(n.) That which (as a drug, or some kinds of food) excites to venery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aphrodisiac activity of the purified protein is abolished by heating or proteolysis, and the native protein retains the activity after procedures for removing possible ligands such as volatile odorants, steroids, and peptides.
(2) A case of fatal poisoning due to voluntary ingestion of cantharides powder for aphrodisiac purposes is reported.
(3) Following the ingestion of an alleged aphrodisiac known as "yo-yo," a 16-year-old girl experienced an acute dissociative reaction accompanied by weakness, paresthesias, and incoordination.
(4) It is well known that yohimbine has a history of popular use because of its supposed aphrodisiac properties.
(5) These findings support the folk use of this plant as aphrodisiac and for the treatment of premature ejaculation.
(6) Tigers have been killed for traditional Chinese medicine for millennia, some of whose practitioners consider their bones an aphrodisiac.
(7) The notion that Asian traditional medicine used rhino horn as an aphrodisiac was a myth of the western media, Milliken said, but now, "rather incredibly", he said, it had been embraced by Vietnamese men.
(8) Species-specific differences in perception of pheromone concentration, molecular composition, aphrodisiacs, and other selective signals facilitate species isolation, even though the initial steps in the behavior are similar in all species.
(9) This research, and widely held cultural beliefs that portray alcohol as an aphrodisiac, may lead many males to employ alcohol as a "cure" for sexual dysfunctions.
(10) Still, aphrodisiac or not, if you've any kind of garden, you've room for lettuce.
(11) Surely the oyster is the most unsexy of aphrodisiacs?
(12) The company that pulled it, BrewDog, is a serial offender: it has, among other antics, driven a tank down Camden High Street; named a beer after the heroin-and-cocaine cocktail that killed River Phoenix and John Belushi; projected naked images of its two founders onto the Houses of Parliament; brewed beer at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean; dropped stuffed cats from a helicopter onto the City of London; employed a dwarf to petition parliament for the introduction of a two-thirds pint glass; and released, for the royal wedding of 2011, a beer containing so-called natural aphrodisiacs such as “herbal Viagra”, chocolate and horny goat weed, which it called Royal Virility Performance.
(13) The correct hypothesis must explain why: (1) AIDS includes 25 previously known diseases and two clinically and epidemiologically very different epidemics, one in America and Europe, the other in Africa; (2) almost all American (90%) and European (86%) AIDS patients are males over the age of 20, while African AIDS affects both sexes equally; (3) the annual AIDS risks of infected babies, intravenous drug users, homosexuals who use aphrodisiacs, hemophiliacs and Africans vary over 100-fold; (4) many AIDS patients have diseases that do not depend on immunodeficiency, such as Kaposi's sarcoma, lymphoma, dementia and wasting; (5) the AIDS diseases of Americans (97%) and Europeans (87%) are predetermined by prior health risks, including long-term consumption of illicit recreational drugs, the antiviral drug AZT and congenital deficiencies like hemophilia, and those of Africans are Africa-specific.
(14) Toxicity studies were conducted on Brassica rapa, Prunus amygdalus and Zingiber officinale, used as aphrodisiacs in Arab Medicine.
(15) Quackery has for centuries used aphrodisiacs to exploit vulnerable victims, 30% of whom, through the power of suggestion, have achieved sexual success from potions, powders and genital pomades.
(16) The new method allows to differentiate aphrodisiac effect from psychostimulating and antidepressive action.
(17) Using the new method for establishment of the aphrodisiac effect the values of ED50 of the preparations Yohimbin, Testosteronum dipropionicum, Tribestan, Captogon, Coffeinum n. benzoicum and Imipramin were estimated.
(18) 4 patients had used cantharidin as an aphrodisiac and one to induce abortion.
(19) You have this unbelievable control over them, a room filled with thousands of people, it's like an aphrodisiac.
(20) Ten original apparatuses were constructed to examine aphrodisiac effect.
Cantharides
Definition:
(n. pl.) See Cantharis.
(pl. ) of Cantharis
Example Sentences:
(1) Phagocytic activity of macrophages obtained directly from blisters induced by cantharide was studied in 19 normal women and 21 patients with untreated operable carcinoma of the breast.
(2) A fatal case of attempting to procure abortion by the ingestion of the crude extract of cantharides from over 200 dried Mylabris phalerata is presented.
(3) A case of fatal poisoning due to voluntary ingestion of cantharides powder for aphrodisiac purposes is reported.
(4) Two gonococcal strains with differing susceptibility to cefotiam and ceftizoxime, as expressed by the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), are exposed to continuously changing concentrations of these antibiotics as they are found in plasma and skin cantharidal blister fluid (CBF) after a single intramuscular application of 1 g. Under the conditions of the plasma level profiles, bacterial density is always greatly but not totally reduced, already during the first 1-1.5 h it declines by 99%.
(5) The pharmacokinetics of intravenous (bolus) temocillin 1 g were studied in 6 healthy male volunteers, and a cantharides blister method was used to estimate tissue penetration of the antibiotic.
(6) Skin blisters were produced by the cantharides technique, using patches with cantharidin ointment.
(7) Blood and urine samples collected during the 30 h of survival, as well as the cantharides product, were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
(8) Cantharide acantholysis may be useful model for studying desmosomal turnover.
(9) Suction- and cantharides-induced blister fluid levels declined in parallel.
(10) In order to find a less toxic analogue of cantharidin, its hydrolytic compound, disodium cantharidate, and its demethylated form, norcantharidin, were prepared.
(11) In clinical studies, antihepatoma effectiveness sequentially increased from cantharidin to disodium cantharidate to norcantharidin.
(12) To evaluate cefotiam concentrations at the active site in skin and soft-tissue infections, drug levels in skin suction blister fluid (SBF), cantharides blister fluid (CBF) and serum were determined.
(13) injection of cephalosporins may be of comparable gonocidal effect, levels of cefodizime, a new broad-spectrum cephalosporin, in serum and tissue fluid (suction blister and cantharides blister fluid) were determined in six healthy men.
(14) The results show that endothal and cantharidic acid act directly and cause similar biochemical changes in mouse liver in vivo.
(15) Disodium cantharidate showed less urinary irritation than cantharidin while norcantharidin showed little to no such irritation.
(16) Two Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) strains with differing susceptibility to penicillin G as expressed by the minimum inhibitory concentration were exposed in vitro over a period of 8 h to the continuously changing concentrations of ofloxacin achieved in human serum and cantharides blister fluid (CBF) after the single oral application of 600 mg.
(17) Theophylline levels in plasma, erythrocytes and cantharides-induced blister fluid (BF) have been correlated with peak expiratory flow (PEF) in asthmatic patients.
(18) Itraconazole binding in suction-induced blister fluid (99.54%) and cantharides-induced blister fluid (99.77%) was calculated from plasma protein binding (99.8%).
(19) Concentrations in serum, urine and cantharides-induced inflammatory fluid were determined by microbiological assay.
(20) To evaluate its active concentrations in skin tissue, serum, suction blister fluid (SBF), and cantharides blister fluid (CBF) levels of total and non-protein bound ketoconazole were determined.