(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.
Reversible
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.
(a.) Hence, having a pattern or finished surface on both sides, so that either may be used; -- said of fabrics.
Example Sentences:
(1) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
(2) Application of 40 microM NiCl2 reversibly blocked It while leaving Is intact, whereas 20 microM CdCl2 reversibly blocked Is, but not It.
(3) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
(4) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(5) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
(6) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
(7) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(8) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(9) Head-injured patients had a low thyroxine (T4), low triiodothyronine (T3), and high reverse T3.
(10) Dilutional studies comparing the mechanism of inhibition of monoamine oxidase produced by Gerovital H3 and by ipronizid demonstrated that Gerovital H3 was a reversible inhibitor of monoamine oxidase.
(11) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
(12) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
(13) What reforms there were could also be reversed, she warned.
(14) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(15) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(16) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(17) These antagonists reverse NMDA-mediated long term influence in these brain areas.
(18) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(19) We have recently described a nonnucleoside compound that specifically inhibits the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent of AIDS.
(20) We have investigated some of the factors which affect the retention times of these substances in reversed-phase HPLC on columns of 5-micron octadecylsilyl silica.