamine and chlorpheniramine had no effect.
(13) For acute narcosis (50% mortality) the toxicant level in the hydrophobic (lipid) phase of an exposed organism is, as a first approximation, constant at approximately 50 mmol l-1 of lipid.
(14) In conclusion, these studies suggest that THF, like other commonly used organic solvents, causes narcosis in rats and mice.
(15) The arterial blood gases and pH remained at the predive control level in group 2 rats, whereas serum corticosterone concentration fell to 60% during compression (P less than 0.01), possibly due to N2 narcosis, but increased gradually toward 80% of C value during the pressure exposure.
(16) Nitrous oxide does not appear to benefit emotional or physiological adaptation to nitrogen narcosis associated with breathing hyperbaric air, and may even impair emotional adaptation, at least under these experimental conditions.
(17) Employment of this drug to prevent bronchospastic crises in 10 asthmatic patients subjected to narcosis is reported.
(18) Under nembutal narcosis on cats, intracellular electrophysiological studies have been made of common properties and differences in the neuronal organization of the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and intrinsic pontine nuclei.
(19) The indications of the method include subdiaphragmatic surgery, interventions on more than one anatomical region, surgery in aging patients, patients with full stomach, and those with anaesthetic and surgical risk, as well as socioeconomic factors which may prevent application of a differentiated and safe narcosis.
(20) Opposing this, the application of neurotensin appears to potentiate ethanol narcosis.