What's the difference between ataractic and ataraxic?
Ataractic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The anesthesiologist shares with the surgeon and clinical pathologist the responsibility for the safe use of fluid and blood replacement therapy; and with the internist, psychiatrist, and general practitioner the proper sequential medication of analgesics, anesthetics, ataractics, cortisone, antihypertensive and antihistaminic agents, and prompt reversal of many undesirable depressions during emergence.
(2) Barbiturate sedatives, hypnotic and antipsychotic medication, and tricyclic antidepressants remained available, but no substitution was made for about two-thirds of the deleted ataractic medications.
(3) The activity pattern of phenylurea as measured on the rotarod treadmill was identical with that of an ataractic drug, meprobamate, and different from that of the sedative drug, 2-ethylcrotonylurea (ectylurea).
(4) The authors conclide that most physicans regard ataractics as unique and do not use them interchangeably with the other drugs.
(5) Premedication should be supportive, and verbal as well as medicinal; drugs include ataractics and analgesics.
(6) Thymoleptics were most effective and ataractics least effective against ulcers produced by the method of Rossi.
(7) Some of the patients at the same time continued to take antidepressive and ataractic drugs.
(8) A case is described in which a patient was accused of a serious breach of the Traffic Act and in which, on medical evidence, he was found to be in a state of dissociation and ataractic, which led to successful defence of mens rea.
(9) 5 Azaperone reduced mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) for at least 4 h, by which time its ataractic action was generally no longer apparent.
(10) (3) To some extent, the rise may be regarded as a side-effect of modern therapeutic methods, with the introduction of the open-door policy, milieu therapy, ataractic drugs, rehabilitation pressure, and democracy processes.
(11) When necessary, hypnotics, ataractics and antidepressant drugs should be applied.
Ataraxic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A systematic study of schizophrenic patients who did not respond satisfactorily to one of five different forms of treatment given under controlled conditions showed that almost all of them responded satisfactorily to subsequent treatment with the combination of ataraxic drugs and group psychotherapy.
(2) The urticaria could also be suprressed with Atarax.
(3) Hydroxyzine (Atarax, Vistaril), which combines tranquilizer and antihistamine action, is frequently effective.
(4) To protect the organism against histamine liberated during anesthesia specific premedication is used including:--hydroxyzine (Atarax) which blocks the H1 histamine receptors, and is an anxiolytic,--tritoqualine (Hypostamine) which inhibits histamine synthesis,--epsilon aminocaproic acid (Hemocaprol) which prevents the antigen-antibody reaction and blocks the alternate route of complement.
(5) Hydroxyzine (Atarax) was compared with three traditional anxiolytics (diazepam, meprobamate, triazolam) for potential amnesic activity in a step-through passive avoidance task in the mouse.
(6) To asses the efficacy of ketotifen (Zaditen; Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Basel, Switzerland) for the treatment of pediatric mastocytosis, eight children who exhibited symptoms as a result of mastocytosis were enrolled in a 12-week, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of ketotifen versus hydroxyzine (Atarax; Roerig, New York, N.Y.).
(7) Its action is mainly ataraxic but also antidelusional, long-acting and accompanied with minimal side-effects.
(8) Especially used in the psychiatric emergency field for the rapidity of its action, sultopride, a sedative but not ataraxic drug, has been used for prolonged cures in 45 patients with important characterial disturbances.
(9) Ataraxic drugs alone, psychotherapy plus ataraxic drugs, and ECT had significant variance-reducing effects.
(10) During the second phase, 10 mice each were pretreated with various doses of either diphenhydramine (Benadryl) or of hydroxyzine HCI (Atarax) one hour prior to the administration of the LD80 of endotoxin.
(11) The purpose of this study was to document the incidence and severity of itching in discharged patients with burns, to determine factors that may help in prediction of the problem, and to study the effectiveness of Benadryl (Parke-Davis, Morris Plains N.J.), Atarax (Roerig Div.
(12) Drugs used included diphenhydramine HCl (Benadryl), cyproheptadine (Periactin), hydroxyzine HCl (Atarax), and a lactose placebo in identical capsules.