What's the difference between antiphlogistic and phlogiston?
Antiphlogistic
Definition:
(a.) Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.
(a.) Counteracting inflammation.
(n.) Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is conceivable that, in the future, antibiotic therapy will have to be combined with antiphlogistic agents.
(2) On the basis of examining the efficiency of the medication, it could be stated actual analgesic and antiphlogistic activity followed by a slight incidence of additional effects and a good bearence.
(3) To avoid aggravation of the symptoms caused by the antiphlogistics, the drugs must be given in increasing dosages and after concurrent treatment with H1-blockers.
(4) The aim of this clinical study was to value the antiphlogistic and analgesic efficiency of Nimesulide on 40 patients suffering from facial anomalies and subjected to corrective surgery with many facial osteotomies (Le Fort 1, sagittal osteotomy of mandibular ramus sec.
(5) On the basis of the pathophysiology of Bell's palsy that edema as well as primary or secondary ischemia lead to both compression and hypoxia, Stennert employed high doses of cortisone for a strong antiphlogistic and anti-edematous effect, and dextran in combination with pentoxifylline to increase peripheral nerve perfusion and reported high recovery rate.
(6) The decrease in Ln concentrations in Sf and pl, after antiphlogistic therapy, reflects the reduction of the inflammatory condition.
(7) The value of their use consists in the elimination of pupillary block and in an antiphlogistic action.
(8) The antiphlogistic action of diclofenac eyedrops versus placebo eyedrops in the prophylaxis of cystoid macular edema (CME) and postoperative inflammatory symptoms was therefore tested in a prospective randomized double-blind study.
(9) Local application to rabbits of protein preparations with an inhibitory effect (contrykal, gordox) at the acute period of the experimentally-induced ophthalmoherpes produced a marked antiphlogistic effect.
(10) The therapeutic spectrum in andrology includes antibiotic and antiphlogistic agents, mast cell blockers, zinc, vitamins, and immunosuppressive drugs (corticosteroids).
(11) The therapy is symptomatic in local application of antiphlogistic drugs.
(12) First of all, treatment consists of local and oral antiphlogistics, orthopaedic arch-support and physiotherapy.
(13) This clinical study shows antiphlogistic efficacy of vitamin E in patients with osteoarthritis.
(14) This method was demonstrated to be suitable for the detection of an antiphlogistic effect.
(15) Most, if not all, of the antiphlogistic products are synthesized and secreted by serous cells in the submucous glands, and it appears that the serous cell is the resident antimicrobial cell in mucous membranes.
(16) Both patients received nonsteroidal antiphlogistics, purportedly involved in the pathogenesis of this syndrome.
(17) It afforded also some protection against the hepatotoxic actions of carbon tetrachloride, bromobenzene and thioacetamide, but did not influence the antiphlogistic activity of paracetamol (carrageenan paw edema test).
(18) Our method should prove to be a useful assay for rapidly quantitating antiphlogistic activities of topically applied corticoids.
(19) No unwanted effects or modifications in laboratory parameters other than those related to the antiphlogistic effect were reported.
(20) The clinical efficacy of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) is often disappointing in spite of their well-known antiphlogistic actions.
Phlogiston
Definition:
(n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the 18th century, the elegant but incorrect phlogiston theory (G.E.
(2) The combined efforts of these analytical minds converted an illogical phlogiston myth into a practical and therapeutic principle.
(3) Between 1775 and about 1800 the Phlogiston theory was replaced by the Oxygen theory.
(4) In refuting the phlogiston theory, he established modern chemistry.