(a.) Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another.
(a.) Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic.
(n.) An antispastic agent.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data are evidence of a specific glycinergic interaction with putative antispastic agents and can explain some conflicting effects of memantine in experimentally induced seizures.
(2) The three patients have been observed for more than 1 year, during which time the antispastic activity of intrathecally infused baclofen has remained stable.
(3) After stressing the uncertainties of classifying the syndrome exactly and the part played by psychosomatism in its aetiopathogenesis, some forms of acupuncture have been attempted as alternatives to psychodrugs and antispastic substances.
(4) The results support the role of cyproheptadine as an antispastic medication.
(5) In 7 patients MI developed when antispastic agents were not used and in 2, when angina persisted even under treatment with calcium antagonist.
(6) The symptoms developed by the chemical destruction of the interneurones of the spinal cord, with rigidity and spasticity of the hind limbs, are suitable for testing antispastic drugs.
(7) The effectiveness of an antispasticity drug may be too subtle to be perceived subjectively and objectively.
(8) In about one third of patients with violent spasticity due to spinal trauma, multiple sclerosis, and diffuse brain injury adequate control with oral antispastic medication cannot be achieved and successful rehabilitation is severely handicapped.
(9) These results indicate that eperisone possesses the property of a Ca antagonist on smooth muscle tissues of the guinea-pig basilar artery, in addition to the action of antispastic agent, i.e., this agent blocks the voltage-dependent influx of Ca at the smooth muscle membrane, but not at the nerve terminals, and inhibits the action of Ca in cells through inhibition of the contractile protein.
(10) The present study underscores that neither baclofen nor tizanidine are ideal antispastic drugs, and emphasize the need for further research.
(11) The literatures of two antispastic drugs, baclofen and dantrolene sodium, were studied bibliometrically for their first decade and were found to be generally similar.
(12) Spasticity greatly interfered with their activity in daily life and was resistant to oral antispastic medications.
(13) We have studied the effect of isometheptene, an indirectly acting sympathomimetic with analgesic and antispastic properties, on secretin-cholecystokinin-stimulated pancreatic and biliary outputs.
(14) Although there were no statistically significant differences between the two drugs, the global assessment of antispastic efficacy revealed a nearly significant difference (p = 0.057) in favour of tizanidine and the global assessment of tolerability was also in favour of tizanidine.
(15) Intrathecal administration of antispastic medications allows high concentrations of drug near the site of action, which limits side effects.
(16) However, antispastic drugs are usually ineffective.
(17) A double-blind placebo trial was taken with Lioresal, and antispasticity drug acting on the spinal cord level.
(18) A genetically determined syndrome of spasticity in the rat permits the quantitative evaluation of the antispastic effects of drugs by recording activity in the electromyogram (EMG) from a hind limb extensor muscle.
(19) The antispastic efficacy of tizanidine was greater after 8 weeks than after 2 weeks, whereas the efficacy of baclofen decreased slightly with time.
(20) A double-blind placebo trial was taken with Lioresal, an antispasticity drug acting on the spinal cord level.
Prevent
Definition:
(v. t.) To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
(v. t.) To be beforehand with; to anticipate.
(v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.
(v. i.) To come before the usual time.
Example Sentences:
(1) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
(2) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(4) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(5) The penetration of (22)Na was not prevented by the presence of metabolic inhibitors or by 500 mm NaCl in the suspending medium.
(6) This would disrupt and prevent Isis from maintaining stable and reliable sources of income.
(7) This decrease was prevented by DOCA, hydrocortisone and corticosterone.
(8) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(9) Treatment of the bound F1-ATPase with 4-chloro-7-nitrobenzofurazan prevented complete release of the enzyme by ATP.
(10) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(11) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(12) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
(13) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(14) This was carried out on the healthy subjects for a total of 12 nights without medication (control nights asleep), a total of 12 nights following 40 mg of flucortolone the previous morning, and a total of 6 nights with similar blood sampling when sleep was prevented (control nights awake).
(15) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(16) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
(17) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
(18) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(19) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(20) From the social economic point of view nosocomial infections represent a very important cost factor, which could be reduced to great deal by activities for prevention of nosocomial infection.