What's the difference between antemetic and antiemetic?
Antemetic
Definition:
(a.) Tending to check vomiting.
(n.) A remedy to check or allay vomiting.
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Antiemetic
Definition:
(a. / n.) Same as Antemetic.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that metoclopramide and dexamethasone showed an excellent antiemetic effect on acute drug-induced emesis, as well as on delayed emesis, induced by cisplatin.
(2) Alizapride (ALZ) is a new benzamide derivative with promising antiemetic activity.
(3) Overall, antiemetic protection was appreciable: complete emetic protection (no emetic episodes) was observed in 71 and 66% of patients receiving MPN 375 and 120 mg, respectively.
(4) This paper identifies important factors in selecting antiemetic therapy, particularly the emetogenic potential of the chemotherapy and the fact that antiemetic drugs have differing sites of action.
(5) Only 2 patients (8%) did not experience an improvement of their symptoms in any of the treatment cycles as measured by a self-conducted grading of nausea and by the frequency of vomiting in comparison to a previous treatment cycle under conventional antiemetic therapy.
(6) Gastrointestinal disturbances--vomiting and diarrhea--were also common, despite a low initial dose of PGE2 and premedication with antiemetic and antidiarrheal agents.
(7) The antiemetic effect and the therapeutic effect of domperidone on complaints by gastrointestinal retention was the result of the influence on gastrointestinal motility, which is similar to that of metoclopramide.
(8) Further, a metabolite of haloperidol seems to be responsible for its effective antiemetic action.
(9) Strategies to support chemotherapy dose intensification include BMT, use of CSFs and antiemetic drug combinations.
(10) The maintenance of the antiemetic efficacy of ondansetron was further studied in 28 patients (13 A, 15 B) in respectively 36 and 48 retreatment courses.
(11) It possesses at the same time potent gastro-intestinal prokinetic and central antiemetic properties, demonstrated on the one hand by the gastro-duodenal transit of barium meal in rats, and on the other hand by apomorphine-induced vomiting in dogs.
(12) Both findings demonstrate that bismuth subsalicylate can provide antiemetic action and that the decreases in the occurrence of emesis in humans and dogs parallels the decrease in nausea found in humans and the nausea suspected to occur prior to emesis in dogs.
(13) A randomized, double blind crossover trial compared the antiemetic effects of alizapride, a benzamide, and prochlorperazine, a phenothiazine, both administered intravenously to 32 patients treated with chemotherapy combinations containing cisplatin.
(14) The results indicate that 5-HT3 recognition sites are present within the area postrema and may afford an antiemetic site of action for zacopride and other 5-HT3 receptor antagonists.
(15) In early clinical trials alizapride showed a better antiemetic activity with fewer side effects than metoclopramide.
(16) The most frequent side effect was vomiting, registered in all patients despite antiemetic treatment.
(17) There were very few and slight adverse effects secondary to antiemetic drugs: Sedation happened in 25% of chemotherapic cycles and hypotension without clinical repercussion in 15%.
(18) The basis of the antiemetic action of other drugs such as dexamethasone and the cannabinoids is still obscure.
(19) Less recognized is that extrapyramidal symptoms are also associated with certain non-antipsychotic agents, including some antidepressants, lithium, various anticonvulsants, antiemetics and, rarely, oral-contraceptive agents.
(20) Diphenhydramine was used because of its possible antiemetic properties and its ability to control acute dystonic reactions.