What's the difference between analeptic and medication?

Analeptic


Definition:

  • (a.) Restorative; giving strength after disease.
  • (n.) A restorative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The analeptic agent, 4-aminopyridine, was given to patients who had undergone elective ear, nose and throat surgery and showed severe central respiratory depression due to intra-operative fentanyl administration.
  • (2) induced a quick hypotensive but short-lasting action and a respiratory analeptic activity which only appeared with some delay and lasted more than one hour.
  • (3) An analeptic respiratory and hypotensive action has been noted.
  • (4) In rats the analeptic activity correlated with the reversal of the diazepam-induced fall in sodium dependent high affinity choline uptake in hippocampal and cortical synaptosomes.
  • (5) The interaction of pentobarbitone sodium with three analeptics viz.
  • (6) The paper is concerned with the effect of the breath analeptic agent etimizole on the smooth muscle of vessels under in vitro conditions from the viewpoint of its assumed interaction with purinergic receptors.
  • (7) Analeptic action was also observed with successive intravenous injections of YM-14673, once daily for 5 and 14 days in mice, suggesting that the drug induced no tolerance.
  • (8) And self-blame can be a means of regaining a sense of personal control – an analeptic, if false, affirmation, that different behaviour could have diverted events that were actually someone else’s decision.
  • (9) Its analeptic activity, however, may be mediated by low affinity TRH binding sites which are predominantly labelled by [3H]TRH or by yet unidentified mechanisms.
  • (10) These results suggest that ICV AVP produces its analeptic effect by interacting with central V-1 receptors to activate a hippocampal cholinergic arousal system.
  • (11) The characteristics of certain poisons are stressed and in particular the thymo-analeptics; also the supervision of the patients in an intensive care unit.
  • (12) The response to physostigmine may have been due specifically to increased levels of acetylcholine at the cholinergic receptors, or to a nonspecific analeptic effect.
  • (13) In poisoning with higher doses of sodium amytal (LD84) corasol, strychnine and caffeine are ineffective, the most productive being analeptic mixture and picrotoxin.
  • (14) The analeptic drug pentylenetetrazole interacts with benzodiazepine receptor binding with an IC50 value of about 1 mM, which is possibly too high to explain its convulsive properties by an antagonism at the benzodiazepine receptor.
  • (15) The analeptic drug, bemegride was found effective in antagonizing the P-barb.
  • (16) While tolerance and extreme physiological dependence can occur rapidly under treatment with psychostimulants, such risks are not a typical feature of nootropics or analeptics.
  • (17) The results suggest that TRH stimulates ventilation by a mechanism independent of its analeptic properties.
  • (18) Controlled clinical trials demonstrated protireline tartrate (TRH-T) efficacy, with its analeptic, analgesic and arousing effects, in the treatment of neurological and functional impairment due to cerebrovascular accidents and head injuries.
  • (19) These results indicate that SKF 38393 activates central cholinergic neurons, which in turn initiate the analeptic effect.
  • (20) Respiratory analeptics have been shown to give important increases in pulmonary vascular resistance and pulmonary arterial pressure in hypoxaemic respiratory failure patients, but no studies have been carried out in the post-operative recovery period.

Medication


Definition:

  • () The act or process of medicating.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Without medication atypical ventricular tachycardia develops, in the author's opinion, most probably when bradycardia has persisted for a prolonged period.
  • (2) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (3) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (4) The rash presented either as a pityriasis rosea-like picture which appeared about three to six months after the onset of treatment in patients taking low doses, or alternatively, as lichenoid plaques which appeared three to six months after commencement of medication in patients taking high doses.
  • (5) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (6) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (7) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (8) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
  • (9) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
  • (10) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (12) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (13) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (14) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (15) 278 children with bronchial asthma were medically, socially and psychologically compared to 27 rheumatic and 19 diabetic children.
  • (16) The authors empirically studied the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse by examining drug effects and motivation for drug use in 494 hospitalized drug abusers.
  • (17) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (18) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (19) Medication remained effective during the average observation time of 22 months.
  • (20) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".