What's the difference between ataractic and tranquilliser?
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.