What's the difference between antispasmodic and spasmodic?

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.

Spasmodic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, or characterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.
  • (a.) Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry.
  • (n.) A medicine for spasm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using a special electromyographic hypodermic needle, we injected botulinum A toxin into one of the vocal folds of two patients with severe spasmodic dysphonia.
  • (2) These experimental findings suggest that stereotactic thalamotomy of the ventrolateral nucleus for spasmodic torticollis should be performed on the side ipsilateral to the contracting SCM muscle.
  • (3) The patient (a 46-year-old woman) suffered from a spasmodic quadriplegia, walking was nearly impossible.
  • (4) 4 ng of botulinum type A toxin per eye were applied in the M. orbicularis oculi as first injection in the 18 patients without spasmodic torticollis.
  • (5) Spasmodic dysphonia (SD) is a low-incidence voice disorder of unknown origin.
  • (6) The first case was a young girl of 16 years of age with a lesion at the D6 level and spasmodic paraparesis.
  • (7) Bilateral TA denervation represents a hopeful new long-term approach to spasmodic dysphonia treatment.
  • (8) The view emerging is that spasmodic dysphonia is a manifestation of disordered motor control involving systems of neurons rather than single anatomical sites.
  • (9) Spasmodic attempts were made to relieve the suffering of Yarmouk’s civilians.
  • (10) To determine the usefulness of EMG-assisted botulinum toxin (BOTOX) injections for the treatment of spasmodic torticollis (ST), we randomized 52 ST patients into two groups and studied them prospectively.
  • (11) Vestibular findings in a group of 35 patients with spasmodic torticollis without other otological or neurological symptoms were reviewed.
  • (12) The purpose of this study was to determine whether adolescents with "spasmodic" dysmenorrhea (SD) versus "congestive" dysmenorrhea (CD) respond differently to naproxen sodium therapy.
  • (13) Further, he maintained that spasmodic constriction of the rectum resulted from dysfunction of this rectosigmoid sphincter.
  • (14) Of them only 13 (0.26% of the total patient material) were spasmodic bronchitis.
  • (15) The patient, a 22 year old woman, presented with a three-year history, with clinical onset of staged spinal pain and cervicobrachial neuralgia, of spasmodic paraparesis with sensory and sphincter disturbances.
  • (16) The first is a hemolysin (100-200,000 mol.wt) which also causes initial spasmodic contractions in larval and adult specimens of Drosophila.
  • (17) Laser-assisted myomectomy may be a feasible alternative to current methods to treat spasmodic dysphonia.
  • (18) Paroxysmal cerebellar ataxia (PCA) is a specific disease which exhibits spasmodic cerebellar ataxia but rarely shows abnormal neurological findings in the intermission.
  • (19) The concept of MVC might be more convincing if MVD can be shown to cure a condition such as spasmodic torticollis, which cannot be remedied by damage to or section of the same cranial nerve or nerves.
  • (20) The authors describe the anatomical and clinical findings in a case of the pure form of Strümpell Lorrain's familial spasmodic paraplegia.

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