What's the difference between antispasmodic and spasm?

Antispasmodic


Definition:

  • (a.) Good against spasms.
  • (n.) A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results show that both drugs possess sedative, antispasmodic, antipyretic, antiinflammatory, cardiotonic and hypotensive effects, the strength of effect and toxicity being similar.
  • (2) Parameters associated with the separation of antianxiety-antispasmodic agents were investigated using high-pressure liquid chromatography.
  • (3) Himachalol has been identified as the major antispasmodic constituent in the wood of Cedrus deodara.
  • (4) Based on these observations, tiropramide was considered to be at least as effective an antispasmodic as octilonium and at least as effective a synchronizer as trimebutine, but was different from both reference drugs because it was the only one to act simultanously as both an antispasmodic and a synchronizer.
  • (5) Anticholinergic or combined anticholinergic, antispasmodic, and local anesthetic treatment resolved the clinical signs in all 3 animals.
  • (6) As a continuation of our goals to study molecular probes for muscarinic cholinergic receptors, a series of 3-substituted 2-methyl-2-phenylpropanoates with the general structure of C6H5C(CH2X)(CH3)COOCH2CH2NEt2 where X = OH, OTs, F, Cl, Br, I, and OAc were prepared and their antispasmodic activities examined on isolated rat ileum preparations.
  • (7) Of the patients, 40% were treated surgically, and 69% received some form of medical treatment, including antispasmodics, estrogen, Kegel's exercises, urethral dilatation and bladder drills; 9% were given a trial of medical therapy followed by surgical therapy.
  • (8) In this factory, two kinds of anti-inflammatory enzyme (bromelain and trypsin), one anti-inflammatory agent (flufenamic acid), one antispasmodic (flopropion) and two kinds of antibiotics (ampicillin and cephalexin) are mainly produced.
  • (9) Influence of the Na removal from bath solution on the antispasmodic actions of isoproterenol and papaverine against the phasic contractions by K and acetylcholine were investigated in relation to the mobilization of Ca in isolated rectal strip from the rat.
  • (10) Nicorandil was thus considered to produce its antianginal effect primarily by redistribution of coronary blood flow as a result of dilatation of vascular beds and by its antispasmodic action.
  • (11) Atropine and two other widely employed antispasmodics (i.e., rociverine and octylonium bromide) were employed as reference compounds.
  • (12) The study was designed to elicit any interference on the part of dipyrone with the antispasmodic activity of 2-(diethylamino)-1-methylethyl cis-1-hydroxy(bicyclohexyl)-2-carboxylate (rociverine) and on the part of rociverine with the analgesic activity of dipyrone.
  • (13) The following assumption was obtained on the antispasmodic action of Cd and Mn, on the basis of the influence of Ca removed from bath solution and of addition of high K to bath solution and the analysis with concentration-action curves.
  • (14) After decreasing the uterine contractions by intravenous isossuprine, sixty patients were subsequently treated with magnesium Oxide, fifty with oral isossisuprine, twenty with a simple antispasmodic and the remaining constituted the control group.
  • (15) An analysis was made of the prognosis over a one-year follow-up period of a consecutive series of 86 out patients with irritable bowel syndrome (SII) who were treated randomly with an antispasmodic (otilonium) or a tranquilizer (clobazam), and the existence of factors, mainly psychological, that could worsen it was determined with the Zung anxiety test and the Hamilton depression scale.
  • (16) Reassurance, tranquillizers and antispasmodics help patients with functional dyspepsia.
  • (17) To postprandial pain antispasmodics or trimebutine are most effective when prescribed before meal.
  • (18) Antispasmodic operation designed by the authors was performed on them.
  • (19) These labile ischaemic changes indicate that prior to complete occlusion the vessel may be in a dynamic state when antispasmodic and antithrombotic therapies may be of value.
  • (20) All the three preparations suppressed the motor activity, decreased the muscle tone and the body temperature, potentiated the action of hexenal, possessed the antispasmodic and hypnotic activity.

Spasm


Definition:

  • (v. t.) An involuntary and unnatural contraction of one or more muscles or muscular fibers.
  • (v. t.) A sudden, violent, and temporary effort or emotion; as, a spasm of repentance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The generally accepted hypothesis is a coronary spasm but a direct cardiotoxicity of 5-FU cannot be.
  • (2) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
  • (3) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (4) The present case indicates that the possibility of osseous spines impinging on the facial nerve should be considered in all cases of facial spasm.
  • (5) The coronary arteriography reveals a spasm in the normal left anterior descendens artery.
  • (6) Increasing awareness of disorders such as coronary arterial spasm, functional impairment of subendocardial blood flow and the possible role of variant patterns of anatomic distribution of the coronary arterial tree, will provide a better understanding of their significance as determining or contributing factors in patients with the anginal syndrome.
  • (7) Thus one may speculate that endothelin plays a role in the coronary spasm which has been shown in patients with angina pectoris.
  • (8) in 1937, the arterial spasm may have occurred at the time of cerebral embolism.
  • (9) Coronary spasm was provoked by ergonovine maleate in four of 12 patients in group A (33%) and in three patients in group B (18%).
  • (10) In 2 cases, sublingual nitroglycerin failed to completely relieve the spasm.
  • (11) Furthermore, an association of tiapride-corticoids was effective in treating post-anaesthetic spasm of the glottis.
  • (12) Case histories of two patients with hypertensive LES and normal peristalsis in the body of the esophagus are contrasted to that of a patient with a hypertensive LES and diffuse esophageal spasm.
  • (13) Whether they affect ureteral motility in vivo or whether they can counteract ureteral spasm associated with ureteral stones have not been established.
  • (14) Thrombotic occlusion, in association with varying degrees of plaque disruption and coronary artery spasm, represents the major cause of acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
  • (15) The patients with spasm on top of a fixed organic lesion underwent a successful aorto-coronary bypass graft together with resection of the pre- and sub-aortic nerve plexus.
  • (16) In vitro tests with isolated trachea or ileum of guinea pigs show that flupirtine possesses no or very weak antagonism against histamine-induced spasms.
  • (17) The spasms were inhibited by gallopamil (100 nM) and diltiazem (1 microM).
  • (18) Indeed this procedure is the only one which can act in a fitted manner on muscular spasms responsible of more than 60% of convergent squints.
  • (19) Such an exercise response should suggest significant fixed coronary stenosis in addition to coronary spasm.
  • (20) Evidence is provided for the concept of enlarged spasms (phenomenon of the spastic dominant) common to peptic ulcer.

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